Talk:Short mat bowls

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Comment

Can the user who replace Wales with Scotland please advise the source of the information?

Removed talk-like comment from article

(I moved the following out of the article as such comments do not belong in articles. Hairy Dude 02:46, 13 February 2006 (UTC))[reply]

Can the person who amended Wales to South West Scotland please advise the source of the information as it differs from information dating back over 15 years that I have. --Njtruscott 19:42, 31 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

carpet bowls

how is this different to carpet bowls? (as in the game plaed in many places on carpet using either full-size or small bowls, having been played -ceratinly in Australia - as a casual and as an informal competition sport for 50-odd years)

Short Mat Bowls uses a 40-45ft x 6 mat and regular size woods

Carpet Bowls uses a 30ft mat and much smaller woods.

Two totally different versions of the game of bowls. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.160.171.132 (talk) 20:57, 6 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Personal opinions

It says that 'Short mat bowls is great fun.' That's hardly objective, is it? Peti me (talk) 22:53, 27 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Updating membership for ESMBA members to reflect trend in game

"The latest figures from the ESMBA puts membership at 25,211 bowlers in 928 clubs.[citation needed]"

The latest figures is ambiguous, and having looked up the figures from the official website membership has actually decreased drematically. The latest figures was actually from 2005; and is now 18,337 for the 2016/17 season. ^[1]

I will edit the information to be more up-to-date. Lee Vilenski (talk) 13:33, 10 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ http://www.esmba.co.uk/admin/county-membership-totals/

British Isles Championships

I have added a British Isles Championships section, due to the notoriety of the tournament (Being the second largest in the world); notwithstanding Short Mat Players Tour events. Would love some more information from older events, and also the world championship 2014 event winners (And reference) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 15:56, 10 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

[1] ttp://www.esmba.co.uk/admin/county-membership-totals/

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