Cardiff Dragons Korfball Club

A list of basically all the summer tournaments we could go to this summer. Ones in bold are ones we’ll definitely be going to. To be amended over the next few months.

4th May - Stingers (Norwich)

17th May - Manchester

24-25 May - Littleport (Cambridgeshire)

31st May - St Andrews Beach tournament (nr Edinburgh)

31st May - Castle (Staffordshire)

31st May - Gloucester (provisionally)

1 June - Nomads

7th June - Bristol City

7/8 June - Stockholm

5 July - Noordwijk beach tournament (Netherlands)

12 July - Milton Keynes

1-3 August - Maglaj, Bosnia

Final place 6th (out of 16), goals, Jack 3, Joey 3, Josh 2, ringers 4.

report written, will type it up some point soon.

Photos below. There’s also video action from the final plus a slideshow of photos from the day made by Ramzi from Cardiff City here.

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As is traditional, the Bristol tournament was played under hot sunshine, and Dragons were optimistic of retaining the title they won last summer (well, a team wearing Dragons tops won last summer, though lots of the players were from City!) with a squad of: Rachel, Helen, Ang, Ruth, hey boyfriend Stu - who plays National League for Bec, Gareth, Chris, Josh and Taff.

The first game was against Cardiff City, who had brought a large squad, primarily consisting of second team players. Games against them are always competitive though, and Dragons had to work for a 3-0 victory.

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The first summer tournament of the year was accompanied by its usual corollary, the unholy early morning departure. The Dragons squad was led by Sian, the only first team regular, plus Julie, Amy, James and Josh from the seconds. We were supplemented by Ruth, making her Dragons debut plus guests: Jack from Cardiff Uni, Stuart from Bristol City, Kevin from Bristol Uni and Hannah from Horfield, We are equal opportunity ringer employers!

As forecast, the weather in Manchester was glorious, with just enough breeze to prevent us from completely overheating. The pitch was OK, though we soon learnt that the grass was too long to effectively use bounce passes. With 24 teams competing, the group games were only 15 minutes long, meaning that tense, low-scoring games were frequent. (more…)

In their debut tournament following official ratification by the International Korfball Federation of their independent status, Wales went to Luxembourg and won the Eurobowl, finishing ahead of France, Ireland, Scotland, the host nation and Sweden.

The Welsh team featured Lee and Angharad from Cardiff Dragons as well as 5 other players from Welsh clubs, along with a sprinkling of National League players. Congratulations to all concerned on a great achievement.

The IKF report (along with a photo of the winning team) can be found here.

Cardiff’s first ever attempt to host a tournament proved very enjoyable and seems set to be a regular event. It was won by “Is it ‘cos i’m a Londoner”. S4C came along to film it too, which might wash away the horrible memory of when they filmed Cardiff Uni on an icy car park in Caernafon.

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Here’s Josh’s report of our storming display at Bristol’s annual sunshine fest. A combination effort saw Kristina, Matt, Aidan, Taff and Zoe from city to boost the Dragons ranks of Amy, Ang, Josh, Helen and Kat. The mix ‘n’ match approach clearly favours Cardiff players as we confidently dispatched our local and not so local rivals to claim our first tournament win of the season.

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Cardiff’s first ever trip to Scandinavia. Read the report here, now with a few added vaguely amusing photos. (more…)

5-14 Josh (2), Chris (1), Pam (1), Sian (1), Amy, Donna, Helen, Ian, James, Kat, Remco

Having drawn against Milton Keynes, the Dragons then got to sit down and watch as they played the 3rd team in the triangular knock-out, Bec, before we got to play the Londoners.

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