Tourney: Cambridge - NS - 5-6.11.2011

cheers guys, good weekend, sorry we didn't hang around for the final

nice tags too :S

Thanks to Cambridge for putting it on, and Greg for letting us stay. The tea and coffee on tap was much needed. Hope everyone donated generously. The toilet was great, but Badger hogged it for most of the weekend.

We played some great games and got some great results but ultimately Hooks were the better side. Lots to learn! Good guys too!

Fun weekend. Thanks to anyone who cheered us on.

How's Rob getting home without a front wheel btw?

Thanks Cambridge, excellent drunken polo weekend.

How's Rob getting home without a front wheel btw?

We took a wheel from the massive pile of trash bikes at the back of the warehouse. Angelo said it was OK. I hope it was OK.

ha!

Where were Hackney Goal Shitters?

Thanks for a fantastic weekend Cambridge! Comfy sofas, free coffee and lots of stuff... brilliant.
Love + kisses,
Edinburgh

We had a blast today, thanks so much to Hooks for travelling so far as well as the teams from Edinburgh and guys from Ireland – it was a pleasure meeting and playing you guys. The last few games of the day were really good to watch, it was great to see three teams with such different styles of play. Gaaah, Greg said it all at the end... thanks everyone. I/We had a really amazing weekend.

Hey guys. We're finally home and safe after a long time on the road (the M11 was blocked because of an accident).
So.. just before going to sleep.
Thank you so much to everyone. It was an amazing week end. Congratz cosmics, it was a pleasure to play against you and to see our friend Rob. We saw many good teams. Fenboy3 were totally awesome (hayden !!! whoop whoop).
And we can't waiut ti show our new Cannon Trophy to our moms.

Cheers, see you very soon.

Good to know you got back safe. Always awesome to see you guys play...you push the level up!
See ya soon - hopefully in rouon.
Hooks, Hooks, Hooks!
Yep, cambridge give out the best trophies!

Clinical finishing, great acceleration, amazing composure.

good link up/passing.

thats polo.

Photos - http://www.flickr.com/photos/33449131@N02/sets/72157628073347974/

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Nice.

Could I use some of the ones of us on the Thumbs Up facebook page?

Of course.

Cheers

Thanks Cambridge! A lovely weekend as always, a well deserved MVT for Bright.On too... good stuff.

Congrats to Hooks, bad luck Cosmic, great finals to watch.

Just Got up, like maks said, almost missed the ferry but thanks to all the cambridge crew, we had just enough time. Thanks you guys for an awesome week end of polo and UK love. Great to be housed in harvey's crazy fun house, and we had a great evening with cosmic at the Fish and Chinese Chips !

I'll post a pic of the trophy soon, awesome canon !!

Thanks for making it a great weekend everyone .

Cheers to Rich for being an awesome fen boy , Jo for reassuring the fire brigade our Hobo fire was "under control" , Bogey for hosting dozens of people and doing all the laptop duties till he was hallucinating brackets , Oxford Sean and everyone for helping smash stuff up at the end :)

Listening to my complimentary Hooks's band "Gordon Melon" CD right now , it's actually really good , is there no end to your talents ?
I think we need live bands at tournaments..............?

thanks everybody in Cambridge who did their part in making this event happen, especially Angelo for your efforts in building the second court, hayden for the lighting array, all the non-polo people who braved the cold warehouse to serve tea and cake, et al...

thanks to everybody who travelled to play who made the event awesome! great to see Fen Boy and Thor performing so well. Brighton kicked ass too. Thanks Chan for subbing in for the cream. hooks were another level...

hope everybody enjoyed themselves, and we really hope that more of you come and visit the warehouse through the cold months before we see its demise in the hands of hoteliers. as i'm going to be part of the London league this year I will be travelling into the city a lot to play, however it would be great to get some fixtures played indoors, especially if the weather sucks.

bogey x

i keep forgetting that at some point that warehouse will be gone. do you guys have any idea how much longer you'll have it for?
p.s excellent tourney and thank you so much for housing us again matt, you are such a star

Thanks again Cambridge! It was great to meet some new people and play polo with you all. I had such a good weekend! Hopefully we'll make it back up before it gets turned into a hotel :(
On behalf of Be Right On i'd like to say thank you to everybody we played for some really fun games and everybody who thought we deserved MVT, it's a real honour. Congrats HOOKS! You guys played so well, as did so many other teams! Some really inspirational stuff! Bike polo is fucking RAD!
Danny x

i keep forgetting that at some point that warehouse will be gone. do you guys have any idea how much longer you'll have it for?
p.s excellent tourney and thank you so much for housing us again matt, you are such a star

^This is such a shame, is there anyway we(the polo community) can stop it happening?

Thanks cambridge for setting all of this up, having two indoor courts is great for winter tournaments, it would have been grim playing all weekend outside in the drizzle. Also, big thanks to Ciaran for subbing in for us on such short notice, was great playing with you.
Well won by Hooks, they were incredible to watch, as was everyone else.

Reckon there'll be enough notice to arrange a "farewell" tourney for the warehouse? It's a great venue.

THANK YOU CAMBRIDGE ! All the time & effort you guys put into this weekend is very much appreciated . Hooks were outstanding & inspirational to watch.
Thanks for the M.V.T vote !
Hopefully see all you guys again soon . X