The Leopards' first pre-match huddle of the season

Today saw us kick off the season at home against Pace Cougars. Pace are a strong team and provided difficult opposition against which to start the season. All, or at least most, matches kick off at 14.00 this season, as did today’s game. The pitches have had a good summer and are in excellent condition. In spite of a 2-3 scoreline Leopards gaffer Jim was sanguine in his appraisal of our first run-out, saying, “Result notwithstanding [it was] an encouraging performance in parts”. Well done to all the players, who are juggling weekend footy with coming to terms with their new school environments. Enjoy the season everyone.

A couple of other things.

From the menu at the top of this site you can navigate to various other pages including one that now provides links to all of our fixtures and results. Also provided is a link to the web site for the Southampton & District Tyro League, in which we’re playing in Division Four and called “Littleton B”.

Cheers -

D.

Having now digested the hand-outs from yesterday’s pre-season meeting and scanned some highlights back in to the electronic format from whence they came, there are a few pages that may be of interest that you can download by clicking here (the quality’s not great but it keeps the file-size lower).

We start the new season on Sunday 6th September at home to Pace Cougars. Our kick-off time for home games is 14:00.

Cheers -

D.

… to the 2008-9 season, and—for all the boys and girls—to primary school. The times, they are a-changin’, as George was always fond of saying to Ringo …

Thanks to all for making today’s final training session and awards ceremony so enjoyable, especially to Bill for the industrial quantities of bacon butties, which were very sustaining, thank you very much. A couple of things …

Some photographs of today’s awards ceremony: click here.

Registration forms for next season if you’ve not yawned your way through them already: click here. Back to some bloke called Jim asap please.

Boring admin. but with the admirable ambition to minimise bureaucracy: if you’ve not done so already, please click here to subscribe to news updates.

An omission from today’s ceremony: thanks, Jim, for your as-ever tremendous commitment—surely that should be “obsession” (Ed.)—and effort over the season – it is much appreciated!

Well done Leopards for an excellent season. Have a splendid summer everyone. Hasta luego …