{"id":4765,"date":"2019-02-13T08:20:14","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T08:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/connaughtclub.ticketu.co.uk\/index.php\/connaught-club-vs-kent-club-darts-match-report\/"},"modified":"2021-01-06T11:11:47","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T11:11:47","slug":"connaught-club-vs-kent-club-darts-match-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/connaughtclub.org\/index.php\/connaught-club-vs-kent-club-darts-match-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Connaught Club vs Kent Club Darts &#8211; Match Report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.connaughtclub.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2019-02-08-at-10.55.17-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4766\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>W. Bro. Laurence Hobbs<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Held at Flightclub in Bloomsbury (Tottenham Court Road area), the Connaught Club\u2019s challenge to the Kent Club to a Darts evening proved to be very enjoyable.<\/p>\n<p>Commencing at 7 pm the night began with an hour and a half to chat and enjoy a couple of beers and nibbles. The purpose of the event was to build a bridge between our two clubs so those in the twilight years of their membership have somewhere to join once they\u2019re no longer eligible to be the Connaught Club members. The Oche wasn\u2019t booked until 8.30pm so this gave us plenty of time to get to know the Kent Club contingent! (For those not in the know, the Oche is the throwing line and according to Google, the word is believed to be derived from the Old Flemish meaning a &#8216;notch&#8217; or &#8216;nick&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>After a rusty start, it would be fair to say the Connaught Club team held their own against the Kent Club\u2019s worthy opposition, some of whom arrived sporting their own darts. Mind games I\u2019m sure. Whilst I\u2019ve always struggled to get my head around the concept of having to pay to play a game that\u2019s free in nearly every pub in the country, time and money at Flightclub is well spent. The dartboard does all the counting, controls who\u2019s turn it is and then indicates what to aim for. It really speeds up the games which does make quite a difference, otherwise, buffoons like myself can slow everything up. Additionally, their table service was very quick and efficient.\u00a0 The \u201ccall a waitress button\u201d was put to good use \u2013 I\u2019m sure we nearly wore it out.<\/p>\n<p>I would love to report that we smashed them, but the reality is, it was a draw. Despite having Bro. Ben \u201cThe Power\u201d Sinclair on our side that\u2019s all we could muster. So all to play for next year it would seem.<\/p>\n<p>Time to get some practice in, although thinking about it, I\u2019ll be playing for the Kent Club by then!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classic-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/connaughtclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/connaughtclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/connaughtclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connaughtclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connaughtclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/connaughtclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5133,"href":"https:\/\/connaughtclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4765\/revisions\/5133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/connaughtclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connaughtclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connaughtclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}