Cardiff Dragons Korfball Club

31-1 Remco Broekhuis (8), Chris Gubby (6), Angharad Morgan (5), Lee O’Sullivan (3), Joey Niblett (3), Amy Shillabeer (2), Josh Cockburn (2), Rachel Knight (1), Sian Hunt (1)

After two successive defeats, a game against a Horfield side missing several key players looked promising for getting back to winning ways, but the performance was better than could have been expected, with the shooting that had misfired so badly against Exeter being particularly good. (more…)

16-3 Rachel Knight (4), Gareth Thomas (3), Sian Hunt (3), Josh Cockburn (2), Caroline Lowdon (1), Gwen Jones (1), Magnus Dons (1), Steve Fung (1), Alex Thomas, Pete Obee.

A fine performance from Dragons seconds, who managed to regain some of the fluency they’d shown earlier in the season.

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The calendar has been updated to include the weekends of the three playoff games in our league. The fixtures themselves can’t be finalised until it’s known who the top 4 sides will be - only Bristol City are guaranteed qualifiers for the first division and only us and Bristol Uni in the second division. But if you can keep those weekends free that’d be super!

Also, I’ve added a list of tournaments that we might want to enter. For the British ones there’s no hurry about deciding, but if we want to go abroad for a tournament this summer (like we did to Stockholm last year) we should choose early to allow cheap flights and accomodation. It’s not an exhaustive list and any suggestions are welcome.

12-14 Chris Gubby (5), Remco Broekhuis (2), Sian Hunt (2), Angharad Morgan (1), Josh Cockburn (1), Rachel Knight (1), Helen Gubby, Joey Niblett, Lee O’Sullivan

This season is beginning to show some strange parallels with the previous one. Again Dragons started well with good results against fancied teams Bristol City and Cardiff City, again they’ve had a mid-season slump dropping points at home to Bristol Uni and away to Exeter. We can only hope that the similarities continue with a run of victories from now on to retain the title. (more…)

13-5 Joey Niblett (4), Josh Cockburn (4), Chris Gubby (2), Rachel Knight (2), Caroline Lowdon (1), Amy Shillabeer, Gareth Thomas, Gwen Jones, Sian Hunt

After three successive losses (albeit that one was a friendly and one we won on forfeit) the Dragons second team were keen to get back to winning ways. A couple of late withdrawals combined with the long trek to Devon and the hectic social life of our players meant that they would have to do so with just 7 players though - Josh handed the short straw of having to take on two Exeter boys on his own. (more…)

On Thursday 28th of December, while the rest of us were trying to recover from our christmas gluttony, the International Korfball Federation formally admitted the Welsh Korfball Association, which became the 50th country to be affiliated. As well as being a clear indication of the progress made by korfball in Wales over the last few years, this also has a couple of practical benefits for Cardiff Dragons.  (more…)