Shadforth-Boger Trophy (merit in matches)

This trophy is generally very hard to award as it is very subjective, players play at different strength against players of different strengths and in different tournaments therefore is not always awarded to the player that does best in matches but to players that it is considered have done best relative to his grade and strength

This year in matches the club played total of 364 games at the time of writing with 139 wins 122 draws and losing 101 38 of the draws came from only three players

32 players represented, the club this year

Of them players only 5 players who played more than 3 games remained undefeated

The shortlist, for the trophy year has been narrowed down to 6 players who are for the second year running John Sugden Howard Tebbs Brendan Ruane also James Wheeler Francis Rayner and New Member Nicolas Varley

John Sugden record was played 18 Won 4 Drew 12 and loss 2 this gave him a percentage rating of 55.5% and -3 performances against his grade four

Howard Tebbs played 15 games for the club winning 9 drawing 5 and only losing 1 this gave him a percentage rating 76.6 and +8 against his grade Howard also came second as the best performing player in the mid Sussex league division one with 51/2 out of 7 with 79% performance

Brendan Ruane played 11 games for the club winning 7 drawing 2 and losing 2 his percentage performance was 72.2 with a +16-rating performance

James Wheeler played 33 times for the club winning 14 drawing16 and only losing 3 his percentage performance was 66.6% with a +20-grading performance

Nicolas Varley played 16 games for the club winning 10 drawing 6 and no lost 1 his percentage performances was 81.2% and grading performance was +4

Francis Rayner played 9 games for the club winning 5 drawing 2 and losing 2 his percentage performances was 66.6% and grading performance was +11
Francis also won the mid Sussex league division 1 tankard for best performances scoring five points from six games the percentage performance of 83%

It is worth noting also that Steve Blewitt and Henry Cove shared the tankard for best performance in division two of the mid Sussex league

The Winner of this trophy will be decided by a vote at the AGM by the members attending

Marc A Bryant