Planned Site Outage

The website will be taken down for approximately 3 or 4 days at the beginning of August to prepare for the new season, all that will be available during that time is a brief message to that effect.

The time given may be extended or reduced on the fly so please bear with us.

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING - THURSDAY 8th JULY 2010 - HOLBECK WMC:

THANK YOU TO ALL DELEGATES WHO ATTENDED THE AGM THIS YEAR. 39 CLUBS WERE REPRESENTED WHICH WAS A BETTER ATTENDANCE THAN LAST YEAR AND PROBABLY FOR A FEW YEARS!   A brief summarisation of the minutes of this years AGM now follow. In the Chair was Mr. Keith Weston (Vice Chairman) deputising for absent Chairman Mr. Rodney Sims.

Matters arising from the previous AGM held on 16/07/09: - NO matters arising.

Financial Report / Balance Sheet 2009-2010: - After a better trading season in 2009-2010 compared to the previous season, which saw the LBSO better off to the tune of £562-17 (Income £10,917-82 / Expenses £10,355-65), the overall deficit of the LBSO was cut as a result from last years brought forward figure of -£911-00, to this seasons carry forward figure of -£348-83. With next seasons entry fees already banked, the carry forward figure calculated in and the website expenses for the period 01/07/10 to 30/06/11 already paid, the bank balance in the new cheque book account as at 08/07/10 was announced as being £6,233-21. Delegates present were 'all in favour' to accept the figures to be a true record, when invited to do so by Chairman Keith Weston.

Alterations to Rules: - All rule changes were approved by delegates as proposed word for word - see the link below. The amendments will now be inserted into the existing rules and the fully revised versions will be available  on the website as a printable document before the start of next season. HANDBOOKS: - a healthy discussion then took place on the handbooks for next season 2010-2011. After various proposals put forward by a number of delegates, the net result  as agreed by delegates who were 'all in favour', is that the handbook for next season will amount to NOTHING more than a SCOREBOOK for team captains to keep a record of league matches.

Election of Officers for 2010-2011: - With no other proposals, the same officers of last season were elected again into the same positions, although Keith Weston (Vice Chairman), asked for it to be made clear, that next season would definitely be his last year.

The Agenda for the AGM and the proposed rule changes can be viewed by clicking here.

LEEDS - DOUBLE YORKSHIRE CHAMPIONS!

Congratulations go to both the Leeds Billiards & Leeds Snooker teams, who last weekend secured their respective Yorkshire Inter-District League Titles.

This is the 4th consecutive title for the Leeds Billiards team, and after being promoted last season as Division 2 Champions, the Leeds Snooker team went one better this year by wining the Division 1 Championship.

The achievements of both teams will be recognised by the LBSO at the Prize Presentation Evening for all trophy winners to be held at Holbeck WMC on Wednesday 30th June 2010.

CHAMPION OF CHAMPIONS

Division A champions New Headingley claimed the above accolade when they beat Belle Isle, who finished top of the pile in Division E, 5-1 last night in the final at Harehills Conservative Club. Both teams had reached the final after tense exciting semi-final matches but in the final New Headingley took the first 4 frames and eventually ran out comfortable winners.

Registrations 2010/11

There remains a few clubs who have yet to submit their registration form and fees for the coming season. This is desite assurances from club representatives. Divisions cannot be finalised without firm applications and we are close to establishing the league structure on the website. Could those clubs concerned please submit your forms (with fees) in the next seven days to either Bob Patterson or Tony Burden.

SYKES CUP FINAL

Martin McGuigan hcp 27 (Bramley Band) became the holder of the Sykes Cup when he beat Daniel Grimes hcp 40 (Ackroyd Street) by 3 frames to 2.  Both players struggled with the table and the occasion with many visits to the table without scoring in the first frame. Daniel won the first frame but lost out in the second scoring only 32. The third frame took only 20 minutes and went to Martin after a break of 4 reds two blacks and a green. He further potted yellow to pink. Daniel then made it 2-2 after seeing Martin struggle to score. The deciding frame saw Martin play the best snooker of the match with regular breaks enabling him to recover the handicap of 13 after his fourth visit to the table. Congratulations Martin!

