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Welcome to the new season, and welcome to the league's new website built to be read on a phone at the club as easily as on a desk at home.

Most of it is open to everyone, with no account needed. Matches carries the full programme for each division, as both a grid of fixtures and a month-by-month calendar, with every venue linked to a map. Tables has the standings, individual player records, and the season's highest breaks. Players lists the registered squads and their handicaps, Clubs has an address and telephone number for every venue, and Competitions follows the knockouts through to their finals. The Roll of Honour keeps last season's winners alongside the historical record, and the league's standing Rules and Committee contacts are always a click away.

Registering an account is new this season. Captains will need one, since results are now entered here, and the captain's portal gathers a team's upcoming matches, squad contact details, and any overdue scorecards in one place. Every player is encouraged to register too: pick your team and your name from the squad, and once an administrator confirms the link, your profile tracks your own appearances, wins, win percentage, and breaks alongside your team's position, recent results, and upcoming fixtures — your season in one place. Help explains all of it, page by page.

Twenty-eight players battled it out for the 2025-26 Ted Poole Memorial Trophy at Maxi Lounge, the first time in many years the competition has fielded that many. They were drawn into seven groups of four: each group winner went through to the quarter-finals, and the best second place overall gave us the eighth player.

The quarters were contested by Mike Burnell against Paul Honess, Shane Smart against Martyn Weeks, Steve King against Javaid Azad, and Vernon Kemp against Chris Clark. Javaid and Chris met in one semi-final, Mike and Martyn in the other. Chris Clark, who had been the best second place overall, made it through to the final, where Mike Burnell beat him to take the title. Congratulations to Mike, and commiserations to Chris.

A field that size was only possible because Matt Lancaster gave the league exclusive use of both snooker rooms — nine tables — for the whole afternoon. A massive thank you goes to Matt and his team at Maxi Lounge, and in particular to Melanie, who made sure every table and set of balls was ready for us, and to Aidan Murphy, who took up the reins later in the afternoon. Well done everyone, it was good fun. Here's to 2027.