Unfortunately we had to cancel tonights social due to a lack of interest! Im sorry for such a late announcement, ill try and get something organised for next week instead.

 -Dave

The tennis email- For those that didnt get it

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We are getting hoodies made! They will be in a new style this year, with a zip and a hood and pockets at the front which will bring a new trend in amongst them cold winter club days.

As most of you know there is a social coming up this week also, We are in the middle of organising it so keep your eyes peeled and watch the tennis facebook site or the email correspondence.
Hopefully that you’s all are getting into the swing of things with a different range of techniques. This coming week Darragh will be doing some drill work on the forehand and backhand grip but he’ll be moving players around different areas of the court so you have an idea of where to be positioned.

Making sure that you have all signed up for the ladder last week so hopefully all of you will be challenging the other friendly faces to matches to be played during club time.

See you all next Wednesday.

Declan

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Hey everyone, We are gonna be having the social at our house (47 camden street), We could not unfortunately book the boat club, so we have had to revert to plan B! Its just going to be a halloween party, with like halloween games and stuff! You can come in fancy dress if you want, but its not a requirement! (more information will be given on wednesday!)

I have been talkin to UUJ tennis club, and were in the process of arranging a colours style match between the two universities. The last one was 2006, so were hoping to resurrect it! So next week im going to be looking for players interested in playing in the competition. Only put your name down if your committed to playing, becuase all the organisation and set up etc, it wouldnt look good to have people pulling out last minute.

And that is why, we are going to be pushing the intermediates and advanced to play further matches next wednesday! So from 2pm-3pm, we are goin to continue our round robin style tournament, then we will get coaching on from 3-4pm for intermediates and advanced. Beginners are free to sign up as well, but were mainly looking to recruit from the intermediates and advanced!

Thats all for this week, and ill see ya tomorrow!

Dave “

Week 4!

An awesome time was had last wed night at bowling, real good turnout! Thanks everyone for showing up, you are all legends! I’ll be bringing the prizes along this wed for the ppl who won!

This week im mixing it up a bit! I’ll be organising a mini tournament (structure can be found Here ) for the intermediate advanced players, and for the beginners youll get an extra long coaching session based around serve! As serve takes quite alot of time to learn, and to teach, itll be good to have the full 2 hours so Darragh can have enough time to teach you the fundamentals!

Im in the process of planning a Halloween party so keep a look out for that! (more info on the Facebook page!)

In other tennis related news, we are getting hoodies made! They will be in a new style this year, with a zip and a hood and pockets at the front, So we’ll take orders next week for anyone wanting one! James will tell you more about that!

-Dave

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Bowling photo!

Just booked the oddysessy there, we have 4 lanes, for 2 hours, From 8pm-10pm on wednesday. That means theres 24 Places! I need to get 20 people to qualify for the discounted rate, so all the people that have said they were coming, have to come!

We have the lane for two hours so we can have more than 24, if some people wanna switch over after the first hour!

Party time!!!! wooo

(will get the ladder info up soon!)

Hey Guys and Gals, This weeks social will be at the Oddyssey (I’ll spell it right one of these days…) Were gonna go down, and show those Pins whose boss! Yeha..and all that….

So basically…Bowling, at 8pm at the Oddyssey. All Taxi drivers worth their salt know where the oddyssey is, so have no fear on that front! You’ll have to make your own way there, and i dont recommend walking the distance as its quite a hike. So taxi’s or getting someone to drive will be your best options!

Ill send out an email, or you can join the attending list on the facebook group (Located at http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/group.php?gid=161939897056)
Please join the group, as it makes organising 500,0000,0000 times easier.

I’ll probably say something about it next wed as well! Hope ya all can come!

Adios, Dave

1st Social event went pretty well, Our house was left in a diabolical condition, which is always a sign of a gd party, someone who will remain anonymous downed a pint of Red after-shock haha, “The Octopus” got on his elite marine skills on the dance floor, that slippery guy.
A good first night out to get the year started! Next i think we’ll go bowling (which for everyone who went out last week, will ensure a nice break for your liver!)

2nd Week, (wed 14th Oct), We’ll Start up the semester Fee, Take names for the Ladder, and see who’s interested in joinin the teams for District League!

Apologies to the Intermediates last week, due to the load of People, we could only get round to coaching the beginner session, but hopefully, we shall get Beginners + Intermediates coaching from next week on. Coaching for the beginners will probably be based around Backhand technique if you wanna look it up before hand!

I’ll get the weekly email out by around Sunday/Monday, so check your inbox, and can i urge everyone to join the Facebook group to make it easier to arrange social nights!

Dave

Hey everyone, Id like to thank the guys that helped out at the Freshers Bazaar, and id like to thank everyone that signed up!

