In the shadows of Bromma Airport, nine hardy souls threw off the distractions of sailing and the sommarstuga to take on rivals Solna in the first match after summer break. With twelve on their side, Solna had the numerical advantage and were keen to bounce back from a defeat earlier to Söder earlier in the season. Continue reading
With a skeleton crew of 9 players and in 25°C heat Söder managed to beat Solna in Saturday’s game.
Final score 156-75
Match report to follow.
In the first game of the double header Bromma beat Norrtälje by 139-46
The game against Solna on Saturday is moved to 12.30 and will be played at the Bromma field.
See you all there at 11.30.
Finally someone broke the 50 cm barrier in the fishing competition. Just off ‘Pike point’ in the mighty Nissan River, Sean pulled up a 69 cm pike at 13.00 today. Around 3 kilos he says and the lure was of course the yellow and orange ‘Pike buster’. We got a quick word with the aquatic avenger: “Well, it wasn’t a Mexican Marlin but whatever puts me in front in the comp will have to do. And I’ll tell you what, I’m sure this is the one I saw bumping ugly in the reeds earlier this year”. We only have two questions; can someone break the 70 cm barrier? And what’s up with the yellow nail polish Kungen?
…cause next week we kick off with the second half of the SAFF 2012 Premiership.
Södermalm training will start again on Tuesday the 24th of July at Årsta, 18.30 as usual.
The first game after the summer break is against Solna on Saturday the 28th of July. The venue is Årsta and the game starts at 11.00.
The 4th of July is a historic date for footy in Stockholm. This is the birthday of Stockholm’s first footy oval and Söder’s new home ground, The JCG! The field measures 135m by 100m and has permanent goal posts. Visible in the background is Söder’s new club house, fully equipped with BBQ, showers and storage facility.
Södermalm set out from Stockholm on Friday night to go to Salo to play a combined Finnish side. The seas were ruff that night and upon arrival in Turku the team was down to 12 players, not a good sign for a 14 a-side game. However, when the team finally got to Salo it was up to full strength again. The Finns showed straight away what type of game this was going to be; hard running and hard tackling.
