From absolute beginner to experienced player we invite everyone who may be interested to come along.
News
Thank you
We got there. With today’s results, we come to the end of what must have been the league’s most challenging season.
For many of us reviving and restarting the league after covid become something of an obsession. Read more You all deserve a pat on the back for your efforts, be it the club members who challenged and overcame their fears of mixing with people or the team captains who revived their clubs and recruited fresh talent. One captain even arranged crib lessons and ran a knock-out cup at his local bowls club all at his own expense. To him in particular thanks. It’s great to welcome all the new members but sad and a reminder of our fallibilities to say goodbye to some old friends. The work put into this remarkable season can’t go to waste. If this wonderful game is to survive and leagues like ours are to flourish we need to redouble our efforts in recruiting new players and if possible new clubs. So to all of you, a heartfelt thank you from your committee. Pairs Competition. Next week sees the start of the pairs knock-out cup. It will be held at Comrades Club and will start at 7.45 pm. Please be in the club and register well before that time to allow the smooth running of things. Please also remember your crib boards and card.

Results Tables & Match Reports
Tuesday 20th September 2022 | |||
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Roberts [B] | Comrades [A] | ||
Comrades [B] | Seaspan | ||
St. Osyth | Comrades [C] | ||
Conservative | Roberts [A] |

Fixtures
Tue 20th September 2022 | |||
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ROBERTS [B] | V | COMRADES [A] | |
COMRADES [B] | V | SEASPAN | |
ST. OSYTH | V | COMRADES [C] | |
CONSERVATIVES | V | ROBERTS [A] |

About Our League
The league was formed by George Constable from Comrades at a meeting with the representatives from six local social clubs on Wednesday 6th July 1983.
Eleven different teams began playing in the first competition two months later on Tuesday 6th September. From these initial teams only the Comrades is still playing. However, a further seven teams have subsequently joined so most importantly now giving us a workable vibrant league.
From 1989 we regularly participated in a competition with the Colchester League until regrettably, they disbanded in 2004.
The History of Cribbage
In the early 1600s, Sir John Suckling an English courtier, poet, gamester and gambler invented cribbage, which he derived from the earlier game of Noddy.
Originally, a five-card game was played where each player discarded only one card to the crib. Nowadays the six-card game is more popular with each player discarding two cards to the crib.
Cribbage is very popular in the United States of America and Canada with many cribbage leagues and clubs in existence; in England, it is the only game that can legally be played in a public house for money.