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Tennpar · Club Coach

Loving the nominations and the detail smile

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Tennpar wrote:
Loving the nominations and the detail

Ive got 6 more planned in fact; 2 of which Im actually gob smacked havent been nominated by someone else yet; one I expect someone will nominate. Im gonna leave the 2 dead certs until later in the hope someone else nominates before me, similarly the other I anticipate someone will go for. The other 3 Ill start on tomorrow - going to continue doing one per day over the next 6 days.
But Ill be dismayed if two of those dont get nominated - one is nominated for most PoM months and hasnt quite done it, the other is getting to slam finals for goodness sake and Id be surprised if they arent on someones radar!

indiana · Tennis legend

JonH comes home wrote:
Tennpar wrote:
Loving the nominations and the detail
Ive got 6 more planned in fact; 2 of which Im actually gob smacked havent been nominated by someone else yet; one I expect someone will nominate. Im gonna leave the 2 dead certs until later in the hope someone else nominates before me, similarly the other I anticipate someone will go for. The other 3 Ill start on tomorrow - going to continue doing one per day over the next 6 days.
But Ill be dismayed if two of those dont get nominated - one is nominated for most PoM months and hasnt quite done it, the other is getting to slam finals for goodness sake and Id be surprised if they arent on someones radar!

I certainly have other players in mind and I am sure other people do too. The process is open until Wednesday 17th. But if folk are really naughty and don't get round to nominating any that you think they should be, you get in there before the close

-- Edited by indiana on Saturday 6th of December 2025 12:42:29 AM

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:
JonH comes home wrote:
Tennpar wrote:
Loving the nominations and the detail
Ive got 6 more planned in fact; 2 of which Im actually gob smacked havent been nominated by someone else yet; one I expect someone will nominate. Im gonna leave the 2 dead certs until later in the hope someone else nominates before me, similarly the other I anticipate someone will go for. The other 3 Ill start on tomorrow - going to continue doing one per day over the next 6 days.
But Ill be dismayed if two of those dont get nominated - one is nominated for most PoM months and hasnt quite done it, the other is getting to slam finals for goodness sake and Id be surprised if they arent on someones radar!
I certainly have other players in mind and I am sure other people do too. The process is open until Wednesday 17th

Good stuff, hoping we get to see a really healthy list.

This year in general feels very open with a lot of players not in PoS yet who could be better contenders than several of those who are already in!

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Player of the Season Wildcard nomination and reason:

1. Savannah Dada-Mascoll - An unexpected history making breakout year. Highest singles ranking in Appalachian State history at No 5. First App State player to qualifier for NCAAs, All-American and NCAA quarter-finalist. Carolina region co-champion. Full narrative in post 3

2. Ben Jones - has won the most titles of any player this season with 9 at the time of writing. All of those are doubles titles, 5 at M25 level and with 7 different partners. Plaudits for being our player with the most titles!

3. Mimi Xu - in her final year as a junior, reached the semi-finals of junior Wimbledon while mostly concentrating on making a successful transition to senior tennis. She won the best title of her senior career at the W100 in Wrexham and has raised her ranking from around WR500 at the start of the year to around WR250.

4. Hamish Stewart - Hamish also was prolific in winning titles this year, taking 8 in total as of end of November; 1 singles and 7 doubles at ITF level. He also managed to significantly improve his rankings, at the age of 26, almost halving both singles (to around 338) and doubles to 249) in a year where he made significant strides. Expecting more from him in 2025, but those 8 titles get him on the list.

5. Jake Fearnley - Starting the year at WR99, Jake maintained a top 100 ranking throughout the year, despite struggling in the second half of 2025 as he embarked on only his second year on the main tour. He reached a CH of 49 and was GB #2 for part of the year, having won his first main draw matches at ATP500 and ATP1000 level in 2025, as well as rounds at the Australian, French and US Opens.

6. GB ITF men's singles players - as of 01/12 more ITF singles tities than any other nation ( 61 with Italy second on 58 ), with a particularly impressive record in M25s ( 36, with France second on 25 ). We started the year with 9 players in the top 300, with the then essentially ITF players (a number have advanced to challengers as the year has progressed), then making that 12 in the top 400 and 19 in the top 500. We are ending the year with 15 in the top 300, 25 in the top 400 (more than double), and 29 in the top 500 (for so long in the past 20 seemed an elusive target). Remarkable.

