FORUM CLOSING ON 14th JANUARY

8ballpotter · Veteran Poster (Potting like a demon)

GOOD LUCK TO ALL PLAYERS PLAYING FOR OXFORDSHIRE AT SELSEY

Minx · Ultimate Poster (Breaks off in decider)

Thanks Matty smile

Will Oxford B team manage to retain their title of National B team champions?

Can Oxford A surprise the rest of the country once again by becoming champions, as they did in 2009?

Will Oxford C go one better than last year and manage to bring home the C team title for the first time?

Will the ladies do better than they did during the qualifying season? (we couldn't do much worse...)

And can the youth improve on their best ever finish of national runners-up?

Who knows, but as always the answers may not be those you expect. Oxford are full of surprises!

I'm getting quite excited now. Only a couple of days left to go! Come on Oxfordshire!!!!!!!!!!

-- Edited by Minx on Tuesday 1st of March 2011 03:09:27 PM

the apprentice · Veteran Poster (Potting like a demon)

Mens 'A'
Group 1:

East London A
Staffordshire A
Berkshire A
Cheshire A
Oxfordshire A
South Derbyshire A
Flintshire A

Mens B
Group 1

Derbyshire B
West Yorkshire B
Flintshire B
Oxfordshire B
East London B
Warwickshire B
Bristol B

Mens C
Group 2

Oxfordshire C
Staffordshire B
Essex C
West Berkshire C
Hampshire C
Cumbria B

Ladies
Group 2

Staffordshire
West Berkshire
East London
Wiltshire
Derbyshire B
Oxfordshire

Youths
Group 1

Berkshire
Staffordshire
Derbyshire B
Oxfordshire B

Group 2

Derbyshire
Oxfordshire 'A'
Berkshire 'B'
Warwickshire

Seniors
Group 2

Oxfordshire
Essex A
Warwickshire
Bristol
London
Berkshire
West Yorkshire

-- Edited by the apprentice on Wednesday 2nd of March 2011 01:06:18 AM

the apprentice · Veteran Poster (Potting like a demon)

FRI 4TH MARCH

9.00AM SESSION

EAST LONDON V OXFORDSHIRE (ladies)

BERKSHIRE A V OXFORDSHIRE 'B' (youth)
OXFORDSHIRE 'A' V BERKSHIRE B (youth)
OXFORDSHIRE V BERKSHIRE (seniors)

11.00AM SESSION

BERKSHIRE V OXFORDSHIRE (Mens 'A')
OXFORDSHIRE V BRISTOL (Mens B)

12.45PM SESSION

FLINTSHIRE V OXFORDSHIRE (Mens B)
OXFORDSHIRE V HAMPSHIRE (Mens C)

2.30PM SESSION

WILTSHIRE OXFORDSHIRE (ladies)
LONDON V OXFORDSHIRE (seniors)

2.30PM YOUTH INDIVIDUALS

4.30PM SESSION

OXFORDSHIRE V BYE (mens c)
OXFORDSHIRE V SOUTH DERBYSHIRE (Mens A)

6.15PM SESSION

OXFORDSHIRE V BRISTOL (seniors)
OXFORDSHIRE V DERBYSHIRE B (ladies)

8.15PM YOUTH INDIVIDUALS
8.15PM MENS INDIVIDUALS

-- Edited by the apprentice on Wednesday 2nd of March 2011 12:41:00 AM

-- Edited by the apprentice on Wednesday 2nd of March 2011 12:42:02 AM

the apprentice · Veteran Poster (Potting like a demon)

SAT 5TH MARCH
9.00AM SESSION

FLINTSHIRE V OXFORDSHIRE (Mens A)
OXFORDSHIRE V DERBYSHIRE (Mens B)

10.45AM SESSION

STAFFORDSHIRE B V OXFORDSHIRE (Mens C)
OXFORDSHIRE V EAST LONDON (Mens A)
WEST YORKSHIRE V OXFORDSHIRE (Mens B)