Frame Scores (Martin first):  65-101: 93-72: 100-55: 59-101: 97-41.

WINDSOR TROPHY FINAL

Ackroyd Street won the Windsor Trophy this evening when they beat Upper & Lower Wortley at Crossgates Recreational by 5 frames to 2. Paul Sparkes (Ackroyd Street) and Lee Craven (Upper & Lower Wortley) both won their two frames to make the score level. Paul Grimes took the initiative over Chris Freeman to put Ackroyd Street in front 3-2 which soon became 4-2 following some astute play be Andy Taffinder on the other table. With everything to play for Chris Freeman tried hard to give his team a chance but couldn't maintain a slender lead mid way through the second frame and Paul Grimes with some excellent potting took his 2nd frame to win the trophy.

LEN LEE PAIRS FINAL

What a black!

Picture the scene! The score is 2-2 and a black ball game in the 5th and deciding frame. The black is lying an inch off it's own cushion and 12 inches from the corner pocket. The white is three-quarters of a table length away. Does Graham Hartley play safe sending the black down the table or go for glory. He took the latter, addressed the cue ball longer than normal, the cue ball was on its way, it clipped the black by half an inch, the white came back to baulk and the black rolled slowly agonisingly toward the corner pocket stopped on the rim had a look and dropped in.

It was the last tournament match of the season and what a match it was. Dave French and Graham Hartley (Crossgates Rec) were playing Anthony Sumner and John Mullen from Beeston Hill.  Dave and Graham had gone into a 2 nil lead but couldn't get that winning third frame as the Beeston pair took the next two frames to level the match. It had been a match which had swung in favour of both pairs and after excellent play by all the players it was inevitable a black ball game was on the cards. Anthony had potted the pink and then played a fantastic safety shot on the black. In stepped Graham and the rest is history as they say.  Congratulation to all the players for keeping us riveted.

On Site Advertising Opportunity

The leagues advertising agreement and fee structure has now been agreed and can be downloaded here, Significant savings are available to all member clubs and playing members of the league, the website is attracting significant interest and as such I am sure any advertiser would find the cost / exposure highly attractive. All monies raised from advertising on site are used for the benefit of the league.

EASB MEMBERSHIP - 2009-2010:

The LBSO is currently an affiliate member of the English Association of Snooker & Billiards.

This is good news for both individual players of the LBSO and official referees!

Registered players can now enter most EASB competitions through the LBSO without having to become a member of the EASB themselves.

In addition, referees officiating in LBSO competitions are insured against claims of negligence and Public liability.

More details can be found on the announcements section of the Message Board!

Mobile Website Launched

The mobile website has now been launched, this is for mobile devices such as mobile phones and enables you to get the Latest Results, League Tables, Club Addresses / Club Contacts and it gives you the ability to look up your handicap all on the move, Its basically a mobile handbook but it is as up to date as the website so if a contact number changes or a handicap changes you will be able to check instantly. The address to use is http://www.lbso.co.uk/mobile

Technical Support Line

The technical support line is available daily until 1am 07500 775551 for site problems including result entry issues, you can also contact admin@lbso.co.uk.

Administration Section (Captains & Delegates)

Please note 3 members have had problems when logging into the Administration section of the site, the message diaplayed is "Restricted Access", this is because your browser security level is either set too high or you have an issue with your browser, this can be confirmed by dowloading Firefox (an alternate Browser) free from http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/ and attempting to log in using that, if you still have problems please contact me, admin@lbso.co.uk

Admin Section Usernames & Passwords

All Delegate and Captain passwords were issued at 9pm tonight (27th August) and most got through fine, we do have some e-mail addresses that were rejected these were primarily from 2 domains, btinternet & yahoo, there were a couple of e-mail addresses that were returned as unknown so if you have supplied contact details and have not received your login details please e-mail admin@lbso.co.uk thanks. If we continue to have problems with those 2 domains I will SMS login details tomorrow.

Welcome to the new home of LBSO,

Welcome to the new LBSO Website, I hope you find it informative and useful.  Please report any problems to admin@lbso.co.uk giving as much detail as possible, Thanks.