7. Arthur Fery - after returning from a long spell of injury, Arthur began the year by winning the M25 title at Roehampton, unseeded and without losing a set. In August, he won his second title of the year and his first at challenger level at the Barranquilla CH75. In between, he won his first main draw match at Wimbledon and secured a win on his debut at the Davis Cup. He ends the year having qualified for an ATP250 for the first time and at a new CH inside the top 200.

8. Victoria Allen - having reached WR 671 as an 18 yo in 2019, then largely out of the collective consciousness for a number of years, particularly with being at college in the US, the now 24 yo has had a really good proper initial pro season. W35 Quebec City singles title plus 4 doubles titles, the highest being W50 Nottingham (with Millie Rajecki). Began the year unranked, as of 01/12 she has a singies ranking of 436 and a doubles ranking of 328, both close to her CHs. GB #14 in singles.

9. Oliver Crawford - after a largely uneventful first season since switching which saw him start his second year ranked down in the 400s he's given us more a sense of what he's capable of in his second year, breaking back into the top 200 for a CH 183 in September and reaching his first Challenger final since becoming a British player and the third of his career

10. Lui Maxted - one of the standout players this year; hes another player who took 8 titles, 3 in singles. But his ranking shot up from below 1000 to just in the top 500 in singles and similarly in doubles; in fact, apart from Toby Samuel, Lui is the highest rising singles player of all of our men and women, in terms of absolute rankings - well over 600 places. And the board took to him. he was nominated 3 times for player of the month, in the top ten or so of players to get multiple nominations.

11. Jan Choinski - from WR 173 at the start of the year has risen to a CH 125 and GB #4, claiming 4 Challenger singles titles including 2 at 125 level in a few weeks in September and October. Particularly looking at second half of the year, he seems still on the up.

12. Wake Forest University Brits (Luca Pow & Charlie Robertson)
Charlie and Luca made outstanding contributions in helping Wake Forest win the NCAA championship, the ACC regular season title, the ITA national indoor championships and a record 40 team wins. Charlie went on a 2 month unbeaten run and gained a reputation of being the most clutch player by regularly winning the team point that gave Wake Forest victory. Luca went on an incredible 21 match unbeaten run in the midst of 30 wins in the Spring and backed that up in the autumn by reaching the NCAA singles QF giving a calendar year college record of 42 wins 7 losses.

13. Brooke Black - of all our womens players this year, the one who has risen the most up the rankings is Brooke. Starting at around 1275, she managed to rise over 550 places to near 700, and did more in doubles with a 700 plus position rise. And she did this on a partial schedule, she only played 28 singles and 25 doubles matches. No spectacular titles or wins, just solid, consistent progress over the season.

indiana · Tennis legend

Player of the Season Wildcard nomination and reason:

1. Savannah Dada-Mascoll - An unexpected history making breakout year. Highest singles ranking in Appalachian State history at No 5. First App State player to qualifier for NCAAs, All-American and NCAA quarter-finalist. Carolina region co-champion. Full narrative in post 3

2. Ben Jones - has won the most titles of any player this season with 9 at the time of writing. All of those are doubles titles, 5 at M25 level and with 7 different partners. Plaudits for being our player with the most titles!

3. Mimi Xu - in her final year as a junior, reached the semi-finals of junior Wimbledon while mostly concentrating on making a successful transition to senior tennis. She won the best title of her senior career at the W100 in Wrexham and has raised her ranking from around WR500 at the start of the year to around WR250.

4. Hamish Stewart - Hamish also was prolific in winning titles this year, taking 8 in total as of end of November; 1 singles and 7 doubles at ITF level. He also managed to significantly improve his rankings, at the age of 26, almost halving both singles (to around 338) and doubles to 249) in a year where he made significant strides. Expecting more from him in 2025, but those 8 titles get him on the list.

5. Jake Fearnley - Starting the year at WR99, Jake maintained a top 100 ranking throughout the year, despite struggling in the second half of 2025 as he embarked on only his second year on the main tour. He reached a CH of 49 and was GB #2 for part of the year, having won his first main draw matches at ATP500 and ATP1000 level in 2025, as well as rounds at the Australian, French and US Opens.

