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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
We've received suggestions from 2 players with regard to the health and parenting activities, which we'll discuss at the next KickStart team meeting. We'll need to review the activities and the points scoring system for next season - but it's great that people are doing them and adding to their points total.
We're planning on holding some evening meetings to discuss the future of KickStart including forming a voluntary group to raise funds, manage the football etc - which we hope will eventually be composed of interested dads to help run it, so if any dads would like to come along and get involved please get in touch; for times and dates please use the KickStart email address. Thanks!
Here's the table for week 6. A competitive game between Young Lads and Dads and Liver Lads ended in a draw - but Liver Lads completed 5 health activity forms as against Young Lads and Dads 1 form - so Liver Lads now sit 3rd in the table with Young Lads and Dads one off the bottom.
In footballing terms Pro Team shipped 29 goals, scoring a paltry 3 in reply - but have managed to climb one place to 5th in the table by dint of completion of 4 health activity forms, the same number of forms completed by Old Guns who are now 2nd in the table.
Scores: 21st June
Pro Team 3 Old Guns 29
Young Lads and Dads 17 Liver Lads 17Table Week 6
