Liverpool University Canoe Club

A BIG thank you to Sophie for organising another awesome night.  I think I am now entirely disturbed by the eagerness shown by certain people on stage….you know who you are!  A couple of extra special mentions.  Firstly to Sam for coming for a night out before going back to the library - pure commitment, hope you exam went well!  Mr I hadnt realised about white t-shirts Raho…hmm.  And personally to our resident ginger cake making supremo - thank you so much!  I may be old, but now I’m old with chocolatey goodness.  Hope everyone has a good time in St David’s and bring on the Alps!!

On the weekend of the 13th/14th June local club FOA are organising the annual Merseyside open canoe polo tournament at the docks. Club and university teams from all over the country come to Liverpool to take part so I think it would be great if we could put in a Liverpool uni team. We’d need at leat 6 or 7 which can be a mix of boys and girls. The tournament is suitable for all levels so all are welcome. Free camping is offered at Liverpool college for the weekend which might seem a bit daft if you’ve already got a house in Liverpool but would make it more of a social gathering if people wanted to camp! Anyone who is interested let me know.  emilymartin89@hotmail.com 

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7.30pm Guild (Harold Wilson rm) - speaker is Nicky Pearce, white water expeditioner, who will tell us about her adventures in Madagascar - photos of white water and lemurs - toptastic!

If you are free beforehand, we’ll be eating at Kimos (Mt Pleasant) at 6pm ish, and in the saro wiwa bar of the guild from about 7.

See you there, and bring your friends.

Tickets on the door £4.

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Arriving at the campsite Friday night we headed straight over to Jim bobs parents house for the 2nd annual BBQ, fuelling ourselves ready for the battle of Britain!

Golden Guns

Saturday morning there was no time to waste, games started at 7.30, and looking on the Brightside, our first game wasn’t till 7.45! Of course, in true Liverpool style we were late onto the pitch and started our first game with just 3 players. Seconds later the referee was raising the red card to us. Why? We had 6 players on the pitch and had to play a man down for the rest of the game! Maybe with some ‘training’ we could learn to count? It was a real nail biter… we only won by a small margin of 6-0! Round 2, we won 7-0, round three 5-0 and at 7.30 in the evening we were facing head to head with Southampton, and we won 6-0!

Without a goal conceded all day we had reason to party!! The 400 people camping turned from smelly students into the ‘jungle’ and dressed as tigers, lions, frogs and panda bears etc Liverpool raved it up in Doncaster!

Jungle

Sunday morning arrived and our first match was against Loughborough at 11am. Tired and unorganised we filtered onto the pitch where we realised we were going to have to get our asses into gear. They put up a fight with their strong defence, I think Yarwood (our goalie) might have even had to try and save a goal! We didn’t play well, it was all a bit messy and we came away 2-1 up. Undefeated so far, we were into the semi finals against Birmingham. They’re team cheered louder, but what it really came down to is… we had BIGGER GUNS!! The organisers asked for a gender test (i kid you not) as we just pounded in goal after goal. We won against B’ham 5-1 and they came out good, finishing 3rd overall.

'training'

By this point we were warmed up and ready to go, our guns were pumped and our awesome bank support… Jimbob, Ginge and Squirel were positively excited as we prepared for the final against ULU! Having lost my voice cheering ‘We love you U L U we doooo…’ in the Final at Cardiff for this team we knew they had a clue. It was all the idea, and all the gear vs the GUN SHOW!

The old boys final finished at a draw and the game stretched out through extra time, but we weren’t having any of this in our final, we were dressed in war paint and wanted nothing less than 8-0 (the 9^th would be a slam dunk!) The whistle blew and the fight began. ULU played a tight game with safe passes and strong team work. At half time we were 2-0 up, but we all knew it wasn’t over till the whistle blew. Our attackers took out their defence; our defenders caused havoc and Yarowood’s guns tore free smashing in the last 2 goals for Liverpool University! We won, British Gold medallists of 2009!!

WE WON

It was an ace weekend, sunshine, hot guys and hardcore polo… Bring on 2010! the year of white lycra, size SMALL!

Chaos

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