Saturday 6th October is ‘Cockfield Kings Head Quoits Team’ presentation night.

Although the team didn’t exactly set the ‘A’ division alight, we did manage to avoid relegation… by one point!
To be fair, with a depleted squad, it wasn’t a bad effort this season and being a bit of a yo yo team between the two divisions, I think the majority of us thought it was a fair effort. John ‘Dolly’ Dalton, only lost two games all season and players like Barry Maughan and Andrew Pattison acquitted themselves really well in a division with more former world champions than you can shake a quoit at! The lads also reached the semi final of ‘The Northern Echo Cup’ and hopefully, with a better handicap next season, we could go all the way.

Entertainment this year will be courtesy of Whitby lad, Mike Mendleson. Mike, a former world champion, is a fine singer and guitarist and always proves popular with the quoits lads.

Cockfield quoits presentation night is always well supported and with free food, (Taylor’s pies and peas!) raffle and entertainment, I’m confident that this year will be no different.

A couple of weeks ago, the team attended the Zetland League’s annual presentation night at East Leyton Quoits club. John Dalton had a trophy to pick up and the whole team turned out to support him (and the league) on a night that is supposed to be the highlight of the quoits calendar. To say it was a disgrace is an understatement!

With only half the people and teams turning up to accept their trophies and along with NO entertainment, it was a damp squib! Proceedings were over by 8.30pm and the Cockfield bus duly left for a night out in Richmond!

The committee of the ‘Zetland League’ need to address this situation as a matter of urgency or I can foresee a scenario where nobody can be bothered to enter competitions at all!

Footnote.

Team Cockfield held their own in Richmond and if it hadn’t been for our bus driver, Barry ‘midge’ Maughan, GETTING LOST on the way home (we missed ‘last orders‘!) it would have been cracking night!
We’d have got home quicker on ‘Shotton Dobby’!