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2010 AULD ENEMY CLASH - ENGLAND VS SCOTLAND
It is with great regret that at 10.30am on Tuesday 27th July, the SSL Chairman Alec Cameron informed John Hartley that Scotland would not be able to field a full team this weekend at the Auld Enemy Clash, and had to withdraw their side.
Discussions had been taking place for most of the day Monday regarding the amount of players and possible changes to format, but SSL felt that to only send a squad of 7 or 8 players would not do the event justice.

EASB are obviously very disappointed by this decision, and efforts have been ongoing all day to ensure that some sort of event takes place this weekend as planned.

The Billiards side of the International has been completely unaffected, as the Scottish billiard players are still intending to travel, so this will go ahead as planned, and we have also extended the invite to the 7 or 8 Scottish snooker players who had already made arrangements to travel, and we hopeful that they will still attend as planned.

Letters have been sent to all English players and Kelvin Jones has been trying to reach all players by telephone today to inform them of the situation.

What EASB will be doing instead this weekend, is the following:

FRIDAY - 1pm as planned, all players who were taking part in the International will take part in a Knockout competition.
SATURDAY - A warm up event for the forthcoming "Turn pro for a tenner" series. This is open to all amateur players - so why not come along and join in. 11am start.
SUNDAY - The annual random pairs doubles event will take place - again open to players from outside those who were due to take part in the International. 11am start.

We are still intending to run the 9 ball pool knockout on Saturday evening as planned, and if enough Scottish players do attend, we will run a mini-international during the course of the weekend.

Hopefully, although the English players are going to be disappointed, we can turn this into a great weekend of free snooker for everyone, with prize money for all the events.


TOUR MANAGERS
We are pleased to announce that next season will see dedicated Tour Managers for the various events held by the EASB. Iain Ripo will once again look after the Premier Junior Tour, whilst Bob Williams returns to the fold to control the Pro Ticket events. Gaye Jones will be on hand to act as Tour Manager for the Ladies section, and John Rhodes is looking after the Regional Amateur Tour. John Hartley (Zone A), Dan Lewis (Zone B) and Clive Brown (Zones C & D) will organise the Regional Junior Tour, whilst John Hartley will also look after the Seniors Tour, Junior Billiards, Q School Satellite events and the Championship competitions.


2010/11 SEASON
Check out the Event Dates page for the 2010/11 calendar. Check back soon for venues and more information on the tournaments, but get those dates in your diary now.


PREMIER JUNIOR TOUR PLAY-OFFS
The results of the junior play-offs can now be found on the Results page.


PRO-TICKET PLAY-OFFS
Congratulations to Kuldesh Johal who beat Robbie Williams 6-4 in the final of the Pro-Ticket Play-offs.  The full results can be found on the Results page.


IBSF WORLD UNDER 21 SNOOKER CHAMPIONSHIPS
The 2010 IBSF World Under 21 Men's Snooker Championships will be held at the Northwest Snooker Club in Letterkenny, Ireland from 31 July to 10 August 2010. England have nominated three players for this event, and they are Stephen Craigie, Sam Craigie and Nick Jennings. The IBSF announcement can be seen on their website.


OFFICE RELOCATION - NEW APPOINTMENT
We are pleased to announce the Kelvin Jones has taken up a position as EASB Office Manager and from 29th April will co-ordinate all head office administration activities. Kelvin is already actively involved with amateur snooker, holding the position of Chairman of the Byfleet League for the last 15 years and has more recently qualified as an EASB Referee.

As a consequence of this appointment the office has been relocated to Frimley in Surrey where Kelvin will be able to attend to EASB business on a daily basis. This is expected to give a much improved service over the previous arrangements where the office at Thornaby was unmanned.