So, another year came, and another year went. And everyone’s still smiling; even Joel, who’s knee put itself forward to win the ‘worst injury of the day’ award.
Fourteen teams turned out for Dundee Day, v6.0, including the newest, youngest team in Scotland (Dundee’s Yunguns), and an enthusiastic scratch team cobbled together at the last minute. Many thanks to all the spare players from Lancaster, Glasgow and Dundee for pulling that off.
The weather finally got its act together too, with nothing more than a couple of light showers left after the previous day’s total washout. Weirdly, some of us even managed to get a little dose of sunburn; I’m not sure that I actually noticed the sun, but it must have poked its head out for at least part of the day.
And the korfball? Well, that all seemed to go just fine. Mavs A came out clear winners for the third year in a row, with strong performances from Mavs 1, Lancaster’s Alumni (SAS Ligership), Manchester Hawks and St. Andrew’s Sinners. Dundee’s Dragons put in a few good performances too, comfortably finishing top of the 4 local teams. At the other end of the table, Dundee’s Dugongs narrowly improved on their stunning performances in previous years by actually winning some matches, just edging out the Yunguns on head-to-head results. Dundee Dolphins came out on top of some very close mid-table battles with Saints, Saints Alumni, Lancs Uni and GlasClyde (a jovial mixed-up bunch from Glasgow and StrathClyde University).
More wonderful photos here (thanks Mary!)
Several people got their first tastes of refereeing, and did a great job too from what I saw. Many thanks to the more experienced refs for shadowing the newbies too – this is a great thing to see and much appreciated by those of us with one eye on development.
Biggest winners of the day?: Macmillan and Orchid, the two nominated charities from our raffle and lunch-time competitions.
Worst injury of the day : undoubtedly Joel, from Lanc’s Alumni.
Best medic: diplomatically shared between Rod F. and Paul S.
Best burgers: the Fleming family
Best cake: impossible to tell, so diplomatically shared between Terri, Anna, Kat, Caroline, Lesley, Fi, Steph and the McHugh family.
Best tent-building: shared between umpteen members of the club
Best pitch taping: Eleanor, without a doubt.
Best handwriting: Adam (well done Steph, he’s a keeper).
Best long-shot (M/F/junior): Andy Cowton, Rosie Lloyd and Kate Austin.
Killer queen: Ben Fleming.
Longest journey: Questionable, but probably Mike Holdcroft from Newcastle-under-Lyme (Mike seems to have spent many hours criss-crossing the UK in search of Dundee this year. Hopefully someone can sort him out with a nice sat nav next time anyone lets him out).
Pool A Results
Pool A |
Pitch 1 |
Pitch 2 |
Home |
Away |
Score |
Home |
Away |
Score |
Dragons |
Mavs 1 |
1 – 3 |
Saints |
SAS Ligership |
2 – 5 |
Dolphins |
Lancs Uni |
3 – 2 |
Scratch |
Dragons |
0 – 5 |
Mavs 1 |
Saints |
3 – 2 |
SAS Ligership |
Dolphins |
1 – 2 |
Lancs Uni |
Scratch |
5 – 0 |
Dragons |
Saints |
4 – 1 |
SAS Ligership |
Mavs 1 |
4 – 2 |
Dolphins |
Scratch |
5 – 0 |
Saints |
Lancs Uni |
1 – 2 |
SAS Ligership |
Dragons |
2 – 0 |
Mavs 1 |
Dolphins |
6 – 3 |
Scratch |
Saints |
0 – 5 |
Scratch |
SAS Ligership |
0 – 5 |
Dragons |
Lancs Uni |
2 – 1 |
Lancs Uni |
Mavs 1 |
0 – 4 |
Saints |
Dolphins |
3 – 1 |
Dolphins |
Dragons |
3 – 6 |
Mavs 1 |
Scratch |
5 – 0 |
Lancs Uni |
SAS Ligership |
0 – 3 |
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Pool B Results
Pool B |
Pitch 3 |
Pitch 4 |
Home |
Away |
Score |
Home |
Away |
Score |
Saints Alumni |
Hawks |
1 – 1 |
GlasClyde |
Dugongs |
4 – 1 |
Sinners |
Mavs A |
0 – 6 |
Yunguns |
Saints Alumni |
1 – 1 |
Hawks |
GlasClyde |
2 – 3 |
Dugongs |
Sinners |
0 – 3 |
Mavs A |
Yunguns |
4 – 1 |
Saints Alumni |
GlasClyde |
4 – 1 |
Dugongs |
Hawks |
1 – 5 |
Sinners |
Yunguns |
3 – 2 |
GlasClyde |
Mavs A |
1 – 5 |
Dugongs |
Saints Alumni |
0 – 1 |
Hawks |
Sinners |
5 – 0 |
Yunguns |
GlasClyde |
2 – 2 |
Yunguns |
Dugongs |
2 – 3 |
Saints Alumni |
Mavs A |
0 – 2 |
Mavs A |
Hawks |
6 – 2 |
GlasClyde |
Sinners |
1 – 2 |
Sinners |
Saints Alumni |
2 – 1 |
Hawks |
Yunguns |
3 – 0 |
Mavs A |
Dugongs |
6 – 2 |
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Final Placing Results
Final placings |
|
1st |
Mavs A |
8 – 1 |
2nd |
Strong & Stable Ligership |
|
3rd |
Mavs 1 |
16 – 3 |
4th |
Sinners |
|
5th |
Manchester Hawks |
4 – 4
(2 – 1 on pens) |
6th |
Dundee Dragons |
|
7th |
Dundee Dolphins |
3 – 2 |
8th |
Saints Alumni |
|
9th |
GlasClyde |
3 – 0 |
10th |
Saints |
|
11th |
Lancaster University |
4 – 3 |
12th |
Dundee Dugongs |
|
13th |
Dundee Yunguns |
6 – 4 |
14th |
Scratch |
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And finally, a word (or rather picture) of thanks to the local companies that sponsored our charity raffle:
Jollys