Life's not all that bad

OK, so the BBL isn't that close to home anymore and the Sauna belongs to the Juniors and the Ladies not the Towers men. But the new season hasn't proved as gloomy as I thought.

YES, I am clocking the mileage - Guilford, Worthing, Solent, Sevenoaks, maybe even Hackney next week, but it is ball.

I'm seeing such a variety of games too, one week it's Worthing Leisure Centre and the Thunder v Heat, the next it's Solent v Rhondda in D1 womens.

I don't miss watching Americans who are here one week and gone the next....that's especially hard to manage when the shirt has had 4/5 names on it the season before!!

I like seeing Pat Bates at the Thunder again, I like seeing Mike Martin and Brian Dux in Guildford again, it adds to the event, and I'm sure it makes a difference to Joe Public going to his second season at The Spectrum.

Guildford and Worthing are both family style clubs, where the whole package, in whatever venue they have access to, is important.

Winning is great and they strive hard to win, but the whole event is key to both these clubs and it shows!

Images from the recent Thunder v Heat game