The UKPA held its annual Club Council meeting on the 22nd of March to hear the views of its clubs and to update them on developments and plans for the forthcoming season. At the start of the meeting the UKPA held a minute’s silence in memory of their former chairman Tony Shearing, who passed away Read more…
Posts Tagged 'World Cup'
The Two Rivers Technology 2011 Polocrosse World Cup: Our Review
Okay so we completely failed to deliver up to date scores, match reports or breaking news during the competition, mainly because our entire editorial team was either helping run the event or because they were slightly drunk (editor’s note: mainly the former but definitely the latter on the final night!). It will be a very Read more…
Forget 2011, Will It Be South Africa 2015?
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…
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…
Zambia Name Their First World Cup Team
by Richard “Chappers” Chapple, our man in Africa Zambia have announced their final 8 person team for next year’s world cup, being held at Bishop Burton College in the UK. Zambia named the squad after a weekend of top quality action at the Zambia high goal invitational tournament. The final 8 players who will represent Read more…
Zambia and Ireland Name World Cup Squads
Zambia and Ireland have become the latest countries to announce their world cup squads. In the last week Ireland confirmed that the men and ladies teams that faced the UK recently will now form their world cup squad and that from these 14 players they will select their final 8 to compete in the World Read more…
South Africa Name their World Cup Squad
South Africa have named the 12 players who form their World Cup squad and from which they will select their final 8 players. The squad is very similar to the men’s and ladies teams which toured the UK in 2009, which will probably come as something of a relief to most, as rumour had suggested Read more…
New Zealand and USA Announce World Cup Squads
Both New Zealand and the USA have named their squads for the 2011 Polocrosse World Cup, due to be held in July in the United Kingdom. That means of the 8 countries competing so far 3 of the countries have declared their squads, from which their final teams of 8 players will be picked. Australia Read more…
Full Australian World Cup Squad Revealed
Just a mere week and a half after we leaked the first few names from the Australian World Cup squad we can finally reveal the full squad (the whole Polocrosse Extreme team might have gone on holiday again…..sorry!). The full squad is a fairly scary prospect as one might expect. It features the Western Australian Read more…