6. GB ITF men's singles players - as of 01/12 more ITF singles tities than any other nation ( 61 with Italy second on 58 ), with a particularly impressive record in M25s ( 36, with France second on 25 ). We started the year with 9 players in the top 300, with the then essentially ITF players (a number have advanced to challengers as the year has progressed), then making that 12 in the top 400 and 19 in the top 500. We are ending the year with 15 in the top 300, 25 in the top 400 (more than double), and 29 in the top 500 (for so long in the past 20 seemed an elusive target). Remarkable.

7. Arthur Fery - after returning from a long spell of injury, Arthur began the year by winning the M25 title at Roehampton, unseeded and without losing a set. In August, he won his second title of the year and his first at challenger level at the Barranquilla CH75. In between, he won his first main draw match at Wimbledon and secured a win on his debut at the Davis Cup. He ends the year having qualified for an ATP250 for the first time and at a new CH inside the top 200.

8. Victoria Allen - having reached WR 671 as an 18 yo in 2019, then largely out of the collective consciousness for a number of years, particularly with being at college in the US, the now 24 yo has had a really good proper initial pro season. W35 Quebec City singles title plus 4 doubles titles, the highest being W50 Nottingham (with Millie Rajecki). Began the year unranked, as of 01/12 she has a singies ranking of 436 and a doubles ranking of 328, both close to her CHs. GB #14 in singles.

9. Oliver Crawford - after a largely uneventful first season since switching which saw him start his second year ranked down in the 400s he's given us more a sense of what he's capable of in his second year, breaking back into the top 200 for a CH 183 in September and reaching his first Challenger final since becoming a British player and the third of his career

10. Lui Maxted - one of the standout players this year; hes another player who took 8 titles, 3 in singles. But his ranking shot up from below 1000 to just in the top 500 in singles and similarly in doubles; in fact, apart from Toby Samuel, Lui is the highest rising singles player of all of our men and women, in terms of absolute rankings - well over 600 places. And the board took to him. he was nominated 3 times for player of the month, in the top ten or so of players to get multiple nominations.

11. Jan Choinski - from WR 173 at the start of the year has risen to a CH 125 and GB #4, claiming 4 Challenger singles titles including 2 at 125 level in a few weeks in September and October. Particularly looking at second half of the year, he seems still on the up.

12. Wake Forest University Brits (Luca Pow & Charlie Robertson)
Charlie and Luca made outstanding contributions in helping Wake Forest win the NCAA championship, the ACC regular season title, the ITA national indoor championships and a record 40 team wins. Charlie went on a 2 month unbeaten run and gained a reputation of being the most clutch player by regularly winning the team point that gave Wake Forest victory. Luca went on an incredible 21 match unbeaten run in the midst of 30 wins in the Spring and backed that up in the autumn by reaching the NCAA singles QF giving a calendar year college record of 42 wins 7 losses.

13. Brooke Black - of all our womens players this year, the one who has risen the most up the rankings is Brooke. Starting at around 1275, she managed to rise over 550 places to near 700, and did more in doubles with a 700 plus position rise. And she did this on a partial schedule, she only played 28 singles and 25 doubles matches. No spectacular titles or wins, just solid, consistent progress over the season.

14. George Loffhagen - started the year WR 579 with a CH 333, by October he hsd soared up to WR 200. Won his first challenger singles title, Segovia 75, plus 4 M25 singles titles. Can go missing for a time between tournaments, and it seems at times within matches, but has reaffirmed what a talent he has with the ability to go a fair bit higher.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Thanks Indy! George was also one of the biggest risers in the stats TA posted a few weeks back in the general stats section, so good to see him get acknowledged!

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

JonH comes home wrote:
Tennpar wrote:
Loving the nominations and the detail
Ive got 6 more planned in fact; 2 of which Im actually gob smacked havent been nominated by someone else yet; one I expect someone will nominate. Im gonna leave the 2 dead certs until later in the hope someone else nominates before me, similarly the other I anticipate someone will go for. The other 3 Ill start on tomorrow - going to continue doing one per day over the next 6 days.
But Ill be dismayed if two of those dont get nominated - one is nominated for most PoM months and hasnt quite done it, the other is getting to slam finals for goodness sake and Id be surprised if they arent on someones radar!

