‘E’ v Paraplegics

After the comprehensive drubbing by the ‘C’ team last week the ‘E’ team ( E for elated but only mildly) travelled to the Paraplegics venue for the fourth time this season and came away with a hard fought 5-5 draw.
All team members enjoyed success in singles or doubles but Ken was the star by winning [...]

Keeping the best till last?

The eagerly anticipated match between the Southport ‘A’ and ‘B’ teams has been put back a couple of weeks. Colin Fyles reckons he couldn’t get together a full team, but the rumour mill has it that he was scared of facing a strong line-up of Peter Tod, Alan Nolan, Dave Ferguson and Stan Clarke [...]

Feeding time?

Here’s a quick tip if you want to keep up to date with articles posted on this website: why not use an “RSS feed“?
“What’s one of those when it’s at home?” you may well ask! OK, stay with me.
It’s a way of “subscribing” to the website so that you are fed a notification whenever an [...]

Let’s play table tennis!

In the 2006-7 season, 25 teams competed in 3 divisions; in 2007-8, 28 teams started, but this became 27 after only a few weeks. Our club entered 2 additional teams and both Argyle and Formby Holy Trinity entered one; North Meols dropped a team. The 1st and 2nd divisions now have 9 and 8 teams [...]

E team v FormbyTTC E

The E ( ‘E’ for extremely unsuccessful ) team met Formby TTC this week and failed to improve on the 1-9 result against the same side earlier in the season. In fact the result was even worse as we went down 0-10. Comparing the results over the two matches,however, some comfort can be taken [...]

Practice night 14th February

…is still on, even though it is half-term, even though it is Valentine’s Day!

‘E’ team Gunson Plate

Passing swiftly over 3 more League defeats in recent weeks, the ‘E’  (E for eliminated) team enjoyed a close encounter with Formby H T ‘D’ in the Gunson Plate on 29th January.
After the adjustment of the handicap Southport lost by just 11 points. This outstanding achievement was made by Ken winning one singles and amassing [...]