Tuesday 18 March 2014

Inception

Two brother's attempts to generate some interest in bowls by moaning a lot.

In it's many years of existence, the Olton Tavern has had two famous players. Both Derek Carran and Richie Dingley left the club to find fame and fortune (both ending up at our lesser known neighbours The Greville), and many years ago I decided to follow their example - unfortunately for my brother, I can't go anywhere on my own so he had to come with me.

Together we have seen some great greens and some great people. From helping both The Bell and Kings Norton into Division One (twice) and helping them out of Division One (Twice), to playing with Stourbridge Labour as they reached Division One of the Dudley League and seeing Craig dragged out for Woodfield in the Staffs Premier League, we have been around a bit.

In all those years we have played in the top two divisions on a Saturday - Craig as the talented underachiever and successful captain and me, well, me as the thin skinned nitwit who could be relied on to shout a lot and win the odd big game at number 12.

Anyway, for some reason that is difficult to fathom we have decided to ignore Fleetwood Mac's advice about never going back again, and we have turned up at The Olton for a glorious reunion. Actually, Craig's return was glorious (they made him club captain before he'd even been accepted as a member), mine was more like Nick Cotton creeping back to borrow money off Dot.

As part of our efforts to raise The Olton's profile and to encourage local interest, the clubs twitter account @OTBC21 has been actively engaging with organisations in Solihull, so we decided to run a Blog over the course of the season. We intend to have results, reports, pictures and hopefully be able to showcase some successful community engagement and bring a few new people into the game.

As well as the twitter account (@OTBC21 - follow it) The Olton has a Facebook page - just search Olton BC, and there is also a website which has some information http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~hoz/otavern/welcome.html We will also continue to contribute to the Talkingbowls Forum

We will try and keep this as amusing and informative as possible, and will try and present a hopefully positive picture of the nether reaches of the local bowling scene!

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