And this is you being 'quiet' and 'uninvolved' ??? biggrin

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Coup Droit wrote:
JonH comes home wrote:
Tennpar wrote:
Loving the nominations and the detail
Ive got 6 more planned in fact; 2 of which Im actually gob smacked havent been nominated by someone else yet; one I expect someone will nominate. Im gonna leave the 2 dead certs until later in the hope someone else nominates before me, similarly the other I anticipate someone will go for. The other 3 Ill start on tomorrow - going to continue doing one per day over the next 6 days.
But Ill be dismayed if two of those dont get nominated - one is nominated for most PoM months and hasnt quite done it, the other is getting to slam finals for goodness sake and Id be surprised if they arent on someones radar!
And this is you being 'quiet' and 'uninvolved' ???

Ah, no! That was the December player of the month! Different Jon for the wildcard nominations! Haha

SuperT · Futures level

Player of the Season Wildcard nomination and reason:

1. Savannah Dada-Mascoll - An unexpected history making breakout year. Highest singles ranking in Appalachian State history at No 5. First App State player to qualifier for NCAAs, All-American and NCAA quarter-finalist. Carolina region co-champion. Full narrative in post 3

2. Ben Jones - has won the most titles of any player this season with 9 at the time of writing. All of those are doubles titles, 5 at M25 level and with 7 different partners. Plaudits for being our player with the most titles!

3. Mimi Xu - in her final year as a junior, reached the semi-finals of junior Wimbledon while mostly concentrating on making a successful transition to senior tennis. She won the best title of her senior career at the W100 in Wrexham and has raised her ranking from around WR500 at the start of the year to around WR250.

4. Hamish Stewart - Hamish also was prolific in winning titles this year, taking 8 in total as of end of November; 1 singles and 7 doubles at ITF level. He also managed to significantly improve his rankings, at the age of 26, almost halving both singles (to around 338) and doubles to 249) in a year where he made significant strides. Expecting more from him in 2025, but those 8 titles get him on the list.

5. Jake Fearnley - Starting the year at WR99, Jake maintained a top 100 ranking throughout the year, despite struggling in the second half of 2025 as he embarked on only his second year on the main tour. He reached a CH of 49 and was GB #2 for part of the year, having won his first main draw matches at ATP500 and ATP1000 level in 2025, as well as rounds at the Australian, French and US Opens.

6. GB ITF men's singles players - as of 01/12 more ITF singles tities than any other nation ( 61 with Italy second on 58 ), with a particularly impressive record in M25s ( 36, with France second on 25 ). We started the year with 9 players in the top 300, with the then essentially ITF players (a number have advanced to challengers as the year has progressed), then making that 12 in the top 400 and 19 in the top 500. We are ending the year with 15 in the top 300, 25 in the top 400 (more than double), and 29 in the top 500 (for so long in the past 20 seemed an elusive target). Remarkable.

7. Arthur Fery - after returning from a long spell of injury, Arthur began the year by winning the M25 title at Roehampton, unseeded and without losing a set. In August, he won his second title of the year and his first at challenger level at the Barranquilla CH75. In between, he won his first main draw match at Wimbledon and secured a win on his debut at the Davis Cup. He ends the year having qualified for an ATP250 for the first time and at a new CH inside the top 200.

8. Victoria Allen - having reached WR 671 as an 18 yo in 2019, then largely out of the collective consciousness for a number of years, particularly with being at college in the US, the now 24 yo has had a really good proper initial pro season. W35 Quebec City singles title plus 4 doubles titles, the highest being W50 Nottingham (with Millie Rajecki). Began the year unranked, as of 01/12 she has a singies ranking of 436 and a doubles ranking of 328, both close to her CHs. GB #14 in singles.

9. Oliver Crawford - after a largely uneventful first season since switching which saw him start his second year ranked down in the 400s he's given us more a sense of what he's capable of in his second year, breaking back into the top 200 for a CH 183 in September and reaching his first Challenger final since becoming a British player and the third of his career

10. Lui Maxted - one of the standout players this year; hes another player who took 8 titles, 3 in singles. But his ranking shot up from below 1000 to just in the top 500 in singles and similarly in doubles; in fact, apart from Toby Samuel, Lui is the highest rising singles player of all of our men and women, in terms of absolute rankings - well over 600 places. And the board took to him. he was nominated 3 times for player of the month, in the top ten or so of players to get multiple nominations.

11. Jan Choinski - from WR 173 at the start of the year has risen to a CH 125 and GB #4, claiming 4 Challenger singles titles including 2 at 125 level in a few weeks in September and October. Particularly looking at second half of the year, he seems still on the up.

