The Golden Neep IC

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The Pride of Portree (9-1-1 0.818) versus Chudley Cannons (0-11-0 0.000)
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Play Started:2000-04-10 at Rannoch Mor
Snitch caught in : 19 hours, 0 minutes
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The Pride of Portree : 1260
Chudley Cannons : 90
Congratulations, The Pride of Portree
( I think he went back to Canada for the snitch... )

Who: Chidera and Hamish
What: Birthday celebrations
When: 1st April 2000
Where: Chidera's mum's flat in Peckham
Warnings: Implications of adult activity. Clearly. It's a birthday celebration.

( You are in love with a dream, you know... )

Puffskeins themed birthday party was a good attempt at just acquiring more of the fluffy things. This is why no pets as gifts is a good rule, I fear the place would be overrun with them if Ellie had her say.

[Montrose +]

Final match of the regular season! What a fly it's been so far, you've all been amazing. How ever this match goes, we'll be having drinks at the clubhouse to toast the end of the regular season (but you lot can go off for something more fun after).

Now onto the Falcons...I'm going to try and be professional about them but I don't have many kind words to say about the team they are right now. They have a reputation that's well deserved as one of the roughest teams in this league.

In my personal opinion, their coach and management encourages this aggressive hostile team culture and style of play to the point where they have tipped well over from just being a physical team. When I talk about setting an example as a team, the degradation of the falcons we've seen this season is exactly what I don't want us to ever be. You're all professionals and I'm proud that you've all managed to carry yourselves that way, so on Thursday go out and show them how real professionals play.

Falmouth Notes:

Chasers: Leyland is the one to watch out for usually when it comes to points but they're rather even across the board and like using their elbows to help them steal possession wherever possible. Now whether or not the League and even the Falcons management play Flint will be their test of character. He's their roughest chaser and puts together enough points that if they don't (and frankly they shouldn't) play him it'll leave a hole. But that's about as positive as I can be about the man, anyone who treats a teammate that way well...I would've hope that no team would stand for it. Yet while I dislike being wrong about that, I'm not surprised.

Beaters: Offensive, and Allen in particular is their rough one. Very spotty defense though and they will sacrifice defense to try and get big hits on opponents, even if it means their own or themselves getting hit. Which is how the beaters alone have taken 5 big injuries this season.

Seeker: Of their current starting lineup, Mather is the only one who gets my respect. Kenna, consider this your big challenge this season. Mather is a better seeker than this team deserves and has a success rate to keep him near the top of the league. Without half his snitches, this team wouldn't be in playoff position with all their losses. Fly hard, lass, and use our beater cover to your advantage. He's taken big hits this season and it's been 3 blocs since we've seen him play, so he should be ready to close the season. If they don't play him...their reserve is still learning and can be both outflown and tricked in the chase.

Keeper: Shingouz was a very respectable keeper in her day, but looks like too many big injuries so close together is signalling her career coming to a close. After Cameron (I don't need to say how that one went) they're down to their reserve keeper Cattermole. We've only seen her in 2 matches this season so she's hard to judge but based on those...well they need to find a starting keeper if they want to go further.

Falmouth lineup:

Reserves, time to shine.
Chasers: Maddock, Roger, Angus
Beaters: Lex and Kal
Keeper: Ada
Seeker: Kenna

Yes I know we don't have our captain or vice captain up there. But this is a rough beater-heavy team so I'm giving Lex this one to run, she knows the things they'll try best so follow her lead for this match.

Portree Match

Reminder that Dani has gotten us a box to watch this final Portree match. I know it's the Cannons, and it better not last as short as their last one because she went to enough trouble to get this for us. But it's their last match and this is our chance to see their reserves in action again before the second neep match.

Festive note

Importantly to me, it's a little lass's 5th birthday on the 15th. I'm sure in her excitement she's mentioned it to many of you though. Ellie's been very insistent on asking that the team pups (and the team) be invited too, so like Ava's birthday you and your pets are all invited. It's at mine, with a magiczoology theme or Beast Safari (even if it's more jungle than Sahara) as the bairns might put it.

Like with Ava's, there is no obligation to come and no gifts are needed (especially not animals as gifts).

Now that you've read all that: Let's put Falmouth in their place.

Who: Alex Winters, Charlotte Brand, Fiona Roberts, and Maggie MacDougal. (AKA ex-NYC-expats.)
What: A fearsome foursome plays a game of Truth or Shot.
When: Saturday, April 7, 2000. Evening.
Where: Polyjuice, a bar in Aberdeen.
Warnings: Language. Alcohol. Discussions of sexual topics. Fist bumps.

( Oh, and everyone in the office started giving me underwear for gifts from there on out. )

[MADDIE]

How'd the event go? Hopefully the kids all enjoyed themselves.

[ANGUS]

So when you mentioned the possibility of going sailing were you serious about that?

I know the Neep and the playoffs are all terribly exciting, and I'm certainly excited to see who ends up taking both, but... well, I had a couple of complaints from our cleaners after the last Neep match. So please for Merlin's sake if you're going to get pissed sloshed indulge yourself at a match then please do so responsibly. Or at least bloody clean up after yourselves

[Ainsley]

I didn’t see you at the match.
So naturally, I worried
Are you alright, love? Do you need anything?

Who: Torquil McTavish & Ainsley Galbraith
What: Catching up over whiskey.
When: 4 April 2000, Late Evening (after her dinner with Georgi)
Where: Ainsley's Place at Raasay
Warnings: Curses, Cursing, Scots, Feelings, Ill-Advised Displays of Affection

( I don't have any power. Just a lad who dresses up in a lion costume to pay the bills. )

( Fraser )

( Mel )

ALEC URQUHART:

[This post is to reply to the journal wards here and thus to save anyone who tracked that post from all the responses showing up in their inbox. WHOO!]

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