Torrisholme BC

Well, unusually, the first club night of the season wasn’t all that well attended. I suspect that this is a combination of the end of the holiday season (I know at least 3 people were on holiday this week) and the fact that Thursday nights are always poorly supported.

Selection will begin in earnest on Monday night. The stark and unfortunate truth is that we’re going to really struggle to field 3 teams, let alone 4 this season. It doesn’t take many to drop out to leave a team woefully short, and, as usual, it’s the ladies we’re hurting for. We have something like 8 listed at the moment, and they’re not all definite. That means we can’t field a ‘C’ team if it stays like that. Even with another 2 ladies, we still can’t comfortably play that 3rd team - one reserve!? This is bad. It’s particularly bad because it means that we’d only have team places for 6 gents, and we have 10-12 men wanting to play competitively.

So, what will happen? Would that mean that 4-6 gents will leave to play elsewhere, or, possibly worse, just leave and give up the game? This would be perfectly understandable to me - if you want to play matches, and there’s no place for you at a club, what does it have for you? Worse still, the evil spectre of the rotation system is likely to crop up - surely the worst of all worlds…

And if those extra players leave, and we’re left with only enough members to cover 2 teams, it’s surely only a matter of time (next year, the year after - this year?) that 1 or 2 leave for other reasons, work, family, injury, or whatever, and we’re left with only 1 team, and the process starts again, the extras leave for pastures new that can offer them a game…

Members: Bring ladies! If you are a lady and you haven’t committed to coming down, let us know asap!

Non-members: Bring ladies! Send ladies!

Are you a lady looking to play competitive badminton this season in the Lancaster and Morecambe area? Get in touch, we’ve got teams entered in divisions 2, 4 & 5. Whether we get to play those division 5 teams could be down to you.

email us. Quick!

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