Update

I've had a good start to the season, 11/12 frames won. I don't believe this is indicative of a huge skill advantage on my part though, I've been out scoring my opponents by a ratio of about 3:2 which suggests that I have won more frames than I 'deserve'. Division four wise my team are sitting in fourth place, just one point behind the joint second place teams and three points behind the leaders. Hopefully we can stay in contention until the spring.

I feel that my game is going in the right direction at the moment. We had a team practise this afternoon and I made a few twenty breaks and really felt like the cue was going through straight. In fact, I believe that I've got back to the standard that I was playing a few years ago before my break from the game. Not enough skill to be considered good, but enough to enable me to usually beat casual players.

I don't intend to rest on my laurels though. I'm never going to break from the game again (barring ill health or other circumstances out of my control), and I want to put a lot of hours in to try and achieve a standard that I can be proud of. I have no grand illusions of regular century breaks or anything like that, but an occasional 50-80 break would be awesome. So to this end I'm going to continue to play as much as I can. I'm also trying very hard to observe as much as I can while I play. The more knowledge I can pick up - even from watching someone else - the further I'll be able to go in snooker. I have two big weaknesses: Technique and Position, and these are the two things I'm working on the hardest at the moment.

So my return to the snooker league has gone well so far, and I hope my improvement continues. I'll blog again nearer to Christmas