WEIGHING up one performance against another when they arrive in sports so obviously different is never easy.

But as good as Ryan-Zico Black’s performance for Guernsey FC in that 11-goal thriller most certainly was, and the performances of Tim Ravenscroft and Jamie Nussbaumer in the island T20 cricket team’s surge to the top of the group A table in the European Division One T20 championships, I cannot rate them above the silver medal of Tom Druce over 400m at the England Championships and that level-par round by Danny Bisson in horrendous conditions in the second round of the L’Ancresse Golf Club championship.

Both were superb achievements that should not be under-estimated.

Sure, 70 will be beaten many a time by golfers this summer, but not when the wind is blowing the ‘hoolie’ it was last Saturday morning, with rain teeming down at the same time. His back nine 31 was quite incredible.

Bisson and Druce have always had two things in common: talent, quite obviously; and self-confidence. They both talk a good game.

Druce’s record over a succession of Island Games – three times 800m champion and now double 400m gold medallist – will ensure him a place among the all-time Guernsey greats if he falls over tomorrow, breaks a leg and is never able to run again.

After finishing second at the England Championships Druce has made it known he is setting his sights on next year’s Olympics and a place in the 4x400m relay squad.

Is it feasible?

As of yesterday, he stood 14th on the national ranking list and the national selectors will, I suspect, announce a six-man relay squad.

But, and it is a big but, that six could also include a 400m hurdler in the likes of potential 2012 Olympic champion, Dai Greene from Swansea.

Druce faces a tall order to get where he wants, but just to be on the fringes is no mean effort from a man who is benefiting from new coaching and a change of scenery, away from Bath University. Good luck to him.

If he stays fit I suspect it will be a formality he will beat Dale Garland’s island 400m record before the end of the season, but in truth he will probably have to run close to two seconds quicker than his Island Games gold medal run to be in serious contention for the Olympics.

As for Bisson, he is now more consistently backing up his talk with quality performances.

There was a time he would have fallen to pieces or given up had he opened a round with a triple bogey seven as he did last Saturday.

But more and more he is digging in and, with maturity, is becoming a more complete and reliable golfer.

A pat on the back, too, for racing driver Darren Warwick who, for a few minutes last Saturday, seemed to be on the verge of a remarkable national hill climb win.

As always, the national provided some spectacular entertainment, even if the times were slowed by the wet conditions.

SPARE a thought for Garry Cortez, who on behalf of football’s new League Management Committee, is charged with putting together a fixtures list which suits the needs of clubs being run more and more as businesses with an increasing eye on the balance sheets bolstered by Saturday bar takings, the schools, neutral fans who want to see as much action as possible, and top players.

The first draft of the season fixture list should be ready by the middle of next week and as Cortez awaits confirmation of the full GFC schedule, which is a new consideration this season, he is also trying to come to terms with an expansion of the CI Schools League programme, from 12 games to 15.

While the withdrawal of Jersey’s Highlands College has left the highly-competitive under-18 competition with six teams (three from each island), the schools’ association has opted to play each other three times this year as opposed to just home and away, and all in the space of three months says Cortez.

It’s good and tough football the CI Schools League, dare I say it much of it more testing for the top players than the majority of GFA Under-18 games, so it seems absolutely crazy that its fixtures do not count as part of the FA’s restricting 40 games per season rule.

TODAY marks the three-year countdown to the start of the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.

You would like to think that given Guernsey’s brilliance in the Isle of Wight and underlining proof that we are getting a lot right in terms of development and performance, that Guernsey’s overall representation in 2014 will be significantly bigger than it was in Delhi.‘Druce faces a tall order to get where he wants, but just to be on the fringes is no mean effort’