Team 20: St Georges

St Georges have been one of the most successful teams in the Shropshire Premier League. They have never finished out of the top six in their entire stay in the league, winning the league 5 times in this time. Their first win came in 1999, with their highest points total, 250, with a record 160 being scored at home, and also winning the Pool A. They won it again in successive years twice, in 2001 and 2002, and 2006 and 2007. Since then they lost a number of key players from those title winning teams and since 2010 have finished outside the top three, although only by 11 chalks in 2011. They did return to the top three in 2016, losing out to Castlefields in 2nd by just one point. But they have still won trophies in that time, having won the Alan Mayhew Trophy (2004, 2005, 2007, 2010, 2012) and Pool A (1999, 2002, 2007, 2010, 2014) 5 times, the joint highest with rivals Castlefields.

Individually, they have had 4 winners of the League Averages; Tony Rhodes in 1997, Peter Farmer in 2006, Chris Grocott in 2007 and Glyn Picknell in 2008. They have also had 7 winner of the Most Consecutive Wins award; John Breeze & Glyn Teece in 1997, Alan Jones in 1999, Kevin Keary in 2007, Peter Farmer in 2008, Mick Jones in 2009 and Ian Gaut in 2010. Tony won the Individual Merit in 1996, and Pete Farmer won that three years on the bounce between 2006 and 2008. Chris Grocott and Dave Rhodes won the Mike Hinton Paris in 2006, and Tony Rhodes in 2011 with Dale Rudrum of Newport.

Team History 1994-

League Competitions
Year Pos. Points Alan Mayhew Pool A/B
1994 3rd 173
1995 2nd 207
1996 4th 184
1997 2nd 206
1998 2nd 224
1999 1st 250 A WIN
2000 3rd 216 A R/U
2001 1st 245 A SF
2002 1st 216 A WIN
2003 3rd 218 1st A 1st
2004 2nd 233 WIN A 1st
2005 2nd 213 WIN A R/U
2006 1st 244 1st A SF
2007 1st 241 WIN A WIN
2008 2nd 223 QF A R/U
2009 3rd 225 1st A 1st
2010 2nd 218 WIN A WIN
2011 4th 225 SF
2012 6th 191 WIN A R/U
2013 5th 199 1st A SF
2014 5th 190 1st A WIN
2015 6th 197 QF A 1st
2016 3rd 205 QF A SF

2015

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Back from left: Jason Wilson, Jim Kellett, Mike Wainwright, Simon Madeley, Nige Evans, Glyn Picknell & Matty Rhodes.

Front from left: Ian Gaut, Dave King, Tony Rhodes (Captain), Simon Rhodes, & Pete Gaut.

Team 21 was the last team that pulled out in the season.

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