Dundee Finish 2nd In Fife 3's Tournament
20th June 2010
This Sunday saw Dundee Northern Lights compete in a 3 a side competition at Fife Institute of Sport in Glenrothes.
After 2 enjoyable games against Balwearie and St Andrews (and 2 wins!) the Lights went on to play and beat Edinburgh in the competition semi-final, this lined up a final against Glenrothes.
Dundee took first blood but after having 2 goals disalowed for apparently not crossing the line Glenrothes went on to take a 3 goal lead. A period of comeback in the second saw Dundee come within striking distance of a win but Glenrothes were just too strong on the day!
Congratulations to Glenrothes for winning this competition and to the pair of St. Andrews players (Lindsay and Niki? was it?) who switched to Dundee to boost our number of females in the squad (this was a requirement of the competition and after Dundees other female player having to pull out of the games action).
Dundee Finish 4th In GB Nationals
23rd May 2009
The GB Nationals were recently held at Meadowbank Stadium in Edinburgh. The best teams from all over the UK played in 2 days of great floorballing action in which Dundee were by far the best placed Scottish team with a respectable 4th place finish.
The London Vikings, who Dundee had in their group, went on to win the competition in a thrilling final against the London Sharks eventually winning in overtime with a golden goal.
The other rankings of Scottish teams were as follows.
Dundee Northern Lights 4th
Edinburgh RBS 6th
Aberdeen Oilers 7th
Balwearie Thunder 9th
Glenrothes Growwl 10th
Balwearie Lightning 12th
We also had quite a large article in the local Dundee paper, the Evening Telegraph, which we will try and get online soon!
Nationals Draw Made
20th April 2009
Dundee Northern Lights along with all but one of the other Scottish based teams take to the rink again on Saturday 2nd and Sunday 3rd May 2009 in the British Nationals.
The British Nationals sees the best teams in the country compete against one other in a weekend of floorballing fun. This year the tournament is being held at Meadowbank Sports Complex in Edinburgh.
The Lights have a tough draw this year coming up against Balwearie Thunder and London Vikings in Group 2.
The event should be a good weekends floorballing, so come along and show support for your favourite team!
Meadowbank Sports Centre can be found at the following address.
Meadowbank Sports Centre
London Road
Edinburgh EH7 6AE
Or, enter your own postcode in the box below and let Google Maps work out directions for you.
Radmil Kranda, Paul Shaw, Stepan Rychtar, David Shaw and Anders Jinnelov show their Scottish Cup runners up medals at training. Picture of Linden, Jade, Colin and Ben to follow soon!
Scottish Cup (Partial :-) ) Success For Lights
12th April 2009
After a win over Glenrothes in the last Northern League games and grabbing 4th in the league Lights set up an encounter with Aberdeen in the semi-finals of the Scottish Cup held at Fife Institute in Glenrothes.
Dundee set out as underdogs against an in form Aberdeen straight off the back of their league title the previous month. While the bets were on Aberdeeen to take this game comfortably Dundee set out to give them a game and went up after a few minutes in the first period.
Aberdeen failed to offer a response to the early lead and lost 3 more ending the game 4-0 to Dundee and setting up a place in the final against Chapel. This was also rookie goalkeeper Ben Milnes first shut out in a competitive game. Aberdeen were visibly shaken by their comprehensive defeat and were left licking their wounds with a 3rd v 4th place tie against Edinburgh.
The final saw the Lights take on Chapel. A full benched Chapel went 3-0 up after the first period then added another 3 in the second to lead by 6 -0 against a 7 man Dundee squad after the loss of David Shaw and Radmil Kranda after the Aberdeen match. Still with only 7 players an uplifted Dundee frustrated an on form Chapel squad limiting the damage in the first 2 periods then coming out in the 3rd to outscore them 3-2 to end the game 8-3 to Chapel. For 7 players to come through and take the game to the eventual winners in the final period of a 3 * 20 minute game is a testiment to the guys (and girl :-) ) who played on the day.
For a club that actively encourages all levels of ability in the team at both training and games there is no question that we were happy with our progress this season making our second Scottish Cup final in the short history of the club and a 4h place finish in the league.
