Taylor Support Shropshire Premier Bowls League
Club: Bylet
Captain: Scott Harries
Players Signed: 2 or 3
Players Left: 5 or 6
Thoughts for the season: To enjoy being back on the greens, seeing and socialising with all our bowls friends.
Player to watch: All of them
Aim for your team: To remain competitive, keep improving , cause a few upsets and to keep building ready to return to normality in 2022 fingers crossed.
Club: Castlefields
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Club: Chester Road
Captain: Gary Beff
Player Signed: Ben & Carl Hington, Edward Proudlove
Players Left: None
Thoughts for the season: We have a number of regular players unavailable until later in the Summer but generally just looking forward to playing bowls again.
Player to watch: Ben Hinton
Aim for your team: Just to enjoy what will be a slightly unusual season and hopefully back and ready for some normality in 2022.
Club: Hanmer
Captain: Dave Ellison
Players Signed: Nicola Dolby
Players Left: Rich Pullen
Thoughts for the season: To finish as high as possible and just enjoy having bowls back on a Friday night.
Player to watch (own team): Nicola Dolby
Aim for your team: To make Hanmer a fortress again and compete away as well as we did two years ago.
Club: Hanwood
Captain: Mark Shore, Ash Wellings, Glyn Wellings
Players Signed: Gary Neal & Dan Williams (Telepost)
Players Left: Craig Wilson (Meole Brace)
Thoughts for the season: With the change from 12 to 10 players for this season we think this will change the dynamic of the league with more teams being more competitive. It may well through up a few surprise results throughout the year.
Player to watch (own team): Gary Neal , returning to the top flight.
Aim for your team: Challenge for the league title.
Club: Highley
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Club: Ifton
Players Signed: None
Players Left: Craig Griffiths and Ian Dutton having this season off
Thoughts for the season: Hope it’s a success with Covid still around
Player to watch (own team): Ian Jones got the potential to do well in his second season having seen the green last year.
Aim for your team: To have a good team spirit and try to improve from the season before
Club: Meole Brace
Captain: Scott Moseley
Players Signed: Andrew Marshall & Will Childs (Hadnall)
Players Left – Andrew Wigginton (year off)
Thoughts for the season: The whole squad are just happy being back out on a Friday and enjoying the night to be honest! I still believe it will be very competitive and with it being 10 a side it could be a great league for this one season. Everyone knows that when it comes down to it the league won’t be too ‘friendly’.
Player to watch (own team): I could make a case for many players here but I think Will Tyler is lined up for a big year. On his day he can beat anyone And with a strong start he could really push on. Craig Wilson has some love back for the game and looks great in pre season, if that form transfers to Friday nights then he will be right up there.
Aims for your team: Top 6 finish
Club: Sir John Bayley
Captains: Paul Evans & Spencer Clarke
Players Signed: Stephen Bodley (Wrock Wood) Paul Reeves & David Lloyd (Newport)
Players Left: Ash Gregory & Harry Church.
Thoughts for the season: Having had a season out and the potential for many changes in personnel across all clubs this could be quite a strange but interesting season and the table could see quite a shake up from the 2019 season. We do however think that it is great to be back up and running again and look forward to getting back to bowling in a competitive nature and seeing everyone from not only our own club but all other clubs that are in the league this season. We would also like to take this opportunity to wish everyone well and good health and just take a moment to remember any players, club members, family or friends that anyone has lost during this terrible pandemic.
Player to watch: David Lloyd. New to the club but already an established premier League and County player. A great signing for us and the type of player we would look to invite into the club. Looking forward to seeing how he performs over a whole season and we certainly wish him the best for the coming year.
Aim: As has been the case for the past few seasons we fully expect to be pushing for honours this season. We have a good squad of players and at times will have good players keeping the bench warm. It could prove to be a tough year trying to keep us all happy but genuinely feel we are in a good position and are looking forward to the season.
Club: St Georges
Captain: Tony Rhodes and Andy Morgan
Players Signed: None
Players Left: None although as with other teams i suspect some bowlers are considering the Covid position.
Thoughts for the season: An one off and treat it as so. Get back to bowling and enjoy it.
Player to watch (own team): Peter Grimston being back to his best and over his foot issues
Aim for your team: Always striving to push towards the top
Club: Wem USC
Captains: Scott Thomas and Neil Boxall
Players signed: Alex Hassell, Jamie Brookes and Gary Whitehall (Adderley)
Players left: Curtis Metcalfe
Thoughts for the season: We’re looking forward to a season with less pressure. One in which we can give up and coming players a chance, and just enjoy bowls again. It will be great to see everyone again and slowly return to normality.
Player to watch: Any of our new and young players. They all have a real opportunity to get used to the quality of the Premier League and develop their own game.
Aim for the team: To enjoy every game, finish as high up the league as possible and give our young and new players a good grounding in the league which can only improve the squad in the future.
Club: Wrockwardine Wood
Captain: Jamie King
Players Signed: Rob Roden (St Georges), Jamie Wyer (Hadley USC)
Players left: Dan Bodley, Steve Bodley and Andrew Jones
Player to watch: Steve Roberts & Josh Cotton. Both practiced well over the last few weeks and also both more committed than previous years
Aim for team: Finish as high as we can, same as every season. Going to be difficult as strength in depth is more of a problem than normal but we have enough if we get a good run together to challenge for the top 3 or 4 places.