{"id":12071,"date":"2022-04-05T02:40:24","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T01:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/?p=12071"},"modified":"2022-04-05T02:40:25","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T01:40:25","slug":"team-preview-2022-meole-brace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/?p=12071","title":{"rendered":"Team Preview 2022: Meole Brace"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Team:&nbsp;<\/strong>Meole Brace<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Captain:\u00a0<\/strong>Mark Thomas, Dave Redge &amp; Nigel Bound<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2019 Position: <\/strong>10th<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2019 Points:\u00a0<\/strong>166<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2019 Leading Averages Player:\u00a0<\/strong>Will Tarrell (16 wins, +66)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Highest ever finish:<\/strong>&nbsp;2nd (5 times)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Highest ever points:<\/strong>&nbsp;234 (2013)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2019 Review:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meole Brace were only 3 points off a top half finish in 2019, coming within 3 chalks of achieving this as they lost their last game by just 2 chalks at Hanmer. They had a slow start at home as they only beat Castlefields by 3 chalks, drew with Wrockwardine Wood and then defeated St Georges by 4. A good 10-4 win over eventual Champions Sir John Bayley , followed a few games later with an away 12-4 win at Highley, kickstarted their season. However they had a very poor end to the season, losing 7 straight games until an 11-3 win in their last home game over Highley. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2022 Aims:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They will be looking for a top half finish but know that they can&#8217;t afford for the inconsistency they had in the 2019 season. They will need to improve their home form and not lose the 3 home games they did in 2019 (along with a draw). They will also wish to add to their one away win they got in 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Team:&nbsp;Meole Brace Captain:\u00a0Mark Thomas, Dave Redge &amp; Nigel Bound 2019 Position: 10th 2019 Points:\u00a0166 2019 Leading Averages Player:\u00a0Will Tarrell (16 wins, +66) Highest ever finish:&nbsp;2nd (5 times) Highest ever points:&nbsp;234 (2013) 2019 Review: Meole Brace were only 3 points off a top half finish in 2019, coming within 3 chalks of achieving this as they &hellip;<\/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":[187,113,38],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5VaGi-38H","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12071"}],"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=12071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12072,"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12071\/revisions\/12072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}