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| 30-31 August 2008 Meadows |
Photographs by Fergus McInnes | |
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| Doubles: | ||
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| Simon Williams and Patsy Fitzgerald consider a hampered shot in their first game against Maugham and Patel. |
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| David Maugham's rover peel in the second game. |
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| On the sidelines: | ||
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| Manager Chris Dent, players and spectators line the boundary in front of the pavilion and the GB flag. |
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| More spectators: Rod Williams, Charlotte Townsend, David Appleton and Martin Stephenson. |
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| Allan Hawke, Hamish and Janice Duguid and Andrew Macmillan, with Gerard Healy and the Irish flag beyond. |
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| Five sixths of the Irish team: Nathaniel Healy, Evan Newell, Simon Williams, Patsy Fitzgerald and Ed Cunningham. |
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| Keith Aiton's sextuple: | ||
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| Keith rushes his partner ball away after cross-wiring Gerard Healy's balls at hoop 1. |
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| Rolling the escape ball for the 1-back peel to the
peelee at hoop 2. (The double-banker is David Maugham, set up for a fifth-turn triple against Ed Cunningham.) |
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| The first peel: pink comes out of 1-back at an angle (ending a few yards west of 2-back) while white goes to green. |
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| The split-roll peel at 2-back getting a rush on green to hoop 4. |
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| Keith at hoop 4, with Irish outplayers: Keith's opponent Gerard Healy on the bench, Ed Cunningham on the wall. |
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| Rushing to the peelee at 3-back after hoop 5. |
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| The 4-back peel getting a rush on brown to 1-back. |
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| Sending pink to penult and getting a rush on green to 2-back. |
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| The score goes on the board ... |
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| ... and Keith gets the champagne from Chris Dent at the end of the day. |
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| Day 2: Ian Burridge's sextuple | ||
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| Ian rushes yellow away to complete the
cross-wired leave against Nathaniel Healy. (The other player on the lawn is Tony Le Moignan.) |
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| The penult peel of the straight quad to complete the sextuple. |
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| More from Day 2 | ||
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| Samir Patel attempts a death-roll 1-back peel. (Hoop in motion under the impact of brown? - certainly the hoop shows more blur than the balls.) |
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| Jonathan Kirby plays green firmly through 3-back. |
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| Keith Aiton (centre) and Ian Wright (foreground)
at the presentation of the Maugham Salver. (The others in the picture are Gerard Healy, Jane Shorten, Campbell Morrison and Bruce Rannie.) |
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