12.30PM SESSION

WEST BERKSHIRE V OXFORDSHIRE (ladies)
ESSEX A V OXFORDSHIRE (seniors)

OXFORDSHIRE B V DERBY B (youth)
OXFORDSHIRE A V DERBYSHIRE (youth)

2.30PM SESSION

OXFORDSHIRE V ESSEX (Mens C)
STAFFORDSHIRE V OXFORDSHIRE (Mens A)

OXFORDSHIRE V EAST LONDON (Mens B)

4.15PM SESSION

CUMBRIA B V OXFORDSHIRE (Mens C)

6.30PM LADIES INDIVIDUALS
6.30PM SENIOR INDIVIDUALS

7.30PM MENS INDIVIDUALS

-- Edited by the apprentice on Wednesday 2nd of March 2011 12:54:34 AM

the apprentice · Veteran Poster (Potting like a demon)

SUN 6TH MARCH
9.00AM SESSION

OXFORDSHIRE V CHESHIRE (Mens A)
OXFORDSHIRE V WARWICKSHIRE (seniors)
STAFFORDSHIRE V OXFORDSHIRE B (youth)
WARWICKSHIRE V OXFORDSHIRE A (youth)

10.45AM

WARWICKSHIRE B V OXFORDSHIRE (mens B)
OXFORDSHIRE V STAFFORDSHIRE A (ladies)
WEST YORKSHIRE V OXFORDSHIRE (seniors)

12.30PM INDIVIDUAL SEMI FINALS

2.00PM TEAM SEMI FINALS

3.45PM INDIVIDUALS FINALS

5.30PM TEAM FINALS

7.15PM PRESENTATIONS

the apprentice · Veteran Poster (Potting like a demon)

Not sure about West Berkshire 'C'.

In the groups they are there, in the fixture list they are not. There is a 'bye' inserted instead. So we will have to wait and see whether or not they turn up.

COME ON OXFORDSHIRE.....BRING HOME THE BACON!!!!!!!!!

Minx · Ultimate Poster (Breaks off in decider)

well done Jamie, thats brilliant smile

jimbo · Regular Poster (Wins the toss)

with no early starts theres a 99.9% chance i will be there on time.This is our year!!!

MING · Ultimate Poster (2-0 up in a best of 7)

If anyone's got a Dongle, could ya bring it along so we can upload pics etc...

Vodafone best for that area, though I'm told that site has WiFi

Tashy · Senior Poster (Pots off the break)

WAKEY WAKEY RISE AND SHINE THE OXFORD ONSLAUGHT STARTS AT NINE GET DOWN TO THE VENUE AND PLAY SOME POOL AND SHOW AND SHOW ALL THE OTHERS THAT OXFORDSHIRE RULE GOOD LUCK TO YOU ALL

Barney · Ultimate Poster (Breaks off in decider)

Latest from Selsey:

Mens A, Mens C and Seniors are through to the Semi Finals. Mens B and Ladies are relying on results I think. I don't know about the Youth teams.

Adam Brown and Jason Buck are in the Semi Finals of the main Singles event, but are not against each other.

Barney · Ultimate Poster (Breaks off in decider)

Update:

Mens B, Ladies and Youth teams haven't qualified.

The final of the Singles competition is Adam Brown v Jason Buck.

-- Edited by Barney on Sunday 6th of March 2011 02:21:44 PM

Barney · Ultimate Poster (Breaks off in decider)

Update:

The Mens A team lost 14-10 to Derbyshire in their semi final.

The Mens C team lost 14-12 (I think) in the final to Cumbria after winning their semi final 14-10.

The Mens Senior team lost 11-10 to Cambridgeshire in their semi final.

Adam Brown beat Jason Buck 5-3 in the final of the Singles event.

Oh and for those interested, the Buckinghamshire Mens A team lost in their semi final 14-11 to East London.

Minx · Ultimate Poster (Breaks off in decider)

Well done Browny!!! Incredible for one of our own to have taken the prestigous title of National Singles Champion. What an incredible achievement.

