Stoolball news in May 2006

Barcombe Stoolball Club is holding a mixed stoolball tournament on 9 July from 11am at Barcombe recreation ground. There will be a bar, BBQ and other stalls. Teams should consist of 4 men and 4 women, and everyone is welcome to enter a team. Contact Kelly on 07762 287433 or Kate on 07729 408232, or email [email address available when you sign in].

Maresfield Stoolball Club is looking for teams of 8 ladies for its annual tournament on 25 June 2006. They also need mixed teams of 4-6 players for a quiz night on 20 May to raise funds for the club.

If you would like to enter a team for the tournament, please contact Chantelle on 07901 551581 or 01892 531993. You’ll need to arrive at Maresfield Recreation Ground at 11am, for an 11.30 start.

The quiz night costs £5 per person, which includes a chip supper. You’ll need to arrive at
the Village Hall in Maresfield at 7.30pm for an 8pm start. If you would like to enter a team please contact Chantelle on one of the numbers given above.

Want to arrange a match? Need new players for your team? Looking for a team to play for? If you need any of these then post a message about it in the forums. You can get an email any time someone posts a message to the forum, so you’ll always know when someone’s looking for a match.

To get an email whenever someone uses the forum, just subscribe to the ‘Subscribe to this forum’ link on the forum page. You can always cancel the email later by signing in to the website and choosing the ‘Edit profile’ option.

All clubs and organisations are asked to fill in an National Stoolball Association (NSA) Registration form. This will be used for future production of a stoolball handbook and so that we have concrete facts on the participation in stoolball. To find the form click on tell us about your team.

We can put your fixture list online. We can help new players to find your team, or your team to find a match. We can even work out your league table automatically. But to do all that, we need you to send us the information. To start, tell us about your team.

We ask who’s out there every year. If you’re playing stoolball, or you know someone who is, we want to know about it. If your team has stopped playing, we want to know that too. We use the information for all kinds of things, including the list of teams in our ‘Play’ section.

Players can go there to find a new team to play for, or to find another team to play against on a spare night. Even if your information on there is correct, we’d like to hear from you just so that we know you’re still playing. So please, tell us about your team.

Tell us about your matches too. Send us your match dates and we’ll add them to your team’s page, to your competition’s page, and to the list of the next 5 games. Once you’ve played, tell us the result and we’ll add it.

If you can tell us the dates of all the matches in your season, the results of each match as they come in, and how your league works (is it two points for a win and one for a tie?) we can calculate your league table automatically. We’re already doing it for the Lewes stoolball league.

So go on, contact us now.