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…
Posts Tagged '2010'
Australia Show They Are Not For Turning As Jess Jolly Joins World Cup Squad
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…
Canada Withdraw from International Challenge 2011
Canada have withdrawn from the International Challenge, taking place alongside the World Cup in 2011 in the UK. The International Challenge was meant to feature the polocrosse nations not within the top 8 in the world. Canada finished 8th at the last two World Cups and conceded their place to Zambia for 2011. Now they Read more…
Rumours Grow That Jess Jolly Will Replace Suzette Thomas for Australia
Though there has been no official announcement from the Polocrosse Association of Australia, rumours are that it will be Jess Jolly of Victoria who is to be called up to replace the former Australian polocrosse captain Suzette Thomas, who was removed from the World Cup squad two weeks ago. Jess has been previously capped for Read more…
UKPA Report on Their Year and Release CC TV Links
The UKPA has released its annual report for the year to 30th of September 2010 and the overall conclusion one would gain from reading it is that it has been a good year for the Association. From a financial point of view they showed a small profit of £462 while incurring fairly large amounts of Read more…
UK Announce Their World Cup Team
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…
World Cup Draw Announced
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…
USA Name Their World Cup Team
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…
Australia Release Their World Cup Captain
The name of the released player from the Australian World Cup squad was revealed today and it is the lady who was earmarked to be their World Cup captain, Suzette Thomas. There were rumours that two other players faced expulsion from the team but now it seems no further action has been taken against them Read more…
UKPA Present Annual Awards at the Ball
The UKPA Annual Awards Ball rolled into town on Saturday the 6th of November; the town in question was Milton Keynes, home of thousands of roundabouts and for one night only a horde of polocrosse players and supporters looking to end the 2010 season in style. And end it in style they did, well for Read more…