And not just one local player getting that far but two, with Scooby taking runner-up.

No wonder winning a singles event in Oxford leagues is so tough with all these superstars around!! biggrin

Minx · Ultimate Poster (Breaks off in decider)

A more detailed update on the ladies Selsey performance...

Yes the ladies did miss out on a place in the semis, but our performance over the weekend has filled me with confidence for the future of Oxford ladies team.

We stormed the group stage on the first day, beating East London (a team with a strong billing of England A players) 11-7, Wiltshire 11-8 and Derbyshire B 11-6Confidence was sky high and our team has never looked so good wink

Everyone was winning their fair share of frames so these wins were a genuine team effort.

We then needed to win just one of our remaining two games to make it through the group. We struggled on Day 2 against West Berks our local rivals, and lost a disappointing 11-8.

On Day 3 it was a effectively a play off between Oxford and Staffordshire as we were joint on points going into our final group game. Whoever won would go through to play Hampshire in the semi. We got our noses in front early and remained a frame or so clear for the first half of the match. Staffs clawed it back in the second leg, catching us up at about 5-5, and pulled several frames ahead to 9-5. We then clawed back several frames in a row to get back within sniffing distance at 10-8, but it was too little too late and we ultimately lost 11-8.

So we just missed out, but this felt a much more positive performance than I've seen from Oxford in recent years. As it happens Staffs did then go on to make the ladies final. But I think Oxford were good enough to have equalled that this year. I'm looking forward to next year already.

Special mention to Conny Meisenburg, who was our top female player, with I think three 3/3's... Carrie Francombe also had a great tournament. Well played girls smile

Full stats will be available once the team managers have given me their paperwork...

the apprentice · Veteran Poster (Potting like a demon)

'C' TEAM REPORT

The 'C' team kicked off their tournament with a cracking 14 - 9 win over reigning Champions Hampshire. Up 6-3 after the first leg, we never really looked back and always maintained a 2-frame lead as we strolled to victory in our opening match.

We hammered Staffordshire 14 - 4 in the morning session of Day 2. The match was level at 2-2 before we pulled into another gear and won an incredible 12 out of the next 14 frames.

The 'C' team supporters witnessed an even bigger win in the penultimate group game as Oxfordshire played some blinding pool to beat Essex 14-2. With 11 players in the team and 11 frames that were not played, everybody picked up a bonus point due to the massive win.

The last group game was against an unbeaten Cumbria and this would decide whether we finished top of our group or not. By far the toughest match of the group stage, Oxfordshire ran out winners 14-9. Confidence was high. The team were unbeaten. And 8 frames in, Jimbo was still unbeaten...

Banter flowed in the karaoke bar as it does every Saturday night on finals weekend. Staffordshire (our opponents in the semi-final) were singing louder than everyone, and the 'C' team replied with "You're going home in the morning..." Oxfordshire did indeed send them packing after running out 14-10 winners. By far our closest match so far, we won the first two legs to take a 10-8 lead before winning 4 from the first 6 of the last leg. We had bettered last years position of semi-finalists. Still unbeaten. Jimbo, 11 frames in, STILL unbeaten...

We were to meet Cumbria in the final, a team we had already beaten in the group stages. I was quick to point out revenge would taste sweet and that we should not get complacent. We quickly fell 0-3 down before going on to lose the first leg 3-6 (the first time we lost a first leg) We had waltzed into the final without any real test and felt the pressure of chasing a lead. The second leg was better, winning 6-3 to take us level at 9-9. Was it to be? We quickly fell two frames down and suddenly it was 9-13. We were deflated. We were quiet. Hollis managed to grind out a frame. 10-13. Burt potted a beautiful long black under pressure. 11-13. The Oxfordshire roar was back and in full swing when Will dished up to bring it back to 12-13 before a Cumbrian had a huge slice of luck when potting his last ball and somehow managed to land square on the black. The black ball disappeared to cheers. Unfortunately those cheers wern't from the Oxfordshire support.

