Sentence examples for pool round from inspiring English sources

In short, this has been a trend in the sport since a preliminary pool round was introduced.

The larky 12-year-olds playing pool round a table seem to take up half the space.

"I don't understand why there is a group situation [rather than a straight knockout competition]." BWF officials introduced a preliminary pool round for London 2012, against the customary knockout stages from the beginning in previous Games.

Oh, heavens to Betsy, you are probably thinking, it's that Robert Redford back again, the incorrigible old goat, making another of his indecent proposals: a sackful of cash in exchange for the chance to let his expensive trousers and pants pool round his ankles while he puts you on the receiving end of a one-off rogering.

The Welsh region can now target an Amlin Challenge Cup place when they host Exeter Chiefs in the Heineken Cup's sixth pool round on Saturday, 18 January.

Following completion of the selection process, three pools were chosen and submitted for sequencing: the final pool (round 22), the previous pool (round 21) and a pool showing minimal enrichment (round 13).

Australia was dominant at the velodrome and the pool, rounding off track cycling with 12 gold medals from 14 events.

So far, we are told, some 773,302 spectators have watched the five Heineken Cup pool rounds so far.

This year, furthermore, only two of the top six Top 14 sides made the knockout stages (Montpellier competed in the Challenge Cup this year but the other five were all involved in the pool rounds).

Bath and Wasps, seemingly dead in late October having each lost both of their opening pool rounds, have genuine prospects, while Northampton, despite their injuries, are probably better than the side who got to the final four seasons ago and, suddenly, Saracens are starting to look the part.

"The pool rounds will be important for us because we'll meet them nice and early.