Jack Daniels and Business

"Don't do deals when you drink"...a good piece of advice I was given many many years ago and totally ignored last Sunday afternoon.


I've followed my local ice hockey team for many years, well thirty of them, through think and thin (mostly thin), good and bad (mostly bad) and had an absolute ball while doing it. Its a great sport mixed with a a good social background...or as my better half likes to put it "everytime you go to a game you come back plastered!"...good comment, well made.
The team has been in the top flight of hockey, gone bust, rebuilt itself, collapsed again, rebuilt itself once more, been taken over then been sent to Coventry, literally...all you ex-supporters out there who now wear Blaze colours..TRAITORS!!!


I've always enjoyed, lets say, the social aspect of the game. I've been away on double-header game weekends in Scotland and never seen a puck on the ice, just spent the time with a select number of friends making the most of hostelries in Fife, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Ayr and Dundee. The big end to the season was the Wembley play-offs...spent in the Greyhound just left of Wembley Way!!
In recent times though I have been spending less time in the bar and more time watching the games and become a bit involved in the game itself while still organising get together's for old friends that used to go to the games, some still do. So while on the players/supporters coach on Sunday while travelling to Sheffield to take on the Senators and a small group of us which were sat together which happened to include the new General Manager started banding ideas around along with dubious amounts of alcohol on my part. Before long I was inducted into a sub committee and low and behold given trust of the website after the previous General Manager/website owner-updater had an argument with the clubs chairman and left...2 weeks or so before the start of the season. Nice. But as the beer/JD was taking a nice calming effect I agreed. The task ahead hit me hard the next morning, could be a bit of a headache if things weren't handed over smoothly but that could of been due to a raging hangover. Paracetamol got rid one of them



So there we are, possibly not so much time on here and a lot more time fiddling with statistics and phoning/e-mailing around trying desperately to make the website a one-stop source of information. Here's hoping. Go Barons.

P.S. The ladders worked