Thank you Mike for the email you sent me on Thursday apologizing for your personal attack on me and stating that you would ring me that night. Have you lost my phone number? I am still waiting for your call and it is now Monday. I feel that the apology should have been placed on these threads where the attack occurred.
I noticed that your first post to this thread was 8 hours before your second post referring to the room being full of strangers.. It seems to me therefore that you had no intention of staying that night and only turned up to continue your protest.
You might not have noticed, but if you go to my very first posting on this thread you would see that I mentioned the Jug. I did not say where the Jug was located. Did all these "Strangers" follow some mystical star in the East to observe the birth of the "Bill Sables Fan Club". Or were they transported down by Scotty from the Star Ship Enterprise. Or would it be wiser to think that they all knew where the Jug was because they were already regular visitors to the Jug
Mike, you did not point out that almost all of the regular players at the session are indeed mudcat members or people who use mudcat as a source for songs. In fact Chris who you refer to as the originator of the session is none other than Windy B and his wife is Jellybeam and his son is Ian Stephenson. Others who were there at the beginning were Geoff the Duck, and Mrs Duck as well as Selby and Mouldy.
Perhaps you should send a letter to the Doncaster real ale magazine also as this is where Syd advertises the Jug and plugs the Wednesday night music night which I'm sure has far more influence on the visitors to the pub than does a post on mudcat.
If you were in the habit of visiting the Jug at 8-30 every week instead of your usual 9-30 you would have noticed that the room is usually full of strangers who have had a meal and have generally left by about 8-45.
When I arrived at 8-45 on Wednesday night with Jon Freeman I saw the regulars; Jezabel with her bodrhan, Patrish, with her melodeon, Alan (Patrish's friend) with his guitar, Banjo Flower with his banjo, Skipjack with his fiddle and accordion, Norman with his accordion, Coble and his wife, with harmonica and song book, and the other accordion player from Doncaster who was mentioned earlier with his group of friends, and Chris Coxon who is there every week anyway, hardly a group of strangers who had come to talk and not to play or listen. The only non-regular was in fact Micca who had phoned me to ask for a bed for the night.
As far as I can see the only two regulars who this thread attracted were Badger and Tig who were intending not to come but who usually come along every week anyway. With the exception of Norman and the other accordion player all of the regular players are either members or readers of mudcat threads.
Unfortunately you have caused so much bad feeling by your personal attack on me that I doubt the Jug session will ever be the same again. You might just as well have put a "Private Room" notice on the door stating that only regular local musicians are welcome and signed it Mike Cahill.
You will, no doubt be pleased to see that Kendall, along with a few others, will not now visit the Jug, I only hope that Syd sees it the same way as you do and I hope you are proud of what you have done.

Bill