This Sunday 23rd Peel will host a Mixed Doubles Competition – The Lancaster Cup.

This replaces the South Ramsey team competition which has been moved to September due to their facilities not being ready in time to hold the competition.

It is short notice so we are relying on word of mouth as much as anything to get entries so please pass word around your club.

Please support this new competition. To enter simply follow the link below to the website or email Phil Parker p.parker@manx.net

Enter Lancaster Cup

Unfortunately two teams fielded 5 players in their shield match – there is a minimum of 6 – so those teams are ineligible to play in the Plate competition.

As a result we had to re-draw the competition so please pass word around to the captains that the fixtures in the book are incorrect and the website has the correct fixtures from this point forward.

There are now only 16 teams in the Plate so no prelim round required.

• View :: Shield Draw
• View :: Plate Draw

It is with deep regret that, following last night’s emergency meeting of the IOM County Management Committee, it has been decided that the Isle of Man will not be able to fulfil its fixtures in the Crosfield Cup this season.

This decision was reached with a heavy heart and after a lot of soul searching. However, it was felt that, given the overwhelming increase in our costs that the collapse of Citywing brought about at such short notice (just 3 weeks ago), to proceed with the fixtures could jeopardise the financial stability of the county association and this was a risk that the committee felt they could not take.

We are immediately looking into alternative plans for the IOMCCGBA’s participation in the Crosfield Cup 2018, which will hopefully be cost effective and sustainable for future years.

We must take this opportunity to thank the BCGBA and the three counties involved in our efforts to hastily arrange alternative arrangements for this season’s fixtures, for a while we thought we could find a way through this disaster, but unfortunately time has been our enemy.

Specific thanks must go to off Island support from John Crowther, Duncan Reeves, Graeme Wilson, Mike Holden and Phil Brown.

Once again many thanks for everyone’s help and support, we are saddened to have to take this decision but we feel it is the best course of action to secure future development and safeguard finances across the whole of the IOMCCGBA.

Neil Withers
Chairman IOMCCGBA

The Island Bowls team is facing an uncertain future following the collapse of Citywing.

The Isle of Man County Crown Green Bowling team has been competing at the highest level in the UK for the past two years and is set to play their first county match of the season in May against Yorkshire.

The county matches consist of home and away ties involving two 12-man squads. One squad travels to the away green, while the local team hosts 12 visiting players from the opposition.

In the past, the IOM team has chartered a 19-seater Citywing plane, which flew the IOM team to the UK and returned with the visiting bowlers. An early-evening departure took visiting bowlers back to the UK and then returned with the away squad.

This arrangement has worked well and was set to continue this year, however, the collapse of Citywing means that Manx bowlers have fixtures in May, June and July but no transport to take them.

The current timings of scheduled commercial flights means that travel off island and return cannot happen in one day – a requirement of the IOM’s inclusion in the County Bowls set up.

The organization committee have worked tirelessly to come up with a logistical and financially suitable solution however we haven’t found one yet.

We only have a short time before a decision needs to be made to withdraw or have an alternative plan so if anyone knows is in a position to help we’d be happy to speak with them.
<strong>Neil Withers – Chairman</strong>
<a href=”mailto:nwithers@manx.net”>nwithers@manx.net</a>
<strong>07624483666</strong>

All 2017 fixtures have been uploaded onto the website and you will be able to find them in the various sections.

Opens

Some clubs are still to confirm their open details to the association. As soon as all of the information has been received the open pages will be created and published. For now just a list of the opens and dates is available.

Season Schedule

It was agreed by the Men’s Executive Committee that the Men’s Night League will run through September. This has allowed the League and Rayner to be spread more evenly through the season but the Mixed Team Competition can now be integrated into the calendar.

Mixed Team Competition

Starting in May the teams entered will be split into groups of 4 and play home and away against the other teams in their group. The 6 group matches will take place between May and August with the Semi Final and Final being held on neutral greens in September.

The draw and fixtures for this competition will be announced soon.

Updates

There is a new Stats section on the website where all player profiles are now stored. When viewing a player profile you can now compare head to head records and see player ranking positions. The rankings are based on all competitive matches since 2012.

Players profiles can still be accessed as before from merit and team pages by clicking on the players name.

Captains

Clubs are still to confirm captains and the pages have been removed until this data is available.

Whilst much of the information is the same you can now search directly for a player and compare head to head two players. There are also ranking tables for the Men, Ladies and Winter League – the rankings roll year to year and every competitive game played attributes to the rankings. The rankings table will be updated every couple of weeks to include recent games played.

Winter League 2017

Due to the winter league introducing the doubles and some of these matches being played as 1v1 or 2v1 the individual scores cannot be imported as they break the website data structures. This is the sole reason for their being no stats or merit information from the winter league.

Men Night League Fixture Download

Use the links below to download the fixture lists in excel format

• Download ==> All Fixtures
• Download ==> Ballaugh Fixtures
• Download ==> Castleown Fixtures
• Download ==> Douglas Fixtures
• Download ==> Finch Hill Fixtures
• Download ==> Marown Fixtures
• Download ==> Nobles Fixtures
• Download ==> North Ramsey Fixtures
• Download ==> Onchan Fixtures
• Download ==> Peel Sunset Fixtures
• Download ==> Port Erin Fixtures
• Download ==> Port St Mary Fixtures
• Download ==> South Ramsey Fixtures

• Download ==> All Fixtures
• Download ==> Ballaugh Fixtures
• Download ==> Castleown Fixtures
• Download ==> Douglas Fixtures
• Download ==> Finch Hill Fixtures
• Download ==> Marown Fixtures
• Download ==> Nobles Fixtures
• Download ==> North Ramsey Fixtures
• Download ==> Onchan Fixtures
• Download ==> Peel Sunset Fixtures
• Download ==> Port Erin Fixtures
• Download ==> Port St Mary Fixtures
• Download ==> South Ramsey Fixtures