Okay, first of all - I've learnt there are next to NO targets in a pub. Especially on quiz night .
However, there was one.

I arranged to meet my friends @ 8:30pm, we sit down, around 9PM, HB8 walks in with her HB6 friend. I overhear them saying "I've never been here before either".
They go and sit in the opposite side of the pub.
I got my wing and a friend to sit on the 2-seater table a few yards away, and use them as my social proof.

I see the HB's friend go to the toilet/to the bar. So I walk over to my wing and say "what're you having?" he replies "pint of fosters", to which I replied "well you know where the bar is then pal" - making sure the target hears. He stands up unwillingly, I take his seat and casually lean over my shoulder and say to HB8 "So, your friend has ditched you?" (credit to smartbomb) she instantly replied "no no no no no, honest, she's just gone to the toilet" so I say "yeah, right. I'll come sit with you so it looks like you've not come alone", said jokingly, but she moved up the sofa to make room for me. I sat down and say "how are you doing in the quiz? Are you smarter than you look?" (comments on the neg?) "well, I'll check your answers for you. Just to make sure", we start talking about ''the man who's handing out business cards as a funeral singer'' (personal thread). Her friend comes back and gives me the bitch look, so I say "hey, can I introduce you to Jess? She's come alone and it's her first time in here" this get's a laugh from target and a shove on the shoulder. By this time my wing had bought his drink and had sat back down, so I say "I'm going to go get a drink" - walk over and take my wing's drink, jokingly, then move to the bar, order and go and sit with my female friends.

Skipping to the end of the quiz, we get our results, and surprise surprise the set comes over to me, and the target's friend (who I've only spoke one sentence to) says "where did you come?", so I replied "just over here... Nah, we came 6th - it's your friend, she gave us all of your wrong answers!". Target sits down next to me and apologizes, lots of kino. I say "well if you want to make it up to me, you can buy me a drink", and to my surprise, she does. We carry on talking for around 5 minutes, her friend sat on my right, target on the left (making sure I give target HB8 alot of my back), but allowing her to be part of the conversation. My wing comes over, and says "we're heading out now, taxi in 5". I give it a minute then I turn to the target and say "it was cool talking to you, put your number in my phone and I'll talk to you later" she takes my phone and struggles to put the numbers in (I have a weird nokia phone), I say "No wonder you came last! It's okay because you're hot though" push/pull? She laughed, looked me in the eye and said "Don't leave it too long before you call me, alright?" shit test? I replied with "I'm kinda busy this week so I'll give you a call when I get a chance. Kiss goodbye. (pointing at cheek)" she goes to kiss both cheeks and I lean back and say "don't be greedy now" with a discerning look .


Any opinions on what went wrong, what went right? I know I used alot of canned shit, but it was my first night sarge!

Well done mate, hopefully the first of many. I liked your playful vibe next time try to incoporate this into your own natural self rather than spouting out Mystery Method-esque one-liners. Tooling your friend by taking his drink and saying things like 'What are you having?'....'Pint of Fosters'.....'Well you know where the bar is' deliberately so the girls could hear is lame. If you had done that to me I'd have told you where to go. Have respect for your wings/friends, this is much more of an attractive trait than be-littling them.

Sounds like the girl liked you so the number should be solid. Now that you've said you would call her, do just that. Sometimes guys get numbers just because they can but don't follow it up, or just see getting numbers as practice for them. Whilst learning this stuff might seem like a game at times, the people you are experimenting with are real people so treat them with the respect and dignity they deserve.

Onwards!...

Advice taken, thanks
Although that's the kind of banter we usually have regardless of sarging or not.
I'll bear that in mind though.

That's all very well, banter between friends is a good thing. Banter is about giving and taking. Just be mindful though, if you notice you are always the one to dish out but your friends don't throw it back then that's not banter. That's being a twat.

If this is you having fun with your mate and you both enjoy this banter great. Just don't say these things because you want to somehow impress the girl, i.e. putting down your mate in front of them to look alpha. Bad form in her eyes too.

I like your balls in telling her she was hot, nice and direct. As for her shit testing you? Don't even think about this as a shit test, and don't think about playing delaying tactics. Call her and sort it. The only shit test you'll fail is if you don't act on getting her number.