The Golden Neep IC

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Montrose Magpies (11-0-0 1.000) versus Falmouth Falcons (3-7-1 0.273)
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Play Started:2000-04-12 at Scottish National (The Lamb)
Snitch caught in : 3 hours, 38 minutes
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Montrose Magpies : 630
Falmouth Falcons : 220
Congratulations, Montrose Magpies
( And that's a wrap for the regular season, with no deaths to speak of, again. Look for playoff schedules and times in the Daily Prophet and other sources of news... )

Who: Charlotte Brand & Lennox Campbell. Special appearance by Mama Campbell
What: Surprise (Slightly Awkward) Parental Meeting
When: Sunday, April 1 2000. Morning
Where: Lennox's Place
Warnings: none.

( He might be thirty-two, but there were still some aspects of his life she would prefer to feign ignorance about )

( Owl Post to Kenna McLeod )

Who? Montrose + (players and any interested affiliates)
What? Operation "For Merlin's sake, find our Seeker a bloody broom STAT"
When? Sunday, March 25th 2000
Where? Starts and ends at Lennox's place on Mull, via the practice pitch.
Rating? Probably some swears, knowing this lot. Rating otherwise TBD.

( RIP, beloved old Comet 360 )

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Kenmare Kestrels (7-3-0 0.700) versus Montrose Magpies (10-0-0 1.000)
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Play Started:2000-03-24 at Irish National (Conamara)
Snitch caught in : 7 hours, 18 minutes
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Kenmare Kestrels : 190
Montrose Magpies : 590
Congratulations, Montrose Magpies
( That'll bring the block's average up. It'll bring a lot of the league's averages up... )

WHY...    fuckfuckfuckfuckfuck

[Lennox]

Have you... um... seen the Witch Weekly yet?

Congratulations, Magpies!

[Lennox]

Saw Witch Weekly. Anything you need from me?

[Lex]

Saw the Prophet. How do you want to play this? Would you feel at all comfortable with putting together a Letter to the Editor to put your thoughts out there?

( SPOTTED! Out And About in the Wizarding World )

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Montrose Magpies (9-0-0 1.000) versus Wigtown Wanderers (4-5-0 0.444)
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Play Started:2000-03-11 at Scottish National Stadium at The Lamb
Snitch caught in : 6 hours, 0 minutes
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Montrose Magpies : 950
Wigtown Wanderers : 940
Congratulations, Montrose Magpies
( It's always a sad day when they don't let us out of the stadium until after happy hour ends... )

[Montrose +]

Time to take on the last scottish team! We have a bit of experience playing with and against them from the charity match and unfortunately that means the opposite too so they will be a bit more ready for some of our tricks.

This is a mediocre write-off season for them (they’re 4-5), but it’s a rebuilding season for the league. They’ve got a firm grasp on 12th so this isn’t a playoff year for them, but that’s mostly because they haven’t been in any high scoring matches this year. In fact their top score was 350 with the snitch last bloc. Their offense struggles a bit too much with putting big points on the board for this ranking system I’m afraid. So on paper they are deceptively bad. Really, their season numbers look average to bad across the board and if we hadn’t played with them earlier and if you don’t look at the matches on an individual basis, it’s easy to believe that.

Wigtown Notes

Chasers: Better than they are at first glance frankly. Have suffered from some big injuries that seem to have thrown them off, and haven’t really been able to put together the points they need to push themselves up. The chasers alone though have held their own against some big teams and even been ahead before they lost the match on the snitch. You can tell from the fact that none of their matches have seen huge point differences (160 points is the highest final point difference of their season and that was with losing the snitch). Parkin is their big scorer and Maddox their main defense and support type, so hold off whichever of them you can.

Beaters: They had a promising beater in Okeke but alas too promising as Portree poached her a few blocs ago. The remaining ones are respectable but so far haven’t been anything to write home about.

Keeper: Another case of better than she seems on paper. She was knocked out early in one match and her stats have suffered since. Other than that match, for all but one other match she’s been a solid 80-90% keeper.

Seeker: Alright. Blythe suffers from poor timing, as they’ve lost a few matches within their grasp from that snitch. Although she oddly enough has had more success against seekers that were better than her in skill (Mather and Lynch most recently). She’s capable of coming through for them just hasn’t been consistent at all about it.

Lineup:

Chasers: Jason, Roger, Angus
Beaters: Kal and Georgi
Keeper: Ada
Seeker: Kenna

As for the team sporting pink this match:

It should be a surprise to none of you that I’m fully for it.

But this is not something mandatory or enforced, that would ruin the good spirit behind it. I do want to say though that if you are hesitant for any reason, that I hope you consider doing this for this match. At the very least in personal support of those in our Magpie family involved in this wave of pink that’s sweeping the League.

If you want to talk to any of the staff about it still, our doors are open. And if you have concerns about the PR side of things: there’s Alex.

