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All items of substance are noted here, except for updates to pages (eg League Tables) which always track changes to pages elsewhere. The Ragbag gets added to any old how, but last changed 23.2.16.

29 Aug 2016
  • We've revised the grading stats to reflect the "definitive" August list. Remember the August list is what counts for SCCU competitions.
  • Speaking of SCCU competitions, there are changes afoot in the publication of County match information. We're not sure of the details and will let you know when we can, no doubt when it's officially 2016-17. In the meantime you are invited to visit the new County Match Controller's SCCU League website.
02 Aug 2016
  • We publish our usual stats on the July grading list. There's an interesting trend going on. Remember the July list is not final for SCCU competitions. That's the August revision.
16 Jul 2016
  • We have caught up with the ECF-Stage Finals.
06 Jul 2016
  • updated: Who's Who. Only an update to the composition of the Rules & Appeals Sub-Committee.
04 Jul 2016
  • U14/130 Final 3.7.16 produced the only draw of the season. Kent 12 12 Oxon A: Kent won on board count. This completes the SCCU competitions for 2015-16.
02 Jul 2016
  • 8.50 am. We have caught up with the ECF semi-finals, just in time to get left behind again when they play the Finals later today. Union involvement in the Finals: EACU 1, MCCU 4, NCCU 2, SCCU 7, WECU 0. SCCU is assured of two titles, and MCCU one.
  • updated (8.40 pm): ECF Finals 2.7.16. At least we've copied the bare match scores. Titles: EACU 1, MCCU 2, NCCU 1, SCCU 3, WECU 0
29 Jun 2016
26 Jun 2016
  • SCCU AGM 25.6.16. Yes, we were there and we had hoped to publish an account today. That won't happen, they keep giving us grading to do. But soon, we hope.
  • If you'd been wondering, we are working on the ECF semi-finals. To prove it, there's a match there now. We also have the last result. Kent join Essex in the U100 Final.
08 Jun 2016
  • Open SF Staffs 0d 16d Middx (default notified yesterday)
  • updated: Who's Who. Reports of a Life Vice-President's death may have been premature. We're not sure, and we have restored his name.
01 Jun 2016
  • updated: Who's Who. We have only one surviving Life Vice-President.
  • And we've finished with the ECF-Stage page for the moment.
23 May 2016
  • We've been working on the National QFs and may go on doing so for a while, but we won't trouble you with it again. You know the results. It's been a modest weekend for SCCU teams. Semi-final numbers: EACU 3, MCCU 7, NCCU 5, SCCU 11, WECU 2.
22 May 2016
  • National QFs: a modest update, but the only SCCU match we give in detail, so far, is the one that isn't on the ECF site: U100 21.5.16 Essex 6½ 5½ Leics
  • Later: add (bare match score: played today) Open Yorks 9½ 6½ Kent
21 May 2016
  • Minor Counties QF 21.5.16 (bare match score) Essex 7½ 8½ Lincs
  • U180QF 21.5.16 (bare match score) Devon 8½ 7½ Middx
  • U160 QF 21.5.16 (bare match score) Notts 7½ 8½ Surrey
  • U140 QF 21.5.16 (bare match score) Notts 9½ 6½ Herts
  • U120 QF 21.5.16 (bare match scores) Herts 7½ 4½ Cambs; Notts 8 4 Surrey
  • U100 QF 21.5.16 (bare match scores) Warwicks 5½ 6½ Kent; Essex 6½ 5½ Leics
  • Plus the odd foreign result
20 May 2016
16 May 2016
15 May 2016
  • County Match Controller David Smith notifies some fixture dates (but no fixtures) for next season.
08 May 2016
04 May 2016
  • updated: SCCU Executive report first published a fortnight ago. We can now say which congresses have BCQ places and the SCCU Individual Championship.
03 May 2016
  • updated: ECF Prelims. Just another footnote, we hope final, to Kent's U120 match.
02 May 2016
30 Apr 2016
27 Apr 2016
26 Apr 2016
  • U14/130 9.4.16 Richmond 8½ 15½ Kent. You'll have to scroll down to it.
25 Apr 2016
  • Belatedly we have U14/130 9.4.16 Richmond 8½ 15½ Kent. That is a bare match score: detail to follow. The Eastern Zone is complete.
