Everyone was hesitant to put their hand in KOD’s recently won angling Times clubman cap so Simple dipped in first……….peg 16 and a whoop of delight because it meant ME possibly fishing a new peg.
This provoked a rush to the draw bag. Some smiles and some cussing followed, particularly when Yamo drew peg 13, the one that BDM had wanted all week. Mr V couldn’t get into the first 6 pegs again, drawing 14 with The Wedge looking dangerous on 15. Golden Balls had got off his sick bed to come along but whether he was vulnerable because of his ailment or whether his drawing arm has truly deserted him he pulled out 10. Not to bad a draw though, although not fancied, a couple of 4lb weights have come of this during the series. Zorro, now rechristened CPM (Cock Peg Master) seemed reluctant to announce he’d pulled out 2 for the second match in a row. ME pulled out 5 to experience the brambles – would that Vespe 25 survive? Come the end two pegs in the bag, 1 & 11. KOD wouldn’t draw. So BDM dipped in an guess what, BDM mode kicked in and he pulled out 11 on a 50/50 shout.
Well after all that, not a lot to report on. Yamo was soon walking the backs after 50 minutes. BDM was struggling with a few gudgeon. Although he’d fished the peg a few times before the roach where not showing. News filtered through that young Shaunie was pasting the BDM with a decent perch, simple had a few small chub and gobies but everywhere else, including the low numbers were struggling. Simple with his nose in front!
Less than an hour to go and BDM made a big mistake in leaving his peg to take a few pickies – this could prove costly come the scales.
A large shout, a few choice anglo saxon words and we learnt that Yamo’s chance had gone out the window – he’d been seen off on peg 13 by a beastie. Apparently the same happened to Ginger Tom and Phil B, but to quote Heinzer, ‘Seen offs count for nowt’.
Whistle for all out and some desperate looking faces at the top of the bank packing away.
Sounded like a few had been gruellered. Simple was first to weigh and set the benchmark for the day…….1lb 1oz 4 drams.
Quite a few pegs had returned just ounces with Golden Balls and Phil B not bothering to weigh. Cotti had got out of jail with a 1lb plus rub a dub to ounce the BDM…….costly that David Bailey session, 2 more gobies and the result would have gone the other way.
Well that’s the end of the waffle………here’s the results and current table
[table][tr][td]PEG MATCH 5 WEIGHT POINTS
1 KOD 0.14.6 12
2 ZORRO JEFFERY 5.13.0 20
3 ROY COTTERELL 1.7.0 17
4 GEOFF CASHMORE 2.2.10 19
5 ME 0.1.3 7
6 RICH CASHMORE 1.5.3 15
7 GINGER TOM 0.5.1 10
8 HEINZER 0.3.0 9
9 PHIL BROADSTOCK DNW 3
10 GOLDEN BALLS LUDGATE DNW 3
11 BUM DRAW MASTER 1.6.0 16
12 SHAUN DAVIES 1.2.0 14
13 YAMO 0.1.11 8
14 MR V 2.1.0 18
15 THE WEDGE 0.10.3 11
16 SIMPLE SIMON 1.1.4 13[/td][/tr][/table]
MATCH 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
ZORRO JEFFERY 11 18 16 18 20 83
BUM DRAW MASTER 16 20 15 15 16 82
KOD 15 12 20 17 12 76
ROY COTTERELL 14 14 17 11 17 73
THE WEDGE 18 16 18 8 11 71
MR V 0 17 13 19 18 67
YAMO 17 9 12 16 8 62
PHIL BROADSTOCK 12 11 10 20 3 56
GINGER TOM 3 19 11 13 10 56
SIMPLE SIMON 0 8 19 9 13 49
SHAUN DAVIES 3 15 9 7 14 48
GOLDEN BALLS 20 7 0 14 3 44
HEINZER 13 10 0 10 9 42
GEOFF CASHMORE 10 0 13 0 19 42
ME 8 6 0 13 7 34
GEZ FRANCE 19 13 0 0 0 32
RICHARD CASHMORE 9 0 0 0 15 24
It aint called a Grueller Series for nowt
Be interesting a 9 a side Grueller squad against a Rugeley PS team............could we bring them down to our level 
