Croquet England AC Eights

Good afternoon from Hurlingham.

One game started some time ago.
It's Samir Patel v Debbie Lines on lawn 3.

Lines got the first break and has made 9.

NSL.

On lawn 2 it'll be Robin Brown v Gabrielle Higgins.

L3 Patel lifts the ball from hoop 4 to B-baulk. Misses.

L2T1 brown red 2y NW of 5.
T2 Higgins blue to max distance on east boundary.
T3 Brown yellow at blue from A-baulk.
Misses.

T4 Higgins black makes double from B-baulk.
Hits.

L3 Lines is thru 1.

L2 Higgins has break.

Not raining at the moment but still overcast.

L3 Lines fails tricky hoop 3.

Lawn 4 has started if you want to watch on YouTube.

It'll be David Goacher and Harry Fisher on lawn 1.

Patel hits 5-yarder.
His eventual rush to 1 isn't great but he makes good hoop and he's away.

L1T1 Goacher 12y N of IV.
T2 Fisher Red just S of Ii.
T3 Goacher misses partner from A-baulk.
T4 Fisher hits from B-baulk.

L3 Patel not going for TPO, instead he's POPping.

L1 Fisher approached 1 from the boundary, made it then missed a silly roquet.

L2 Higgins has made 9.

B spread.

L1 Goacher misses 6-yarder.

L2 brown misses 12-yarder, flicking off peg into 4th corner.

L1 Fisher has break.

L2 Higgins is thru 2. There is still a ball in 4th corner.

L3 clips Patel black 4-back, blue 1; Lines red 4 yellow 4-back.

Leave reverse MSL with red at 4.

L3 Lines lifts Yellow from 2 to A-baulk.
Misses to 2y S of II.

L3 Patel blue takes on 5-yarder at yellow. Hits.

L2 Higgins blue is making 6 off black. Hoping to rush it in front of 4-back after the hoop.

Higgins is collecting a mat on which to kneel while lining up peel. Henceforth this will be known as a peeler kneeler.

Higgins' attempted peel of 4-back after 6 failed.

L3 Patel has standard tp in front of him.
He jawses 4-back peel after 3.

L1 Fisher's yellow clip is on 4-back.
Spread.
Goacher misses to 4th corner.

L3 My experts are discussing on the best procedure after you've jawsed the first peel of a standard tp.
Do you rush north after 4?
Patel decides not.
Now my expert (and I) like the Wylie peel manoeuvre.
Which Patel goes for, after a fashion.
After 5 he rush-peels partner, rolls it near 6, then has a ball near the south bdry.
Run the hoop to the boundary, croquet the ball to 2-back getting rush on peelee. Do the peel getting rush on 4th ball to 1-back .

L1 Fisher failed 1 but Goacher almost had to run the hoop to hit him which he failed to do.

Now Fisher is trying the hogan roll.
ie from 4th corner sending a ball to 3 going to your pioneer at 2.
He leaves himself a 7-yarder, but copes.
Might get standard tp now.

L2 Higgins is 4-back and peg.
Spread
Brown shoots at ball by peg from B-baulk.
Misses.

Patel requires a straight rover peel.

L2 Higgins is thru 4-back and should finish.

###Samir Patel beats Debbie Lines +14tp.###

L1 Fisher is still going.
He is thru 6 with one peel done (I presume).

###Gabrielle Higgins beats Robin Brown +26.###

I can now concentrate on lawn 1.
Fisher has had one peel of his now delayed tp.
The peelee is his 2-back pioneer.

It's raining again.

Fisher sends yellow to penult after 2-back.
He fails to get forward rush after 3-back.

The balls are all now near penult.
Several opportunities to be stymied.

Fisher fails to peel penult before 4-back.

Straight double peel now needed.

Fisher irish peels penult from 6" in front.
That went well.
Peelee avoids the peg and is 5' in front of rover.

Sorry it's much less than 5'.
Now peeling from about a foot.
Irish peel.
That also goes well.

Rush to the peg is not great.
Fisher is lining up a four yard pegout...

Harry Fisher beats David Goacher +26tp###

Death v Mulliner is still in progress.

I shall start a new thread for the next round.