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Experience has taught us that most of the players involved in KickStart prefer to undertake - where possible - the health and parenting activities on matchdays. However, given that we allow for up to 7 players per team due to illness, holidays etc, not all players turn up and get a chance to do the activities, even if they want to. So...the activities will now be posted on the blog in the sidebar for people to download and complete if they so wish. You'll still need to hand them in on matchdays - and we'll check for names, forms being filled in more than once etc - no cheating or we'll dock points!
We'll add the activities slowly - remember that over the course of the league season there will not be enough time to do all 10 of the activities we have prepared, so if you download them from the blog you may have a chance to undertake more activities than just those undertaken on match days! Remember that it's not just about the football and physical fitness - it's also about other health and parenting issues - and that you can win the league by completing the activities; ie you don't have to be Johan Cruyff or Ronaldo...( but it might help!)
The KickStart Team
The new KickStart Winter League kicks off on January 10th. All players and teams are requested to turn up on Saturday morning at 10.30 in order to ensure EVERYONE is registered and to find out what it's all about. You won't get a game if you're not registered! Also some players will not have been allocated to teams so it will be useful for players to meet each other - and to receive fixture lists - especially for those people who don't read this blog!
Unlike the previous KickStart Summer League, we only have one 5-a-side pitch available to us this time round - hopefully we'll get both pitches back in time for the Summer League - but in the meantime 5 teams will compete in the league. Matches will normally start at 11.00 - but for this Saturday please turn up at 10.30!
For those of you who can't see the flash player fixtures on the sidebar - below are the forthcoming Winter League fixtures. They're also available for anyone to download from the link on the sidebar.
Look forward to seeing everyone on Saturday and the coming weeks...
The KickStart Team
KickStart Winter League Fixtures 
Team Brown V All Whites January 10th
Pro Team V All Stars January 17th
Old Guns V Pro Team January 24th
All Stars V Team Brown January 31st
All Stars V All Whites February 7th
Old Guns V Team Brown February 14th
Team Brown V Pro Team February 21st
All Whites V Old Guns February 28th
Old Guns V All Stars March 7th
Pro Team V All Whites March 14th
You may have seen a recent article in the Gloucester Citizen advertising KickStart ( Citizen article on KickStart ) - many thanks to The Citizen for doing this as it's helped to increase interest in the scheme; unfortunately the article came out after a registration day at GL1 on the previous Saturday - meaning that dads missed out on signing up. These things happen! The KickStart mobile appears to be turned off at the moment too - which hasn't helped either. However, if dads have left messages on the mobile we will be in touch.
In the meantime if you want to register, please download and fill in the KickStart registration form ( in pdf or Word) from the sidebar and either send it to KickStart Organiser, Living and Learning Centre, GL1 Leisure Centre, Gloucester - or take it in an envelope to the reception at GL1 marked with the same details. We'll then put you on our database and duly inform you of your team and fixtures.
Kickoff will now be on January 10 - we've had to extend the registration period to ensure we have enough teams and players to make it worthwhile.
In the meantime - if you do have any queries send them to kickstart@topmail.co.uk - ansd we will try to find out what's happened to the mobile phone!
Thanks
The KickStart team
KickStart Summer League? It's Autumn! What happened? A combination of holidays, pressing work requirements, putting off what you can do today until tomorrow, walking the dog (and the fact that some of the final results went missing...) has meant a delay in publishing the final table. But here it is.
The final month's matches were hit by the holiday period - a lesson for us to consider next time we run a summer league; one match had to be declared void as neither Team Brown nor Young Lads and Dads fielded a team on August 16th, hence if you're wondering why the table looks odd with regard to their matches played, won, lost, drawn - it's because they didn't turn up! More fool both teams as Team Brown in particular were going great guns and leading the table up until the final month. Talking of guns - congratulations go to Old Guns, who are THE CHAMPIONS!!! Not far off the pace, despite only winning 2 of their matches were Liver Lads - who reached 2nd place by dint of completing their health and parenting activity forms - well done!!! Commiserations to the rest of the teams and players and big thanks to all for turning up!