To answer your question, Jimbo did unfortunately lose a frame (2 in fact). But his perfomances were solid all weekend and he was my man of the tournament. Cracking effort lads. Great banter, great pool. Looking forward to next season!

lefty · Regular Poster (Wins the toss)

Agreed Jaz, Our team was awesome on friday and I believe we put up a strong fight all weekend. It was good to see the Ladies feeling and looking so confident. This weekend has given us a big confidence boost and we can all go back next year with our heads held high and feeling full of confidence.

Well done ladies, bring on Nationals 2012

jimbo · Regular Poster (Wins the toss)

Spot on jamie,the whole team played awesome all weekend there were no weak links in the team.obviously chuffed with my own performance but we can all be proud to reach the final and be so close.Dont forget Cumbria were a B team and we pushed them all the way.Roll on next year when we return for the trophy!!

Beefy · Ultimate Poster (Breaks off in decider)

Jamie can you post the stats for the weekend on here so we can see who got over the magic 18 points - I think its the first for any C team players to make the 18 point mark as it required a very win percentage to do so with so few games and so many players......maybe that was the key as it meant you had to win to keep playing which at times caused Jamie problems as well.

Jamie played the captains roll superbly, motivating the team and on several occassions kept his players in when, when he faced decisions on who to drop, it would have been tempting to put himself in.

Cracking weekend.

Yes I did grind a frame out and loved it but last years experience suddenly entered into my mind as Cumbria got to 13 and so when the opportunity presented itself after some 45 minutes of tactical positional play - I went for it and was happy to finally take a frame of Cumbria as I had lost all 3 of the previous ones accross both matches - the only frames I lost in the team event all weekend.

Well played Jimbo - you took the chances well and played some awesome shots during key frames.

-- Edited by Beefy on Monday 7th of March 2011 06:13:50 PM

the apprentice · Veteran Poster (Potting like a demon)

Ok, so MY version of the stats are about to go up. Please remember that these were done in Selsey and may not be 100% accurate (it wont be far off though)

My stats also include semi final AND final results. I have based these stats on 2 points for a win. A lot of players ended up having 5 points for one match (played 2, won 2 and picked up a bonus point for not playing 3rd leg)

Jimbo 29 points
Hollis 26 points
Pitfield 23 points (I believe he is leaving?)
Durham 21 points
Burt 20 points
Peanut 19 points

Retention level is set are 18+ points AND an win % of 55>.

Please remember that I am not sure whether the semi finals and final count on your stats. I have no idea why they shouldnt be but if they are, then this is the list of players who would have retained themselves. On top of this list is me (captain) and Luke Ingram (international) So that would be 7 of my team for next year already.

I am sure this situation will be clarified soon.

-- Edited by the apprentice on Monday 7th of March 2011 06:34:31 PM

MING · Ultimate Poster (2-0 up in a best of 7)

Beefy wrote:
when the opportunity presented itself after some 45 minutes of tactical positional play - I went for it...

...and took the Triangle off!

Beefy · Ultimate Poster (Breaks off in decider)

the apprentice wrote:
Jimbo 29 points
Hollis 26 points
Pitfield 23 points (I believe he is leaving?)
Durham 21 points
Burt 20 points
Peanut 19 points

Retention level is set are 18+ points AND an win % of 55>.

Please remember that I am not sure whether the semi finals and final count on your stats. I have no idea why they shouldnt be but if they are, then this is the list of players who would have retained themselves. On top of this list is me (captain) and Luke Ingram (international) So that would be 7 of my team for next year already.

I am sure this situation will be clarified soon.

-- Edited by the apprentice on Monday 7th of March 2011 06:34:31 PM

Considering we only played 6 matches over the whole weekend (4 in the group plus semi and final) the other mens teams had 6 games in their groups alone.

