EFA Trophy 2017: Bad Weather Fails to Rain on the EFA Trophy Parade
16/01/17: For the second year in succession, wet weather and tricky conditions affected the qualifying rounds for the EFA trophy, but Fives players are hardy souls and the nine teams and over sixty players taking part in this year's competition carried on regardless to produce a fantastic day of Fives.
All at C: Fancy Dress Fives at Aldenham
Phil Lyndon reports:
21/12/16: Players at the Aldenham Heath Fives Club turned out in fancy dress last night (Tuesday 20 December) for an evening of fun and frolics.
New Innovations in Fives Court Building Technology
Jan 2017: The search has been on for a while for a cheaper alternative method of building Fives courts. Could Karen Hird have found the answer?
Three is the Magic Number...
19/12/16: Sunday saw the Fives players of North Oxford take on their biennial Three Code Challenge for the third time, with 16 players playing Eton Fives at Eton, Rugby Fives at Rugby and Winchester Fives at Winchester all in the same day.
2017 Ipswich Tournament: Lyle and Lumbard Leave Graves Challengers Dead and Buried
09/01/17: With 2016 finally consigned to the scrap heap of history, January 2017 saw the Graves Cup sailing towards the Fives players of Ipswich like a lifeboat of hope amongst the shipwrecked carnage caused by Brexit, a Trump Presidency and Ipswich Town finding themselves 2-1 down to Lincoln with 5 minutes to go in the Cup.
2016 Turnbull Trophy: Five in a Row for St.Olave's
12/12/16: The Olavian pair of Seb Cooley and Tom Gallagher piled on the records in the 2016 Graham Turnbull Trophy at Eton yesterday with a fifth consecutive Olavian win, a record sixth title for Seb Cooley (although he never managed to win the tournament as a schoolboy, losing in the final in both 1996 and 1997) and a third win for Tom Gallagher, the first school player to win more than twice.
Training Day for Coaches
Paul Bowden reports:
09/01/17: On Sunday 8th January Howard Wiseman ran a four hour training session for those fairly new to Fives coaching in schools.
London Tournament 2016: Harrow - is it three you're looking for?
05/12/16: The London Tournament has been back at Harrow for three years now, and 2016 saw a third win out of three for Seb Cooley and Tom Dunbar (a fourth in a row going back to Highgate days and a fifth in total together as well as a tenth overall for Tom) as they beat perennial rivals James Toop and Matthew Wiseman in a riveting final.
Festive Fives
Ralph Morgan reports:
23/12/16: On Sunday 18th December, the Old Citizens held their Festive Fives event at Highgate, welcoming strong contingents from the City of London School and the Cholmeleians and starring special guests from the Uppinghamians (Nick Preston) and from the Lyceum Alpinum in Zuoz, Switzerland (Peter Suess).
150 Up for REFCA
28/11/16: Two more hugely successful REFCA junior tournaments took place over the weekend, with Sunday's U12 Individual Tournament their 150th competition.