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The year 2007 saw the return of Bylet and with their home victory over Ifton in the last match of the season they survived being in the dreaded relegation play-off in 13^th position. Interest in joining our league continues to be high with both Tanners league winners Pontesbury and Market Drayton winners District applying to take their place in the end of season play-offs.

The season started with St Georges favourites for major honours and Castlefields and Chester Road hoping to end their reign as champions. St Georges opened their league campaign in emphatic fashion with a 14-0 home win over Archibald Worthington and after six matches they were already 15 points clear of the second placed side. Also enjoying a good start to the season were the early season surprise package of Roy Langford’s Childs Ercall who won their first four matches and were sitting proudly in second place, eventually finishing 11^th. St Georges were to suffer their first defeat at Meole Brace in June after a 10 match winning run. The gap at the top was nearly 30 points in August and eventual runners up, Castlefields finished 22 points behind. Chester Road finished strongly claiming third place with Meole Brace in fourth. The league’s most improved team in 2007 was Wem USC who finished in fifth position and proudly boast of the “local” players that make up the majority of their team.

The Alan Mayhew Trophy went to St Georges for the fourth time with a 228-198 victory over Shrewsbury based Castlefields in the final played, at Ellesmere in front of a disappointing crowd.  The former Shropshire County selector and player, Chris Ball, was the recipient of the “Mike Hinton Man of the Match” award following his 21-11 win. The Premiership Play-Off’s format continued as an 8 a side competition and St Georges beat Chester Road in the final of the Pool A shield.  Ifton lifted the Pool B shield after defeating Sir John Bayley in the final at Coddon. On the individual front, the Mike Hinton Pairs were held for the fourth year and was won by the by the Castlefields pairing of Simon Parsonage and Clay Flattley.  19 pairs took part and they overcame the Wem USC pairing of Derek Wright and Graham Dulson 21-20 in the final at the Bowring.  Peter Farmer, won the John Coxill Trophy for an unprecedented fourth time when he beat Paul Williams, Castlefields, 21-9 in the final held at Prees.  Chris Grocott won 22 games to lift the Neville Edwards Trophy and Meole Brace’s Colin Beaman and St Georges Kevin Keary both recorded 16 consecutive wins to share the other individual award. The first ever Top 16 competition was held for the “Mick Jones Trophy” at Shifnal, with Colin Beaman beating Derek Wright 16 in the final.

Last, but not least, the season finished with two play-off matches. Tanners league winners Pontesbury and Market Drayton winners District both applied for the play-offs and Pontesbury were comfortable victors at Donnington Wood. The play-off match with the bottom placed side, Newport, was to take place at Allscott. In front of another large and noisy crowd, Newport proved the stronger and with a clean sweep of the middle four they defeated Pontesbury by a margin of 10 chalks, despite a spirited fight back in the back four by Pontesbury.

2007 Hall of Fame

League Winners: St Georges

Alan Mayhew Winners: St Georges

Pool A: St Georges

Pool B: Ifton

League Averages: Chris Grocott (St Georges)

Most Consecutive Wins: Kevin Keary (St Georges) & Colin Beaman (Meole Brace)

League Merit: Peter Farmer (St Georges)

League Pairs: Simon Parsonage & Clay Flattley (Castlefields)

Top 16: Colin Beaman (Meole Brace)

2007 Season Final Table

		H	O	M	E		A	W	A	Y
	Pld	Pld	W	L	D	GW	Pld	W	L	D	GW	GW	MW	Agg	Pts
St Georges	26	13	13	0	0	128	13	5	8	0	77	205	18	998	241
Castlefields	26	13	13	0	0	114	13	5	8	0	69	183	18	598	219
Chester Road	26	13	12	1	0	112	13	4	9	0	73	185	16	587	217
Meole Brace	26	13	12	1	0	107	13	4	9	0	74	181	16	352	213
Wem USC	26	13	12	1	0	116	12	4	8	1	62	178	16	421	211
Ford	26	13	13	0	0	110	13	1	12	0	59	169	14	314	197
Wrock Wood	26	13	12	1	0	111	13	2	11	0	55	166	14	270	194
Sir J Bayley	26	13	12	1	0	100	13	3	10	0	63	163	15	158	193
Ifton**	26	13	10	3	0	87	13	4	9	0	60	147	14	-182	166
Archibald W’ton	26	13	12	1	0	96	13	1	12	0	40	136	13	-546	162
Childs Ercall	26	13	10	3	0	84	13	0	13	0	38	122	10	-722	142
Donnington Wood	26	13	6	7	0	75	13	0	13	0	43	118	6	-721	130
Bylet	26	13	5	8	0	74	13	0	13	0	45	119	5	-643	129
Newport	26	13	6	6	1	76	13	0	13	0	36	112	6	-884	125

