Tuesday, November 30, 2010

President's Cup

First round of matches have now been played, with wins for Charlie Jack, Steele McFadzean, David Hope and John Sharp.

The results are here.

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Fraser Cup - Final Results


Allan Hastie's team of Steel McFadzean, Euan Lawrence and Peter Reynolds won their final game against David Gray to rightfully claim the trophy.  Austin Thomson's team  could only manage a draw against Jim Henry.
The final positions in what was an exciting competition are shown here.

Next week sees the start of the President's Cup, at 5.00 pm.
President's Rinks          1,3,5,7,& 9
Vice President's Rinks  2,4,6,8,&10

The first draw is:
Robert Boyd    v   Robert Charters
Allan Hastie     v   Jim Henry
Ronnie Wilson v   Austin Thomson
Ernest Mutter  v   David Gray

For new members, in the President's Cup the Skips lead irrespective of substitutions and the Rinks Move up One place.  Reserves can play in any place at discretion of the Skip, but no higher than the person they are replacing. (This competition only)
Subsequent games will be played in January.

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

And Then There Were Two!

The winning teams yesterday were those skipped by Bob Charters, Austin Thomson, Allan Hastie, Ernest Mutter and Jimmy Niblock.

So with one round left, we have two teams left on six wins out of eight, the Hastie and A Thomson rinks.
Unless there is an exceptional collapse, the winner will be one of those two, with Allan's better Ends Won perhaps being of significance.  We shall see.

The up to date table is in the Fraser Cup link in results or can be found here.

For those of us interested in the club's history, I have created a link to the booklet giving details of Gangrels first 50 years. It is in the pages shown on the right.

Sunday, November 14, 2010

Message from Robert Boyd re RCCC Survey

As you will know I was the RCCC Area Representative and after 3 years of trying to change things and getting nowhere - I resigned.
So I was very pleased to see that Bruce Crawford, the new CEO of the Royal Club, has put together some questions for members, the answers to which will help the Royal Club to develop its work and plans for the next four years from April 2011. The link to the survey was in Hit and Roll, the November Email Newsletter, which can be read here, if you don't subscribe.
Bruce says, "We are currently looking for feedback from members on the things that we currently do or that you would like us to do in future. Once we have reviewed the comments to this survey we will produce a short summary of these views and publish this on the website before moving to the next steps of developing the strategy."
The survey questions include:
1. What do you think we do well, what works in curling or what does not need to change?
2. What do we not do well, what do we need to change, what doesn't work in curling?
3. What new things should we be doing for member curlers and curling generally?
4. What do you see as the problems that face curling in Scotland today?
5. Looking forward, what three things would be your priorities for the Royal Club to work on?
6. The Royal Club has an international role as the 'Mother Club' of world curling. What activities, initiatives or responsibilities should this include in our strategy?
7. What would your club need, for it to be able to attract and develop more curlers?
8. What is the one thing that prevents you from curling more?
Completing the survey gives you the opportunity to be included in the subsequent development of the Royal Club's strategy. The deadline for completing the online questionnaire is December 5. Find the link to the survey here.
These are not easy questions, and will require members to give them a bit of thought. But I fervently hope that many do respond. Not to do so is the equivalent of saying 'I don't give a toss' about the future of the sport in Scotland. It's the equivalent of just giving your proxy to those currently running things. And don't even begin to think, 'Well, they were elected....." Many more Scottish curlers will look at this blog post TODAY than voted in the election for the directors' positions on the Board last summer. You have the franchise. You can make a difference. Apathy is the sport's biggest enemy. Take the time to fill out the survey.
I'll certainly be doing so.we could encourage members to respond to the questions.
Robert Boyd

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Fraser Cup update

There were wins last night for Ronnie Wilson, Robert Boyd, Bob Charters, Austin Thomson and Jim Henry resulting in an intriguing position with only two games left.
In particular, Robert and Austin's teams have now joined Allan Hastie and Scott Thomson at the top of the league with 5 wins out of 7.
All to play for next week, when the big game is undoubtedly Allan v Scott.
Click on the Fraser Cup link in the results column or click here for the up to date table.

Monday, November 8, 2010

Welcome

Welcome to our first GANGRELS website, it is intended to be easy to follow and will keep you up to date with league results etc. It is your website and we need your input to make it interesting so please email any input to Ronnie Peat. (ronniepeat@gmail.com)

My thanks to Ronnie for getting it up and running.

Robert Boyd