Scottish National League

The reincarnation of the Scottish National League gave the club the opportunity to cross swords with players from across the nation. Due to circumstances, the intention to enter Division one was thwarted and two of our regular members, Iain McHarg and Billy Patterson signed up to play in Division 2.
The standard was high throughout the season. Although Aberdeen fielded a different team every weekend. Unfortunately, we came up against their strongest outfit and suffered the only 6-0 defeat we had.
2 wins, a draw and 3 defeats left us in 5th place out of 8. Above Stirlingshire 1, Murrayfield 2 and Triangle. (Another team that fielded their strongest team of the season against us).
The competion was excellent experience for our players who have all advanced in standard as a result. Many thanks to George Johnson, who we signed as reserve at the start of the season and who filled in for Billy in the final match. Next seaon's form have already arrived. It should be just as interesting, especially as the juniors of Sterlingshire 2, Blair Fowler, Christopher Wheeler and Co. are promoted from Div 3 having dropped just 5 points the whole of last season.

End of Season Report - Division 1

South Ayrshire’s D1 team finished a mid-table 5th in what was a challenging season. With the demise of the West of Scotland Premier Division, many teams strengthened their squads with former premier players. In the end it was as 2 horse race between Drumchapel A and Knightswood A with Drumchapel’s strength in depth prevailing in the end to win by 3 points.



We had a disappointing run in both cup competitions having to concede in the Division Cup 2nd round due to lack of players. We were pipped by 1 point in the first round of the Handicap by Drumchapel B.


Highlights of the season:
Being one of only 2 teams to beat Knightswood A.
Roy Claxton winning leading player of the year with an average of 86%. The highest average for a player who played in more than 2/3 of matches.
Gary maintained his 41% average in what was a stronger league this season.
Pierre had a disappointing season by his standards falling to 26%.

Special thanks to Chris Main who joined the squad for 2 matches this season.

All in all a controversial season with the range in ability increasing due to ex-premier players filtering down to D1. This led to many one-sided matches and several disgruntled players. The West AGM on May 15th should be quite interesting!

Gary McAlpine
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Season 2010/11 gets underway

NEW TEAMS and a NEW LEAGUE STRUCTURE

The new season is now in full swing with the first competitive matches being played this week.

We have entered a 2nd senior team into the newly formed West of Scotland Division 3. The core of the team is Neil Leonard (match secretary), Paul Morris and Neil McDonald (his first season with the club). They got off to a flyer with a 9:0 win against new comers Glasgow South C. Well done guys!!

The West of Scotland League has been overhauled this season. With the demise of the Premier League and formation of a new Scottish National League, we now have 3 leagues of 9 teams. So it should be interesting with some former Premier players now in D1 and also some new teams coming into the new D3.

South Ayrshire TTC wishes everyone an enjoyable and competitive season!

New venue for home matches

South Ayrshire Table Tennis Club have secured a new venue for home matches this season, Portland Church in Troon.

All home league and cup matches will now be played on Wednesdays which will keep our Cathcart Street, Ayr venue free for training on Thurdsay evenings.


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Directions on our home page.

Division 1 - Season Revue 2009/10

Congratulations to Knightswood A on an excellent league and cup double.

SATTC B were runners up in the league (our best yet) and also made it to the D1 cup final. So all in all a very good season, but one we are aiming to improve on next season.

Well done to all the squad for their contribution this season.

New Blog for SATTC

Things have been a bit quiet on the South Ayrshire TTC BLOG, but hopefully that will change now that we have moved the blog over to Google's Blogger.

Now all members of the club can add news items, results, discussions or whatever themselves. All members (who's email address I have) should have received an invitation to participate in this BLOG. Its dead easy - all you need is a Google Account which you can open with your existing email address.

You can subscribe to the BLOG here and add comments to posts.

Here's a wee YouTube video to help you get started:



Cheers,

Gary