Ouch! That really hurt. As losing skip, I’m not sure I have the inclination the rake over the gory details of this particular drubbing. We’ll see if the pain subsides. JW
OK, it’s a week on and much too late to recall much of the detail but I guess that for the public record I should say something about the highlights (or perhaps more exactly, the lowlights) of this game.
It started off a very balanced game, with the teams evenly matched. But at the fourth end, it looked as if the wheels might be falling off for Team MacConnachie – John Mac had the hammer and he needed it. By the penultimate stone, Team Waterlow were lying four or five stones to the good and John Mac’s options were very limited – a tap-up was about all he could try. His stone set off and John knew he was so far off the brush that without even waiting to see the result of his throw, he headed for the gents for a tissue to stem the annoying nose-bleed that he was suffering from (and, no, I hadn’t hit him!). But amazingly, unseen by John his stone brushed one of the front guards just sufficiently to get it through a gap that wasn’t there – he had pulled the loss down to just a single stone and the game was all square going into the fifth end.
After that it was Team Waterlow’s wheels that fell off. It’s a blur now but we couldn’t do a thing right while Team MacConnachie just rolled serenely on. We didn’t win another end. The final end was the final straw – Team MacConnachie were getting stones in the house, Team W were not. I thought for my last couple of stones I could pull something back but no, nothing, not a thing; nada, zip, zilch, sweet frog all! Six stones against and a match to forget.
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