Dundee Northern Lights 2009 Scottish Cup Runners Up
Back Row. Anders Jinnelov, Colin Fergusson, Jade Milne, Paul Shaw
Front Row. Zdenek Blaha, Stepan Rychtar, Linden Forster & Ben-cleansheetagainstaberdeen-Milne
Not Present. Radmil Kranda & David Shaw
Thanks to Colin Bell of Balwearie for the photography!
The next event Dundee compete in is the British Nationals which are being held on the 2nd and 3rd of May at Meadowbank in Edinburgh. More details to follow...
Radmil Kranda and David Shaw who were instrumental in the defeat of Aberdeen had to leave before the final due to pre-arranged engagements.
Dundee in Local Paper
16th March 2009
Dundee get a mention in the local paper the Evening Telegraph after they run a story on the last games of the season.
Dundee Nothern Lights needed maximum points to leapfrog two teams and secure the last play-off spot in the latest round of fixtures in Glenrothes.
Light's first match against bottom club Balwearie Lightning saw the Taysiders run out 11-0 winners.
It came down to the last match of the regular season between Dundee and Glenrothes, who only needed a draw to go through to next months play-offs.
Glenrothes, last season's league runners-up, fielded a strong side and jumped to a 1-0 lead early in the first period.
Lights equalised then built a 3-1 lead in the second, but the hosts came back to lead 4-3 entering the final period.
The Dundee side equalised and went ahead 5-4, so, with one minute left, the Fifers pulled their keeper for an extra atacker.
Lights scored twice to seal a 7-4 win to clinch the final play-off position.
Scorers for Dundee in the two matches - Colin Ferguson (5), Stepan Rychtar (5), Anders Jinnelov (4), Radmil Kranda (2), David Mansson (1), Jim Wilde (1).
The play-offs take place on April 12th in Glenrothes.
Dundee On the IFF Website
16th March 2009
http://www.floorball.org/news.asp?tyyppi=&offset=0&kieli=826&id_tiedote=934&alue=171&yhteinen=
Top Points for Lights
8th March 2009
Today saw the this seasons final Northern League tournament games held at FIPRE in Glenrothes. Dundee were up against Balwearie Lightning who were defeated 11-0 by an on form Dundee squad. The second game of the day was against Glenrothes. This was a tough game with the Lights going 3-1 up going into the 3rd but soon loosing 2 quick goals to take the game to a draw at 3-3. 3 further goals by Dundee and one from Glenrothes took the game to 6-4 with only a few seconds left on the clock. Glenrothes then pulled their keeper but gave up another goal with a few seconds to go to end the game 7-4 to Dundee, our second win of the day and only our second win against the Glenrothes team in Dundee's history!
Dundee would like to congratulate Aberdeen for taking the top spot in the league this season (although we should remind Aberdeen that it was us that took the point from Chapel that allowed them to finish top ;-) ). Chapel came in second with Edinburgh 3rd and Dundee 4th. Propping up the foot of the table are Glenrothes, Balwearie Thunder and Balwearie Lightning.
This is the first time in the history of Dundee's involvement in the Northern League that a team other than Glenrothes or Chapel picked up top spot so it was a historic afternoons floorball and by far the best team in the league this season took the trophy.
Lights Players in Friendly 5's Winning Team
14th September 2008
Today saw the Friendly 5's competition taking place in Fife Institute in Glenrothes. Lights Paul Shaw and Jim Wilde competed in the winning side of the competition only dropping one game in the tournamemt. Congratulations also to the 3 Aberdeen players who were involved in the squad. Although it was supposed to be a friendly 5 a side the tournament ended up being 4 on 4 which lead to more goals and more exciting games.
It was also the first time that a few of the Lights have played in a floorball event and they were knocking in goals as well so congratulations to them all.
Dundee would like to take this oppertunity to thank the organisers of the event, the Northern League Committee, for such a gret days floorball.
Lights make local press
7th September 2008
The Dundee Northern Lights have made it into the local press this week with the news that local player Colin Ferguson has been training with the GB national squad.
Dundee Evening Telegraph Article about the Dundee Floorball Club