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Post Match Analysis:
North of England Regional Championships 2002
First Section:
The Dolphin Centre
Saturday 16th March
Adjudicator: Roy Roe
Commences: Approx 1.00pm
Results:
1. Gateshead Brass (tba): 4 189
2. Harrogate (D. Lancaster): 9 188
3. Westoe STHCT (J. Smith): 11 187
4. BAE Systems Marine (D. Broadbent): 8 185
5. Boldon Colliery (C. Bentham): 7 183
6. Easington Colliery (D. Dye): 3 181
7. Horden Colliery (J. Beddell): 6 179
8. Kirbymoorside Town (J. Woodward): 1 178
9. Aunt Bessie's EYB (M. Davison): 5 177
10. Flookburgh (J. Iveson): 2 176
11. Spennymoor Town (P. Cutler): 10 175
Withdrawn: Barnard Castle
Top two bands qualify
What a good scrap this was. Three performances in particular caught
the fancy of adjudicator Roy Roe, and to be fair, there was a strong
case for each of them to be given the top spot, as all of them had
full command of the Lloyd work and all gave quality performances.
In the end though he plumbed for Gateshead Brass under Robert Morton,
and the band formally known as the Northumbria Police were worthy
winners in their first year back in the First Section. There was
plenty of good things about their performance, and they did sound
a championship outfit in all but name so they will surely be one
of the favourites come Torquay.
Joining them there will be Harrogate and David Lancaster who showed
what a good quality outfit they are with a committed and very musical
performance that possibly didn’t quite have the depth and breadth
of tone and sound of the winners, but nonetheless a fine rendition
of the Lloyd work. Last year winners have plenty of quality about
them and will also go to Torquay as strong contenders.
The unlucky band on this occasion though was Westoe STHCT, who were
last band on and who gave a very muscular and detailed account of
the set work, that perhaps was a little too strong on dynamics at
times and didn’t quite have the finesse of the two bands that
just pipped them. Still it was a fine account and showed that our
tip for them of 6th place in our preview was well off the mark and
showed that the three promotions in the past four years have been
achieved on no little commitment and talented players.
Fourth spot went to BAE Systems Marine, who improved by four places
from last year’s outing to just miss out on a podium place,
whilst Boldon Colliery (our tip for 2nd spot prior to the contest)
came 5th, which was still an improvement on the 7th place they got
here last year. The final place in the top six went to Easington
Colliery under David Duye, who showed further improvement to gain
three places from last years result.
Outside the top six, the bands fell into order quite easily as Horden
Colliery came 7th in their first year in the section following their
promotion from the second section, whilst Kirbymoorside Town were
8th – a drop off three places from 2001, and three down on
our pre match tip.
The bottom three read, Aunt Bessies EYB, who we had tipped to come
4th, but had to settle for 9th and a drop of six places from 2001,
Flookburgh who returned to the contest stage for the first time
since 1999 to come 10th, and Spennymoor Town who dropped a place
from last year and could find themselves dropping down a section
for 2003.
A great contest and a fair result with three very good performances
indeed from the top three, with the qualifiers strong bands, and
good bets for Torquay.
© 4BarsRest
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