Urmston & District Mens Veterans Bowling League

General:
Green rota
Honours board
Rules

Archives:
Merit 2012
Rigby Pairs 2012

The Urmston Mens Vets Bowling League operates two divisions in an area mainly consisting of Urmston, Stretford and south-west Salford. We operate two divisions, playing on Wednesday afternoons. Teams are of ten men, over 60 years of age.

The league is run from day to day by its management committee:

• Chairman: Bill Philips
• Vice-chairman: Mike O'Regan
• Secretary: Mike Mulchrone
• Treasurer: Don Walker
• Competition secretary: Gerry Smyth
• Fixture secretary: Ross Kavanagh
• County delegate: Alan Cowie

2013 Season

Archives

AGM

Metro's Club

Substitutions in Division 2

2013 Season

The fixtures and draws for the 2013 season are now available. You can click on any team name to see a summary of that team's fixtures.

The management committee met on 8 January and approved the programme for 2013:

• Wed 23 January: delegates' meeting - a week later than previously advertised
• Mon 10 June: Merit qualifying
• Fri 14 June: Merit final
• Mon 8 July: Div 2 KO cup Round 1
• Wed 10 July: Div 1 KO cup Round 1
• Mon 22 July: Div 2 KO cup Round 2
• Wed 31 July: Div 1 KO cup Round 2
• Mon 5 August: Joe Rigby Pairs qualifying
• Fri 9 August: Joe Rigby Pairs final
• Mon 2 September: Divs 1 and 2 KO cup Semi-finals
• Mon 16 September: Div 2 KO cup Final
• Wed 18 September: Div 1 KO cup Final
• Wed 25 September: Salford v Trafford and Presentations

The dates when greens are required for these various events are shown on the Green rota page.

At the delegates' mmeting on 16 January clubs will receive the lits of green requirements and also player registration forms and notice of the fees due in March.

Archives

The 2012 season has now been copied to the archives. There is a link at the top of every page to take you there.

In the archives you can search for records of leagues, teams and players, across all the leagues on this site.

The 2011 season is now included as well, although we don't have detailed match scores.

AGM

The AGM of the league was held on 7 November. The rules were amended to allow practice for both teams before matches. There were other minor changes. The rules have been updated.

The minutes are also available.

Metro's Club

Please note that Metro's have decided to ban dogs from the area around the bowling green. Their letter explaining the decision is available here.

Substitutions in Division 2

The AGM decided that if a team is short then one player may play again. This applies in Division 2 matches only.

The rules have now been updated, as follows:

In second division league matches, if a team is short then its captain may ask the player with the worst score from the first four to play again.

Notes:

1. If there are joint worst scores in the first four then their captain may choose amongst them.
2. The player playing again should be shown on the score sheet with (2) after his name (eg “John Smith (2)”). The score in this game counts as normal except that it does not count to the averages of the player playing again.
3. Only one player may play again on each team. Further absences to be recorded as 21-0 walkovers.
4. If (all of) the worst loser(s) do not wish to play again then a 21-0 walkover to be recorded.