2011-12 grades

Congratulations to Tim, Dave Marshall, Roy, Adrian, and Louis who each achieved a grade increase of 6 points or greater. Tim becomes the highest graded of the currently active Trowbridge players; albeit by a very small margin.

Player	ECF (new)	2010 ECF	League Results (2010-11)
Woodward, Tim	155	148	+13 =3 -4
Leonard, Mark	153	152	+21 =14 -12
Rothwell, Derek	152	154	+8 =3 -6
Weston, David	149	150	+9 =5 -7
Marshall, Dave	141	131	+11 =9 -3
Ludlow, Roy	131	125	+17 =10 -8
Williams, R Gareth	131	134	+9 =5 -9
Davis, Adrian	122	116	+4 =3 -3
Burton, Louis	82	69	+10 =9 -20
Ransom, Tony	73	79	+0 =3 -13
Crucefix, Nigel	71	84	+2 =3 -17

Wiltshire 4-a-side

These grading changes do not greatly affect Trowbridge's strongest Wiltshire team as Tim (who leapfrogs from 4th to 1st) is not a regular player. It is likely that Derek and Mark will continue to alternate playing boards 1 and 2. Dave Marshall is a welcome addition as the club's 5th strongest player and will hopefully feature on board 4 next season.

Now for the opposition teams: Swindon's Mark Jones is still their board 1 despite dropping some grading points. Infrequent squad player Anthony Lake pips Richard Carver for the number 2 spot and Steve Reynolds overtakes Gordon Chapman and could easily feature on board 4 or higher (perhaps as an alternative to Mike Walters). P.S. I smell another Carver vs Marshall match!

For Brown Jack, Adam Burroughs overtakes Jon Coats but their standard team is otherwise unchanged. Nationwide's team is also unaltered.

Wiltshire Minor

Dave Marshall should continue to feature in the Minor team. This year he will take board 1 ahead of Gareth. Trowbridge's strongest team would appear to (additionally) comprise Roy, Gareth and Louis. A formidable arrangement!

Brown Jack have Jon Coats available and Wayne should play ahead of Luke Burroughs. Otherwise their squad is not affected. The Westinghouse team is also unchanged, as is Swindon's except Anthony Lake could feasibly play ahead of Richard Carver.

2010-11 Review : Somerset Divison 3 East

Bath are this year's Division 3 East champions albeit on a tie-break with Trowbridge.

Year	Division 3E
2004-5	Trowbridge
2005-6	Frome	Trowbridge did not enter a team
2006-7	Trowbridge
2007-8	Yeovil B	Trowbridge =2nd-4th
2008-9	Trowbridge
2009-10	Bath
2010-11	Bath	Trowbridge =1st

Somerset Division 3 East 2010-11

Team	Won	Drawn	Lost	For	Against	Points
Bath	3	2	1	14	10	8
Trowbridge	4	0	2	12½	11½	8
Norton Radstock	2	1	3	11½	12½	5
Frome	1	1	4	10	14	3

Cross-Table

Team	Bath	Trowbridge	N / Radstock	Frome	Home Pts
Bath		3 - 1	2 - 2	2 - 2	4
Trowbridge	2½ - 1½		2½ - 1½	2½ - 1½	6
Radstock	1 - 3	3 - 1		2½ - 1½	4
Frome	1½ - 2½	1 - 3	2½ - 1½		2
Away Pts	4	2	1	1

Trowbridge won all 3 of their home matches and also beat Frome away. However Bath did not lose any of their remaining fixtures and showed good Away form. A key result was Bath's home match against Trowbridge where they managed a win even without the unbeaten Dave Allen on top board.

Bath	3-1	Trowbridge
Dimond, Peter	1-0	Williams, R Gareth
Norton, Hugh	0-1	Marshall, Dave
Brown, Christian	1-0	Ludlow, Roy
Burrows, John	1-0	Ransom, Anthony

Player Results

For more details you can view Roger Fenton's Somerset team results.

Frome

Frome did not fare well on boards 1 and 4:

Board	W–D–L	Points	Players
1	1-2-3	2	Gerry Udell (1½/2), Geoff B (½/1), John Fisher (0/2), Mike White (0/1)
2	1-4-1	3	Nick Jones (½/2), Gerry Udell (1½/2), Mike White (1/2)
3	3-2-1	4	Christy Blance (½/1), Mike White (2/3), John Nicholls (1½/2)
4	1-0-5	1	Christy Blance (1/3), Nick Jones (0/1), Rhys White (0/2)

Club Secretary Gerry Udell was unbeaten with a 142 ECF performance (exactly the same as his performance in Division 2). Captain Mike White also played well: his two losses were to Trowbridge's Roy Ludlow.

Trowbridge

Board	W–D–L	Points	Players
1	2-3-1	3½	Gareth (1½/3), Dave Marshall (½/1), Tim Woodward (½/1), Roy Ludlow (1/1)
2	3-3-0	4½	Dave Marshall (2½/3), Roy Ludlow (½/1), Adrian Davis (1½/2)
3	1-1-4	1½	Roy Ludlow (1/2), Nigel Crucefix (½/4)
4	3-0-3	3	Louis Burton (2/4), Anthony Ransom (1/2)

This was very much a team effort from Trowbridge, but arguably their top player was Dave Marshall who was undefeated in 4 matches.

Bath

Board	W–D–L	Points	Players
1	3-3-0	4½	Hugh Norton (½/1), Peter Dimond (1/1), Dave Allen (3/4)
2	2-0-4	2	Angus Plumbly (1/1), Hugh Norton (0/2), Christian Brown (1/3)
3	3-1-2	3½	John Burrows (0/1), Christian (1/2), John Leon (1/1), Angus Plumbly (1½/2)
4	4-0-2	4	William Wilshere (1/1), John Burrows (2/2), Max Cox (0/1),  Hugh Norton (1/1)

Bath's star player was Dave Allen with a 152 performance including a draw against Tim Woodward.

Norton Radstock

Returning player Peter Horne did very well this season after a break of over 10 years!

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