Floorball is played at the University of Wollongong, NSW Australia.
Thursday, November 24, 2011 at 3:52PM | Andrew Clay Exam period is over and as such Wednesday night Floorball is back to its normal schedule. Floorball is played at the URAC building at the Wollongong University every Wednesday night from 6:30-7:30pm with a cost of $8 and everyone is welcome to join in.
Wednesday, November 9, 2011 at 3:34PM | Andrew Clay Wednesday night Floorball will not be on tonight and for the following weeks as The University of Wollongong uses the venue to host exams.
Floorball will return back to normal, Wednesday nights 6:30-7:30, once the exam period is over and we hope to see you all then.
Wednesday, November 9, 2011 at 3:14PM | Andrew Clay Last weekend (29th Oct) marked the first games of the NSW Elite and Mixed series competitions. This year, the Gong Scorpions and the Peninsula Floorball Club joined together to form teams to enter into both competitions. Due to the fact that both these teams are fairly new to the sport, these games marked the first elite level game for many players. Our Elite Series team was narrowly defeated by Bondi 6-7, this is a very promising result for the team. However, one of our most experienced players ( who is also one of the webmasters for this website) Daniel Clay, injured his knee and had to retire early in the game. Our mixed team won the game against the Bondi mixed team 2-0. Both these results are very promising as it proves that our newly formed team can hold its own against more experienced and seasoned teams.
Concerning Daniels knee injury
The injury Daniel sustained during the game was much more serious then previously thought. Daniel has damaged his ACL ligament in his knee. This is one of the worse ligaments to damage and his injury may have to result in surgery. It is likely that Daniel will be unable to play for the remainder of this season. We wish Daniel all the best and a speedy recovery.
Tuesday, October 18, 2011 at 2:06AM | Daniel Clay The sport brand Asics has recently become one of the principal sponsors of the IFF. Along with this they have created some new advertisements featuring Swedish national team player Magnus Svensson in an effort to increase their visibility in the floorball market. Check out them out.
Tuesday, October 4, 2011 at 6:49PM | Daniel Clay The Champions Cup starts today in the Czech Republic with the first match between womens’ teams Djurgårdens IF from Sweden and Rubene from Latvia.
The Champions Cup is a new tournament that has only been started this year after a decision by the IFF. The tournament grew from previous years’ European Cup as a way to have a competitive tournament for both developed and developing floorball nations. The championship winning club teams from the developed floorball nations play for the title of the Champions Cup whilst championship winning teams from developing floorball nations play for the European Cup. The winner of this year’s European Cup will be promoted and be able to play in next year’s Champions Cup, whilst the last placed team from this year’s Champions Cup will be relegated to playing for the European Cup next year. In all there are 12 teams in the Champions Cup, six in the mens’ section and six in the womens’ section. You can follow the teams, schedules, standings and statistics at the tournament’s official website or at the IFF website.
All of the matches are broadcast live on the internet and can be watched here for free, the first match is already underway (7pm East Coast Time). One of the really good aspects of the recent tournaments organised in the Czech Republic is that not only are the matches broadcast live on the internet but they are also archived online so that they can be watched later. This is great for us who live in Australia or other timezones that are a long way from Europe, the heartland of floorball. All the archived matches can be watched at link above.
The final and semi-finals or both the mens’ and womens’ sections should be good matches but there should also be some good matches in the group stages. Some of the best matches should be Mlada-Boleslav (CZE) against Wiler-Ersigen (SUI), Storvreta (SWE) against Tatran Stresovice (CZE) and SC Classic (FIN) against Red Ants Rychenberg (SUI). Mlada-Boleslav will be interesting to watch as they are playing on home turf (the tournament is being held in the city of Mlada-Boleslav) and also because of their physical style of play, which can be seen in one of our previous posts.
Thursday, September 22, 2011 at 2:44PM | Daniel Clay The first match of the highest mens’ league in Sweden was played on Tuesday between FC Helsingborg and Pixbo. Pixbo’s Peter Runnestig scored three airhook goals in the match, the last of which levelled the score and sent the match into overtime. FC Helsingborg ended up winning the match in overtime, with the sudden death goal being scored by Linus Nordgren. Here are some highlights from the match.
Wednesday, September 21, 2011 at 1:40AM | Andrew Clay Recently, a new Floorball brand has come to light, Oxdog. I for one have never used their equipment so I can’t comment on that, but one thing that I can comment on is their advertising campaign. The YouTube hosted adds feature well drawn comic style movies that I think are pretty cool. Have a look for yourself make your own judgement.
The newest latest addition to the series can be found at the Oxdog YouTube channel and their website can be found here
Friday, September 16, 2011 at 3:52PM | Andrew Clay There is an interesting article over at Observer news about floorball with a interview with professional hockey coach Dave Beaudin, who has recently been involved in coaching floorball. The article is a pretty interesting read but one particular quote grabbed my attention. Make of it what you will:
“We have been asked by the North American International Hockey Federation to train men and women for the first U.S. Olympic team in this sport,” he said. “Speaking on behalf of Floorball Florida, USA Floorball and the International Floorball Federation we would like to engage in an ongoing development partnership. We see the potential of Freedom Harbor being a leading host facility for floorball events in North America. Globally, floorball is the fastest growing team sport and we are seeing a very encouraging trend to hosting large scale open championships that bring in players, coaches, volunteers and spectators.”
For the full article click here
This article was brought to my attention from the guys at Floorball Central who are doing a great job in posting a variety of floorball related news, check them out.
Share Article Wednesday, September 14, 2011 at 1:08PM | Daniel Clay Wednesday night Floorball will be changed from 2 hours to just 1 hour in length and will now start at 6.30pm instead of 6pm. These changes will be effective starting tonight. The location remains the same; URAC Sports Hub at the University of Wollongong.
Sunday, September 4, 2011 at 1:09AM | Andrew Clay This is a video from the NHL website posing the question on peoples opinions of penalty shots to end the game. However, the most interesting part of this video (in my opinion) is the little skit at the end. You can watch the whole clip or skip to about 0:50 to see what I’m talking about.
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