Now for some incredible news. On Wednesday 30 Jan. 08 we played Edinburgh West. Alan Tate, our board 1, was away at Gibraltar. I was a player short and got one (Damien Bullen) from the third team. I waited twenty minutes at the Polish but he did not turn up so we (me and Richard Kynoch) left for the match. When we got there we discovered that they had a very strong team with Jonathan Grant on 1 and George Neave on 2. We all thought that defeat was certain with both a weakened team and a player short against a very strong Edinburgh West team. Then Damien Bullen turns up (he realised he was late - phoned my house and found out from my wife where we were playing and got a taxi). This was a big boost to the team. Richard Kynoch then went on to win against Jonathan Grant (See game), I drew against George Neave and Damien won - with the result that we won 3.5-2.5 against all the odds.
The full result was
| Edinburgh West | Wandering Dragons2 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| name | grade | pts | name | grade | pts |
| J. Grant | 2305 | 0 | R. Kynoch | 1828 | 1 |
| G. Neave | 2193 | 0.5 | D. Heron | 1798 | 0.5 |
| G. Saxton | 1849 | 0.5 | E. Campbell | 1793 | 0.5 |
| K. Mayo | 1829 | 1 | R. Carter | 1740 | 0 |
| A. Campbell | 1752 | 0.5 | E. Taylor | 1730 | 0.5 |
| M. Robinson | 1613 | 0 | D. Bullen | 1620 | 1 |
Updated Aug 2012