The King gathers his troops to serve up a victory

As Moorgate D awaited the visit of Ridgeway B, in the Works League Division 2, "The King" (aka Mick King) decided that he needed a special group of men to try to help his team climb the table and he decided that youth and speed was required.

So he called upon "The Kid" (aka Isaac Barnett) and then someone not tarnished by previous defeats "The New Guy" (aka Noukhaiz Khan) and then the final ingredient was "The Forgotten Man" (aka Paul Roberts) who hadn't played a league match for several years.

A defeat for Mick and Isaac was balanced out by a hard fought win for Paul and Noukhaiz, before tight wins for both pairs gave the team a 3-1 win, with only 2 games separating the teams.

In the Midweek Mixed Division 2 Moorgate B travelled to take on Beauchief B and two comfortable wins for Dave Mangham and Ada Wood gave them a slight edge after a hard fought two set defeat for Guy Stevens and Georgia Muffett and although Guy and Georgia lost their second match they won enough games to give the most of unusual of results, a tie on rubbers, sets and games.

In the Ladies League Division 5 Moorgate B had to make a last minute change with Julia Firth stepping up to partner Carol Himsworth, with Laura Cowan and Freya Wilby as the other pair.

Throughout the match with previously undefeated Bamford B the Moorgate team had to acclimatise to a much slower type of game than they are used to and for a while they struggled to adjust as Freya and Laura battled to a win on a tie break before rattling through the second set 6-0, whilst Carol and Julia came from a set down to win two tie breaks and give their side a 2-0 lead which was soon turned into a 4-0 win as both pairs had comfortable second round wins.

In the Men's League Division 2 Moorgate A played hosts to local rivals Mexborough A as they looked to continue their promotion push and youngsters Cameron Wood and Jacob Porter were once again to the fore with three good wins ably supported by two wins apiece for Adam Butcher/ Dave Mangham and Gary Bridgeman/Daniel Hudson Giddings, with one of the defeats coming when Adam withdrew from his final match, to protect an existing injury and the other as Gary and Daniel lost on a championship tie break in a 7-2 win.

Moorgate B were looking to further climb up the Division 4 table as they visited Doncaster C and three easy wins for James Couldwell and teenager Alex Lesniak, who was a late call up from the C team, were backed up by a similar performance from Mark Busby and Guy Stevens, while Jan Hussain and Matthew Hopps were only prevented from replicating the feats of their colleagues by a loss in a championship tie break as the team recorded an 8-1 win.

In a week of disappointing losses the only other team that came close were the men's C team who were at home to Rustlings C in Division 6 although the final scoreline of 7-2 to the visitors might not suggest a close match but three defeats in championship tie breaks were the difference between winning and losing.

Steve Dawson and Vitaly Vasyutin won the two games, ironically by virtue of winning championship tie breaks, whilst Joao Mendes and Dave Hardy were on the receiving end of two of the three tiebreak losses with Adnan Ishaq and Bilal Abbasi being the other unfortunate pair losing one championship tie break and two set tie breaks.