Quarter finals of sealed handicap versus Grasshoppers B 27th April
Written by David on April 28th, 2009In a highly charged atmosphere at the Club Lane stadium last night the minnows of the 3rd division triumphed over their illustrious division 1 opposition. From the first pong, Popps took the wiff to the opposition and showed them no mercy as they swept to an overwhelming victory.
John (aka the pieman) played number 1 and waffed with extreme concentration throughout. So much so that he almost forgot that he had paid David’s £2 match fee. Amazingly, at the height of his triumphant progress he left the table to pocket the said loan and even mutter something about interest being due.
David (aka the dog man) used his profound sociological understanding of the theory of playing with (and without) pimples to send pimply Bob scampering back to his team to contemplate his chewing gum (surely this must be in contravention of bye law 1a subsection 2b.)
This brings me onto Peter (aka the banker’s scourge) who survived a warning for excessive use of the tongue as well as several complaints about the legality of his service to emerge as Popp’s top performer on the night.
Bring on Grasshoppers A! Popps are on a roll and in this form will take some beating.
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Another trademark report from our cub reporter ‘Newshound’ David. If anyone else witnessed this world shattering event perhaps they could comment here and add any details we might find of interest. What was the handicap? How many did we win by? Did they have any fiendish serves or tactics we could a) complain about or b) copy?
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We were that good we will be entering a team at Crufts next year.
As our bark is better than our bite it will be nearly as big a suprise when we achieve a first.
A new word was added to our popplingo — “twiddling”– when Grasshopper Bob confounded us with this latest modern table tennis science.
However righteousness prevailed when He who set the handicaps was proven to be a veritable Soloman.
But on a serious note of course we learnt a lot from an excellent magnaminous 1st Div team, not the least that if we can just resist from trying to play shots that we are not good with we will do better. Both John and David were far from being outclassed by possibly two of the opposition (and Peter as well of course) .
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Sounds like a great match Peter. I gather they were run close in a few ganes which is very encouraging against a Div 1 team. David emailes me so more info. some of which is printable here! SOme of which may be actionable. I gather we won by 18 points with a final score of 396-378. David somehow reverse engineered this into a handicap of 244 but I will check this with our School of Mathematics Prof.