It would seem that the next World Cup is likely to be in South Africa, judging by a statement on the Polocrosse Association of South Africa (PASA) website. In a seemingly innocuous statement around the relaxing of rules about the number of horses that can be used in any one game in South Africa, the Read more…
The World Cup committee and the United Kingdom Polocrosse Association have today been forced to announce a change of venue for the competition, with under 6 months to go before play gets underway. The event was meant to be held at Bishop Burton College in Yorkshire but today in a brief statement it was announced Read more…
New Zealand became the 6th country to name their World Cup team, leaving just Zimbabwe and Ireland to declare their final teams for the competition in July. Shane Hill, Dean Gower and Sue Gower all receive their 3rd World Cup call ups and then they are joined by 5 players who are playing in the Read more…
The UKPA has unveiled a new initiative to ensure that the World Cup has the best possible playing horses available in July. As the UK are the host nation it falls to them to provide all the horses for the competition and the format of the competition this year, (which is slightly different to the Read more…
South Africa seems to have announced their final World Cup team in August, the only problem was that no one told anyone outside of Africa (editor’s note: well, no one actually emailed it to us and we only just discovered the downloads section on the South African polocrosse website! It’s not our fault, it’s well Read more…
The Polocrosse Association of Australia have confirmed in a written statement that the player who will replace their former World Cup captain Suzette Thomas is to be the Victorian Jess Jolly. Jess represented Australia at the Quadrangular tournament in 2008 but then was not named in the initial squad for the World Cup in 2011. Read more…
The United Kingdom has announced their World Cup team for 2011, as they attempt to go one better than they did in 2007 and lift the cup which will be played on their home soil for the first time. When the UK picked their 16 person squad there were a few surprises in there but Read more…
The World Cup order of play has been made public (editor’s note: well if you have sources in Western Australia who are friends with someone in Zambia like we do anyway) and the host nation of the United Kingdom will not play the opening game on July 8th, as often happens in a lot of Read more…
The USA have named their 8 person World Cup team for 2011 and on the men’s side it looks fairly similar to that which finished 7th in 2007. The only change is Seth Alcott coming into replace Ryan Trueblood, as Robbie Shuttles, Ryan Murphy and Ryan Strider all keep their places. Only 1 lady player Read more…
As the newest country to the World Cup (2011 will be their first ever appearance), Zambia are a bit of an unknown quantity and there are probably several coaches who would love to know a bit more about their players and how they will perform on the world stage. The names of the World Cup Read more…