WELCOME

 A Big Warm Welcome to not one but two new reserves

Imogen Barr joins us from Athelstaneford and

Joanna Hull joins us from the New Stones.

Also congratulations to Zach who has a recent baby which is keeping him away from Murrayfield until December.

The Gauntlet

 Congratulations to Julia Mackey, John McOmish, John Good and Gavin Morton who took on, and defeated Athelstaneford in the inaugural East Lothian Gauntlet game.

It is now up to us to challenge another East Lothian club within the next four weeks.

Pie Pie Baby Pie Pie.

The first Pie Winners are Team Wood/Maguire (minus the Wood part) who played our Opening Bonspiel (Knockout!) three handed.

In their first game they scored a comfortable, if surprising, victory against our President's quartette, managing to win all four ends for a 9 - 0 victory.

Game two saw Team Julia taking on the Peart squad in a tight match that came down to the last end.  Team Peart eventually took a two to win 3 - 2.

The final game would therefore determine the victors.  Whichever team won would take the spoils.  It was another tight game with only single shots determining each end.  The Maguire Trio ending up 3 -1 winners and looking forward to their steak pies.

Congratulations to Graeme Maguire, David Wyllie and Gavin Morton.

And we are off.......

Our first game pitted Team Julia up with the Peart Quartet.

It was definitely a game of two halves.  After four ends Julia's rink, with some excellent early season form from John McOmish had it well under control with a 6 - 1 lead.  Daniel however was seeking to make the score more respectable, and succeeded, taking the remaining three ends to have a 7 - 6 lead.  Coming in under the wire an eighth end was started and the leads and seconds from both teams seemed determined block the house.  With only the skips stoned remaining Daniel was lying 1 but leaving Julia a chance (slim) to raise.  She succeeded with the final stone of the game, but not far enough.

Final score Daniel 8, Julia 6. 

Pre-season news and VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

The syllabus has been updated to 19-9-24 version - 

The changes are to add details of the draws and dates for External Competitions.

 

Matters Arising

• The "Name" for the new club bank account is "Aberlady Curling Club" and the account number ends 0085
• The Province has started a new inter club challenge (The Gauntlet).  The competition is aimed largely at ordinary club members.  We have been challenged by Athelstaneford on Sunday 20-10-24 at 14.30.  We require 4 club members who want to play.  Please let us know if you want to play. 
• East Lothian Pairs is on Saturday 30-11-24 from 14.30.  This will consist of 2 games over two sessions with 'soup and sandwiches' between.  Our first game is against Yester.  We need 2 club members.  Please let  us know if you want to play.

Finally, there are new caterers at Murayfield this season.  We are hearing good things about them and hopefully they will be well supported.

Syllabus Correction

 Please note that the inside syllabus has been corrected to show the game on 2 Dec as a Monday, not Wednesday as previously shown.

The date indicated on the latest version (bottom left) should be 14-8-24

Season 24/25

The final touches are being put in place and in the next few days the New Season Packs should be getting issued by email.

In the meantime, the website has been getting updated and for those of you that cant wait, the syllabus is available on the "Fixtures Tab", above. 

We also have great pleasure in welcoming our 'new members' who have upgraded from our wonderful New Stone Reserves from last season, Zach Thompson and Gavin Morton.  Louise Davidson is also joining our ranks of Reserve Players as is Jeff Lewis.  Hopefully they will be joined by more recruits, following this seasons New Stones Challenge Game on Wed 2nd December.

Daniel Peart steps up as a 'Trophy' Skip (not sure that reads too well but .....) and Adam Hicks will lead a rink in the Thirds Competition (He got plenty experience covering for 'old broken neck' last year)

IMPORTANT NOTE :- The club has a new bank account - details of which will be in the New Season Pack and on the syllabus.   This has come about as we try to replace 'back of an envelope' Mike Woods as our long term Treasurer.  Mike will remain in post for the 24/25 season but will be shadowed by Adam "lets drag the club into the 19th century" Hicks.

Finally, we are adding a new competition to our syllabus, which will hopefully be made up of new recruits and will be played as a four rink round robin to finish our year off.

Enjoy the remains of your summer, the curling season is nearly here.