Ladies it is with great pleasure I write to you all and I must start by congratulating everyone on a FANTASTIC start to the year!

Pre-season went very well for the senior members of the club, we recruited lots of new and fresh faces at the Bun Fight and they all played their hearts out at trials on the Sunday despite the horrendous heat!

Saturday Squad have a good start to the season, playing 4 games of which 2 of them were won and 2 lost but in a very close fashion. This leaves them currently in 4th place in Hampshire Division 2.

Friendlies have been played for teams from 1st XI through to the 4th XI. The 1st team started with a 3-3 draw to a very strong Chichester side and then beat Portsmouth 4-2. The 2nd team have had 2 incredible win to get them on their way – a 12-0 win over Chichester and an 8-1 win over Portsmouth – keep up the great work 2s! The 3rd XI played first against the 4th XI winning 2-1 and then beat the medics 3-1. The 4th XI then also played against Portsmouth and won 8-0. BRING ON BUCS LADIES!

The 5th XI have started their Hampshire campaign and despite losing to Aldershot & Farnham and to Haslemere, have played really well in what was, for a lot of them their first games. If they continue to train and play as hard as they have been, it’s only a matter of time before the results start to go their way – great start guys!

On the social side – we have, as always kicked the year off in style. Firstly with the 3 legged pub crawl with the men’s club – what a pleasure to see so many green jumpers parading and stumbling through Portswood! We’ve also had our traditional club day and a bit of a supporters squad at Wide Lane followed by fresher circles. Not only have the freshers quickly got into Wessex ways in terms of the games (or at least most of them) but it seems that their pulling power has also been somewhat encouraging on Jesters dance floor too!

Just to reiterate what all the team captains are saying every week, the teams have not been fully selected yet and will remain very fluid throughout the year. So keep training hard, keep yourselves free for Wednesday games, get involved in Saturday Squad and obviously keep coming to the socials even if you haven’t been yet or you missed the Wednesday match. Also, watch this space for info on the indoor league and mixed games which are due to start soon too!!

This probably just leaves me to say GOOD LUCK for the start of BUCS next week and see you all on the turf or Jesters dance floor in the very near future!

FOR THE STAG!  xx