Your Curler Issue 11

The latest issue of the Your Curler Magazine has now been released. You can view or download the e-zine by following this link.

It's Christmas!

Last night's Christmas Bonspiel was a great success, with 25 members taking part. We were delighted to welcome Val Blandy and Jim Paxton to the club, and to see Rosemary McNee on the ice again.

Some of the action

After several close games, the winners were Bill Abbott's team of Margaret Morrison, Forbes Watson and Jim Paxton. They won three out of four games and finished on 6 points.
Runners up were David Wallace's team with two wins and a better shots score.

Bill Abbott, Jim Paxton, Margaret Morrison and Forbes Watson

Afterwards, coffee, mince pies and a gift from Santa rounded off the evening.

Two of Santa's little helpers!

Some more Christmas Cheer!

Final Games in Autumn League

There were two very close results tonight, although both games had great fightbacks of 5 shots in the last three ends to make them so tight.
Pride of place went to David Wallace's team of Mara Lindsay, Bob Handley and Alison Young, who hung on for a draw against Richard Morrison to cement their place as winners of the Autumn League.
They finished on 13 points, 4 clear of David Gilmour's team and fully deserve the title.
In the other game, Bill Inglis and his team hung on to win 8-7 against Graham Spence's team.

The final league positions are:

Team	Played	Points	Shots+	Ends	Position
DWallace	8	13	16	37	1
DGilmour	8	9	-5	30	2
B Inglis	8	8	0	31	3
MMcNeill	8	5	0	30	4
RMorrison	8	5	-11	31	5

Fullarton Autumn League Winners
Bob Handley Mara Lindsay Alison Young David Wallace (Skip)

European Curling Championships

The European Curling Championships starts this Saturday, 8th December, in Karlstad, Sweden.

Scotland's teams will both be competing in the "A" Division, with Tom Brewster's team of  Greg Drummond, Scott Andrews (from Ayr) and Michael Goodfellow taking on the Czech Republic in their first game. 

The women's team are skipped by Eve Muirhead, with Anna Sloan,Vicki Adams and Claire Hamilton.

Some of the games will be shown on Eurosport and the schedule can be found here.

For the first time, the WCF have arranged live TV coverage on the WCF You Tube Channel. This should provide more extensive coverage of the event and is available by following this link.

Two links of Interest

David Smith has posted a very interesting article in which he publishes a letter from the Country Gentleman: Sporting Gazette & Agricultural Journal from Saturday Dec 4th 1880. It's a great read.
Have a look at this link
Also you might be interested in Hammy McMillan's famous shot from the 1992 World Championships.
Brilliant! The link is here.

David Wallace's Team clinch the Autumn League

A good 6-4 win over Bill Inglis by David Wallace and his team of Bob Handley, Alison Young and Bill Abbott (subbing for Mara Lindsay) means that David now has 12 points, 3 clear of David Gilmour's team.

The Gilmour team of Ian Snodgrass, Alan Gorman and Jennifer Peat also won, beating Richard 10-5 and thus securing second place in the league.

So with one week left, the first two places are decided. Next week is the last league game and it will be interesting to see who finishes in the 3rd to 5th places. Click on the League Results Page above for the up to date position.

Teams for Spring League 2013

Teams and fixtures for the next half of the season can be found here or by clicking the link at the top of the page. Our first games are on Tuesday 8th January at 5.00 pm.