My Table Tennis Brag Sheet

(Waldner)

Here are the main TT Successes, Titles, Finals and Semis I've taken part in: 

Huddersfield Poly Singles R\U 1972.

Doncaster D4 Champs 77 (Team League Title No. 1), D3 R\Us 78, Lower Div Singles Semi 78. (For Thorne YC with C Noakes, J Noakes, M Orpwood, P Hammond, later A Andrews et al)

Grimsby D5 Winners 84 (2) (For NALGO with Don Keightley, Dave Gregory, Roy Lea and Angie Gorrod?)

D3 Winners 88 (3), D2 Winners 90 (4), 95 (5). (For Cleethorpes NALGO with Richard Wilson and Dave Wagstaff plus (95) John Whitfield).

3\86 Played 1st Tournament: East England 2 Star, Grimsby.

14\2\87 Played Yorkshire 2 Star in Huddersfield (Disqualified: frayed bat edge).

Centre Parcs Singles Bronze July 1991 (bad defeat in semi).

Cup Semis 89 (To Ross D: Dave Roberts, S Higgins, J Whattam?).

Beaten Finalists 94 (Wilson, Wagstaff and I) (To YMCA B: S Blow, Ian Nicholl, Matt Barker)

Winners 2000 (Richard Wilson, Matt Dean and I) (Bt NALGO A: Ken Blow, Jerry Leaning, Norman Hames).

D3 Winners 99 (6) (With Richard and Paul Watkinson and anyone else?). Singles Winner 99 (beat Braithwaite in Final).


(In early 2000s I played 4 matches for Grimsby Men’s Vetts 3^rd Team (Unless it was late 1990s))


D3 Winners 2007 (7) (For NALGO F with Ken Chesman, Trevor Winslow, Terry Smith and Bob Want).

D4 R\Us 2009 (For NALGO M (MK2 - MK1 being Ben Anderson, Aaron Chaplin et al)) with Don Newton, Jack Blyth and John Holmes).

D2 Winners 2010 (8) (For NALGO F (MK2) with Jack Blyth, Sean Ward and Reserve Aakash Limbu). Singles R\U 2010 to Sean.

(Lincs Closed regular now).

Men’s Doubles Semi Finalist 2011 with Sean Brown.

D3 R\Us 2012 (For Nemesis with Brian Lomas and Dennis Burgoyne).

Vetts Men’s Semis 2013 losing to eventual winner John Hancock.

CUP WINNERS 2015 (For Nemesis with Brian Lomas, Phil Sharpe).

2016: D2 Individual Title (Beat Colin Woodford in the Semi and Tim Smith in The Final).

Ken Chesman Plate Semi Finalist (lost to Luke Nimmo 8-11, 8-11, 8-11).

2017: Jack Bond Shield Winner (beat Tim Smith in Final!), Men’s Doubles Semi (with Brian Lomas - losing to Mike Thornley and Mike Bailey), D2 Singles Semi Finalist (Lost to Winner - Paul Heald) and Don Newton Hard Bat Trophy Semi Finalist (beaten by Mick Corry).
 

2018: D2 Winners (For Nemesis with Brian Lomas, Phil Sharpe), D2 Individual Semi Finalist (lost to Winner - Sam Dean), Don Newton Trophy Quarter Finalist (lost to Winner- Jon Corry) and Jack Bond Semi Finalist (lost to Runner Up Mark Gibney).

2019: Cup Semi Finalists (with Nemesis: Brian Lomas & Phil Sharpe). 4Matic Engineering (Sean Ward, John Hancock & Luke Nimmo) kept us down to average 21-5 to win by 73 but we did well to get there to play the Man City of Grimsby TT.

2020: D2 Winners (unofficially – our team Nemesis (Craig Kendall, Phil Sharpe, Capt. Brian Lomas and myself) Uncatchable but League Ceased with Coronavirus Pandemic – Pl 19\21 W 19, Semi Finalist Ken Chesman Plate (beaten by team-mate Craig Kendall – eventual winner), Semi Finalist Jack Bond (beaten by Sean Brown for 2^nd year in row), Semi Finalist D2 Individual Tournament (Beaten by eventual winner Craig Kendall).

(Total League Titles - unofficially 10). (Gry D2 -4, D3 – 3, D5 -1; Donny D4 -1).


Paul Butters

My Grimsby Table Tennis Teams

 

(China TT Team 2012 by ESPN Go com)
 



Here is a “list” of some of my Grimsby League Table Tennis teams. I moved to Grimsby\Cleethorpes in 1982 and NALGO Secretary the late Don Newton put me straight into his 6^th Division side. The rest is history as they say. (The last team I played for in Doncaster (D1) was Thorne YC B – Mick Abbott, Ian Farmer, Neil Walters. Then I had half a season in Leeds with Bramley Ebenezer in Divisions 5 and 7 (all 3 player teams)).
 