Dani has ordered boots with pink, and there should be a stack of rosettes too. If you’re interested they should be somewhere by her office (or ask her) and will be around on match day in the locker room too.

Jason, I believe Mick and Dani may have something for you soon.

[Gabi]

Between Lorna's birthday just now and Florrie's coming up, I have never seen so much glitter everywhere. It's almost resistant to magic.

Is the night before the match still the big Pão de Queijo making night?

( Memo from Montrose Magpies Public Relations )

(Please feel free to use this post as an IC/OOC, or we can treat it like a journal if your staff member/team player prefers the written medium.)

To all the “Pink” & Uplift Supporters:

Thank you to everyone who showed up at the Kenmare match. It was refreshing to see such a presence in stands. Rest assured we plan to keep this momentum going.

We are here. And we are not going away.

[WARD to MONTROSE STAFF & PLAYERS]

In taking a cue from Kenmare presence at their match, I would like to formally request that Montrose considers a uniform alteration as a statement of unity. After the Falmouth incident, we cannot afford to be silent.

As you know, I have been at the forefront of this movement. What I am asking for now is for Montrose to publicly show unity and support for those with muggle heritage and their loved ones.

Please stand with me. Let us all come out against Wigtown in black, white, and pink.

[//WARD to MONTROSE]

[WARD to COACH McG & SHONA]

And as I ask you to stand with me, I also realize that Maddock’s injury was unexpected. Although I had requested to be rested the week before the Annual Broom Race, please have no doubt that Montrose comes first.

I am fully prepared to start against Wigtown. I am ready to change, and even cancel, my Annual Broom Race plans. Please just keep me updated.

[//WARD to COACH McG & SHONA]

I know I live in Scotland now but...

IT'S SAINT DAVID'S DAY!! And I'm cracking open my box of wine for the occasion.

Also, technically the first day of Spring, even though it's freezing.

[Ainsley]

I don't know where to start with this, so bear with me. If Cecil is around [...] he might find this odd if he reads it. I met someone who looks exactly like him. Not a passing similarity on a quick glance but I actually thought Cecil was at the Montrose match. It was [...] Eerie. I got all flustered and swore in Welsh.

[Tor]

I think I might have been on a date this morning and I'm blaming you.

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Falmouth Falcons (3-6-1 0.300) versus Kenmare Kestrels (6-3-0 0.667)
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Play Started:2000-03-01 at Bodmin Moor
Snitch caught in : 21 hours, 12 minutes
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Falmouth Falcons : 250
Kenmare Kestrels : 1080
Congratulations, Kenmare Kestrels
( We would especially like to welcome all the representatives of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement community who have chosen to join us here at the Bodmin Moor Quidditch Pitch at this time. We do sincerely hope you all enjoy the game. And please remember, people, that no matter who you are and what you do to live, thrive and survive, there are still some things that make us all the same. You. Me. Them. Everybody. Everybody. )

So I got ejected immediately no warning and Fuckface Flint can foul 3 times with just warnings? Seems logical.

[Monte]
You alright?

Who: Charlotte Brand & Lennox Campbell
What: Valentine's Day date! (This time they'll actually get out for dinner!)
When: Wednesday, 14th February 2000 backdated
Where: A little muggle place
Warnings: none

( There’s a little place in Edinburgh city centre I found... )

( Owl deliveries for Lennox, Maddock, MG, and Roger )

Hii so someone thought it was a good idea to give me my journal back. But yeah. DOIGN FINE! ON pain potions so yup. And I have a VEST! They wouldn't let me put the Superhero M logo on it. Sorry Ainsley.

[ Montrose + ]

Wrods from the healer "I'm lucky". No practice for me tomorrow as I'm Skele-gro...ing tonight? Yup. Thanks for visits! If you visiteed. I don't remembere veryone.

BUT CONGRATS ON THE WINN! I got filled on what happaned. What was with that ref, am I right? Jason you're a King. Georgi my Hero. Florrie you're my favourite. Love you guys!

[ Lennox ]
Heard about the jection, what is that even about? I'm sorry about your record.

And you know. Sorry about being a dick. And Snitchnips. Because I don't think I actually said sorry about it. And I assumed I did. Because I was fired and life sucked. And I came back trying to forget it all happened. And thus just been a dick.

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Montrose Magpies (7-0-0 1.000) versus Chudley Cannons (0-7-0 0.000)
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Play Started:2000-02-11 at Scottish National (The Lamb)
Snitch caught in : 0 hours, 38 minutes
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Montrose Magpies : 340
Chudley Cannons : 0
Congratulations, Montrose Magpies
( First shutout since ... Chudley and somebody, I'm sure... )

Who? Friends, Montrose+.
What? Ro's Birthday
When? Thursday, 1st February 2000
Where? The Neptune (Pub, Montrose)
Rating? Who knows? Definitely drinking, probably shenanigans.