Saturday, October 6, 2007

Egyptian Finale

Well Egypt for the last round. I was hoping for something good to take us into 3rd place to have some choice of opponents and to avoid Italy, USA1 and Norway. It was not to be. We started with good boards giving me some hope but this evaporated as time went by to leave us with 9 VP's and a very credible and exciting 5th place. If my memory is right this is one of the best performances by an Australian Team in international competition. We have finished 3rd in a Bermuda Bowl but at that time there were only 8 teams competing.

So a big round of applause for Pauline Gumby, Warren Lazer, Murray Green, Andrew Peake, Bruce Neill and Richard Jedrychowski. They have shown excellent team spirit and a resolve to win greater than any teams that I have captained in the past.

Captaining them was a joy as there was no angst between any of the partnerships or between any members of the team and this counted for a lot when we were running second last.....hmm that wasn't so long ago.

Italy chose South Africa
USA1 chose Australia (silly them I say)
Netherlands chose Sweden
Norway were left with China.

In addition Italy chose to play the winner of the USA1 v Australia match should they make the semi-finals. Silly them again I say - why would they want to play Australia in the semi-finals.

So another day tomorrow. We have the choice in segments 2 4 and 6 not that this will make much difference.

First session sees Murray/Andrew v Garner/Weinstein and Bruce/Jedi vs Katz/Jacobs.

As I am writing this in the Japanese restaurant and the Sashimi has just arrived so enough from me for now.

Best
David

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

CONGRATULATIONS GUYS - GREAT EFFORT.

BEST OF LUCK AGAINST THE YANKS - YOU CAN DEFINITELY BEAT THEM. ENJOY THE EXPERIENCE.

Anonymous said...

Well done and best of luck against USA! I really can't see why Italy chose the winner of your match for the semis. Robin, Leicester, England. PS: very sorry to hear of the passing of Tim Seres.

Anonymous said...

Great effort David, ongrats to you and all the team - keep it up!

Kinga & Neville

Anonymous said...

Very well done all. Best of luck for the rest of the competition. I'm sure you can smash both the US and Italy to get into the final against (?) Norway.

Unknown said...

Seven-fold congratulations on a scintillating performance and all the best against USA
Ian McCance

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