League   Season 2011/12

South West Korfball League   During the winter months we play in the South West Korfball League ('SWKL'), competing against Taunton Soul, Bristol University, Bristol City, Horfield (from Bristol) and Gloucester Lions. For the 2011/12 season, Bristol Thunder and Gloucester University join the league. There are two divisions within the League, the First Division and the Second Team Division. At present there is no promotion or relegation between the divisions - although this may change in future. Exeter had a fantastic 2007/08 season, winning both divisions. The 2008/09 season went down to the last day of matches with the Second Team winning their division again, and the Firsts coming second. Both teams finished second in their divisions 2009/10. We had to be satisfied with 5th and 3rd respectively in season 2010/11.     Home Games Our home games this season will be mostly played at Wonford Sports Centre [Google Map]  Tables and stats On the English Korfball Association website:  League tables: First | Second Team  Player stats: Firsts | Seconds On the South West Korfball Association website: Historic league tables    Fixture   Results Report Saturday 8 October '11  Away v Bristol Thunder 1200 - 1730, Opening Super Saturday, City Academy Firsts: 5 - 9  Seconds: 10 - 7  We had a fantastic day yesterday. It was a very long day with the super Saturday style day but fun and we had two excellent matches. The Seconds won their match with a score of 9-5 and the firsts lost a tight match with the scores 7-10 (Debs 9/10/11). Match Sheet  EKC1     Match Sheet EKC2         Saturday 22 October '11 Home v Bristol Uni 1400 - 1700, Wonford Sports Centre   Firsts:  8 - 5 Seconds:  7 - 2 A couple of good results against the Uni's younger legs! Match Sheet EKC1     Match Sheet EKC2                       . Thanks to Hannah W for the photos      More pictures on the Facebook page ... Saturday 5 November '11 Home v Golucester Lions 1400 - 1700 , Wonford Sports Centre Firsts:  P Seconds:   P Match postponed due to travel difficulties (M5 closed).       Sat/Sun  19/20 November '11 (day tbc) Away v Golucester Uni Firsts:  C Seconds:  C Match cancelled - unfortunately Gloucester Uni have had to withdraw from the League. Saturay 26 November '11 Home v Horfield 1400 - 1700, Wonford Sports Centre Firsts:  9  - 14 Seconds:  5 - 10 I asked some people to record shooting statistics for me. I've been a bit lazy collating the bits of paper but here are the results: 1st team attacks: 53 shots: 45 v 76 0 shot attacks: 22 v 12 1 shot attacks: 19 v 19 2 shot attacks: 10 v 13 3+ shot attacks: 2 v 9 Shooting percentages Exeter 1:        20% Horfield 1:     18% 2nd team attacks: 52 shots: 70 v 62 0 shot attacks: 10 v 11 1 shot attacks: 25 v 28 2 shot attacks: 11 v 9 3+ shot attacks: 6 v 4 Shooting percentages Horfield 2:     16% Exeter 2:          7%   The sense I got from the day I think is largely backed up by the figures. The second team I thought played very well and it would seem we in fact created more shooting chances than Horfield. Perhaps they were just a bit more accurate with their shooting. The first team stats are interesting. Clearly we had more hiccups than Horfield did in preparing for attacks since there were quite a lot of occasions where we didn't manage a shot. They also had more success than us in collecting and recycling. However their actual scoring was not high compared to shots taken and 5 of their goals were scored by just one player. Horfield are doing well in the leagues this year but clearly both of these matches could easily have gone our way. Some more clinical shooting from the second team and better recycling from the 1st team together with shutting down Horfield's top scorer on the day could have created very different results. Anyway, some things there for the coaches to think about. (Alan , 13/12/11)   Sunday 11 December '11 Away v Taunton 1500 - 1800, Blackbrook Pavillions Firsts:  11 - 5 Seconds:  8 - 3 Match sheet 1 Match sheet 2   Saturday 17 December '11 Home v Bristol City 1400 - 1700, Wonford Sports Centre Firsts:  14 - 7 Seconds:  6 - 5 Match sheet 1 Match sheet 2   Sat/Sun 7/8 January '12 (day tbc) Home v Gloucester Uni Firsts:  C Seconds:  C Match cancelled - unfortunately Gloucester Uni have had to withdraw from the League.   Saturday 14 January '12 Away v Horfield 1500 - 1800, Horfield Leisure Centre Firsts:  20 - 7 Seconds:  12 - 12 Very well done to everyone who played at the weekend. The first team were well beaten - 20 to 7 - but faced a good Horfield team who are gaining regional level experience. Although we lost we scored some good goals and for large parts of the game applied the systems we've been working on in training to create opportunities. A few more of those converted could have had a big effect on the scoreline. This was a better performance than the result suggests. The second team played in a very exciting match, clinching a draw in the last few seconds with, if memory serves, a long shot from Hazel. It was a good performance from everybody to come back from 8-4 at half-time and it was great to see plenty of long shots going in. Not only was this the first match in which Horfield 2 dropped points but also the first in which Exeter 2 reached double figures. Special thanks to Helen. 'Coming out of the woodwork' may not be quite the phrase I'm looking for but not only did she play very well but ensured we had a legal team. (Alan, 15/1/12)   Saturday 28 January '12  Away v Gloucester Lions 1200 - 1500, Severn Vale School Firsts:   Seconds:   Saturday 4 Febuary '12 Away v Bristol City 1430 - 1730, City Academy   Firsts: Seconds:     Saturday 18 February '12 (rescheduled from November) Home v Gloucester Lions 1400 - 1700, Wonford Sports Centre Firsts: Seconds:     Saturday 25 Febuary '12 Home v Taunton 1400 - 1700, Wonford Sports Centre   Firsts: Seconds:   Saturday 3 March '12 Home v  Bristol Thunder 1400 - 1700, Wonford Sports Centre Firsts: Seconds:   Saturday 24 March '12 (new date) Away v  Bristol Uni Closing Super Saturday, City Academy, Bristol 1200 - 1700   Firsts: Seconds: