FESTIVE SEASON FUNDRAISER BY DRISCOLL FAMILY AT BRIGG TOWN FC MAKES £70 FOR GATEWAY CLUB

Last June you may recall Brigg Blog reporting on a charity fishing match that Rob Driscoll was involved in running. It was in memory of his late father - £10 to fish, all proceeds to Brigg LIVES. Use of Smithy's Pond, on Island Carr, was kindly donated by owner Mick Smith
Now further fundraising has taken place at The Hawthorns - home of Brigg Town FC. On December 27 the clubhouse was the venue for a charity darts and dominoes match against the Gateway Club.
Rob tells Brigg Blog: "A great night was had by all. The Brigg and District Gateway darts and doms team -  with the aid of some dubious marking involving me, of course - won the match. We ran a raffle for which people had donated a host of prizes and raised £70 for the Gateway Club. All winning players received a nice trophy but special mention must go to man of the match Stuart Bratton for finishing on 80 - 20, 20 double top. We're hoping for revenge in a return match to be played around Easter time at the club."
Brigg Blog was kindly invited to dust off the old 'arrers and take part, but other commitments meant we failed to make it. Not wishing to be guilty of name-dropping, but we will remind followers of this site that the last time we took to the oche at the Hawthorns was to take on former world champion Dennis "The Menace" Priestley. We then hung up our flights. As clearly it's hard to beat that! 
Darting skills were honed during two years in the sixth form at Brigg Grammar School in the early 1970s when we had many "free periods" - perhaps, on reflection, far too many. Later, there were many enjoyable darts matches in the Brigg and District Games League for the Queen's Arms team.
Happy memories!

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