I caught up with Margaret Mulcahy and nice to see that she is on the improve. All the song titles that reminded me of this wonderful lady
IM STILL STANDING -yes she is recovering nicely- WIRED FOR SOUND — a few wires in the ticker and body ! but she is SITTING ON THE DOCK OF THE BAY
enjoying life and the views . -SAILING -it is smooth sailing now and the Ray Stevens classic- HEART ATTACK # 1 -this was something she avoided, having early surgery, which mean she is not a ZOMBIE & she can wish everyone A MERRY CHRISTMAS & A HAPPY NEW YEAR

Good on you lady . -looking forward to seeing you playing in 2020- Maybe another World title awaits you ? -But she won’t be putting her name down for Marias team in a hurry. KAY did . -2 broken bones in her shoulder and a fractured wrist – Replaced by Margaret- HEART SURGERY only played a couple of matches in this team .Final round and now it was MARIAs turn not to be able to play due to a bug ! Time to check your health Insurance Bradley

Emil’s lost month of coaching on Wednesday evenings as he and his family will move interstate as part of his Permanent residency deal. Hopefully in the future we will see him back at coburg. On behalf of everyone at Coburg and all the students you have taught we wish you all the best.

HOWEVER one door closes and another one opens. From January 2020 DAVID GRIFFITHS will be coaching on Wednesday evenings. PLUS he will be taking on 2 students for Private lessons. One at 5-15pm and a 2nd at 8pm. First 2 people wishing coaching with the former WALES national Junior champion, to contact the club will be granted a spot. GROUP COACHING will continue on WEDNESDAY EVENINGS – up to the end of the year with EMIL then from January with David at a cost of $10 per student or $5 if you have paid the clubs annual subscription.

Another Overseas player to say Hello this week was BRUNO SAWALL — those who have been at this club a number of years will remember the Super match during the Club championships –where it is fair to say Bruno did not score many points and we let him know ! Bruno entered the club champs that year convinced he would be crowned club champion. Well he had been coming to the club for several months Friday nights only + not too many players ever rocked up for a hit and he . had them all covered. Club champs -Trent Michael Lory Charlie etc etc . so he settled on winning the Vets section -Until he saw JIm Dave Brand Abdul JOhn Scott etc etc -yes the standard was stronger than he expected but he did love his time here

A big night next Wednesday as the cattle roll onto 4 courts -to play the 2 Semi finals -followed by the Grand Final. – Monster Maria will be cracking the whip making sure all matches run on time -As we want the matches to be completed by 10pm

Scruffy has already declared he is hoping for a 40 plus degree day as ‘he does his best work when sweating !

So matches will start at 7 sharp . -2 matches at a time -One semi on courts 1 & 2 and the other on courts 3 & 4

HAO GOOD vs THE LEFTOVERS . & COFFEE CREW vs THE NEW SCRUFFETS.

In section 1 Matt and Zach will play Earn & frank Zhou – Rockys win over Edward was the highlight in the Semis

Section 2 – Adrien & Jason will play Liam & John G – Highlight of the Semis – Chryselas win over Jason

Section 3 – Francis & Dave-Chris will play Peter H & Glenn – Highlight -Peter H saving several match points to win 12/10 in the 5th at 4 all against Esfand

Section 4- Emmanuel & Ayman vs Mike D & Terry the Mannequin. Highlight -Aymans win over Martin

Section 5 -Alex & Khizar -aka Melways vs Phil & Cyrus. Big win to Billy Ray over Elio

Section 6 -Sanjay & Eddie to play Suat & Ken -Highlight – Jacobs win over Ken

The Consolation singles event on Sunday was won by Emmanuel. the trophy was presented to him by Ed then it was time to find Martin SLingo to receive the Runners Up prize. And who better to present Martin with his prize than Jim K and a presentation speech delivered by everyone’s mate John Scott.
The word of the day was ORDINARYNESS for being Runner Up. Followed by quite a few other words which did not fit the description of a speech fit for a prize winner.

All started as we arrived around 8am. The council trucks were all lining up in the western corner of the car park. I mean, it was not swimming season so surely they would have had the car park to themselves. Not quite so, as by 9am there were 100 cars in the cark and the trucks and council equipment was in danger of being surrounded !
They did move not long after, probably wondering what the hell goes on here on Sunday mornings ? + what happens when the club gets busy ?