This is a fantasic effort

Minx · Ultimate Poster (Breaks off in decider)

You impatient people - I have done the stats as quickly as possible!!

All stats for all teams at Selsey are now available on the OCPF website.
Players making retention are highlighted in orange, and the tab for "county rankings" has also been updated to reflect all players retained through the various methods.

http://www.ocpf.co.uk/pages/season-results-tables/2011-selsey-rankings.php

-- Edited by Minx on Tuesday 8th of March 2011 07:32:26 PM

dodgy8ball · Occasional Poster (Racking up the balls)

SENIORS TEAM REPORT

Three games on Friday started off our weekend, first win would to be Berkshire 11-7.
Next up was London and another good win 11-5. A slip in the third against Bristol and a loss 9-11 to end the first day.

Day 2 gave us only one game against Essex A. This was to be another good win 11-4.

Sunday mornings first game against Warwickshire was a closer game but we came through 11-8 winners. Then the final group game against the unbeaten and very confident West Yorkshire. They were right to be so and beat us easily 11-5.This made us qualify second in our section.

Next up winners of the other section Cambridgeshire. A very close game coming out at 10-10 and into a playoff. Andy Lucus against Kevin Mc Ilroy both had chances and mistakes but unfortunately Andy Lucas came out winning.

Overall an excellent performance by all of the Seniors team, next year we will be stronger. Thankyou Seniors for making my job easy and enjoyable.

chocolate browny · Regular Poster (Wins the toss)

'A' Team Report

Arriving in Selsey I felt confident of a good performance from a team that has grown over the year as a unit and regardless I knew it would be a very enjoyable weekend.
Following advice from one of my team that a "Mandela-like" speech was necessary to get us going it then proved impossible to gather eveyone together at once as most ppl were caught somewhere in the wilderness on the way to their vans.
Our first game at 11 'o' clock on Friday (luckily for some) was against a Berkshire team that had recovered their star players and we didn't get off to the best of starts - in the marquee. We soon succombed to a 14-6 defeat.
The afternoon session saw us playing South Derbyshire, and with Gee out of action, Connor made an excellent showing winning his first frame for the A's. the rest of the team banded together too and overturned our negative frame difference, beating them 14-6.
Saturday morning pitted us against a decent Flintshire side, and though they stayed close until 6-6 we managed to pull away and come out 14-9 winners.
Our next match was what we thought would be the match we had to win to qualify for the semi final, against East London. Unfortunately they raced to an early 5-0 deficit proving too much to catch up, although we did share the rest of the frames coming out eventual 14-9 losers...frame difference back to zero.
At this point our chances of progressing through the group were slim, needing Berkshire to lose to Cheshire in their final game on the Sat afternoon and us to catch them up on frame difference.
Our last game on the Saturday was against Staffordshire, a side who topped the Central region. for once we got off too a flyer and were quickly 5-0 up. An excellent performance saw us close the match at 14-7 and rumours floated over that Berkshire were 6-0 down....
Our hopes looked to be dashed when Berkshire caught up and took the lead at 11-9 but in another turnaround they ended up losing 14-13. We then knew we had to win at least 14-8 against the saem side that they had just lost to to progress.
Awaking early Sunday morning full of confidence at the chance to knock out Berkshire and move into the semis, we started the match well againsoon moving into a 9-3 lead. As the match came to the end, tension built as we were split onto 4/5 tables needing one of the first two frames to finish to win the match by enough. Mansell held himself together and clinched the winning frame... 14-7
Hoping for a repeat of two years ago, we started the semi against Derbyshire in good spirits, but a few early mistakes cost us and we quickly trailed 9-3. In spite of a late comeback, we came out eventual losers 14-10.
Congratulations to the whole team on an excellent weekend, i'm very proud of our performance as a whole and though we couldn't win it this year i'm sure we'll be back again next year even stronger now. At least we lost to the eventual winners too, and we were very competitive against them I think it was only the dodgy start that cost us. Well done Nick esp on topping our team stats, great performance.

Love Browny
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