The Club
The club plays in Frant Memorial Hall which is located here. The outdoor club from which the Short Mat club was spawned plays on the green next door.
What's occurring?
Last Match
Last match: Sun, February 8th versus Chiddingly Result: Frant 55, Chiddingly 41
Next Match
Next match is against Rotherfield on Sun, March 8th at 14.00 at home. Dress: Club tops if poss & greys, format: 4 triples .
Forthcoming Events
On Tue, February 17th at 19.30, No roll-up. Venue: Frant Memorial Hall.
On Wed, February 18th at 19.30, No roll-up. Venue: Frant Memorial Hall.
On Wed, February 25th at 19.30, Singles and pairs semifinals . Venue: Frant Memorial Hall.
Matches
The club withdrew from the Wealden League in 2022 because of reluctance to travel long distances on winter evenings. Perhaps if the Wealden League had continued to operate a Northern and Southern division it may have been different. Numbers decreased after the Covid years but have now increased to the level where there are enough members prepared to play friendly matches agains local clubs. We are still registered with ESMBA and ESSMBA and havestarted playing matches against a couple of clubs with a fair proportion of wins.
We have the capacity to take on more freindly fixtures and would welcome contact from interested local clubs.
Join us
The club has roll-ups on Tuesday evenings starting at 7.30 pm. We cover the hire cost of he hall with a nominal roll-up fee of £3 per head and with space for only two mats we keep them fully occupied on roll-up nights. That said, we are happy to introduce more prospective members to the game. Please ask one of our contacts for details.
Competitions
The club holds two regular annual internal competitions - a singles knockout and a drawn pairs knockout. In order to avoid monopolising mats during roll-up evenings, many of the competitions' games are held on a Wednesday evening.
Competitive roll-ups
As well as our internal singles and pairs competitions, we have in recent years run what the outdoor club calls the Tuesday Cup. This means our roll-up match scores are kept with each individual scoring the team score each game. At the end of the season the best eight scores for each player determine the overall winner. Latest scores and positions are posted each week. This has raised the competitive nature of our roll-ups.
History
The club has now been going for at least 25 years as this picture from 1996 shows. Sadly Graham Elton (back left), Brian Potter (in front of Graham) Alby Cox (beside Brian), Dick Smytherman (beside Alby) and Malcolm Pittam (behind and right of Dick) are no longer with us.