  • ECF U160 QF 23.4.16 Cambs 6½ 9½ Essex
  • updated: ECF Prelims (foreigners only)
24 Apr 2016
  • ECF U120 Prelim 23.4.16 Kent 4 7 Lincs. We now have the full match score, and a correction. It turns out that an ungraded Kent player had not been cleared to play. The Controller has adjusted the scores and reversed the match result.
23 Apr 2016
  • ECF Stage 23.4.16 (bare match scores) U120 Prelim Kent* 6 6 Lincs; U160 QF (played early) Cambs 6½ 9½ Essex
19 Apr 2016
  • U14/130 17.4.16 Berks 13½ 10½ Oxon A. This completes the Western Zone, given that Bucks had withdrawn (we didn't know). Oxon A win a very tight contest and will meet Kent (Eastern winners) in the Final.
  • ECF Finance Council meeting 16.4.16: a report
18 Apr 2016
17 Apr 2016
05 Apr 2016
  • Saga over. The ECF website broke silence this morning, and our ECF-stage page now matches it.
04 Apr 2016
  • updated: ECF-stage qualifiers. Nearly there. We've now seen the Controller's official pairings for the Open (surmises confirmed). This leaves only the U180, where we do have an outstanding northern surmise. Keep trying the ECF website.
02 Apr 2016
  • updated: ECF-stage nominees. We now have most of the Controller's pairings. No surprises, but it fills in a few gaps. Offhand the only nominees we're still unsure of are from the inscrutable north. There's also a footnote to the SCCU U120 revisions of the other day.
01 Apr 2016
  • updated (sort of): ECF-stage qualifiers. The Controller has circulated the official pairings for the Minor Counties, confirming the ones we had already. This has gone only to the Minor Counties captains, as far as we know, but one of them has kindly passed it on to us. Have all the divisions been treated in the same way? If you've got details for any of the others, say! (The ECF website hasn't. It's on holiday till Monday 4th.)
31 Mar 2016
  • updated: ECF-stage nominations (SCCU). Two teams have declined nomination.
21 Mar 2016
20 Mar 2016
  • U120 19.3.16 Essex 6½ 5½ Surrey. The last of the SCCU sections is complete, and Herts retain their title.
  • updated: ECF-stage qualifiers
19 Mar 2016
  • U120 19.3.16 Kent 5½ 6½ Herts. This settles 3rd place, if it wasn't settled already, but the top two places wait on Essex - Surrey (also played today, but we haven't heard the result yet).
  • updated: ECF-stage qualifiers
18 Mar 2016
17 Mar 2016
  • SCCU U18 & U14 Jamborees 13.3.16. Three of the four sections completed now, and counting. Keep watching, and check for errors. All jamborees are hard to type, but SCCU junior jamborees are something else.
16 Mar 2016
  • SCCU U18 & U14 Jamborees 13.3.16. Mostly we give summary results. The detail will take longer.
  • updated: ECF-stage qualifiers (Minor Counties again)
14 Mar 2016
  • updated: ECF-stage qualifiers (Minor Counties)
13 Mar 2016
  • U180 12.3.16 Sussex 6 10 Middx
  • U140 12.3.16 Herts 8 8 Surrey; Middx 8 8 Kent; Sussex 3½ 12½ Essex. This completes the U140.
  • updated: ECF-stage qualifiers
12 Mar 2016
  • U180 12.3.16 (bare match score) Sussex 6 10 Middx with 5 Sussex defaults. Details when we have them. This completes the U180.
  • updated: ECF-stage qualifiers; Players Cleared (yes, there's still time for SCCU clearances)
10 Mar 2016
  • updated: ECF-stage qualifiers. We had overlooked the SCCU qualifiers in the Minor Counties!
08 Mar 2016
06 Mar 2016
  • Applications are invited from congresses wishing to host the SCCU Individual Championship 2016-17 or to offer a British Championship qualifying place 2017. The SCCU has four BCQ places in its gift, one of which goes to the congress that hosts the Union Championship. Applications to the SCCU Secretary Richard Haddrell rjh@sccu.ndo.co.uk, to reach him in time for the Executive Committee meeting of 8th April 2016 (but earlier is better).
  • updated: ECF-stage qualifiers (MCCU)
28 Feb 2016
  • Open 27.2.16 Essex 6 10 Surrey. This completes the Open section.
  • U160 27.2.16 Sussex 7½ 8½ Essex
  • U120 27.2.16 Surrey 8 4 Middx
  • U14/130 27.2.16 Sussex 14½ 9½ Surrey
  • updated: ECF-stage qualifiers (SCCU U160 and some Northern guesses). Do check our SCCU League Tables.