12. Wake Forest University Brits (Luca Pow & Charlie Robertson)
Charlie and Luca made outstanding contributions in helping Wake Forest win the NCAA championship, the ACC regular season title, the ITA national indoor championships and a record 40 team wins. Charlie went on a 2 month unbeaten run and gained a reputation of being the most clutch player by regularly winning the team point that gave Wake Forest victory. Luca went on an incredible 21 match unbeaten run in the midst of 30 wins in the Spring and backed that up in the autumn by reaching the NCAA singles QF giving a calendar year college record of 42 wins 7 losses.

13. Brooke Black - of all our womens players this year, the one who has risen the most up the rankings is Brooke. Starting at around 1275, she managed to rise over 550 places to near 700, and did more in doubles with a 700 plus position rise. And she did this on a partial schedule, she only played 28 singles and 25 doubles matches. No spectacular titles or wins, just solid, consistent progress over the season.

14. George Loffhagen - started the year WR 579 with a CH 333, by October he hsd soared up to WR 200. Won his first challenger singles title, Segovia 75, plus 4 M25 singles titles. Can go missing for a time between tournaments, and it seems at times within matches, but has reaffirmed what a talent he has with the ability to go a fair bit higher.

15. I'd like to nominate Emily Appleton who I believe is one of our most hard working players, competing virtually every week in both singles and doubles. This year she achieved new career highs of 347 in singles and 77 in doubles, ending the year at 376 and 87 respectively. In doubles she won a 75K level tournament and made the final of a WTA125.

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JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Player of the Season Wildcard nomination and reason

1. Savannah Dada-Mascoll - An unexpected history making breakout year. Highest singles ranking in Appalachian State history at No 5. First App State player to qualifier for NCAAs, All-American and NCAA quarter-finalist. Carolina region co-champion. Full narrative in post 3

2. Ben Jones - has won the most titles of any player this season with 9 at the time of writing. All of those are doubles titles, 5 at M25 level and with 7 different partners. Plaudits for being our player with the most titles!

3. Mimi Xu - in her final year as a junior, reached the semi-finals of junior Wimbledon while mostly concentrating on making a successful transition to senior tennis. She won the best title of her senior career at the W100 in Wrexham and has raised her ranking from around WR500 at the start of the year to around WR250.

4. Hamish Stewart - Hamish also was prolific in winning titles this year, taking 8 in total as of end of November; 1 singles and 7 doubles at ITF level. He also managed to significantly improve his rankings, at the age of 26, almost halving both singles (to around 338) and doubles to 249) in a year where he made significant strides. Expecting more from him in 2025, but those 8 titles get him on the list.

5. Jake Fearnley - Starting the year at WR99, Jake maintained a top 100 ranking throughout the year, despite struggling in the second half of 2025 as he embarked on only his second year on the main tour. He reached a CH of 49 and was GB #2 for part of the year, having won his first main draw matches at ATP500 and ATP1000 level in 2025, as well as rounds at the Australian, French and US Opens.

6. GB ITF men's singles players - as of 01/12 more ITF singles tities than any other nation ( 61 with Italy second on 58 ), with a particularly impressive record in M25s ( 36, with France second on 25 ). We started the year with 9 players in the top 300, with the then essentially ITF players (a number have advanced to challengers as the year has progressed), then making that 12 in the top 400 and 19 in the top 500. We are ending the year with 15 in the top 300, 25 in the top 400 (more than double), and 29 in the top 500 (for so long in the past 20 seemed an elusive target). Remarkable.

7. Arthur Fery - after returning from a long spell of injury, Arthur began the year by winning the M25 title at Roehampton, unseeded and without losing a set. In August, he won his second title of the year and his first at challenger level at the Barranquilla CH75. In between, he won his first main draw match at Wimbledon and secured a win on his debut at the Davis Cup. He ends the year having qualified for an ATP250 for the first time and at a new CH inside the top 200.

8. Victoria Allen - having reached WR 671 as an 18 yo in 2019, then largely out of the collective consciousness for a number of years, particularly with being at college in the US, the now 24 yo has had a really good proper initial pro season. W35 Quebec City singles title plus 4 doubles titles, the highest being W50 Nottingham (with Millie Rajecki). Began the year unranked, as of 01/12 she has a singies ranking of 436 and a doubles ranking of 328, both close to her CHs. GB #14 in singles.

