The opening League fixtures of 2026 are still a week away, but the first Mid Shropshire title goes on the line tonight – Thursday 26th March. It’s the Thursday Night Merit with eight qualifiers, including husband and wife Stuart and Jackie Rutter, heading to St Georges to contest the finals on the club’s bottom green… Continue reading Merit Night!
Category: MSBL News
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Ready To Go!
As most of you will probably have seen by now, the 2026 MSBL fixtures went LIVE this morning. Grateful thanks go to John Palmer who has to deal with a number of issues, including the withdrawals of Worfield and Highley and then the end of bowling and folding of Hadley USC and the formation of… Continue reading Ready To Go!
Fixtures Update & Withdrawal
Hadley United Services Bowling Club have had to fold as a club but are reforming as Hadley Bowling Club and playing at Charlton Bowling Club. Hadley secretary Rob Burroughs emailed the league to say “I am writing to inform you that Hadley USBC has now folded with immediate effect due to no one to cut the… Continue reading Fixtures Update & Withdrawal
March Executive Meeting Update
Please find a summary of the March Executive Meeting on Tuesday:
Key Meeting
The League is to lose 2 long-serving clubs for the 2026 season. Delegates at the March executive meeting on Tuesday the 3rd will hear that Worfield have pulled out of Friday division 3 while fellow south Shropshire side Highley have quit the Monday divisions, both citing lack of enough players to continue. But the good… Continue reading Key Meeting
D-Day Close
There’s just 1 week to go for clubs to apply to field new teams or withdraw them from any of the divisions run by the League. The deadline to let fixture secretary John Palmer know (copying in general secretary Malcolm Fletcher please!) is 48 hours before the March executive meeting – which is on Tuesday… Continue reading D-Day Close
Mid Shropshire Individual Competition Dates
Please find some of the Individual Competition dates for the 2026 season, with most of these now confirmed. The Thursday Night Merit could move if there are less than 12 or more than 14 teams in the league as the league would have spare Thursdays to use for the Merit. If there are 13 or… Continue reading Mid Shropshire Individual Competition Dates
Big Bowls!
The League’s clubs have been urged not to miss a ‘Big’ chance to help grow the sport this coming summer – by signing up to an expanded Big Bowls promotion. “The 2026 Commonwealth Games will see bowls take centre stage at one of the biggest sporting events of the summer – giving our sport a real… Continue reading Big Bowls!
Sec’s Report
GENERAL SECRETARY’S REPORT TO THE 2026 AGM I am not going to pretend that 2025 was the easiest of seasons. It was dogged by several niggling behaviour issues which we are determined to get a grip on this year – starting with a special pre-season meeting to ram home our Code of Conduct and rules… Continue reading Sec’s Report
John’s View
FIXTURE SECRETARY JOHN PALMER’S REPORT TO THE 2026 AGM As far as I was concerned, 2025 all went pretty well with much better weather than the previous year. Hardly any matches were rained off. Congratulations to all the clubs that did well and commiserations to those not so fortunate (including first time champions Sinclair seen… Continue reading John’s View