The semi finals of the two Barlows Fire & Security Alan Mayhew Trophy take place tonight. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hanmer v Sir John Bayley<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Hanmer look to make history and make the final for the first time while Sir John Bayley are aiming to reach a consecutive final. Hanmer captain Iuean Pugh is “looking forward to a tough test, we got close to them last year in the Mayhew, so hopefully we can go one better. We know they’re a great team but we definitely have the confidence and belief to win the game. We played them a few weeks back so we know what to expect.” Sir John Bayley captain Dave Lloyd is “looking forward to the semi final against Hanmer, a tough place to go as Wrockwardine found out. Hopefully we can hold our own away and the 6 lads at home do the business.” It should be a close game given only a couple of chalks separated them in the league match, and 4 chalks in the Quarter Final of this competition last season. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Castlefields v St Georges<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n This is a repeat of last year’s Semi Final, which Castlefields won convincingly to reach another final. St Georges haven’t won this competition in 11 years after winning it 6 times before then. Captain Tony Rhodes knows it will be “tough. Again so many players who plays our green well. We will again be competitive but a tough ask.” Opposition skipper Adie Rowe says the “Semi Finals are always big games. We are very much up for it and will have a strong six home and away as I’m sure St Georges will. We want to carry on our good record in this competition.” They have won this competition 9 times now, including the last 3 seasons, their last loss in this competition being in the Semi Final of 2017 against Hanwood. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The semi finals of the two Barlows Fire & Security Alan Mayhew Trophy take place tonight. Hanmer v Sir John Bayley Hanmer look to make history and make the final for the first time while Sir John Bayley are aiming to reach a consecutive final. Hanmer captain Iuean Pugh is “looking forward to a tough …<\/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":[113,38],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5VaGi-3sl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13289"}],"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=13289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13292,"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13289\/revisions\/13292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}