9. Oliver Crawford - after a largely uneventful first season since switching which saw him start his second year ranked down in the 400s he's given us more a sense of what he's capable of in his second year, breaking back into the top 200 for a CH 183 in September and reaching his first Challenger final since becoming a British player and the third of his career

10. Lui Maxted - one of the standout players this year; hes another player who took 8 titles, 3 in singles. But his ranking shot up from below 1000 to just in the top 500 in singles and similarly in doubles; in fact, apart from Toby Samuel, Lui is the highest rising singles player of all of our men and women, in terms of absolute rankings - well over 600 places. And the board took to him. he was nominated 3 times for player of the month, in the top ten or so of players to get multiple nominations.

11. Jan Choinski - from WR 173 at the start of the year has risen to a CH 125 and GB #4, claiming 4 Challenger singles titles including 2 at 125 level in a few weeks in September and October. Particularly looking at second half of the year, he seems still on the up.

12. Wake Forest University Brits (Luca Pow & Charlie Robertson)
Charlie and Luca made outstanding contributions in helping Wake Forest win the NCAA championship, the ACC regular season title, the ITA national indoor championships and a record 40 team wins. Charlie went on a 2 month unbeaten run and gained a reputation of being the most clutch player by regularly winning the team point that gave Wake Forest victory. Luca went on an incredible 21 match unbeaten run in the midst of 30 wins in the Spring and backed that up in the autumn by reaching the NCAA singles QF giving a calendar year college record of 42 wins 7 losses.

13. Brooke Black - of all our womens players this year, the one who has risen the most up the rankings is Brooke. Starting at around 1275, she managed to rise over 550 places to near 700, and did more in doubles with a 700 plus position rise. And she did this on a partial schedule, she only played 28 singles and 25 doubles matches. No spectacular titles or wins, just solid, consistent progress over the season.

14. George Loffhagen - started the year WR 579 with a CH 333, by October he hsd soared up to WR 200. Won his first challenger singles title, Segovia 75, plus 4 M25 singles titles. Can go missing for a time between tournaments, and it seems at times within matches, but has reaffirmed what a talent he has with the ability to go a fair bit higher.

15. Emily Appleton - who I believe is one of our most hard working players, competing virtually every week in both singles and doubles. This year she achieved new career highs of 347 in singles and 77 in doubles, ending the year at 376 and 87 respectively. In doubles she won a 75K level tournament and made the final of a WTA125.

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Thanks SuperT! Just tidied it up at the start of the narrative!

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Per the Demember PoM thread, Indy is of course right that maybe I push this too much. So, with 10 days or so left, I will leave it to see how it develops now. The nominations close midnight on 17th December, I will still be around but will let the nominations proceed as they will and plan to rejoin the discussion just before the close date.

For what it is worth, I had intended to nominate Cam, Joe/Neal, Jack PJ and Greg Slade still - I will let it be where it is and anyone else can pick it up if they feel appropriate.

Dont worry, I wont run or leave the board. Im not going to be silly, probably just cool down a bit, and things will proceed as planned. Indy is right that some room and space to breathe for the rest of the board might be useful so I will stand aside quietly now for a week or so and let it go as it will.

Catch up soon.

-- Edited by JonH comes home on Sunday 7th of December 2025 08:00:13 AM

indiana · Tennis legend

JonH comes home wrote:
Per the Demember PoM thread, Indy is of course right that maybe I push this too much. So, with 10 days or so left, I will leave it to see how it develops now. The nominations close midnight on 17th December, I will still be around but will let the nominations proceed as they will and plan to rejoin the discussion just before the close date.

For what it is worth, I had intended to nominate Cam, Joe/Neal, Jack PJ and Greg Slade still - I will let it be where it is and anyone else can pick it up if they feel appropriate.

Dont worry that I will run and hide, and things will proceed as planned. Indy is right that some room and space to breathe for the rest of the board might be useful so I will stand aside quietly now for a week or so and let it go as it will.

Catch up soon.

Yes, I was probably not alone in sussing that Cam and Joe/Neal were the two that we were supposedly being particularly naughty in not nominating.

For info, although I personally have others I have in mind to nominate ( I've been spreading them out over different days ) I had considered these two and wasn't going to nominate either so still won't but maybe someone else will. Jack PJ I do have in mind, though not Greg.

Anyway, let's keep building the list, and if any of these remain unnominated by anyone else, then clearly just go for it, Jon, whenever before the nominations close date.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Thanks Indy. I hope the list does grow and will enjoy watching it do so.