Hi guys!

Just a quick note before the semester starts: our provisional training times are Monday and Thursdays, 8-10pm in one of the two sports halls (whichever is available).

Everyone is welcome!

Hi lads,

Florian and myself are going to take pictures of our new facilities on Monday at 5pm. We have the whole place booked until 7 (after that, it shall be invaded by a flock of Italians), so there will also be time if you want to baptize the new court in the small sports hall (oh yeah, if you come and don’t see anybody, remember that we may be in the small sports hall…). As for myself, I guess I’ll hang around to blow the whistle, maybe.

I hope I’ll see you on monday, then. Take care,

Matthew

Update: Some of the photos from the photoshoot can be found here.

Hi Lads,

The sports hall will close on Wednesday the 7th for the exam set up, and shall not re-open until the begining of June.
That leaves us with three week-time trainings only. But for these, we are going to begin at 8pm instead of 8.30, as the club that was before us is not running anymore.

I’ll see you on tuesday, 8pm, then, or even tomorrow, 11am, if you’re around!
Matthew

Hey guys,

Just to let you know, I’ve finished processing and uploading the pictures from Saturday. Now since I took quite a few shots and to guarantee that pretty much anyone would be on a picture somewhere, I’ve decided to upload the bulk of my pictures, i.e. about 150 photos (normally I don’t do this). You can find this complete set here.

But, in order not be overwhelmed at first, you should start checking out the 30 picks that I personally liked most.

At this point, a big thanks to all of you for making this trip worthwhile and fun, and especially to Matthew for all his dedication and time in organising this!

So see you soon and have a good start into the new week,

Floz

Hi all,

The sports hall is available again, and so we’re going to have an extra-training tonight (that’s Wednesday), at our usual times 8:30 to 10:00 pm.

There will be another training tomorrow (the regular one) and hopefully one the week-end as well. We need to get back into shape as we have a bunch of games coming up pretty soon…

Oh, by the way, if you’ve just arrived in Maynooth, stumbled across this website and think “yeah, Volleyball sounds cool” just drop in! We’d love to have you with us

Anyways, see you soon!

Floz

Hi guys,

Just to let you know that the sports hall is closed from Tuesday onwards, for the January exams’ set up. Consequently, no more training, except if you want to join me (and Dominik and Melany, I’m sure!) for some individual training at 9, in the small sports hall.

Also, for the tactics: I have added comments to the diagrams I presented you last Thursday. You can download it from here.

All right, that’s all for now. Give a cheer to those who won’t be present next semester, bound to go back to their home universities: Clara, Dominik and Ingrid, and let’s hope that they’ll pay us a visit as soon as they get on holidays!

Looking forward seeing all the others next semester, and merry Christmas to you all!
xxx

Matthew

Hi guys, how are things?

Of all non-league-players, only Mina showed up yesterday (!). Well, we didn’t waste any time, and had a good practice, yet I rather have a few more people show up for trainings!

To avoid such situation reapeating itself, all members are welcome now to Tuesday trainings (at least until the end of the semester). Yet, Thursday trainings are still only for league players , as we still need to deal with competition-oriented practice and tactics.
Which means I’ll only see some of you tomorrow, and hopefully, most of you next Tuesday.

Take care,

Matthew

Hi there,

Thanks to all the people that supported the League Men yesterday in their two games, and congratulations to them for winning the first three sets of the day!

Simone took some nice photos, they can be found here.

Even though our Ladies are heading off for a friendly match against DCU this evening, there is still the regular Thursday training tonight. For some reason nobody (except Melanie and Simone) showed up last week…

So see you tonight and have a great day,

Florian

Hi leaguers, how’s the craic?

All right, as you may know, the first round of the League should happen the week after study week (I still await confirmation), probably by its end (Thursday or Friday).

We have 12 male and 8 female players. For the girls, it’s ideal: all are sure that they will play a fair amount of time. For the lads, it’s professional: each player will have a substitute.

Still, we will have to decide upon the line-ups (who begins on the court, who substitutes whom, which position do we begin with…), and then we should practice with those, for each player to get used of his/her relative positioning, and other things as well.

As we may not have a League-training before then, I would like to set an extra session to get clear with all that beforehand. I am even thinking of booking a classhall, so we can sit down, take our time to lay down all issues that need be, and let players ask all questions they want, be it related to the rules, the workings of the tournament, etc.

The problem is that many of you may be away this week, so I am thinking that maybe we could work that out for Sunday, as with a bit of luck, all of you could be back. Therefore, I would like that all of you contact us to let us know about your disponibilities next week-end (3/4 Nov).

All right? Great, then I’ll read of you very soon.

Enjoy your break.

Matthew

Hi guys, how are things?

I already notified in a previous mail individual training sessions on Mondays, 9pm in the small sports hall. Players seem to have enjoyed it last time, so I propose that we also do that on Fridays at 6pm, small sports hall as well.

So the next one is actually this very afternoon. Sorry for the late notice!

Take care of your knees and ankles, mine are getting dodgy…

Matthew