Last Saturday 15th August a 17-strong squad of Söder players made the 1 hour drive north of Stockholm to Norrtälje to face the combined Stockholm Dynamite team for the 2nd time in 3 weeks with the Dynamite boasting players from Solna, Årsta, Norrtälje and Bromma.

Perhaps it was a hang-over from the 171 point drubbing handed out to Solna last week, but Söder were slow off the mark against the Dynamite and early goals to Mattis Kvarnström and Trent Smith saw Stockholm take an early lead despite a quick reply from Jonny Briscoe for Söder on what was a fine summer day north of the Capital. Söder were unable to make use of the down-hill and down-wind end in the 1st quarter, however managed to restrict Stockholm’s use of it in the 2nd quarter and the result was a narrow 1 goal lead to the Dynamite at half-time.

The 3rd quarter is often called the premiership quarter, and the Blues didn’t waste the down-hill down-wind opportunity this time, piling on 7 goals to none in the 3rd quarter to take a 36 point lead into the last quarter. The move of Rob Njoku to centre-half-back proved critical and opened up plenty of opportunity for Söder to drive forward.

The 4th quarter saw Docker Ryan Tucker enter the game for the Dynamite and he had an immediate impact kicking the opening goal of the final quarter to give the home team a glimmer of hope for a famous come-back. However this was quickly snuffed out by a determined Söder team who responded with quick goals to Briscoe and Neindorf who resembled an Adelaide Crows’ Betts & Walker style combination in the Söder forward line.

The final score was a 38 point victory to Söder with Jonny Briscoe kicking a career best 7 goals, and Mick smashing a burger in the aftermath:

Söder: 14.7.91

Stockholm: 8.5.53

That takes Söder to 4 games undefeated in the National “Elitserien”, with only 2 games remaining against Helsingborg on 29th August at Skarpnäck, and against Port Malmö on Saturday 26th September in Malmö.

G’Day Footy Fans!

After a welcome break, a chance for some much earned R’n’R and an opportunity to wash the stench of defeat off themselves the boys from Söder were back in action this Saturday. The game, part of Sweden’s Eliteserien was against Stockholm Dynamite the representative side from the capital that the Blues themselves call home.

It was also a chance to celebrate the 100th appearance for the club of Lars ‘the fossil’ Hagberg, an ever present in the Södermalm lineup – one can count on two hands the number of games this guy has missed for the club in a career spanning the past seven years! He’s the first Söder player to reach 100 club games, and he’s still showing us all how it’s done!

Given the pool of talent the dynamite have to choose from (even at the back end of the holidays) this was always going to be a test for Bluey’s crew! So the boys were glad to welcome back Rob ‘get some nuts’ Njoku from injury to lead the forward line.

The game got underway defying the Swedish version of summer in warm sunny conditions and the Dynamite quickly made hay shooting out to a three goal lead. The slap in the face woke up the sleeping giants of Söder and they began to hustle and push their way back into the first quarter. Smooth handling from Continue reading →

By Matt Barton

At the crack of dawn this past Saturday the brave men of Söder saddled up and began to make their way south to the wilderness of Skåne to take on the Helsingborg Saints in round two of this year’s Elitserien. Hoping to improve to 2-0 in the competition, the Blues travelled the 5 hours down the E4 for what was always going to be a fiery encounter calling on reinforcements in the form of recent former players (pictured right) Chris ‘Bull’ Angus (now sunning himself in California) and Ivan ‘Tarzan’ Rexed (rumored to be opening a string of martial arts dojo’s in Göteborg).
After a short warm up and under overcast skies Södermalm took to the field looking to Continue reading →

The boys spotted a double rainbow at training this week on Thursday night… will this lead us to a pot of gold in Helsingborg on Saturday?

On Saturday we take the 6 hour journey south to Helsingborg to play one of Sweden’s oldest clubs (est. 1993) the Helsingborg Saints. The Saints have been playing in the Danish League for 20 years, but pulled the plug on that this season to focus on the Swedish Elitserien. A tough game awaits the brave Söder men making the longest journey in the club’s history for league points.

In the 1st Elitserien game a few weeks ago, Helsingborg went down to a strong Stockholm Dynamite team by 30pts, 12.10.82 vs 8.4.52. But that result will mean little for a Helsingborg team playing in front of their home crowd this Saturday for one of their biggest games of the season. Expect them to be at full strength and Söder to face their toughest challenge so far in 2015.

Thanks to Calle Nellbring for the photo.