Never Rains But It Pours

Never rains but it pours. Cork venue on to me today looking for Jamie exhibition Friday 15th and Saturday 16th September. As I said yesterday though he’s in Oz living the life of Reilly. Not to worry though as we’ll re schedule for later in the year. Harvey is very popular with The Irish so he is. Does a lot of work over here and he is always brought back to venues to play in a repeat performance. Other players are too of course but none to the extent of Harvey. England however he does not appear as often. Maybe it’s the Scotland/ England saga but that’s the way it is. Jamie is on the verge of retiring so he is which will be a great shame if he does. I spoke to him about it in May gone but we’ll have to wait and see. The World Championship at Christmas may be his last farewell but we’ll have to monitor that one.

Also pondering retirement is Irelands Tom Kirby. I know his arm has gave him problems in the last couple of months which means he can’t practice which has the knock on effect of retirement. He is however going to the qualifying heat for the Grand Prix in 3 weeks time but if he fails there that could be it. That would mean that Kirby’s last outing will have been at the Reebok Stadium last June where he was defeated 8.7 by 2004 surprise Super Andy Callaby. Kirby’s arm acted up that day. How else could Callaby beat the legend that is Kirby. Only Joking Andy. I know ya can play. I owe a lot to Kirby to be honest. When I started getting involved in the game in the 2000 he was only coming back from a few years break and it all escalated from there. I live just outside Maynooth now which is where he is from. You may find Kirby in any of Maynooth’s bookies winning money as he is the luckiest person on the planet. When he retires from the game he can become a professional poker player or horse tipster as he seems to have an uncanny knack for it.Jammy Git.