{"id":11160,"date":"2019-12-01T16:06:47","date_gmt":"2019-12-01T15:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/?p=11160"},"modified":"2019-12-01T16:06:47","modified_gmt":"2019-12-01T15:06:47","slug":"25-years-life-member-andy-stevens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/?p=11160","title":{"rendered":"25 Years Life Member: Andy Stevens"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andy was one of the main men behind the league starting up along with Pete Roden. It was their idea at the end of the 1993 season which proved the catalyst for clubs to come together and a structure to be put in place allowing the league to start in the 1994 season. He was sponsorship officer for the league once it started, then becoming minutes secretary in 1998 till 2004. He helped get Donnington Wood to donate the league trophy, as he was one of the main members there. He played for them for 10 seasons, helping them win the Alan Mayhew Trophy in 2001 as he won 21-6 against Wayne Phillips of Castlefields on British Sugar to win the man of the match award. He also won for them in the final in 2003 as they beat Wrockwardine Wood on the Bowring, again being man of the match after beating Martin Willams 16. He moved to Wrockwardine Wood in 2004, playing on and off for 10 seasons for them. He has barely played since then, filling in when needed, but remarkably has qualified for the County Merit twice in that time, showing on his day he can still compete!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Andy was one of the main men behind the league starting up along with Pete Roden. It was their idea at the end of the 1993 season which proved the catalyst for clubs to come together and a structure to be put in place allowing the league to start in the 1994 season. He was …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[171,113,38],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5VaGi-2U0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11160"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11162,"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11160\/revisions\/11162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}