It's not only the BBC which has a Harry and Paul Show, as the awards section of the 2023 Club AGM turned into a Kenilworth version of this classic comedy.
First into the limelight was Harry, who picked up the Player of the Year trophy, after scoring 9/11 in his debut season for the club. The winning performance of 81.8% was the fourth highest in the history of the POTY, beaten only by Joshua's two 90% efforts in 2014 and 2019, and by Hector's stratospheric 92.9% score last year. Another debutant, Keatan, scored a tremendous 10/13 (76.9%) to finish second and it was another junior, Jude, who rounded out the podium places with 12.5/17 (73.5%) - a remarkable score given that most of these games were played on Board 1 in Division 1! And to think that in 2015 it only took a 68.2% performance for Roy to win the cup. Standards have clearly improved!
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| Harry receiving the Ray Tilley Trophy for Player of the Year from the very tall KCC Chairman |
And then it was the turn of Paul to step up to receive the equally prestigious, and altogether bigger and shinier, Clubman of the Year trophy. Despite the fact that, as I cruelly pointed out at the presentation, Paul's last appearance for the club was in December 2019, and his last win was in May 2017 (more than 6 years ago!) Paul's contribution to KCC over the years has been absolutely enormous. First, and for many years, as the strongest player in the club by a very large distance, but more recently as the driving force behind the encouragement and development of the incredible junior talents which the club is now so fortunate to have as members. Truly a most deserving winner. The only query yet to be answered, is why hadn't he been awarded this trophy long before now? To which there is no satisfactory response. Mea culpa!
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| Paul receiving the Clubman of the Year trophy from our (still very tall) Chairman |
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