1982\83 – Division 6 – NALGO D - (4 Player Teams) Roy Lincoln (Capt.), Dave Gregory, Angie Gorrod, Paul Fairbrass, Jim Wills, Braithwaite, Jack Mayor, Diane Lund, Hallam, J Noble, K Lund…

83\84 – D5 – Still NALGO D – Don Keighley (Capt.), D Gregory, Roy Lee, P Fairbrass – LEAGUE CHAMPS.

84\85 – D4 - As Above + Terry Reddington and Reserves Andy Bruford, Will Jenner, Noble, Braithwaite and Don’s son Ian Keighley.

85\86 – D3 – Jenner, Reddington, Gregory, Bruford + reserves Maureen Lincoln, J Mayor, D Keighley etc.

THREE PLAYER TEAMS CAME IN ABOUT THIS TIME.

86\87 – D3 – JOINED\Transferred to NALGO (Cleethorpes Council) B at Yarra Road Old Post Office Cleethorpes – Richard Wilson (Capt. Initially until I took over), Dave Wagstaff. UNCHANGED until 1996 when Dave Retired.

Highlights:

87\88 – WON D3 TITLE.

88\89 (?) – Beaten Cup Semi Finalists (To Ross D: Dave Roberts, S Higgins, J Whattam?).

89\90 – WON D2 TITLE (promoted for one season).

93\94 – BEATEN CUP FINALISTS (To YMCA B: Steve Blow, Ian Nicholl, Matt Barker).

94\95 – WON D2 TITLE with John Whitfield in squad for that season. Promoted for one season (John left after 94\95 season and joined Police team).

7\11\95 – Cup – Played Phil Sharpe, Jean Ashwell and Will Monk – later significant. We won by 16 and I shared games with Phil 17-21, 21-5.

95\96 – D1 – Played (Parkside A) Mick Corry, John Lilley and John Hancock. I got 16-21, 10-21 against Hancock.

1996 – To repeat, Dave Retired.

96\97 – (D2) - Paul Watkinson Joined but I went off with Stress until September. Steve Higgins played.

97\98 – Richard Wilson, Paul W? Maurice Reed and myself + Roger Deboick, Bruce Robinson, Ray Oxby, Paul Seed etc. Relegated.

Highlight – Drew Cup Match with Marion Lilley, Wendy Newman and Angie Bray. Lost replay.

98\99 – D3 – Richard Wilson, Paul Watkinson and Myself. WON D3 TITLE. Reserve Maurice Reed?

99\2000 – D2 – Maurice Reed added, Paul W Left so Matt Dean Added. WE WON CUP.

2000\01 – D2 - Myself, M Dean, Neil Corry then Richard Returned from Absence. R Deboick, Dennis Burgoyne reserves. Paul W DN Play.

01\02 – I JOINED PARKSIDE E (as was) – D2. Ken Chesman (Capt.), Trevor Winslow, Roger Beamish (rejoined late to replace Ken for a while). Reserve Angie Bray.

02\03 – (D2 for a few years) - Ken Returned. Roger Packed in during January I think.

03\04 – Became Parkside D – Bob Want joined. Reserve Stewart Dean.

Highlight – I lost 4 and 12 to J Hancock in Cup.

04\05 – NO Ken again (since 5\4\04). Reserve Angie Bray. 7\3\05 – I was side-lined with back trouble. Came back but on 4\4, 8\4, 11\4 it was just Trevor and I.

05\06 – Terry Smith joined and with that WE BECAME NALGO F. Trevor and I continued. Ken Rejoined 17\10 (Rota). Relegated.

WE WON D3 TITLE. (My records now ceased for a while).

08\09 – JOINED NALGO M – D4 – Don Newton (Capt.), Jack Blyth, John Holmes. Finished 2^nd in league.

09\10 – FORMED NALGO F with Jack Blyth and Sean Ward. Entered D2. WON D2 TITLE – Pl 16 W 16 (5 points dropped in total). We then went our separate ways into D1 and Sean won Men’s Singles Title (twice to press).

10\11 – I joined Clee Sports C (D1) – Ryan Wadham (Capt.) and Trevor Vinson. In mid-season I was transferred via The Ashwells to Pipefit Supplies C (D3) – Colin Tyas (Capt.) and Brian Lomas. I sadly replaced Eric Williams who unexpectedly passed away after a fine career.

12\13 – Team Renamed NEMESIS. Brian Lomas Capt. Dennis Burgoyne Joined after Colin retired (following spell in D4). We were promoted to D2 then placed in new D2 (third tier).

14\15 – New D2 – Phil Sharpe Joined. WE WON CUP.

15\16 – D2 – Still Brian Capt., Phil and I. Dennis may or may not join later. That’s where we are at.

 Paul Butters

 

© PB 17\8\2015.