On Saturday 17th October there's a chance to register at GL1 (10.00) for the new KickStart league starting at the end of the month - and a presentation of the KickStart Shield plus other prizes. Hope to see people there.
The KickStart Team
The scheduled match between All Stars and Pro Team has had to be rescheduled to 21st August due to Pro Team being unable to field a full complement of players - so the potential top of the table clash scheduled for the 21st of August between All Stars and Old Guns was brought forward to 26th July. A fractious but equally matched game saw Old Guns turn out eventual victors. In the other match The Good, The Dad, and The Ugly beat Young Lads and Dads.
All players under 25 were informed of the opportunity to score extra points next weekend - if they turn up for Chlamydia screening at 10.30.
Health activities - these were completed today by the teams involved (except for Old Guns who had already undertaken the healthy eating activity last week); a number of parenting activity forms from 2 weeks ago which had not been handed in have also been added to teams points haul.
Scores:
All Stars 6 Old Guns 11
The Good The Dad and The Ugly 24 Young Lads and Dads 10
Table Week 10
For those players who aren't aware (and of course you all are!) the week of August 2nd is sexual health week. As usual there will be a quiz activity to score points - but we'll also be temporarily joined on the morning by a member of the Chlamydia Screening team - and a chance to score extra points.
For those of you who aren't aware, or possibly think it's a flower, Chlamydia is the most common sexually transmitted infection, especially amongst young people. It often has no symptoms - particularly in men - but can do a lot of damage to any female partners including pelvic inflammatory disease leading to infertility. In guys, if there are any symptoms these can include swollen balls and sub-fertility (difficulty in fathering a child).
All you need to do on the morning is turn up at 10.30 at GL1(that's right - 10.30) on the morning of August 2nd, and if you're a KickStart player under 25 you'll be given a small bottle to pee into (in the loos - not on the playing court!) - and that will be it - no umbrella blades or q-tips down your todger.
The Chlamydia Screening team member will be on hand to advise what will happen if you have a positive test (basically just some pills to cure you). It's worth taking the test - it's not a lot of bother to you, but can prevent problems for your partner or any future partners. And we'll award 2 points per player if you take the test! More info about Chlamydia Screening here; sexhelpglos ; info here on Men and Chlamydia
For those dads older than 25 who are concerned they might miss out, we are going to arrange a short talk on dads talking to lads about sex - to be held at Bartongate Children's Centre (probably on 9th August - but to be confirmed) - again you'll score points for attending, and it's worthwhile coming along to pick up a few tips.
Finally...we get around to showing where teams are to date in the table - which has been updated to include all of the scores and health and parenting activities for weeks 7, 8 & 9. The scores from week 7 were mislaid hence the delay in tracking these down and making sure everything is in order!
Team Brown top the table - Old Guns are not too far behind. Liver Lads are 3rd; it just goes to show that if you complete your activity forms then you still have a chance of pushing up the table even if your footballing prowess suddenly fails you on a Saturday morning...Tactrix - where are your forms?!
The scores for each week - putting on the best BBC's announcer voice possible, are as follows:
Scores: 28th June
Tactrix 14 Team Brown 27
Old Guns 29 The Good The Dad and The Ugly 7
Scores: 12th July
Liver Lads 6 All Stars 26
Young Lads and Dads 20 Pro Team 14
Scores: 19th July
Tactrix 21 Liver Lads 19
Team Brown 12 Old Guns 18
Table Weeks 7, 8 , & 9
Experience has taught us that most of the players involved in KickStart prefer to undertake - where possible - the health and parenting activities on matchdays. However, given that we allow for up to 7 players per team due to illness, holidays etc, not all players turn up and get a chance to do the activities, even if they want to. So...the activities will now be posted on the blog in the sidebar for people to download and complete if they so wish. You'll still need to hand them in on matchdays - and we'll check for names, forms being filled in more than once etc - no cheating or we'll dock points!
