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2000-1 Season
President: Stuart Hill
Results :-
Teeside Cougars 9-6 UCH Sharks (O/T)
UCH Sharks P-P Stirling Clansmen
Sheffield Sabres 6-44 UCH Sharks
Newcastle Mariners 0-50 UCH Sharks
UCH Sharks P-P Stirling Clansmen
UCH Sharks 1-0 Sheffield Sabres
Loughborough Aces 14-0 UCH Sharks
UCH Sharks 26-22 Teeside Cougars
UCH Sharks 6-0 Leeds Cougars
Stirling Clansmen 0-24 UCH Sharks
Staffordshire Stallions 14-6 UCH Sharks (Playoffs Round 1)
Final Standings :-
Teeside Cougars (6-1-1)
UCH Sharks (6-2-0)
Leeds Celtics (2-4-2)
Sheffield Sabres (1-7-0)
Newcastle Mariners (0-6-2)
Notes :-
FUGLYBUPID:
Blubber Ed: Sam Horowitz
OBW Organisers: Charlie King & Julie Tonks
Another OBW, another theme. This time, the Whales' collective creative juices were sluiced along a theme of 'A Space/Whales Oddity'. It is unlikely that anyone will think back to Jan 2001 without thinking of Steve Chad's anorexic Chewbacca, Casper's Cornish pasty-headed Klingon, Tinfoil Moz and, of course, Sam's amazing Davros. (Quote from Mary - "I couldn't believe that I could make him look any more of a tw*t than he normally looks - but I did it!")
A black mark was placed against the history of the Whales on a cold, clear late January Sunday in 2001. A cocky, swaggering/ staggering Whales squad ambled on to a windswept pitch... and walked off having been handed their arses by a keen, hungry Sharks team. 'Fluke', 'one-off' cried many Whales. We would have to wait and see.
2001-2 Season
President: Dave Reah
Results :-
Newcastle Mariners P-P UCH Sharks
UCH Sharks 6-26 Derby Braves
UCH Sharks 13-12 Leicester Lemmings
Sheffield Sabres 8-19 UCH Sharks
UCH Sharks 19-12 UT Cougars
Newcastle Mariners 0-44 UCH Sharks
Birmingham Lions 12-19 UCH Sharks
UCH Sharks 21-12 Leeds Celtics
UT Cougars 12-14 UCH Sharks
Stirling Clansmen 0-13 UCH Sharks (Playoffs Round 2)
UCH Sharks 13-38 Loughborough Aces (Playoffs Round 3)
Final Standings :-
UCH Sharks (7-1-0)
Sheffield Sabres (5-3-0)
UT Cougars (3-5-0)
Newcastle Mariners (1-6-1)
Leeds Celtics (1-7-0)
Notes :-
FUGLYBUPID:
Blubber Eds: Jason Price & Tom Slocombe
OBW Organisers: Charlie King & Julie Tonks
OBW arrived to the usual fanfare (wannabe tax dodgers desperate for a return to the land of milk, honey & cheap ale), but a slight tinge of regret was felt when it was explained that there would be no opportunity to dress up as the annual theme was mothballed for this year. Even Steve Chad couldn't be persuaded to arrive in hip-hugging flares and affro wig. That said, most people (even some Sharks) brushed up well.
Last year's 'fluke' was proved to be nothing of the sort, as the Sharks proceeded to turn over a painfully creaking, not to mention undermanned, Whales squad. Hi/low-light of the game was its final play, as floundering Whales defenders conspired to take each other out, leaving outgoing President Jay the simplest of tasks in waltzing in to the end zone. This could not go on.
2002-3 Season
President: Dave Lamont
Results :-
UCH Sharks p p Stirling Clansmen
UCH Sharks 6 31 Leeds Celtics
UCH Sharks 12 6 Lancaster Bombers
Loughborough Aces 6 13 UCH Sharks
Sheffield Sabres 6 6 UCH Sharks OT
UCH Sharks 6 46 Stirling Clansmen
Oxford Cavaliers 0 0 UCH Sharks Awarded
UEA Pirates 6 14 UCH Sharks Report
UCH Sharks 20 0 UT Cougars Report
UCH Sharks 8 15 Nottingham Outlaws Playoffs: Round 1
P W L T
Leeds Celtics 8 8 0 0
UCH Sharks 8 4 2 2
UT Cougars 8 4 4 0
Lancaster Bombers 8 4 4 0
Sheffield Sabres 8 0 7 1
Notes :-
FUGLYBUPID: None!
Blubber Eds: Jason Price & Tom Slocombe
OBW Organisers: Charlie King & Julie Tonks
The theme has returned! This year's OBW pandered to the sickest and most sordid of many Whales' fantasies - Skool Daze! The evening was a blur of stockings, short skirts and tight blouses. And most people apart from Pete Selwyn-Smith also dressed up. The Fulsome Twosome (Baz & Steve) turned eyes and stomachs with their 'wonderful' costumes, various hockey & netball teams both fascinated and repelled, whilst the Pink Ladies & various leather-clad Elvis-ed up individuals added to the otherwise Grease-y atmosphere. At one point organisers Charlie & Jools worried that they should have arranged for medical care to have been provided as some ageing Whales were displaying symptoms of serious coronary conditions later in the evening as the current crop of scantily-clad cheerleaders proceeded to bump and grind their way inexorably in to the memory.
It was with no small number of tears (all Colin's) that we experienced the passing of an OBW tradition, as the commemorative 'Colin's Raffle Prize' raffle prize was not awarded for the first time in almost a decade.
The Whales were on a mission. Playbooks were circulated. Some were even read. Players had abstained from pies for days. This was serious. A two game losing streak would not be allowed to extend to three - Marcus had commanded it. And so it happened. An awsome defensive display, coupled with a very efficient (amazingly, given that most of them still couldn't see) offensive effort, keyed by the running of Craig & Maz, as well as the all-round skills of prodigal son Andy Westcott (both with arm & feet) who scored the key TD, handed the Whales a deserved victory.
Perhaps the biggest news of the OBW - even bigger than the return to winning ways for the old uns - was the shocking news that nobody had qualified in any of the requisite fields for the annual FUGLYBUPID award. It was heavy heart that Gary announced that FUGLYBUPID would not, therefore, be awarded on this occasion, and chastised the huddled ranks of Sharks and Whales to try harder next year. Instead, Nick 'Committee' Chadwick was awarded with the extraordinary title of 'Taking It All Too Seriously'. Rumour has it that he has yet to take the t-shirt off. (Nick - Thanks Colin, maybe it should forever be known as the T.I.T.S (Taking It Too Seriously) award!!!)
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