Notts games 2008 with 'Singsoc' netball

A picture speaks a thousand words. This picture shows the Singsoc netball team at Nottingham Games 2008 with our foreign talent. Yay foreign talent!

Let me start from the start. Nottingham Games is an annual singsoc/msoc event at Uni of Nottingham where singsocs/msocs within out region all come together for the day to meet up with friends and compete in a variety of games and sports. Unfortunately, I did not get to go last year (last year being my freeest year) and was still too toot to organise anything. This year though, I was bent on going. However suay suay alot of hiccups. Burps actually. To the point where I was quite convinced that some higher being was showing signs to stop me from going. Perhaps coz there was going to be a train crash/ 1 of us was goign to get killed.. I did not know. Or maybe it was just character building.

Anyway, we stubbornly went ahead with it and there were no crashes, no accidents, just a small cut on 1 player. So. All's not well that ends well.

Initially it was just 7 of us exactly (Paula, XY, Xiaomeng, Keewei, Tamami, Cat and me) so there were no subs. On top of that we had never played together as a team before (and we all just got to know Cat the night before). We had 2 quite miserable trainings of which people were usually too busy to attend. And also I only organised them in the last 2 weeks. Hai. Just my luck that this is a busy year for most people. Still, I guess this is a blessing in disguise coz we got to meet more new people and make new friends! Alamak that sounds so.. Barney. The team played better than I expected and we all got along extremely easily, which was a huge huge relief coz I was a bit worried about awkwardness and all what with our international team. Hee I think Paula was a bit shocled when I blatantly said, ' I think the team is playing much Much better than I expected.' Heh. Talk about diplomacy.

We played like sai in the 1st game coz everybody was runnign around blindly and I tink most of us were not sure of the rules and it was also the 1st time playing for some. Basically it was just a very messy game and I was still experimenting with positions at that stage. Though our foreign talents arrived in time for the 2nd game onwards (whew) and we could start subbing people in and out it was still a messy game. Funnily enough, our individual players are actually really good but we just kept playing very messily. After Kim went through tactics and all we managed to win the other matches. Just shows. Not that we are lousy. We just need to lose 3 matches to warm up before we start playing really well.

Pretty heartwarming to see everyone's enthusiasm. Like I did not really expect anyone to care about tactics and positions and thought most (I know it is not everybody) people just went there for the experiene and to heck and get it done and over with. However.. there you are. Sports really does bring people together! Now I kinda wish we had an inter-group sports competition in med schoo den perhaps I will be closer to my group :D