I've read plenty about engaging the whole group not just your target however I haven't found anything about what to do if they are temporally separated from their group.

On what was was pretty much my first sarge since reading PUA stuff I lucked into seeing a girl alone at the bar, she was on her phone and I started talking to her as soon as she had finished talking.

Throughout the early part of the conversation she kept looking over to her friends who were subtly calling her over, she nearly walked off after about five minutes but I said something like "you're not going to listen to them are you, they're just jealous" and she stayed for a further ten minutes before eventually going back to them.

I wasn't to bothered about it as I was only in town for one night and she had to go home that night due to a situation with her mum (what the phone conversation was about) so we did the whole nice to meet you thing and parted ways.

When I left at closing time she was outside smoking, we talked for about 2 minutes and I decided to try and number close for confidence despite the pointlessness of it, we had out phones out when her two female friends came out and literally dragged her away.

What should I do in those situations?
Having her isolated only to invite myself back to her hostile table seems like a backwards step but I suppose that's what I should do.

(Inviting her into the all male group only in town for football and that night out didn't seem like a good idea either).

Sounds like you had a tough situation there.. Perhaps you could have engaged the cock blocks more in some way... Made them like you more before you seperated your target from the group. A wingman would also have been gold at that point.. he could have entertained them while their friend was away, cutting you some slack. But then again, some people are just in such a bad mood that you just can't break through to them, no matter how witty and charming you are... I wasn't there, so I don't know

I'm practicing dealing with groups myself... There's a lot of things I can get better at, but putting myself in the center of attention of an entire group without getting nervous or losing my pace is one of my sticking points... I'm a pretty shy guy somewhere at heart

shoulda told them what you told her, something along the lines of "Shoo, your just jealous, i bet everytime you go out you two get all the attention, and just drag her around... blah blah blah."

I was more than a bit tired last night, it seems.. hehe, didn't read your post properly before answering :p But anyways.. going into her group is EXACTLY what you should have done. If you want to attract, getting the target's friends to like you is often a must with hotter babes.. and even when it isn't, every friend not liking you is a potential cock block.

Going from isolation to a group situation can of course be a bad thing.. but what you failed to realize was that you didn't really HAVE an isolation there. The group kept trying to pull her back. A good isolation is when you first get the group to like you, and THEN isolate the target more or less with everyones APPROVAL. You treated a 3-set like a 1-set.. and if you keep on reading PUA material you'll quickly realize why that doesn't work very well.

Anyways, for a first PUA-sarge I say you did pretty good. just keep on practicing and you'll get better in no time