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INTERLEAGUE

2010 Finalists at Yarmouth

The SLKPA attended their first Interleague Finals at Vauxhall Holiday Park, Great Yarmouth and acquitted themselves very well for a first appearance. Despite going out at the first group stage SLKPA drew with the eventual group winners Clacton 9-9 and lost to Dawley B 11-7. A great experience for all the players that attended and valuable lessons learned for our next visit.
All the details here Interleague Finals 2010

The SLKPA are affiliated to Greater London Couny Pool Association for the 2010 season. All London Interleague matches are played at JFK's pool hall in Peckham SE15 (see map on venues page), mainly on Sunday's commencing around 1pm and last until approximately 6pm. Each match is made up of 18 frames with 9 players in each team. There are 5 or 6 match dates per year.

Naftali Ayieko (O'Connors A) won the 2010 interleague trials competition winning £30, defeating Ian Cruwys (White Hart) 3-1 in the final. The format was a round robin league with the top two players progressing through to meet each other in the final.

Trial match results

MATCH DATES FOR 2010
Sunday 21st March
Sunday 25th April
Sunday 30th May
Sunday 25th July
Sunday 22nd August

Tony Frost has been appointed captain of our 2010 Interleague team.

.Tony Frost

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Or email Tony Frost tonyfrost@hotmail.com

Short report of matchday 4 of the Interleague season 2010 by our Interleague Captain, Tony Frost

“With two Interleague dates until the close of the season, the SLKPA Interleague side were going into a long day at JFK’s Peckham having to play four fixtures without a break. With three of the four matches looking tough and one being un-predictable, it could have been a bad day at the office.
However, after much interest being shown in the Interleague side, we started and finished the day with the biggest turn-out of Interleague players since the first entry of an SLKPA Interleague Team  
We had 16 Players, three of which had signed up on the day, and with four games (eight sets) to play, this was a very useful to give the Captain some options!
Match 1 Vs Waterloo 2 – The first set got off to a good start, going 3-1 up before finishing 5-4 to our opponents. The 2nd set didn't go as well and we lost 7-2 in frames, so overall lost 12-6. 
Match 2 - Frank Smith - Next we were up against Frank Smith. Knowing all of their players from the SLKPA, we were expecting a hard fought close match. They were two players light in the first set but sill managed to take 3 frames from us, first set finishing 6-3 in our favour. In the 2nd set FS were only one player light. We lost the first frame in this set, but then to all of our delights we took the next 8 frames, therefore finishing 14-4 and gaining the bonus point!
Match 3 -  London Angels - hoping to get a good result here and most importantly pick up a bonus point, this was an important game. However it was also an opportunity to involve newer players and those that may have needed this as a confidence boost. This was a risk that paid off for us, taking the first set 7-2, and not dropping a single frame in the 2nd set. This was a much improved result showing our growth and experience gained since the meet between us earlier in the season. No dis-respect to the Angels who are a determined team and always put up a fight! Final score 16-2 to SLKPA and the valuable bonus point was gained.
Match 4 - Waterloo 1 - before this game kicked off, this was the one match where we were probably expected to lose and not take anything away from, maybe apart from some valuable lessons in pool. Waterloo had not dropped a point and had picked up 5 bonus points at this stage. After the first set this was looking true to form and we found ourselves 7-2 down. However, we weren't interested in the way things were meant to be, and started clawing our way back into the game. We won the first three games before losing the next two which then saw the pressure on us as we had to win the remaining 4 games to take the match to a draw. Well three frames later after Paul Saxton finished his game in front, we see Andre Cox playing the last game against John F Kelly, which Andre finished and we found ourself in an un-expected but great situation of drawing with the division leaders! So the Captain Tony Frost looked upon his players for form, experience and confidence in this situation and chose Andre Cox who helped us achieve this position, Sean O'Connor although new to our squad had won 5/5 on the day, and Paul Gafa who was playing well and had the experience that we needed. Unfortunately, Jack Pople did the business against Andre, and with Joe Prince breaking and dishing against a bemused Sean, it left the play-off decided whilst Paul was working out his plan of attack and having to put his cue away mid-frame. Game over SLKPA had a losing draw, 9-9 in frames with Waterloo taking 2 to our 1 points. Not bad considering we are the first team to even take a point off of the leaders this season!.
So overall a good day for us and this has taken us into 3rd position in the league. Next fixture in August see's a must-win fixture against Battersea, then taking on the Juniors looking for another bonus point before playing Waterloo 2 again and hoping to re-write the form book.
We are now very close to qualifying for Great Yarmouth, and as a Captain I am not taking anything for granted but am very proud of what we have achieved so far and am looking forward to the end of August. It would be great to qualify without having to get there through the back door!" 

THE 2010 SLKPA SQUAD
The players below qualified from our Interleague trials on 28th February 2010, worked their way up as reserves, or were successful in 2009 and retained their place.

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The SLKPA are always looking for new players who wish to represent this league. In time we may even have enough players for two teams. Any players that are interested should contact us ASAP. So long as you are registered for the SLKPA you are eligable to join the Interleague squad.
The SLKPA have a list of players who missed our Interleague trials or were unsuccesful at the trials, and these players will go onto a reserve list and may be called into the squad as neccessary.

2010 SEASON