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Season 2017-18 end with new champion
07/05/2018 16:35
Wolverhampton's Justin Scott, returning to the game two seasons ago, has become the South Staffs TSC champion after points gathered in Burton-upon-Trent in April gave him the league title. 2017 champion Mike Bradbury (Willenhall) fell back to finish a lowest ever 3rd when Burton's Tony Machin...
Guy Smith wins Shropshire Cup and Clun Trophy August 2017
22/08/2017 14:49
Guy Smith has been playing Subbuteo for longer than most people have been alive, and at the venerable age of 78, still has the wonderful spinning he always did, and his shooting this year is stronger than ever. With Justin Scott and Lee Morrall pulling out at the last moment, only Mike Bradbury,...
Season 2017-18 news
22/08/2017 12:09
With around 14 players of varying abilities, the league this season sees new members from far and wide. Tony, Thomas Machin and George Handy all from Burton on Trent, plus Stephen Quirk and Sammy Murray from Abbots Bromley shifts the geographical centre of the membership base northwards well into...
Season 2017-18.
02/08/2017 18:41
This starts up with a meeting hosted by Tony and Thomas Machin in Burton-on-Trent on Sunday 6th August. This follows a week after the regin's top 16 players warmed up at the Staffs Pro-Am tournament at Wton on 30th July. Every few months, new players continue to join the South Staffs and the...
MIDLAND MASTERS
02/08/2017 18:00
Oakengates England international Chris Short has a big lead in the Midland Masters after two meetings. Short has comfortably won all four games in a league where the region's top 6 players meet once under FISTF rules and once under WASPA Advanced rules. Results so far (all WASPA) -
Bradbury...
Staffordshire Rankings
02/08/2017 17:48
On current form as of 1.8.17, and despite the top 5 capable of beating each other on their day (as proved in the new MIDLAND MASTERS LEAGUE) is::
1. Mike Bradbury (Willenhall)/ South Staffs TSC
2. Justin Scott (Pendeford)/ Wolverhampton SFC
3. Mick Hammonds (Finchfield)/...
Latest news summer 2017
02/08/2017 17:25
Ther has been a lot of subbuteo activity across the summer 2017. Justin Scott organised the 1st Roy Holden Memorial Tournament in Woleverhampton, which was contested by 16 of the regions best players, and the final was Rob Ramsay (Lincoln Flickers) 2-1 Mike Bradbury (South Staffs). The various...
End of season 2016-17 summary
01/05/2017 15:09
The three important finals were all played off on one night in Burton-on Trent. The 29 player South Staffs Club ladder, played off across August 2016 to May 2017 ended with Mike Bradbury runaway leader on 117 points,with Burton's Tony Machin 2nd with 33 points, Wolverhampton's Justin Scott...
FORMER STAR PLAYERS RETURNING TO THE GAME
06/02/2017 15:41
Since Christmas, several former star youth players (now in their 30s and 40s) are returning to the fold. Justin Scott (Wton), Tony Machin (Burton), Mike Hammond (Wton) were all county youth champions in the 1980s and all have found that 'it all comes back to them' after just a few games of...
SUBBUTEO HISTORY BOOK
06/02/2017 14:21
At long last, the remeniscences of over 50 years of Subbuteo in Staffordshire and Shropshire is being published by Mike Bradbury & Guy N Smith. Limited to a very small number of signed copies (50) and priced at under a fiver, this is likely to sell out quickly. All the facts & figures are...
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