Early round matches and a team of newcomers to Coburg had to play the YOUNGER THAN JIM team- named because even if you added the 4 players ages together they were still Younger than Jim. -But it was humorous when the players were asking other players ‘Are you Younger than jim ? Of course everyone was, even if not in the team they were chasing. It must have seemed that 100 players were all in the Younger than Jim team

The devil Jeff dever, how god is it to have him back at Coburg ? Maybe a late night ? but the Yellow bent piece of fruit he picked up to purchase did not quite match the quote ‘ can I buy a tomato ? -Not sure what they are called your side of Melbourne but they are Bananas over here.

Team Captain award ? John Griffo for offering Craig Campbell and Russell a bit of piece and quiet and lets play in room 10. Craig could not even use his high toss serve & John records his best ever win, defeating Craig Campbell and adding Russell as another scalp he has claimed .

Shot of the day . -we have all played a shot of 2 with the wrong hand but Campbell was forced wide to his right. then blocked wide to his left, No problems for Craig, pass the bats from the right hand to the left & while on full stretch LOOP a left handed winner AROUND THE NET.

Quote of the day JEFF DEVER when hew said that Craig had only been in Melbourne a day and Coburg an hour but had chatted up every female in the centre ! and actually managed to fit some Table Tennis in between chats !

Match of the Day Eva vs Zach Anstey. how good is it to see an outstanding chopper in action.

Confused player award STRETCH Chilcott, when asked how was he going, he pointed out every player was so good, then he asked Martin who did he play. Martin said The Bye and Stretch in true award winning form said ‘Oh he is a good player ! Well I guess he has never lost a match ?
This was not long after he introduced himself to Zoe with Hi Im Stretch Mark + I say a lot of silly things !

Finally thanks to all those who helped -Zoe & Neil Montfort, Kay Jan Scruffy and Anne in the canteen Lim for his 1000 photos to everyone who helped Saturday night set up , to all spectators and finally each and every player !

A couple of weeks ago it was Aussie ALEX Tintori who was officially declared ‘as one of us’ and now we congratulate EMIL who has been to hell and back with the Authorities but now he has been granted PERMANENT RESIDENCY

Congratulation to Alex + Emil

Congratulations to Dillon Parth & Zach in winning the Community Cup.
runner UP was the Melbourne Uni team led by Rhys Thomas + the incredible defender Eva.
Losing Semi finalists with Edward Truong -Alex Wong + Jack Bouchard + the All Stars team of Jeff Dever Jim kilderry Michael Huang + Duncan 15.
the Consolation event was won by Emmanuel Cahill with Martin Slingo the Runner Up

Thank you to Zoe Qian + Neil Montfort for running the event + Lim for his efforts with Face book during the day
Kay was running the canteen with good help from Anne + Jan and Scruffy also did a great job
A BIG CROWD A BIG EVENT = Just maybe it could be held again next year.

The courts are now ready for the action !
Remarkable effort today from – Rana is helping at the club. then the big clean up and new floor wax led by our hands on and on knees President Brian. Lim, Bo. Scruffy. Paul Watson, Toby + one of our guests Joel from Mildura also helped.

Thanks guys now its time for the big event.

2 players came to the desk. they played their Elimination match at 2 all Loser eliminated- + they don’t remember who won ? Although one of the players did ‘lose his shirt’ -We still don’t know what was wearing when he went home 3 PLAYERS THIS WEEK DID NOT KNOW IF THEY WON OR LOST A MATCH

jack La was informed it was Elimination finals night -so he thought he better be on time and win a trophy – No Jack -still have to win tonight -then Semi finals then -Grand Final -How did his team go ? they lost but he now plans for Sunday -Get eliminated then win the Consolation event
Sorry Jack -Consolation is individuals only -you would have to beat your team mates !

5 non shows for tonights finals ! Surely a record ? & how about Min -She has Toby with a hard bat as a partner- they win Doubles so she plays 2 in a row -refuses to let Toby play -then goes home early ! And could not explain why there were gaps in the score sheet ! But Matt & Joe they are happy with their team win yet it says they lost 1 -EASY opponents had gone home so they change one of the results !