Seniors Fantasy Golf News 2023 : No 1 Pre-season
Belly has launched the new league with an updated style to the rules. It is all available on the website - it starts on February 27th but get your team(s) and money in now. You are allowed to change your team for free before the first competition. DON’T BE LEFT OUT.
We have just had the Wisbey Cup - not counting for the league, but won by a Scottish mountain called Ben More - well done to him. It was a good chance to assess form and check which players have gone lame. I actually played with General Paton who, I said, I thought had settled in well. He agreed but said the hardest bit is having to learn a new language.
In the news is the one lady member who attended the Captain's Drive-In in very tight trousers. They either took thirty minutes to get on, or she got a 3D printer for Christmas. Then there was concern when King Henry V appeared with a red mark on his head. He’s OK, but said he must remember not to practice his diving when the lake is frozen. After appointing Henry as Swimming Captain we have had a long search for a Boxing Captain. Luckily this has been resolved after new man, New Man, joined us and he has accepted the post citing his previous experience in the job.
Then on WhatsApp The Don posted a clip from TikTok which means he must be on it. Expect to see him doing model shoots with a bare chest in the Spring. Someone called Badger has joined us (haven’t met him yet) and Flash said pick your own nickname otherwise the wiser members will give you one. This is an attempt to subvert the system which says you can’t pick your own nickname. The Nickname Committee (Winesey, Dennis, and I) will meet to decide the best way forward. Brock will be informed when a decision is taken.
Played with Frenchie (as you know I don’t mind naming culprits) in a match last week who is going all out to win the Fantasy League this year - he said he had already submitted his 4 players for each team. Bit like John Foreman last year who picked Kane, Sterling, and Rashford. Also played with Pitta Patter Son who to my surprise hit 14 fairways in his round. He expressed his pleasure at his developing game and said he is now working on hitting the fairway of the hole he is playing at the time.
And in a sign of the times I went on my own for a coffee in Shenfield to a nice little coffee shop on the top parade. Trouble was it was raining and was full inside with three of the six tables occupied by one customer each with a laptop ‘working from home’. The only place to sit was a bar stool which was too high for me to sit on. I asked a guy to move up; he looked up and politely said sit here whereupon he noticed the woman on the opposite table was the person he was emailing, also ‘working from home’. After discussion they agreed they could talk to each other, (a radical idea), he moved, and I got a seat.
PS. Razor won £150 on the Captains Drive-In Board. Anyone had a drink off him yet?
PPS. RT tells me he worked on the John Stonehouse case which was recently on TV. He said it could have worked and it gave him ideas. Do you think Sarge and Lord Lucan are one and the same.
PPS. Getting a bit fed up with these strikes. Don’t know why they don’t pay everybody just above national average pay so then they would all be happy.
Simon
We have just had the Wisbey Cup - not counting for the league, but won by a Scottish mountain called Ben More - well done to him. It was a good chance to assess form and check which players have gone lame. I actually played with General Paton who, I said, I thought had settled in well. He agreed but said the hardest bit is having to learn a new language.
In the news is the one lady member who attended the Captain's Drive-In in very tight trousers. They either took thirty minutes to get on, or she got a 3D printer for Christmas. Then there was concern when King Henry V appeared with a red mark on his head. He’s OK, but said he must remember not to practice his diving when the lake is frozen. After appointing Henry as Swimming Captain we have had a long search for a Boxing Captain. Luckily this has been resolved after new man, New Man, joined us and he has accepted the post citing his previous experience in the job.
Then on WhatsApp The Don posted a clip from TikTok which means he must be on it. Expect to see him doing model shoots with a bare chest in the Spring. Someone called Badger has joined us (haven’t met him yet) and Flash said pick your own nickname otherwise the wiser members will give you one. This is an attempt to subvert the system which says you can’t pick your own nickname. The Nickname Committee (Winesey, Dennis, and I) will meet to decide the best way forward. Brock will be informed when a decision is taken.
Played with Frenchie (as you know I don’t mind naming culprits) in a match last week who is going all out to win the Fantasy League this year - he said he had already submitted his 4 players for each team. Bit like John Foreman last year who picked Kane, Sterling, and Rashford. Also played with Pitta Patter Son who to my surprise hit 14 fairways in his round. He expressed his pleasure at his developing game and said he is now working on hitting the fairway of the hole he is playing at the time.
And in a sign of the times I went on my own for a coffee in Shenfield to a nice little coffee shop on the top parade. Trouble was it was raining and was full inside with three of the six tables occupied by one customer each with a laptop ‘working from home’. The only place to sit was a bar stool which was too high for me to sit on. I asked a guy to move up; he looked up and politely said sit here whereupon he noticed the woman on the opposite table was the person he was emailing, also ‘working from home’. After discussion they agreed they could talk to each other, (a radical idea), he moved, and I got a seat.
PS. Razor won £150 on the Captains Drive-In Board. Anyone had a drink off him yet?
PPS. RT tells me he worked on the John Stonehouse case which was recently on TV. He said it could have worked and it gave him ideas. Do you think Sarge and Lord Lucan are one and the same.
PPS. Getting a bit fed up with these strikes. Don’t know why they don’t pay everybody just above national average pay so then they would all be happy.
Simon