This Friday at 18.00 Söder takes on Solna at the JCG. The boys are hungry for revenge after the defeat against the Axemen before summer. In the second game at 19.30 Årsta play Bromma. Get down there to support your favourite team and enjoy a beer and a burger.
The Elks got their first win of the tournament, against Croatia. A 4 goal lead at half time shrunk to a 4 point lead towards the end of the last quarter, but a goal right at the end of the game secured Sweden’s first win. Both “Johansen” and “Caaagh” got a lot of mentions by the commentator. Natis kicked the goal of the day from way out close to the boundary. Kaj to a hit to the knee and had to hop off. The guy’s got sisu so for sure he’ll be back for the next game against Great Britain on Thursday 6 pm (CET).
This Saturday starts the 2nd European Championship in Dublin. Sweden, who finished 3rd last time, will be fighting for the trophy against 5 other nations: Ireland, Denmark, Great Britain, Croatia and Germany. Södermalm is proudly represented by two players in the national squad; Kaj Karlsson and Natis ‘Naitanui’ Johansson.
The teams have been seeded into two groups and the winners of each group go to the Grand Final, the runners up play for the bronze medal and the last two teams for the wooden spoon. The Swedish Elks have their work cut out for them as they take on the reigning champions Ireland already in the first game.
Best of luck boys!
All the games will be streamed live on http://www.aertv.ie/
Tournament home page: http://dublin2013.org/
Fixture:
Saturday the 3rd at 15.00 against Ireland.
Tuesday the 6th at 15.00 against Croatia
Thursday the 8th at 17.00 against Great Britain
Finals are played on Saturday the 10th
After a couple of days of scanning the rivers of Jämtland and learning to think like a Harr it was finally time to enter the fishing competition. Two casts later Larry was standing by the river with a broken fishing rod and a 48 cm/800 g Harr.
That puts him in the lead in the fishing competition and the current number to beat is 80%.
“It takes a champion fisherman to catch a champion fish” he said with a smug look.
It was sunny and 25 degrees as Södermalm took on Finland Icebreakers at Årsta today. Now, which team would struggle more in the heat, the dehydrated Finns or Södermalm with only 1 interchange? As it turned out the game was a very even with the play flowing back and forth. Both teams got off to a good start and the 1st quarter ended up dead even. In the second quarter the wind picked up a little in Södermalms favor who went into half time break with a 15 point lead. The Finns didn’t manage to utilize the 2 goal breeze in the third quarter and it looked like it would be an easy ride home for Söder. A two goal lead and playing with the wind in the last quarter. But the Finns fought back hard and kicked 3 goals within the first 3 minutes in the last quarter. Suddenly they were in the lead for the first time in the game. Söder came back and got in front by a couple of goals again but only for a short while. During the last 5 minutes it was only a couple of points the difference and both teams fought desperately to score a goal. As the final whistle went it was Söder who stood victorious by 2 points (11.17 – 11.15). Well played by the whole team. Special mention to Ryan, Max and Jeremy from Norrtälje who came down to help out. Also to Tanka who kicked 6 goals, but should have kicked 10… And to Dan Goldberg who kicked 3 goals in his second Södermalm game. Hope to see you back for a whole season.
Saturday’s game Södermalm vs. Finland has been moved to Årsta.
Kick-off at 12.00.
Jordo landed a 60 cm pike up in Smedjebacken on Friday thereby taking the lead in the Söder 2013 Fishing Competition.
“An ice-fishing rod with a worn out glow worm lure from the 80s, that’s the way to go!”
The word is spreading that there is a new footy oval in town, and it’s called the JCG.
Check out the latest news from AFL Europe.
http://www.afleurope.org/home-of-the-blues-now-has-goal-post-pads/
Both games this Saturday have been moved to Skarpnäck.
First kick-off at 12.00: Bromma vs. Årsta.
Second game starts at 14.00: Solna vs. Södermalm.
In addition, there’s been a great deal of interest in how great “the J“can actually be. We know it’s the best oval in the Stockholm region, and we are confident the best footy in Sweden is played here. But hey, don’t trust us, come see for yourself this Saturday.
As a teaser, here is how Södermalm set up the goal posts last summer
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Saturday at 12.00 the Blues and the Dockers will clash at the JCG.
Second game ever to be played at the new oval.
BBQ ad refreshmets afterwards.
Get in there!
From the 1st of May and onwards we will be training at the JCG at Skarpnäck. Wednesdays at 18.30.
Take the green line to Skarpnäck T-bane station, followed by a 5 min. walk to the JCG.
Get in there!
It was the 2012 Grand Final rematch between Södermalm and Bromma, approximately 7 months earlier it was Bromma who were successful, this time Söder. It was a team that comprised of a Spaniard, a Finn, an American, a few Aussies, a few Swedes, and a Murph (sounds like the start of a joke).
Söder entered the match with several new faces who were keen to stamp their authority and they didn’t disappoint.
Remembrance ceremony. Kudos to Martin Schulte-Hötte for the pic!
Already before the start of the season Södermalm’s two national team players show good form.
Martin represented SAFF in the regional game in Malmö last weekend. Although Skåne got up by 7 goals Martin had a solid performance. Allegedly the regional coach was asking after the game “Why aren’t there MORE Söder players in the Dynamite squad?”
On the 10th of April Natis went down to Copenhagen to play the in the 2nd leg of the “Kennelly – O’Loughlin Showcase” The best players in Europe mixed with the Australian U18’s team for a friendly game. The game was played in front of AFL legends Dipper, Tadhg Kennelly and Michael O’Loughlin. Coach Dan McClaer was asking after the game “Why AREN’T there more Söder players in the National team?”
It didn’t take long until the new coaching regime changed the way we think about training completely. We are now doing pre-season training indoors and outdoors! Outdoors on Wednesdays at 18.30 at Årstafältet and indoors on Sundays at Globala Gymnasiet. Be there!
Someone spaced on the date again…
Registration night has been moved from Good Friday to the 5th of April, 19.00 at O’Learys, Liljeholmen.
