| Seventh Round Shelley Handicapped Teams - 6:45 for & p.m.Thursday 18th April |
Team captains please check that all of your team are available for the final round on Thursday April 18th and let Terry know in good time it any subs playing so that he can produce any revised handicaps for David before play starts.
The sixth round of the Shelley was played on 21st March. Again no change to the overall position of the teams, Robin's team still in first place with Anne Seymour's team in second place 35 imps behind and Clive's team now only 5 imps further back. All to play for in the final round
The handicapped results shown here, Handicaps were again recalculated for round 6 with some different subs in different teams from last month taking part! Terry has had to recalculate the handicaps most rounds, thank you Terry. Thank you again David for directing, The raw unhandicapped round 6 results can be seen here.
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| Move to Haling Dene, Penkridge and Tixall June 2024 |
Members will know that the Committe has made the unanimous decision to transfer
- our duplicate sessions to the Haling Dene Centre in Penkridge ST19 5DT, and
- our teaching sessions to Tixall Village Hall ST18 0XT.
Our lease of rooms at the Showground will not be renewed when the lease expires at the end of June. These are the key dates to note:
- Tuesday May 14th 6.00 pm: the Club's AGM, followed first by a "farewell party" with light refreshments and then by the normal Tuesday duplicate session.
- Friday 24th May: final duplicate session at the Showground.
There will be no Club activity after 24th May until the week beginning June 3rd
- Monday June 3rd: First duplicate session at the Haling Dene Centre, Penkridge (1.15 for a 1.30 start).
- Thursday June 6th: First teaching session at Tixall Village Hall.
During June, we will be clearing the current Showground premises of all remaining Club items.
Members are urged to continue supporting the Club in every way possible as we make the transition to the new venues and adjust to our new circumstances.
Michael Metcalf, Chair SBC
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| Membership Fees Due 1st April |
 Membership fees of £15.00 are due from 1st April 2024. Click here for "How to pay us" and please could you reference your payment as "subs".
If you are not planning to renew your membership this year please let Carol know by email.
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| County Events |
A green-pointed SSCBA teams competition, the, qualifying event to select a team to represent the County at the EBU Pachabo Cup 8th/9th June and the regional Midlands Challenge Bowl to be held at Newcastle in September, click for details.
 Stafford are hosting this again after a very successful event last year where Janet and Steve were the winners, Limit of 10 tables so book your place early, click for details and entry form
The green-pointed event was won by a Stafford member and his partner from Stone, both are regular Shelley players. Five Stafford players took part in this and enjoyed a wonderful meal in addition to the bridge. Note that the National final is now to be played at Yarnfield Park, Stone in 15th/16th June, spectators allowed?.
SSCBA Teams of Four League 2023/24.
10 teams entered, including 2 from Stafford, and the first round was played on 14th September. Click here for details
SSCBA virtual BBO county on line group at 7 p.m. on Wednesdays
If you would like to be a member of this “Club” please email the Membership Secretary – John Withers on jwithersx@gmail.com, with your real name, your BBO user name (exactly as you print it), EBU number (if you have one), contact telephone number and email address. (This has to be done also by those players already registered with BBO.) Only those that have registered with John will be able to take part in the SSCBA Virtual Club Events, please give him a day or two to organise this prior to the event you wish to join and get some practice games on BBO. Click for information on BBO See also how to indicate your basic system to your oppo through the chat manager, Using Chat Manager in BBO - Bing video. Please also take time to read Paul's comments on Announcing and Alerting on BBO.
Midland Inter-County Mixed Teams Event took place 9th July on RealBridge
This is a new event and a chance to get different partnerships engaged in representing the county, one Stafford member played in the SSCBA team which came equal third out of nine teams, click for the results.
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A green-pointed SSCBA teams competition, the, qualifying event to select a team to represent the County at the EBU Pachabo Cup 8th/9th June and the regional Midlands Challenge Bowl to be held at Newcastle in September, click for details.
Stafford are hosting this again after a very successful event last year where Janet and Steve were the winners, Limit of 10 tables so book your place early, click for details and entry form
The green-pointed event was won by a Stafford member and his partner from Stone, both are regular Shelley players. Five Stafford players took part in this and enjoyed a wonderful meal in addition to the bridge. Note that the National final is now to be played at Yarnfield Park, Stone in 15th/16th June, spectators allowed?. ..........
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| Morning Lessons, 10 a.m. Thursday and Friday mornings |
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Lessons:
- Robin's intermediate lessons: Thursday morning lessons.
- Terry's Improvers lessons: Friday morning lessons.
Robin has produced plenty of material for the website, including one on Splinter bids, Gambling 3NT, CRO, Redoubles, Trial Bids, Jacoby and his all time most read page on McKenny signals and Discards. Summary of his lessons can be seen here with links to the individual lessons.
Robin's Thursday morning popular lessons for intermediates start at 10 a.m. (please contact Robin if you would like to attend) as do Terry's Friday morning lessons for improvers (please contact Terry if you would like to attend those). Please contact Ann if you would like to join beginner's lessons.
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