Poly go to Greece, July 2009

After months and months of no activity on this blog, we’re back! And back with great news…
The men’s team have organized their annual summer trip. After a successfull tour to Marbella last year with the ladies, this year we take it to Greece. And more specifically Volos, a nice little town in central Greece with a [...]

National League: Second weekend match reports

20th & 21st September, Manchester

Polytechnic – Manchester: 7 – 21
Being a game we had limited chances of winning, we decided beforehand to see it as a good chance to practice what we had been training on – and if we were close to them or winning, go for it. There were good parts in our [...]

National League: First weekend match reports

6th & 7th September, Sheffield

Cheltenham – Polytechnic: 18 – 6
First game of the season, against a team we know is fit. Their game is based on swimming and even though they lost their best player who joined Lancaster, they proved too strong for us. They played a half pool press and wrong decisions in our [...]

Poly Purples Enter The Thameside League

Poly “Purples” have entered a mens team into 1st division of the Thameside League. The fixtures have been added to the Poly calendar:
Tuesday Oct 14, 2008 at 19:45 vs Hellfins at Shell
Tuesday Oct 28, 2008 at 19:45 vs Hellfins at Shell (Knockout)
Wednesday Nov 12, 2008 at 19:00 vs Thameside vs Avondale at ULU
Monday Nov 24, [...]

Poly News

Great news for all! National league is more or less two weeks away…
And is there a better way to welcome the start of the season than a few pre-season games? The next 10 days will be quite busy for all as we have:

A friendly game against Invicta on Sunday 24/08 at the Lido, with the [...]

Poly Photos

I have created a Polytechnic Water Polo Group on Flickr. This group allows anyone to add photos and I have added a link to this Blog. There is an RSS feed you can plug into your feed reader to allow you to see any updates or additions: http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/groups_pool.gne?id=855019@N21&lang=en-us&format=rss_200
I have added Greg’s photos from the recent [...]

Best goals from the European Championsip Finals, Malaga July 2008

Some of you were there and saw a few of these goals live.
The rest of you… watch and learn. Let’s try and pick up some of these skills for our season.
Enjoy the best of Malaga 2008!

Greece is… sinking

Yet another disappointing performance from Greece…
Yes, they were playing against Hungary, a super power of international water polo. Yes, they were coming from a bad result against Australia on the opening day of Olympic water polo. But no one would expect Greece to go down like that.
Before they even realised it, they were trailing 7-2 [...]

BBC Coverage of Olympic Water Polo

The BBC are broadcasting coverage of the final stages of the mens and womens Olympic water polo competition. The schedule is here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00cpsw3/comingup

Olympic Games – Water Polo, day 1

Well ladies and gents, here are the Day 1 results in the men’s water polo event:

Group A

Spain
16 - 6
Canada

Hungary
10 - 10
Montenegro

Australia
12 - 8
Greece

Group B

Serbia
11 – 7

Germany

Croatia
11 -7
Italy

USA
8 -4
China

I can only comment on the game I watched, which obviously is the Australia – Greece match on Sunday morning. It was a quite entertaining game, even though Greece lost. Both teams started the [...]