The Home Internationals

[tommyc]

The Home Internationals start today in Knighton Wales ,competing teams are...Ireland, Wales, England ,N.Ireland.Ty is over 4 days will keep you posted best i can ............

[william]

Thanks for the info Tommy , just sad to see that Scotland could not put forward a team ; is this a first of it's kind ?
Hopefully it will not become a trend

your friend william

[tommyc]

Hello William,..........Scotland didnt field unfortunately.The Home Int s are played every four yrs and theyve been going on for quite a while now,i think this is the 1st yr Scot dint play.

Day 1::::
Eng A beat Eng B
Ire beat N.Ireland
N.Ire beat Wales

[tommyc]

The Home Ints consist of 8 man teams, two rounds per day .

Day 2:: (1st session)
Ire(holders) beat Eng B
Eng A beat Wales
N.Ireland bye

2nd session
N.Ireland v Eng A
Ire v Eng B
Wales bye............more results later when to hand!!

[tommyc]

Results so far .........Received from John Morgan yest. afternoon........nothing since.

Round 1

England A beat England B 8-1-7.

N. Ireland beat Wales 4-3-9.

Ireland got a bye.

Round 2

Wales beat England B 8-3-5.

Ireland beat N. Ireland 7-2-7.

England got a bye.

Round 3

England A beat Wales 5-4-7.

Ireland beat England B 4-3-9.

N. Ireland got a bye.

[Lindus Edwards]

I expected better results from Wales than this

[tommyc]

Maybe some pple expected you would be there to try n improve on the results.Lindus?!!!

[Lindus Edwards]

Thanks Tommy but could not make it. Does anybody have the team names?

[Ingo_Zachos]

Dear Lindus,

in fact Wales lost to Ireland and England by just one game.
That does not sound like a very bad result, more like the Welsh were gentlemen enough to let the Irish and English off their hook narrowly.
But I also would like to know the line-ups of the different teams and the individual records.

And maybe the games could be published anywhere,

Greetinx from very sunny, almost hot, Germany

Ingo Zachos

[Lindus Edwards]

Hi Ingo,
You are right. The results were not too bad for Wales. I was just kidding of course. Hopefully we will have the names of the teams before too long.

[tommyc]

It looks like too many of the so called "top raters" shy away from the hard competition prefering to go for the soft targets to protect their so called ratings. Perhaps if things were different we would have a real competition not some meaningless ....."going thru the motions sham" .!!

Apart from that it seems this is a clandestine Ty. held in secret ,as results are as hard to come by as "hens teeth".So much for the great age of communication.

[Lindus Edwards]

I have asked John Morgan for the results and am awaiting his reply. Were it not for serious health problems I would have played for Wales. In October of last year I became so ill that I was almost completely blind. Fortunately I am recovering now thanks to a large amount of pills I am constrained to take daily. I do appreciate your comments though Tommy and agree with them.

[tommyc]

Hope your on your feet again soon Lindus...........still no results.

[Lindus Edwards]

Thank you Tommy. I still haven't received the final results. I know what you mean about this "age of communication."

[tommyc]

Right Lindus,...Well its saturday now and i still havent got the results and the Ty been over now for 2 days.......Matter of fact i couldnt care less now who won........i rest my case. !!