First the bad luck: Carlsbad had 91 serves and only served 6 out but Dallas had 82 serves with 18 out. Their servers were 11,12,14,14,15,and 17 and yours 12, 13, 14, 14, 15, and 15. Hardly any difference in skills. This is simply bad luck.

One thing you could have done that might have helped is have your libero serve for the other middle blocker.  Both serve at 15 so that doesn't matter who he replaces but when the non-substituted middle is sewrving he is at the back court waiyng to try and dig the return attack. Murphy defends at 8 and Turner at 11.

Also as it was when the libero was serving Murphy was at the net for blocking ay bLK 14. if it was the other way then when the libero served it would have been Turner at the net with BLK 17.

Steve has likely already answered all your questions CB.  However, for anything remaining, this hand crafted video should take care of it.  I want to stress that in no way am I condoning you should spend 100 pounds to get a professional photo taken...

https://youtu.be/VjwteDsvAXc

Sorry about spelling mistakes - was in a rush with no autocorrect on the computer.

And talking of photos - no wonder we do so well with that cute photo of my son. Must be worth 10 points.

PHOTO-GATE!!!!

So I lost the third set because of the photo (I need not mention my eyes....or does me saying I need not mention my eyes mean I've mentioned them? I think it does).

The bottom line then is Hat Man's team was better than mine and we need to improve, especially, blocking and serving but the line up was ok, I just need to increase the numbers...

Also thanks for the heads up about the Libero replacing the other MB Steve...I must admit I just picked one at random lol as I just looked at the serve rating and as they were the same that's where my knowledge ended :)

Oh yes and thanks for the video Al.....a bit disappointed it wasn't 18 minutes long but nearly 7 will do ;)