| Mountnessing Bridge Club - Closed |
After a difficult period post-Covid with declining active membership and non-viable table numbers, the Club has had to close its doors. The EGM held on Thursday 31st August 2023 voted unanimously with no abstentions to close the Club with immediate effect and to redistribute the Club's assets to the current members.
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| Mary Rogers Trophy - 31st August 2023 |
Well done to Graham Beeton and Robert Elliott for their convincing victory in the Mary Rogers Trophy, carried forward from the previous season.
Click here for the detailed results.
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| Summer Ladders |
The summer ladders - for the Margaret Curtis and Peter Seaton Trophies - run from the beginning of June to the end of September, so are now in progress. Click on the titles for the current standings.
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| Club AGM - Thursday 1st June 2023 - Minutes & Committee |
The minutes of this year's AGM are here.
The Committee now comprises:-
- Chairman & Club Captain – David Piper
- Vice-Chairman – Nick Hagan
- Treasurer – Graham Beeton
- Secretary & Webmaster – Theo Todman
- Member - Linda Barker
There is a vacancy for the 6th position on the Committee. Volunteers welcome!
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| The Chris Megahey Trophy - Winner! |
The Chris Megahey Trophy is a new cumulative ladder-style competition in memory of Chris Megahey, who for over 25 years up to March 2020 was consistently amongst the most successful and most respected players at the Club. It rewards those who are consistently in the top three positions. Click on the header for the rules of this and other Club competitions.
Anyway, congratulations to our Chairman David Piper for winning the inaugural competition! His regular partner Les Curtis deserves an honorable mention for coming a close second.
For the final standings, click here.
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| Club Annual Ladders 2022/23 - Final Standings |
The ladders for the past year have reached their conclusions. Congratulations to:-
- Audrey Hartley for winning the Ladies' Ladder and thereby the Faye Wernick Trophy. An honorable mention goes to Jill Tattersfield who might have held on to pip Audrey had she played the couple more sessions needed to qualify.
- Peter Oake for winning the Gentlemen's Ladder and thereby the Lionel Wernick Trophy, which he retains for another season as he also won last time!
Peter also has 'first refusal' as Club Captain for the 2023/24 season.
Click on the links above for full details.
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| Covid |
There are no longer any legal Covid restrictions. So, while the Club Committee will continue to monitor how this should affect the Club's policy, it has been decided that we should now relax our 'terms of play'. So:-
- If you are diagnosed with, or show symptoms of, Covid or Flu, we would still expect you to stay away until you are recovered.
- Asymptomatic attendees may of course wear masks if they wish, but need not do so, nor take a Covid test unless circumstances suggest they should.
- All should use hand sanitizer on entry to the Club.
- Unvaccinated individuals may attend at their own risk.
We hope these measures will continue to provide a safe environment for all our members.
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| Windmill Trophy - 8th December 2022 |
Congratulations to Audrey Hartley and David Embleton for heading the leaderboard of this annual single-session event. However, as the Club rules say that both players in the partnership have to be members - and David is an occasional but regular guest - the Trophy itself goes to the runners-up. So, congratulations also to Liz Williams and Nick Hagan.
Click here for the table of results.
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| Fletcher Trophy - 23rd October 2022 |
A strong Mountnessing team came a close second in the Fletcher Trophy - the annual ECBA Teams of Eight competition.
Thanks and well done to the team: Robert Elliott & Dimitre Stoev, Alaric Cundy & John Sutcliffe, Graham Beeton & Ray Clarke, Peter Oake & Simon Moorman
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| Winners: Summer Ladders |
The summer ladders that run from June to August are now complete. Congratulations to the winners and runners-up, being:-
- Margaret Curtis Trophy: Winner Maureen Vede; Runner-up Angela Fenton
- Peter Seaton Trophy: Winner Graham Beeton; Runner-up Ray Clarke
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| Mary Rogers Trophy |
Well done to Les Curtis and David Piper who won the Mary Rogers Trophy for 2022 by a comfortable margin. That's in addition to their victory in the Windmill Trophy and joining The Seventy Club earlier in the year. Something must be done about this!
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| New to Bridge? |
If you want to learn to play Bridge, we have two suggestions:
- Some of our individual members do offer private learning and development opportunities. If you are interested, send us a message via the 'Contact Us' link, which is accessible through the left hand menu
- On the 'Useful Links' page you will find a link to a commercial on-line Bridge Learning experience
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