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30th April 2001 "The Wee disk goes on the inside "!!!!!! A Funny thing happened tonight at Gourock Park, believe it or not The Vice-President Robert Grant suddenly forgot which way to deliver a bowl and suffered the embarrassment of throwing a "wrong bias bowl" during a friendly pairs game with Jim Crawford,Robert Hughes and Hamish Ramsay. Robert was speechless and went a funny shade of red as his fellow bowlers howled with laughter at his mistake and to add salt in to his wounds they promptly reminded the luckless Robert that the wee disk goes on the inside!!! There are just a few spaces to be filled for the Stonehouse Game! Want to play? Well add your name to the sheet asap 28th April The 1st Four Competition Draws have been made,which are- Club Championship,Presidents Singles,Rose Bowl and Mathie Cup Pairs 26th April 2001 Members wishing to play in The Presidents v Vice Presidents Match on Tues 2nd May are requested to be at the Clubhouse for no later than 6.45pm.It is also requested that members dress in whites and grey. Tea & Coffee will be served after the game. The Sheet for The Stonehouse Game is up on the notice board! Get your name on it asap if you wish to play. 20th April The Presidents versus Vice Presidents has been rescheduled to Tues 1st of May. A Picture of Gourock Park's Prize Winners for Season 2000 appears in the latest edition of 2004 17th April 2001 A Report in "The Greenock Telegraph" tells of Inverclyde Council's possible plans to reduce running costs at all Council owned Greens. Officials met with Committee's from all the Clubs involved-Parklea & Birkmyre in Port Glasgow,Hillend,Wellington and Lady Alice in Greenock and Gourock Park to discuss the possible full or part-time management of the Clubs. Following these talks it was revealed that only "Lady Alice" were interested in taking on the full management of thier Club.The other Clubs all expressed concerns about taking on any responsibility. Following these talks the Council have proposed that they continue to run the bowling greens and that only whose interested be offered "Community Ownership" and that a lease would be drawn up for Lady Alice BC 7th April 2001 The Greens at Gourock Park were opened for play today.President Twaddle welcomed his invited Guests and Club Members to the New Season at the Club and wished them all a happy and successful year. The first Bowl was delivered by The Ladie's President,Mrs Jean Greenhill. Invited Guests were-Raymond Bruce(President of Gourock BC) and his Vice-President John McVicar,Robert Harron (IBM Secretary)Jim McLeod (IBM President),Ian Creelman(Greenock & District),Robert Tosh (Gourock Park Hon President)John McCartney (Gourock Park Hon Vice-President) and Gourock BC's Past Presidents Allan Ward and Willie Telfer. Our Site Sponsor,Chris Cullen of "Crawfurd Car Centre" was unable to attend due to business commitments. The Opening Day Wapinshaw consisted of 9 Ends and the Winners were Norma Ramsay,Ann Seath and Archie Forbes (Skip) (12 Shots up) Runners-up was a Rink -Jean Greenhill,Gary Bradley,Raymond Bruce and George Hetherington(Skip) (6Shots up) 4th April 2001 I have changed the Message Board over to The Ezboard Community as the Coolboard was far too slow to access and use. I hope you will find this Board to your liking and join in with the discussions. 2nd April 2001 Gourock Park's Club Fixtures have been announced and can be seen on the "Club Fixtures" Page Shortly this Site will have several pages devoted too SBA (District 23) News and Results. Web Poll added! New Monthly Poll added to the site! Please join in,also added recently is a Message Board .So please lets hear your opinions,jokes,news and stories. 26th March 2001 The Draw for The Greenock & District Top Ten has been made and the 1st Round is as follows- Birkmyre v Port Glasgow @ IBM Ardgowan v Kilmacolm @ Birkmyre Parklea v Gourock Park @ Lady Alice Grosvenor v Victoria @ Port Glasgow Inverkip v Wellington @ Fort Matilda Rankin Park v Gourock @ Kilmacolm Hillend v Fort Matilda @ Gourock Park Lady Alice v IBM @ Rankin Park The Date for these games is Weds 25 July @ 6.30pm 21 st March 2001 Heard a little rumour today that Inverkip Bowling Club will be sending 2 League Rinks to join forces with Lady Alice.If this is true i imagine that Lady Alice will be reverting back once again having 2 League Teams,1 in Section A and the other in Section B Its now just over a fortnight til the Opening of Gourock Park for Season 2001,but going by the present awful siberian weather in Scotland I think theres more chance of Robert Grant winning the Darroch Park Sledging Race than there is of Bowling being played on opening day!!!! Lets hope that the weather improves before the 7th of April "Its because you lost the Toss!!!!!" Never in my almost 10 years of Bowling have I heard this Excuse for losing a game! But this was the reason given when Archie Forbes,Andy Kearns & myself were having our after-match refreshment recently at Inverclyde Indoor Bowling Club. The 3 of us were discussing the awful first 3 Ends in our last triples game(we lost 9 shots in those 3 ends!!) and we all agreed that it was a major contribution to our eventual 18 -10 shots defeat. We commented on each of our own miserable performances during the game,but in particular those 3 ends. Thats when I mentioned that the reason why I had such a bad start was because I couldnt adapt to playing the "short Jacks" that our opponents elected to play after winning the toss! I (Andy and myself are new to indoor bowling and have mostly played to long Jacks) Then Archie our Skip came up with his perfect excuse for losing this game! "It wis your fault! if you had won the toss we widnae huv lost aw them shots!!" "who d be a lead eh? Championship Results At time of writing I have only had one response to my plea for other Clubs in The Greenock & District area to offer to send in thier Championship Results to this Site! However I hope once the Season opens this will change? If you would like to have your Club included then please get in touch asap |
