It's Very Close after Week 4

Good wins last night for David Gray and Ronnie Wilson mean that these two teams now share top spot with Jimmy Begg on 6 points. Indeed, the top two are equal on 20 ends won and separated only by ends lost.
Close behind are Bert McKay on 5 points and David Hope on 4. Those of us with a mathematical brain will immediately realise that there are only two points separating the top 5 teams!
The current table is shown here.

Week 3 Results

Jimmy Begg's team of Ewan Lawrence, Ken Ross and Bob Henderson continue to set the pace with their third win in a row. They beat Jimmy Niblock in what seemed to be a close game.
Hot on their heels are the teams of Ronnie Wilson, David Gray and David Hope, who all won last night.
The league table is here.
The RCCC sent out the link to their latest issue of Your Curler yesterday. In case anyone doesn't have it, you  can access it by following this link.

Close Games in Week 2

The scores seemed much closer this week. Jimmy Begg's team had a good win, defeating Ronnie Wilson's team 10-9, and moving to the head of the league with 4 points.
Bert McKay's team and Scott Thomson's team, who drew with each other last week, both won to be in 2nd/3rd place on three points, and David Hope's team had a good win beating Jimmy Niblock 5-2.
The up to date table is here.

Two New Teams

No we haven't increased the numbers back to 10 teams. As mentioned in yesterday's report, we had a wee problem with two teams playing the wrong opponent.
We don't know exactly how it happened, and it probably doesn't matter.  The easy way to rectify the situation, without redrafting the whole draw is simply to re-number two teams.
So from now on Team 6 will be Bert McKay's team and Team 8 will be Jimmy Begg's.
The "Rinks for Season 2012-13" page has been amended and a fresh copy of the teams will be posted on the notice board.

Opening Night and Challenge League Report

First outing on the ice for the new Gangrels season was last night and it was good to report some very close games and some not so close.

Honorary President Jim Watson threw the first stone with his usual aplomb. Unfortunately, your correspondent made a mess of recording this properly with his new camera so we can't publish a photo of it.

Here, though, is the full club eagerly awaiting their first game.

So now to the results.  There were good wins for David Gray and Ronnie Wilson over David Hope and Jimmy Niblock respectively. Jimmy Begg beat Steell McFadzean and the last game was a draw between the teams of Bert McKay and Scott Thomson.  The updated table can be found here.

However, Scott was meant to play Jimmy, and Steell was meant to play Bert. (I knew the new draw would cause problems). Watch this space for yet another new draw to try to work out a solution.

Our meal afterwards was first class and  very well received by all. Passion Caterers are the new Ice Rink caterers and they are to be commended on their efforts so far. Let's make every endeavour to use them as much as possible.

President David has sent a report on last week's Challenge League Game.

"On Tuesday evening a rink of Gangrels set foot on the ice for the first game of the Challenge League. The rink comprises of Russell Boyd (Skip) David Hope, Peter Galloway and Ken Ross. We were up against Andrew Baird from Crosshill Curling Club and we had a close game. Unfortunately the score did not reflect the closeness of the game where most ends could have gone either way. The end score for the evening was 11 – 6 to the Crosshill rink. We will endeavour to do better in our next game."

Thanks, David for the report.  Can I remind all skips representing Gangrels in outside competitions that it would be very helpful to have a report emailed to me afterwards.