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 all,

We were supposed to play the Dublin City University team (good standard, there) on Wednesday. Although we did not get any reply from them, and resultingly still do not know whether they are going to show or not, we have the sports hall booked for us that day from 4 to 5.30 pm.

I invite as many of you as there could be to put yourselves together in sportswear and join us for that occasion. If DCU doesn’t show, we’ll play matches between ourselves anyway.

This event is pretty much celebrated here at NUI Maynooth, and a buffet (!) is provided for those taking part in the event. As a result, it would be great if you could send us an e-mail if you are interested in coming, so that we can notify the catering department!

Cheers, I’ll see you around,

Matthew

Hi all,

In the end, the pre-league meeting will take place next Monday (Nov. 5th), from 9 to 10pm, in Classhall B in the Arts Block. I hope that it will suit all of you. After that, we’ll go for a drink at the Students Bar (it’s 3 EUR for any beer)!

I still did not obtain the definite schedule for the first round, but I’ll let you know as soon as I get a reply.

Take care of yourselves,

Matthew

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

Beloved members,

The hall is booked for us Saturday from 2 to 5. Full sports hall, all welcome!

On the other hand, we were too numerous yesterday, we cannot carry on like that, really. Perhaps three fourths of the players on Tuesday registered, legitimately for most of them, as advanced players.

Therefore, we now ask to come on Thursdays only those who registered as willing to join the League, and on Tuesdays, only those who did not register so. ( :.( I know… )

I know also that some of you can only come the day they are forbidden to. However, these should bear in mind that there is still plenty of craic to take on the weekends (three hours sessions, two nets… plenty!), and will always be welcome there

Last little note about trainings: I do individual trainings Mondays at 9 pm in the Small Sports Hall, if anybody feels like joining me. No net, no matches, only pass, attack, serve and smash training against the wall, or with a partner. It’s like going to the gym, and I guarantee that there is no better or faster way for one to improve his/her individual skill!

All right, guys, so I hope that I see most of you tomorrow, cheers!

Hi all,

There will be a meeting for all members of the Volleyball Club before training tomorrow (16 Oct), at

8:00 pm sharp

in the Sports Complex’s entrance hall (just outside the hall we practice in).

Your presence will allow us to:

• Organize the inner working of the club, registering the level of each of you as:

  Beginner

  … if you have little experience and you want to level your basic individual skills (service, digging, overhead pass and attack hit).

  Advanced

  … if you think your basic skills good enough for you to take part in tactics development, in addition to more advanced individual skills practice.;/dd>

• Register volunteers to take part in competitions: the Univesity League on the first hand, for it lasts all year, and begins the week from the 5th to the 9th of November (which leaves us with 3, maybe 4 weeks training), but also the Belfast Intervarsities I keep telling you about.

Remember, we need all of you, whether “Advanced” or not!

Take care and see you tomorrow,

Matthew

Hi everyone!

To reduce the costs of the whole thing, we will leave Maynooth on the Thursday morning (22 November), either with the 7:00 or 7:58 AM train.

With one night less, the cost is now 65 EUR. If you’re interested, please let us know as soon as possible, and bring the required deposit of 20 EUR to any of the trainings before Thursday 18 October. If, for some reason, that is not possible, you may put the deposit and your name (!) in an envelope, address it to

     Florian Knorn
     Rye Hall 12C

and leave it at the reception of the River Apartments.

Okay, in the meantime, take care!

Matthew (and Florian and Simone)

PS: By the way, we will have the full hall for us on Tuesday!