27 Feb 2016
  • Open 27.2.16 Kent 10 6 Sussex
  • U160 27.2.16 Kent 6 10 Surrey
  • updated: ECF-stage qualifiers (Open, Minor)
24 Feb 2016
  • U140 20.2.16 Sussex 8 8 Middx
22 Feb 2016
21 Feb 2016
  • U180 20.2.16 Middx 7 9 Surrey. Only one match remains, and all the positions depend on it.
  • updated: ECF-stage qualifiers (MCCU U140)
20 Feb 2016
  • U140 20.2.16 Surrey 10½ 5½ Essex
  • U120 20.2.16 Surrey 5 7 Essex. This concludes the U100, though the final positions were long known.
18 Feb 2016
15 Feb 2016
  • U14/130 14.2.16 Kent 13½ 10½ Sussex. Kent win the Eastern Zone, in view of Middx's withdrawal announced today.
14 Feb 2016
  • U120 13.2.16 Middx 8 4 Essex
13 Feb 2016
  • U120 13.2.16 Surrey 8½ 3½ Kent
09 Feb 2016
  • Open Forum. Peter Lawrence on an aspect of insurance
08 Feb 2016
  • U140 6.2.16 Kent 10 6 Herts. Kent retain title, we think.
  • U14/130 6.2.16 Oxon B 16 8 Berks
  • updated: ECF-stage qualifiers
07 Feb 2016
  • U100 6.2.16 Kent 7½ 4½ Surrey
  • U14/130 6.2.16 Essex 15½ 8½ Surrey
  • SCCU U18 and U14 Jamborees will be on Sunday 18th March at Gravesend. Click here for entry form
  • We give the Counties draw for the National stage, rather belatedly, and have inserted the names of the SCCU teams we think have already qualified (subject to their acceptance). See also the SCCU League tables, and let us know if you disagree with our working. Later: Neil Graham and John Philpott have supplied some other ECF qualifiers, and we have discovered the SF draw for the divisions where it was missing.
  • updated: SCCU Calendar
03 Feb 2016
  • U14/130 30.1.16 Richmond 13 11 Essex
01 Feb 2016
  • U160 30.1.16 Essex 9 7 Surrey
31 Jan 2016
  • Open 30.1.16 Sussex 7 9 Middx; Kent 10 6 Essex
  • U160 30.1.16 Sussex 6 10 Middx
  • U120 30.1.16 Herts 8½ 3½ Middx
30 Jan 2016
  • U160 30.1.16 (bare match score) Essex 9 7 Surrey. Details when we have them.
  • U100 30.1.16 Essex 6 6 Kent
27 Jan 2016
  • The January grades appeared yesterday. Do check yours! Two players have lost their clearance for SCCU county matches: see Players Cleared.
26 Jan 2016
25 Jan 2016
  • U180 23.1.16 Essex 10 6 Surrey
  • U140 23.1.16 Kent 10½ 5½ Surrey; Essex 8½ 7½ Middx; Herts 11 4 Sussex (with 8 Sussex defaults)
  • U100 23.1.16 Kent v Surrey, already once re-arranged, was not played. Kent could not raise a team. We have no details and don't know if another date will be agreed. Later: one has been. See the Fixtures page.
  • U14/130 23.1.16 (bare match scores) Richmond 5½ 18½ Sussex; Surrey 10 14 Kent. Details shortly.
  • updated: Players Cleared
17 Jan 2016
  • U120 16.1.16 Herts 6 6 Surrey; Kent 4½ 7½ Kent
  • We're back again, after a shorter spell in hospital for tests. Hospital wifi systems have something called firewalls, we think it is, which won't let you upload to the SCCU website. Last weekend's uploads came by courtesy of Julie Denning, to whom much thanks.
10 Jan 2016
  • Open 9.1.16 Essex 7 9 Middlesex; Surrey 10½ 5½ Kent
  • U160 9.1.16 Kent 10½ 5½ Sussex; Middlesex 9 7 Essex
02 Jan 2016
20 Dec 2015
19 Dec 2015
18 Dec 2015
  • U14/130 28.11.15 Kent 13½ 10½ Essex
16 Dec 2015
13 Dec 2015
11 Dec 2015
  • U140 28.11.15 Sussex 5½ 10½ Surrey
  • U120 14.11.15 Essex 5 7 Kent
  • U100 21.11.15 Kent 5 7 Essex
  • Middx U120 team has a new captain, Peter Grant-Ross. For contact details see the Fixtures page.
