Many years ago a Publican told me the secret to being a good manager or in his case a publican is to remember peoples first names. Very hard for a drip like I who gives everyone nic names and don’t know their first names although i guess i remember Nic names -which probably fits half the club !
MELWAYS TRAIN 15 JIMBO CRAIGO BB or B BRIAN -WHEEZY-TANK TEAL -BITCH – SCRUFFY – members of the SCRUFFETS club. ROCKY MAN – SNAIL aka CHRIS-THE BATTERY -PIZZA -aka AUSSIE ALEX- COFFEE -DOM DOM 1 & 2 .-THE COPPER . -COLONEL -STRETCH -TAXI TOM -JACKO & ZACKO -BOZ -(brother of Zino) . TREVY – LEAVE RAHAT ON – HANDY ANDI -SOFT DRINK -MUSTANG -THE CHOPPER -DIBULATOR- DOC- THE CARAVAN – THE SPORTS CAR (MG) -ICE BURNER -JAY-SAN -BILLY RAY -MANNEQUIN- DANCING MAN -CHAMPS . & and an Old time favourite the BATTLE AXE -And there was VIOLET -who used to Crumble in tight matches just to say a few.

Then we have the tricky spelling or the Surnames which is actually their first name, or the 30 different spellings of Mohammad, Or those with changed names , and the shortened names or add letters to give it an Aussie sound but how about the dad who spelt his own sons name wrong ! Can’t dob this lefty in but his own name is different to what we know him as.

Saturday squad -yes it continues up to Christmas -It was the lowest number of students for the year ,so everyone got plenty of time with the 6 coaches.
1-30pm Club opens officially & the hall was very quiet -Lucky coaches had students as we had hardly any members & no public hire.

Come 2-30pm and numbers had picked up & by 3pm. A line up of people wishing to hire courts and we had 4 players on each of the 3 front courts and people sitting around chatting waiting for a hit ! HALL WAS PACKED..

And it stayed full for the rest of the afternoon !

Summer Pennant returns in February 2020. ALREADY and even allowing for those who have said they wont be playing -I have some very good players wishing to play
CHRYSELA- FITZY- BRIAN ZAMMIT- SIENG- KEN ERDAL -PAUL WATSON -HENRY- LAIHUA -DOMINIC -CYRUS-GORDON
and others- Plus not much scope to promote all leading players from Spring

HOW EVER -if I change Section 3 & 5 to 3 player teams NO DOUBLES – 2 players play 2 singles & 1 plays one singles- (5 team matches per night) . -problem could be solved -So does some one want to come to Coburg just to play ONE singles . ? Is that better than not playing at all ?

SECTION 3 & 5 PLAYERS -name and sms to 0410472006 your thoughts ! You only have 2 weeks ! Bruce

Why these 2 grades only ?
They at least have the bonus of finishing early ! Will not make someone come to the club later for one match only – If you are a sec 3 or 5 player and you don’t like this option you will be offered one grade lower ! -Plenty of player are requesting promotions.

Exam time so some of our ‘guns’ were unable to train tonight but it allowed us to train some of the guys who will be playing against Geelong in just over a week PLUS invite a couple of pennant players to help out
THE MANNEQUIN nearly melted – ROSS was wrecked and SCRUFFY pulled the pin before the end
Impressive debuts from Ali Jarrah + Thomas -Nathan looked even smoother than normal -Bronson is a running machine -Oscars skills are excellent Morgan and Jaimin continue to improve and Katie and Mia continue to train hard . The work done by Lim especially with the players service is fabulous and it was a treat seeing Raymond and Steven G training hard. Lachlan is the proud owner of a new blade donated by Paralympian Barak Mizrechi

If you are around the club on a Thursday between 5pm and 6-30pm this group is worth a look at.

And the winners were
SCRUFFY- ALI Z & GIL

Runners Up – Zino Hao + Kevin W

Leading player ZINO DI VITA . -Most Improved ranking MANNY RAHAT

What an honour for DANI DI TORO -Co Captain of the Australian team at next years Paralympics.

5 time Olympian Dani is as nice as anyone you can meet. Congratulations Dani you are an inspiration to us all

A Special General Meeting has been called for Monday the 16th. December @ 7-30-pm to set the Annual Club Membership fee for the Coburg Table Tennis Club inc Association

Saturday the 7th December . will see some of our promising juniors in action against the Geelong Juniors

PIZZA for dinner -then onto the evening matches.
Congratulations to – OWEN – MORGAN – DANIEL C – OSCAR the team will be coached by RAYMOND M
THOMAS JARRAH NATHAN will . be coached by ROSS DI V
ETHAN -LACHLAN – ALI (We are looking for a coach for this team )
ABDULLAH – BALAJ & LEO will be coached by MANNY
KATIE -SEBASTIAN & MIA also looking for a coach for this group

This will be a great event. Congratulations to all involved

A XuShaoFa bat with Rakza 7 & Tibhar 5 Q bat was left the the club today/tonight

WE HAVE 10 BATS / DRINK BOTTLES & a tonne of Clothing — All waiting to be claimed

THEY WILL ALL BE THROWN OUT COME END OF YEAR . -IF YOU ARE MISSING ANYTHING -COMES AND CHECK LOST PROPERTY

And it all comes down to this. !
Friday night Spring comp – GRAND FINALS

Friday 1 Aman & Morgan vs Tarik & Tyson

Friday 2 – Greg & Josh vs Jarrah & Min

Friday 3 – Abdullah & Balaj . vs Yuko & Anne

then one week later the Friday night Christmas Competition commences