Welcome to the Abingdon & District Aunt Sally League Summer season! Tonight sees 30 matches taking place across the region with hopefully 60 teams and 480 players old and new on the oche from 8.15 at 30 venues.
We are delighted that a very late additional team were registered late last week to bring our 6 sections all to 10 teams apiece so no byes necessary over the next 18 weeks. The Horse & Jockey at Stanford in the vale were those late entrants after fears over the future of the pub were resolved only in the last couple of weeks. Your Committee had strived to achieve a total of 60 sides so we, together with all of the other teams in the F section who have warmly welcomed back this season.
We are pleased to welcome some new teams to our league and also welcome back some who have missed a season or two and of course we are delighted that our stalwarts who have been with us for many years and have maintained the league through some tough times are all still with us. We especially welcome everyone who is playing Aunt Sally competitively for the first time. Remember it’s not always about the result it’s the taking part that counts and our game can be competitive, it is often frustrating, it can divide opinion, but most of all it is both enjoyable and fun and always played in a good spirit and with lots of banter.
The other thing that stands Aunt Sally apart from other sports is that there are no referees, no automatic technology interventions, no VAR, no appeals or reviews! Every decision is made by humans and always by people who play the game!
So like in any other sport there may be a few errors over a season, but rest assured any of these these will have been made in good faith and like in other sports mistakes and errors often level themselves up over the course of the season!
Enjoy your evening and may the weather on Wednesday’s be good to us throughout the Summer! That would be a first!
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