  • updated: County Fixtures (U120); Players Cleared
  • We think that completes the adult catch-up. U14/130 remains.
10 Dec 2015
  • Open 21.11.15 Sussex 9½ 6½ Essex; Middx 7½ 8½ Surrey
  • U160 21.11.15 Middx 9½ 6½ Kent
09 Dec 2015
  • U180 28.11.15 Sussex 9½ 6½ Essex
  • U140 28.11.15 Middx 8½ 7½ Herts; Essex 6 10 Kent
08 Dec 2015
  • It's been a long week. We're only just back from the Grading trip. We've got round to the SCCU league tables (complete, but do check them). Match results themselves, we've made a start on the missing ones and will try to catch up in reverse order, starting with the most recent. We know there's also the U14/130.
  • U120 5.12.15 Herts 9 3 Essex
  • The Website is seventeen. Thank you for your card, Michael.
28 Nov 2015
  • We're back. Come on, of course you'd noticed. Your Webmaster has been in hospital, out of reach of the world and the website, building up a backlog of results to publish. Not that we've started yet, but we have what people have sent and we hope to work through it in the next few days. If you have unsent items, please point them our way.
08 Nov 2015
  • U160 7.11.15 Surrey 8½ 7½ Sussex
  • Open Forum. David Smith, County Match Controller, writes about match defaults
07 Nov 2015
  • U120 7.11.15 Surrey - Middx, already postponed from 3rd October, was conceded two days ago by Middx after their captain failed to get a team together. However, we gather that Surrey may suggest re-arranging the fixture. We'll keep you posted.
04 Nov 2015
01 Nov 2015
31 Oct 2015
  • Correction. Yesterday's postponement was a default. U140 31.10.15 Kent 16 0d Sussex. In addition:
  • U180 31.10.15 Surrey 11½ 4½ Sussex. Also (bare match score) Essex 10 6 Middx: details when we have them
  • U140 31.10.15 Surrey 10 6 Middx; Essex 7 9 Herts
  • U100 31.10.15 Surrey 4½ 7½ Kent
  • ECF AGM 17.10.15: a report, with apologies for delay
30 Oct 2015
  • updated: Fixtures (U140): a last-minute postponement
29 Oct 2015
28 Oct 2015
  • updated: U14/130 fixtures. Two dates confirmed.
27 Oct 2015
26 Oct 2015
24 Oct 2015
  • Open 24.10.15 Surrey 11 5 Sussex
  • updated: U14/130: an addition to the fixture list. Lots more to come.
22 Oct 2015
21 Oct 2015
19 Oct 2015
18 Oct 2015
12 Oct 2015
12 Oct 2015
  • updated: U14/130 on contacts and fixtures
11 Oct 2015
10 Oct 2015
  • They're off. U160 10.10.15 Essex 8½ 7½ Kent. Details when available.
09 Oct 2015
08 Oct 2015
  • and again, three times, with new fixtures (some unconfirmed): U14/130
07 Oct 2015
  • updated again, with some fixtures: U14/130
04 Oct 2015
02 Oct 2015
  • updated, but not much: U14/130
  • updated: last season's ECF-stage County matches. They're in the Archive now, but it seemed a pity to leave the Finals out.
30 Sep 2015
29 Sep 2015
  • updated: Fixtures page (Middx captains)
  • updated: U14/130. A few extra details, no more match results.
25 Sep 2015
23 Sep 2015
  • Most belatedly, with apologies. SCCU AGM 27.6.15: an account
  • updated: Fixtures (U160)
21 Sep 2015
20 Sep 2015
  • updated: Fixtures page. The U180 is to remain single-round.
13 Sep 2015
12 Sep 2015
  • Fixtures: the last match captain appears
11 Sep 2015
  • Fixtures: a team drops out of the U180
10 Sep 2015
07 Sep 2015
06 Sep 2015
03 Sep 2015
02 Sep 2015
01 Sep 2015
  • It's September, so it must be 2015-16. 2014-15 is consigned to the Archive. Much of it is also retained temporarily on the main Site for ease of reference. The deactivated links on the front page will spring back to life when needed.
  • updated again: the Fixtures page. One revised date (U120), and a note further down about match starting times.

Earlier material is in the Archive

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