Casablanca GH
(formerly Condottieri)
| Home Venue:The Bay Horse 13 Church Road, Liverpool, L37 8BQ - Tel 01704 873890 (Press Button 2) | |
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| Secretary : Dave Dutton |
Home Match Night: Tuesday |
| In 2005 Condottieri made it a hat-trick of wins in both the MQL premier competitions, namely the Feeny Cup and the MQL Challenge Cup. In 2004 the League Championship was regained from arch-rivals Wings and retained in 2005. In 2006 Condottieri had to be content with one major trophy when they won their fourth successive Feeny Cup Final. |
Don Standing Cup 2011
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Casablanca defeated
holders Wings in the 2011 final. |
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2004 and 2005 Division One Champions Pictured left to right with the 2004 Division One Trophy (The Alan Moorcroft Cup) are Bill Thomas, the late John Moorman (Treasurer), Ray Oakes, Chris Sumner, the late Alan Price and Dave Dutton |
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2004 MQL Challenge Cup and Feeny Cup Winners Having beaten cup arch-rivals Valentinos made it a hat-trick of wins in this competition. Pictured left to right Bill Thomas, the late Alan Price, Ray Oakes, Dave Dutton, Peter Deakin (MQL President), Ray Oakes and Neville Cohen. They also retained the Feeny Cup, MQL's other premier trophy |
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| Formed
in 1999 by Ray
Oakes who had previously
played in the Liverpool and Northern leagues. The squad includes two other experienced quiz players - namely Bill Thomas and Chris Sumner. Bill has also played in the Liverpool and Northern leagues whilst Chris had played previously in the Southport (& Formby) League for both Formby Railway B and Victoria Sports. The team had a highly successful first season, winning the second division with a 100% record and reaching three cup finals, winning two of them. They also formed the backbone of the Southport & Formby 2 team which won the President's Shield. They are pictured top right receiving the Division 2 Cup from Chair Sylvia Sawyer and bottom right receiving the MQL Plate from MQL Vice president Peter Deakin. |
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In their first season in Division One (2000-2001), they finished as runners-up. In cup competitions, they won the Don Standing Cup avenging their defeat at the hands of Zetland in the previous season and reached the final of MQL's Feeny Cup. The team was considerably strengthened by the return of Ray Oakes in 2017 and they went onto win the Don Standing Cup Final and also reach the final of the Handicap Cup. |
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| Casablanca won the 2008 Maurice Jefferies Plate win a comfortable victory over St Patrick's A - Pictured (l to r) are Bill Thomas, Harry Owen (Div 1 Sec making the presentation), David Dutton, Chris Sumner and Arthur Jones. |
| Year | League | |
| 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2017 2018 |
Southport
& Formby Division 2 Southport & Formby Division 1 Southport & Formby Division 1 Southport & Formby Division 1 Southport & Formby Division 1 Southport & Formby Division 1 Southport & Formby Division 1 Southport & Formby Division 1 Southport & Formby Division 1 |
Champions Runners-up Champions Runners-up Champions Champions Runners-up Runners-up Runners-up |
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2000 |
Don Standing
Cup Rendon Cup MQL Plate Don Standing Cup Feeny Cup MQL Challenge Cup Don Standing Cup Feeny Cup MQL Challenge Cup Don Standing Cup Feeny Cup MQL Challenge Cup Feeny Cup MQL Challenge Cup Maurice Jefferies Plate Feeny Cup Don Standing Cup Maurice Jefferies Plate Handicap Cup Don Standing Cup Don Standing Cup Don Standing Cup Handicap Cup Don Standing Cup Don Standing Cup |
Runners-up Winners Winners Winners Runners-up Winners Runners-up Winners Winners Runners-up Winners Winners Winners Winners Joint Winners Winners Runners-up Winners Runners-up Winners Runners-up Winners Runners-up Runners-up Runners-up |
| Bill Thomas |
| David Dutton |
| Chris Sumner |
| Ray Oakes |
| Arthur Jones |
| John Cochrane |
| Alan Price |