| The Players |
New write-ups by Josh and Midge - complaints go to Midge if you dare!
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Terry Matthews (#13) After dragging us from the bottom of the Excalibur league to last year's championship success, Terry has abandoned coaching us for the bright new horizons of the Welsh squad. He's also hoping to provide us with some stern opposition by coaching the Uni side. Terry is much younger than his looks and authority would have you believe, and cries of "My God, I'm older than Terry" often ring out around the korfball pitches of Britain. |
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Dave Thomas (#17) Our former glorious leader. With the loss of this position to tyrannise us, Dave has to be content with striking fear into our hearts by moaning whenever we fail to anticipate that he's going to sprint 15 metres and hurl himself headlong over the sideline to tip a ball back. Has yet to realise that not being able to stand back and watch this would deprive us of one of Cardiff's most entertaining spectacles. Voted best player in the league last year, due to the shedload of goals he scored. More familiar with the astronomical number of misses that accompanied them, he wasn't even runner-up in the club awards. |
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Josh Cockburn (#11) As the only person in Cardiff who knows the EKL rules, we've put Josh in charge of the eternal chaos that is organising the two Dragons teams. The star performer in the title-winning city seconds last year, we are looking forward to similar success from him in Dragons colours this time round. |
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Kat "Midge" Crimmins (#10) After a season where some in the league had suggested that Cardiff were a little over competitive and physical, we decided to remedy the situation, we made Midge President. With her in charge, no-one will ever make those accusations again. Not if they value their health anyway. While it's unlikely that the rest of the club will ever approach Midge's level of fitness, her resignation as Social Sec might at least mean a cut-back in the club's drunkenness. |
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Aidan Dickson (#37) Nicknamed "Unlucky Aidan" for all the times that call has followed another shot bouncing off the rim, and now comedy player for the second year running. Immensely popular in the club for always being cheerful and most importantly hosting the annual cocktail party (as well as most other post-club drinking marathons). |
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Rachel Knight (#15) Formerly joint Social Sec, now has the most powerful position at Cardiff City on her own. It's enough to make grown men quail. At least we should get most of the summer to prepare for the shock, given Rachel's well known distaste for outdoor korfball. |
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James Frost (#16) Proud owner of the most stylish car in the City car park, which is no mean feat, James is just as stylish on court. No, let's be truthful, he's not. Instead he plays much like a whirling dervish, with elbows and legs flying everywhere. Despite this he has an excellent long shot and a pretty good running in shot. Is also probably the worst ever 6'3" korfball player in collect. Apart from Terry. |
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Rob Davies (#69) Tried leaving us behind to go to London, but was unable to tear himself away. Rob is one of Cardiff's most determined socialisers, whether on the ski slope or at the pub quiz. On court? He'll be hoping this winter sees him finding the back of the korf as regularly as he did over the summer |
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Sian Hunt (#21) No longer on the committee, but showing a notable reluctance to give up the ability to sign the club chequebook. Also in the process of moving house. These events may be linked. Possibly the best defensive player at the club, and one of the friendliest too, so news that she's not running off to London to make her fortune has been well received. |
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Susan Belfourd (#28) Susan has played for GB students, started reffing at the age of 14, is one of our coaches, has been best female player since the club started, goes out with the best male player and lives with another first team boy. And she's only 23!!! |
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Gwen Jones (#27) One of our most fiercely competitive players, Gwenno picks up a huge amount of loose possession, and is pretty handy in the feed. If only she could score a few more goals, she might be convinced that the she can actually play this game. |
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Holly Sisley (#12) Showing our tendency to pick on the weak and vulnerable, Holly was still recovering from her ankle injury when we tried to bully her into taking up a committee post. Shrewdly however she only said she'd take on a vice-President role that apparently has no responsibilities at all. Has recently taken to cycling to training, but not being armed with the 43 maps that she has in her car has a tendency to get lost on the way, made more serious by the fact that Sukh and Gwen are foolish enough to follow her. |
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Harry Smyth (#47) Our Northern Irish-turned-Welsh-via-Scotland-and-Holland star is our most technically proficient player, as well as playing at least 6 other sports. Will probably be in charge of our first team next year, assuming that he can get away from work early enough. |
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Jack McNamara (#85) Currently on loan to the university, where he has quickly risen to be their first team captain, and topped their scoring charts last year. Will hopefully have abandoned his reputed practice of stripping to his underwear at every opportunity when he rejoins us. |
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Ian O'Sullivan (#81) Our new treasurer, who has taken the opportunity to get out of warm-ups. Rapidly improving player, particularly defensively, as long as his late night drinking and poker habits don't destroy his fitness too young. |
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Ceri Jones (#56) Newly qualified to join the evergrowing Cardiff medical contingent. Voted best male player in the club last season, but this was probably just to stop him feeling overshadowed by his other half winning best female. Would be even better if he didn't have the long shooting ability of a small girl. |
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Lee O'Sullivan Club pin-up last year, Lee is currently helping to maintain his looks as our unofficial fitness coach. And in a few years he may even be qualified to do so. Also crucial to the success of the City Pub Quiz team due to his incredible memory for everything he has ever heard. Just don't get him started on quoting sitcoms. |
