Dundee Day 2017

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.

group photo

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

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

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

And finally, a word (or rather picture) of thanks to the local companies that sponsored our charity raffle:


Jollys

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