The first week of tennis will be Wednesday 7th of October, from 1:30-4.00pm At the Belfast Boat Club (i recommend a quick look on google maps!). For anyone who doesnt know the location of the Boat Club, James and I shall be showing the way from the Students Union at 1.00pm, and leaving from the front steps of the Union at 1:15pm.

For anyone that hasnt signed up, you can still join at any period throughout the year,  so if your coming down on wednesday make sure to bring £8 with you to cover the membership+ session fee!

For everyone that has already paid, please dont forget your receipts we gave you at the bazaar!

 Thanks again everyone, and i look forward to seeing you next wednesday!
Dave

This weeks social is this wednesday, at the bot! Check out our Facebook group for more info-

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Hey all, Just to remind you that the freshers bazaar is on this wednesday the 30th of Sept! I would like to highlight we have a group on facebook and its from here we will detail the social events and other activites that will happen throughout the year so check it out!

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Hello all! Id like to welcome everyone back for the new year, and welcome all new friendly faces. For those yet unaquainted with our fine establishment, My name is Dave, im the social chair and webmaster for the year, this is my 2nd year running the site, so if you want to read lasts years posts and get a flavour of whats its like, be my guest, but if you want to retain your sanity…maybe its better not…You cant say i didnt warn you!

For sixth formers, there is an open day this Thursday and Friday, the 10th and 11th of September in the students union, where your free to come and have a wee chat with us and see what were about!

For all you queens folk! The Freshers bazaar is on Wednesday, 30th of September, This is where you can come down, chat to us, and join the club! We’ll have a stall allocated to us, and we shall try and score some free food, See how generous we are?! We have a very large membership of mixed ages and genders, so dont worry about feeling left out, there is always plenty of people to mix with! Plus im like that tom guy from myspace…your default friend, so im like the ultimate mother goose…with more hair…and…i dont look like a goose…but thats a different story.

Tennis will not begin until the first wednesday of october, but we shall give you more information on that at the bazaar! I look forward to seeing everyone back, i promise its gonna be an exciting year!

 Dave-WebMaster+Social Chair

Hey all! 

The following are announcements relating to next year + relieving the memories/nightmares of the year gone by!

With the AGM being held today, The new Committee members for the 09/10 Year are as follows:

Captain- James Spencer
Treasurer- Simon Guist
Social+Webmaster- David Smith
Secretary- Declan McGilloway 

Id like to thank this years committee members for a tremendous job, Chris Scorah for his impressive organisation& running of the Irish Tennis Intervarsities, Naomi Hughes for good nights out during the year, Aidan Malone for his stylish secretarial skills and without whose epic google maps we wouldnt have made it to any district league matches, James Spencer for his treasuring (Ai Ai captain rage-eye? Peg legs+ patches for next year i think)+ driving skills (lets not forgot those memorable pyschopathic moments), & Myself - mere words cannot express how awesome i truly i am, Lets face it…im the glue that holds everything together! Like a glue made of manly gorgeousness! Ok, maybe i exaggerated that a tiny bit, but i definitely didnt scare any girls away as Aidan would tell you….Pah! Steven Smith who did….captaining? lol go steven! No-one knows exactly what Steven does….but its dangerous… Like running into a monkey inclosure and screaming obscenities about bananas…. were all glad steven would lay his life on the line like that for us.

I would like to congratulate Simon Guist and David Smith for remaining in the top spots on the respective Ladders. We win a years free membership to the club next year (Score!) Thats like….70 quids worth of booze next year! And in the current economic climate…we never sniff at free booze + NHS care for hepatic impairment (All who wish to join my crusade to contract swine flu and thus recieve a free mask, email me! I know…giving out masks for free…crazy).

 Id also like to congratulate the district league team of Steven, James, Brendan, Aidan, Rayan and I for a superb performance, and hopefully we can come first next year! Next year we plan on entering the Winter league and the Spring Doubles+singles League so it should be a very productive year so watch this space!

My final thanks goes out to our 4 Intervarsities teams and also a big thanks to all the other universities that came down and hopefully we can put up an equally strong performance in Dublin next year!

 I would also like to say a fond farewell to all those members leaving Queens this year, and i wish you all well in your future careers (this phrase seems very uncharacteristic of me…better go back to the monkeys…)

Well, Its been a brilliant year… Probably the most successful in a long while! We had our very first octopus join the squad, and man did he bring some elite aquatic skills to the table! We had our first ever district league win! and also got into the Mens Final of the intervarsities for the first time since the 1960’s! Im personally proud of our family of marine wildlife/maniacs/alcoholics  and i hope next year we will improve in our strive for alcohol fuelled perfection!….Oh…and i forgot…Never ever mention the Cat food or Cream “experience” again. Good Luck in your Exams, and Ill see Y’all next year!