9 February - The Digby (Away) Alf Austin Cup ¼ Final

Lost 1-8

And so it came to pass that a giant lived in the land and his name was Goliath (The Digby). This giant terrorized the land and slew all in his path. A hero was needed to fight this giant and a young boy named David (The Dream Team) stepped out to meet him. David pulled from his pocket a sling (set of darts), took aim at Goliath and threw.....

...The dart missed and Goliath beat the crap out of David hitting him with eight heavy blows. As he was about to land his ninth blow, David finally hit the target with his dying effort. Whilst not causing any permanent damage this last blow did cause a nasty scratch and forced Goliath to wear a sticking plaster for the next day.

So what really happened?

Well, I shall spare the team some embarrassment by not giving a dart by dart account but, here are some of the sorry facts.

• The only player to win was Steve 'The Dart' Davies who won the last leg to save the whitewash
• The game was one leg of 501 straight start
• Only 10 darts were thrown at a double by the Dream Team all night. Six of them were by Steve. The other four were by Jeff 'No Fear' Tune but three of them were an attempt to get a double start in the first leg!!
• Six of the Dream Team had more than 100 left when they lost.
• The Dream Team managed four tons between them to The Digby's 12. Two of the tons were from Deano Willis who threw well but still had 154 left when his opponent finished on 109.
• The beer was too expensive £1.51 for a pint of mild (£1.26 in the Farthings)
• If the Digby had thrown well it could have been really embarrassing.

The quote of the night came from team captain 'Bulldog' Terry Galt "If Jeff could have broke with his first dart we could have won tonight."

It's back to the normality of the League now and last week's result should not affect the team too badly. After all the Digby are the top team in the first division and The Dream Team are fourth in division three so the result was not entirely unexpected.

One last bit of news, The other Farthings Darts team were knocked out of the Aggregate Cup by The Con Club showing that sometimes David can win.

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