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He became a member of the Letchworth club in Hertfordshire in the eighties and played for the Herts county team too. He's in quite a few of the old SCCU bulletins which have been digitised on the SCCU archive page.

Mick, start is 19:45, too late in my opinion, but there seems to be resistance to starting earlier. A 19:30 start (like all the neighbouring counties) would enable a three hour session to be accommodated more easily. I do find the all in 80mins is too quick - in Cambs the extra 10mins available does...

Agree with what John has just said. I would point out in Herts that both players have to agree to adjudication for it to happen. Out of ca 1500 games played this last season, 6 have ended up with adjudicators (0.4%). I think in Herts the resistance to changing over completely to finishing on the nig...