Luke Ellis played one of their best players. In practice, Luke was hardly missing a ball, so sure enough, as often happens, when it came to his game, he couldn't pot a thing! To be fair, he did not have too many chances, but those he had, you would normally have expected him to string some sort of break together. Anyway, he was never in it and he lost his unbeaten record..

Dave Thomas's game was very scrappy in comparison. Both players missed chances and when they did pot a red, could not follow it with a colour. There was never much in it, but fortunately Dave did just enough to sneak it on the colours.

Alan Carter played another of their good players. Like last week, he fell behind early on. His opponent knocked in a nice 30 break, then followed it up with a 20. Alan was down and out, but somehow produced a nice 30 break to get back into contention. He then continued to narrow the gap and looked favourite when he was left with a blue over the middle pocket, with pink and black in the open. He potted the blue, but just finished awkward on the pink and had to play safe. His opponent then played a lovely shot to almost snooker Alan and although he managed to hit it, he left it on and that was end of frame.

Ian Rawlings played John Tripp, (who is also a member at BVSC). Again this was a real scrappy game, which really suits Ian, but as he often does, Ian manages to create chances from his safety play, but fails to make them count. He sometimes turns down really good chances to string some points together in favour of a safety shot and unless the snookers are top quality, it is unlikely, at this level, you are going to make big points from snookers. Even with the miss rule, these guys are usually good enough to get out in one or two attempts and frankly 8 points is not going to win you a game. Anyway, this went down to the last few colours, with virtually nothing in it. Then John potted a superb brown from distance, leaving himself perfect on the blue. The pink was there too and he just rolled that in to seal victory.

Mark Sutton played his usual game, a mixture of brilliance, but also he is now missing the odd simple ball too. Not that it mattered last night, he was always well in control. So, a 3-2 loss which, against a much improved team, wasn't a bad result but we've got to keep the wins going if we are to challenge for honours again this year.