**Ifton seven points deducted

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League Averages

Pos.	Team	Player	Pl	W	Aggr
1	St Georges	Chris Grocott	26	22	164
2	Ford	Nigel Bound	26	21	171
3	Chester Road	Charlie  Weaver	25	21	163
4	Ford	Pete Griffiths	25	20	150
5	Castlefields	Michael Beer	24	20	134
6	Meole Brace	Wayne Phillips	26	20	127
7	Sir J Bayley	Spencer Clarke	24	19	175
8	Meole Brace	Colin Beaman	23	19	156
9	Chester Road	Andrew Moss	26	19	143
10	St Georges	Tony  Rhodes	26	19	121
11	Castlefields	Clay Flattley	26	19	106
12	Meole Brace	Ian  Beaman	26	19	98
13	Newport	Alan Davidson	26	18	134
14	Wem USC	Derek Wright	24	18	123
15	St Georges	Ian Gaut	26	18	113
16	Ford	David Hoffman	26	18	95
17=	Castlefields	Paul Williams	26	18	70
17=	Meole Brace	Tony Hotchkiss	26	18	70
19	St Georges	Kevin Keary	20	17	120
20	Ifton	Andrew Hughes	21	17	115
21	St Georges	Peter  Farmer	24	17	107
22	Wem USC	Michael Dulson	24	17	75
23	St Georges	Dave King	26	17	64
24	Ifton	Darren Lacey	26	17	28
25	Castlefields	Callum Wraight	24	16	96
26	St Georges	Chris Ball	22	16	77
27	Childs Ercall	Brian Shore	25	16	71
28	Wem USC	Melvyn Jenkins	24	16	65
29	St Georges	Mick Jones	24	16	63
30	Wrock Wood	Allan Gaut	25	16	62
31	Bylet	Andy James	23	16	59
32	Newport	Philip Emery	25	16	55
33	Wrock Wood	Ryan Stevens	25	16	54
34	Chester Road	Paul Griffiths	23	16	48
35	Wem USC	Shaun Nagle	26	16	47
36	Sir J Bayley	Steve Broome	26	16	35
37	Ford	Peter Bound	26	16	28
38	Wem USC	Ian Dowley	26	16	27
39	Meole Brace	Mark Thomas	26	16	7
40	Sir J Bayley	Peter Grimston	22	15	98
41	Wrock Wood	Stuart Rutter	20	15	97
42	Castlefields	Glyn  Herbert	23	15	80
43	Sir J Bayley	Paul Reeves	22	15	73
44	Chester Road	Mark Holland	25	15	72
45	St Georges	Keith Pessall	23	15	71
46	St Georges	Alan Palin	24	15	67
47	St Georges	Dave Rhodes	26	15	53
48	Sir J Bayley	Chris Worthington	26	15	52
49	Chester Road	Paul Latham	26	15	50
50	Wrock Wood	Andrew Jones	26	15	43
51	Chester Road	Dave Rogers	22	15	38
52	Ford	Nick Davies	26	15	33
53	Sir J Bayley	Gavin Taylor	26	15	30
54	Wrock Wood	Richard Morris	20	14	67
55	Castlefields	Rich Goddard	23	14	61
56=	Bylet	Scott Harries	26	14	59
56=	Castlefields	Luke Jones	26	14	59
58	Sir J Bayley	Roger Teague	26	14	52
59	Wrock Wood	Dale Downes	26	14	51
60	Newport	Martyn France	23	14	42
61	Ford	Bill Tarrell	26	14	38
62	Chester Road	Richard  Griffiths	23	14	32
63	Donnington Wood	Mark Selly	25	14	29
64	Chester Road	Martin Lloyd	25	14	25
65	Wem USC	Barrie Thomas	26	14	10
66	Chester Road	Ian Booth	26	14	6
67	Wrock Wood	John Clarke	24	14	5
68	Archibald W’ton	Andrew Foster	26	14	-20
69	Wem USC	Fred Bailey	24	13	59
70	Chester Road	Andrew Duckett	26	13	52
71	Ford	Tony Gray	23	13	38
72	Castlefields	Kevin Walker	23	13	33
73	Meole Brace	Ian Weaver	25	13	31
74	Castlefields	Keith Walton	26	13	29
75	Archibald W’ton	John Tew	23	13	17
76=	Meole Brace	Mark Hinks	25	13	16
76=	Sir J Bayley	Norman Harvey	25	13	16
78	Meole Brace	Adrian Rowe	22	13	14
79	Donnington Wood	Jimmy Fletcher	25	13	-8
80	St Georges	John Breeze	26	12	49
81	Castlefields	Barry Keep	25	12	36
82	Wrock Wood	Martin Williams	25	12	21
83	Archibald W’ton	Paul Smith	24	12	18
84	Ifton	Chris  Pearce	23	12	16
85	Ford	Julian Cooke	20	12	14
86	Ford	John Coxill	25	12	0
87	Childs Ercall	Steve Edwards	23	12	-1
88	Sir J Bayley	Steve Burroughs	25	12	-4
89	Meole Brace	John Nash	25	12	-6
90	Wem USC	Simon Bailey	22	12	-18
91	Meole Brace	Ian Riddell	23	12	-19
92	Childs Ercall	Graham Farmer	22	12	-30
93	Archibald W’ton	Adrian Smout	25	12	-33
94	Sir J Bayley	David Stamp	24	12	-34
95	Childs Ercall	Ian Harvey	24	12	-42
96	Ifton	David (Rocky) Jones	16	11	88
97	Wem USC	Mal Evans	15	11	49
98	Wrock Wood	Dave Taylor	19	11	41
99	Wem USC	Steve Allmark	20	11	33
100	Wem USC	Graham Dulson	22	11	9

Leading Players 2007