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Pamela Moffat In the most hilarious electoral injustice since the Athenians decided the public could be trusted with voting, Pam is currently the club's lightweight of the year. Given that government statistics show that she was personally responsible for 17% of alcohol consumption in South Wales over the last year, this seems hard to believe. On court she's now a very dangerous player, particularly in collect where she is one of the few exceptions to the club theory that Welsh girls can't jump. Probably being Scottish has something to do with this. |
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Kat Smith The club's deadliest finisher from 5 metres out. Hopefully will soon master some more forms of scoring so that we can enjoy more of her hugely entertaining goal celebrations. |
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Zoe Gabica Zoe (from Newpurrt) is one of the fittest girls in the club, she plays numerous sports and can probably kick everyone else's butts with her karate chops. Was best newcomer so has a lot to live up to, but her competitveness will ensure she does. |
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Kate Saunders We have vague suspicions that Kate might just prefer socialising to korfball, but as yet haven't managed to gain any concrete evidence to prove that - apart from the fact that she's hardly played a game in years. Is currently doing a PhD, the fool. |
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Sharon Quick Quick by name and by nature! Thankfully a little calmer than when in her Uni days, Sharon still fizzes around the court with infectious bubbly enthusiasm. We havent managed to get Sharon the court time that she deserves cos she does something silly like wortk at weekends! |
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Matt Hurford Is now turning up at Cardiff City training having previously played for our two fiercest rivals, so will clearly be regarded with suspicion as a potential fifth columnist. Jus' joking Matt. Welcome aboard!!! |
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Kristina Van Eker Kristina has taken over the title of best legs in the club since dear Elaine departed. She also has a mean running in shot, the loudest voice in the club and drinks like a fish...she fits in very well. |
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Angharad Morgan Having been dragged along to training by Helen and Chris, Anghared clearly decided that the only way to get out of the situation was to hurl herself off her bike and plead injury. Clearly she's unaware of how reluctant we are to let people get away, particularly tall girls with the ability to throw the ball further than 10 metres. |
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Chris Gubby Claims to have played basketball in the past, though we're very sceptical of this unlikely story. |
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Helen Gubby So far seems to be a fair-weather korfer, who only turns up in the summer. But hopefully we'll be able to persuade her to stay longer this year, as part of our great long term plan of recruiting as many school teachers as possible to help us take over the worl- ... er ... encourage more people to play our fine sport. |
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Ramzi Barbir Fed up with all the goals he kept scoring against us while playing for Cardiff Uni, we've poached him for this season, a move which should greatly increase the numbers of collects and interceptions won by us. |
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Kenny Harrison Kenny has recently moved over from Kent, and for that CCKC has high hopes. Only been coming for three weeks yet has already signed up for the clubs ski trip! Immersion into the cult has already begun! |
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Amy Willis Amy is the netball development officer for Cardiff so already has the ball handling / interception skills required. We will be very nice to Amy as she will hopefully bring some more netball girls along with her (hear, hear, says the boys) |
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Sandy Booth Formerly korfed at Manchester Uni, now playing again after a sabbatical in S.E. Asia. Generally it's difficult to find material for newer players, but after playing "I have never" during the Exeter tournament social, that's not a problem with Sandy. Obviously all admissions made during drinking games are sacrosanct, but suffice to say, she's going to fit in well. |
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Elen Williams Appears to have been recruited by Midge purely to ensure that at least one girl on the team was older than her (they are 24 and 25 respectively), but Elen already seems firmly part of the club. Her look of complete astonishment after scoring in her first ever league match may suggest that she hasn't realised as quickly as the rest of us that she could be pretty good at this game. |
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Joey Niblett Newly arrived as part of last summers recruitment drive from Cardiff Uni, Joey's already looking like a good addition to the Dragons squad. Apparently drives terrifyingly fast. May have thought that this would be his first profile ever not to mention his korfball habit of running around randomly very fast. Sadly, it's not going to be. |
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Donna Waitt And people accuse Josh of being reluctant to abandon his student life... Donna spends so much time with the Cardiff Uni side that she may soon occupy a special committee position as official student liaison officer. Has quickly established herself in the Dragons first team with her excellent defensive work, even if she does seem to use matches primarily as a way of avoiding her boyfriends' family. |
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Max Lloyd Has had a rather startling ascent through the club, from playing for the first time after the summer break, to scoring 4 goals in his debut, guesting for Dragons 2, to playing for City firsts in a victory over a National League side. Has also thrown himself readily into the social side of the club. Works as a wine salesman, so is probably on an undercover mission to win the lucrative position of supplying our booze. |
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Remco Broekhuis Yet another new recruit trying to impress us with bogus credentials. Made up some nonsense about being Dutch, 6'6" tall and having played korfball for longer than some of us have been alive. He's rubbish. |
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Jude Knight Not content with cheering us on and providing half time oranges, Jude has decided to pull on the famous Cardiff shirt and try her luck on the other side of the touchline. Will fame beckon, will she outshine her illustrious D-List celeb sister? Only time will tell |
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Celia Birkenshaw Known previously only for her appearances at socials, Celia is another member encouraged by the massive expansion of Cardiff Ckorfball this year to try her hand. Whether the advantage of being Harry's better half will catapult her to stardom this season remains to be seen, |
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