Comments noted - will try to get to talk to the licensee before next year to see if he has any suggestions.

It's always a problem in any public place striking the right balance and foreknowledge would have helped.

At the end of the day we are looking at one day in a year and apart from a contribution from a loud local towards the end of the session it was pretty good. I did think of appealing to his good side but suspect he has not got one as the other locals seemed to tolerate him.

John Price did suggest that the pool room was vacant but do we really want to hide away?