Add him to your circles and let him know what you’re up to (he likes keeping an eye on alumni)

We should hopefully have the Yearsley pool for an entire hour as opposed to the usual 45 minutes!! An extra incentive to come along, not like you don’t have enough already
It’ll be great to see as many returners as possible, it’s gonna be an awesome weekend!
Also, if anyone needs somewhere to crash, don’t hesitate to ask

Let us know if you can make it or have any questions, hopefully see you all soon!
Erdi

There is now an alumni section of the forum. If you do register and put alumni somewhere in your user info, we will let you into the forum. Would love to see as many of you there as possible.

Tørris

Shiny is still our much beloved treasurer and Myo is still the captain. Thor has taken over at the helm as president and Martina is Vice president.

Yellow will be staking out the course on socials, while Hulk is taking orders for merch and looking after the kit. Ordinary members are Jennifer and Chris.

To see who hides behind these nicknames and previous committees, check out the committee page.

Various v Team A (14th [20th] position)

Various v Team B York & Leeds (13th [19th] position )

Position in square brackets is including barbarian teams. A total of 18 student teams and 7 barbarian teams played on the day.

York Freshers 5 vs Durham Freshers 4

First win against a Durham team in a couple of years

Team A 0 vs Durham ?

Overrun by a couple of national level players

Various v Team A (12th place)

Various v Team B York & Leeds (11th place)

Team A v Newcastle Jesmond

Durham v Team A

Team A v Durham

Team A v Durham

League: Friendly

Home at Yearsley Swimming Pool

Date: 2010-06-12

Captain: Erdi Babili

Starting team: , , , ,

Starting subs: , , ,

Details

The always hotly contended North East derby returns to Yorkshire. A match that promises not to disappoint.

Everybody v Team A

League: Student Nationals

Away at Oxford

Date: 2010-03-17

Captain: Ali McDougall

Starting team: lots, , , ,

Starting subs: , , ,

Details

Yorktopush hit the City of Dreaming Spires, and put in some terrific performances against fierce opposition, finishing just outside the top 10 in 11th place. Well done to one and all for a great weekend of Octopush and frollics

Variety Sunderland Won v We came last Team A

League: ONE Cup

Away at Durham

Date: 2009-06-20

Captain: Tom ‘Tables’ Chatwin

Starting team: Ali ‘Gills’ McDougall, Peter ‘Chuck Poppins’ Howes, Lucy ‘Half Pint’ Morris, Antn’y ‘Gavrillo’ Jacobs, Tom ‘Holy’ Abbott

Starting subs: Chris ‘Starsky’ Bailey, Thom ‘Hutch’ Matthews, ,

Details

Despite fighting hard in every game, York failed to win a single game. However, the largest defeat was only 3 – 0 to Sunderland and there was a few dubious decisions against York, who had two goals disallowed won of which in the final game would have meant the game was a draw.

Variety v Team B

Various From 1st to 12th v 7th Place Team A

League: Student Nationals

Away at Bangor

Date: 2009-03-14

Captain: Tom ‘Tables’ Chatwin

Starting team: Ali ‘Gills’ McDougall, Adam ‘Face’ Furness, Antony ‘Gavrillo’ Jacobs, Cullen ‘Rear Admiral’ Macintosh, Sam ‘Animal’ Russell

Starting subs: Peter ‘Chuck Poppins’ Howes, Lucy ‘Half Pint’ Morris, Jodie ‘Davey Jones’ Davies, Chris ‘Starsky’ Bailey

Details

York’s Octopush club produced some of their best performances yet to finish 7th at the student nationals hosted by Bangor in March. The growing club was able to enter two teams into this years competition, a main student team representing York and an individual barbarians team which was made up almost entirely of York students.

York, captained by Thomas Chatwin, started the competition strongly with a convincing win against the hosts. This was followed by another victory with the York forwards dominating the match. Next up was a strong Liverpool team who York failed to overcome and this was followed by another defeat. With a win needed against Warwick to make the play-offs, York put in a gutsy performance but lost the tightly contested match by one goal. Despite missing out on the play-offs by a single place, this was still a vastly successful tournament provide York with its highest ever finish, a testament to all the hard work put in at training.

The barbarians team had a very tough group stage, with the majority of the opposition having a lot more experienced players. Despite not winning a match, the team held their own and their performances steadily improved throughout the day.

Overall this was an outstanding day for York Octopush and one that the team will use to build on in the future, especially with a Roses match on the horizon.

Barbarians: Forwards: Ben Thompson, Thomas Grayson, Thomas Matthews, Alastair Gott Backs: Emma Prideaux, Jessica Morton, Thomas Abbott, Joseph Slade, Kevin Whitworth

Durham v Team B

Team A 3 v Byker

League: ONE League

Home at Yearsley

Date: 2009-03-07

Captain: Sam ‘Animal’ Russell

Starting team: Cullen ‘Rear Admiral’ Macintosh, Mike Slade, Alistair ‘Gills’ McDougall, Adam ‘Face’ Furness, Peter ‘Chuck Poppins’ Howes

Starting subs: Anthony ‘ Gavrillo’ Jacobs, Griff Chatwin, Chris ‘Starsky’ Bailey,

Details

The day started well with efficient meeting at Goodricke cashpoint as usual and 3 willing volunteers going and getting the kit.

soon after we were on our way in the green minibus. meeting up with other members of the team at the pool, some of which had been in town recruiting for the club and by the sounds of it having a good time.

We all got ready and got warmed up and the group split into 2 groups, 10 for the team against Byker and 8 playing 4v4 in the shallow end, i was in the shallow end but we had an excellent time.

Back to the match, Byker seems to have the balance of ages in their team right with the younger members being the nippier, nimbler and inevitably getting past some of the York defences and with the stronger, more lung capacity of the older members, were a formidable team.

I don’t know the end score but i do know that York unfortunately lost.

Team B v Jesmond

Team A v York B

Durham University N/a v N/a Team A

League: Friendly

Away at Durham

Date: 2008-12-13

Captain: Tom ‘Tables’ Chatwin

Starting team: Thom ‘Hutch’ Matthews, Chris ‘Starsky’ Bailey, Adam Furness, Rachel Whatmore, Cullen ‘Rear Admiral’ Macintosh

Starting subs: Ali ‘Gills’ McDougall, Jess Morten, Tom ‘Holy Tom’ Abbot, Anthony ‘Gavrillo’ Jacobs, Sam ‘Animal’ Russell

Details

This was a good session. There were two games going at once, with a mixture of York, Durham and Stirling players across the four teams. The teams were rotated often too, making the games much more interesting. It proved very interesting to play a team composed of a mixture of players (especially if you were a player down!) and was a good training experience – it’s always good to play with / against people you’ve not played with before. The time seemed to fly by, and I found myself wishing we had at least an extra half hour…maybe next time.