Funniest Moments....

[TzeWee]

Seeing such a wealth of experience and playing time of canoe polo in this forum, what is the funniest incidents seen in the pool???=)

[leighton_uk]

hi i was at hull internationall when i saw st albans and humbersiders and off the sprint the humbersiders player bust the other guys nose.

[Ian Main]

In a competition I watched one of my club mates get disorientated and take a shot at our own goal. Our keeper was caught unawares and I witnessed the only own goal I have seen in the seventeen years of playing!

[hoody]

Playing at a local outdoor tournament in Dundee, The roughly put up and floated on barrels goals started to sink at our end and came down on top of or goalie hitting him square on the top of the head. Also I have been in a sprirt and the ball became squashed between the two noses of the competing boats and popped out straight into the air about 20 feet like a cork out of a bottle of champagne. Very funny to see but had no clue as to where the ball had gone. Also saw a boy getting his teeth knocked out in div 2 last year!!!!!!!

[missy]

dear god! noses broken, teeth knocked out! what kind of sence of humour do ye ppl have?

i was poloing and a duck jumped out of a tree, dived into the water and poped up in front of me and flapped its wings and went "QUACK"
I think that is duck for "SURPRISE" !
scared the s*** out of me but looking back it was very funny, but only slightly polo related :silly:

[TzeWee]

one funny moment during a competition was the floating goalpost start to sink and fall towards the playing area. think it was knocked by some kayaks and the poor goalkeeper was nearly trapped under the goalpost and the attacker didn't know to shoot for goal...
brought out alot of laughs for the audience though=)

[troy]

Like Ian I have seen a disorientated player shoot and score in their own goal, but I have four more notable recollections of my canoe polo experiences:

If you don't want to read them all, jump straight to #4.

1. Playing NZ vs Aus at the Auckland quarry in 1995 where the wind was gusting through the playing area... a player uncontested on a fastbreak, shot hard and sure up at the goal from 4m away - a gust caught the ball and blew it back over his head where it was recovered by a chasing defender.


2. Playing on a lake in Adelaide in 1993 where the wind came up bringing on some big waves ... our subs could catch a wave from the offshore corner and surf diagonally up the pitch and overtake players paddling from halfway on the on-shore side. It made for some interesting play - until the moorings broke and the goal and sidelines got washed away.


3. The funniest I've seen ...
A goalkeeper blocked a shot and knew they'd stopped it going into the goal ... in the process the suspended goal was knocked backwards a metre (it was a powerful shot) ... the ball dropped straight down - hit the goalie on the head - bounced down onto the tail of their boat - then straight back up 2m in the air - where it was caught by the goal swinging forward... the ball never left the playing area so a goal was awarded with a very confused goalkeeper still looking around for the ball!


4. The most notable - laughable now - but certainly not funny at the time!!! (I'll never forget this one)
NZ vs AUS Men - Bendigo, Dec 1991 (back in the days when our tackles were fairly hard)
Peter Holder (NZ) kayak-tackled Aaron Fleet (AUS) as Aaron was tipping over with the ball - next thing Peter is out of his boat and moving through the water to wrestle Aaron from his boat... by the time we jumped in to 'break up the fight', we find that Peter's tackle had cracked Aaron's deck open as it was pushed in against his thigh, and as the force of the impact came off Aaron's boat the deck popped back out taking a bunch of skin with it... so there's Aaron sitting inside his boat with a bunch of his skin ( about the length and size of your little finger) poking up through a 1mm wide crack in the deck!!
We lifted Aaron in his boat out of the pool and it took 8 of us about 5-10 minutes to break his cockpit coaming apart and push the deck back in and ease the skin back through the crack. Aaron was a champ - hardly shedding a tear!
So Peter was the first to realise Aaron's predicament and was racing out of his boat to help - everyone else (incl refs and players) had no idea what was happening and were sure that a fight was about to happen ... I guess Aaron was the one who had a reason to start a fight but there was no way he was moving anywhere in a hurry!!

[mrplaybus]

St Albans vTynemouth (I think) 2001 National champs. Centre start, St albans player let the tynemouth player win the sprint and then backlooped him with a hand tackle. Very funny for everyone except the player being looped.

[mrkeeg]

_I_ remember one time... This wasn't _during_ a polo game, but right after. We went to a buffet and Tyler regurgitated nearly a whole bowl of ice cream through his nose. I laughed till I cried.

Maybe that doesn't count though?

Oh... your welcome Tyler...

Keegan

[tyler]

As soon as I saw the thread and your name beside it I knew that was going to come up.

......and I never ate ice cream at a buffet again

[Pyranhakeks]

Well that same guy from Humbersiders who bust the St Albans player's nose has a habit of cracking noses...

a few months ago at training we were warming up with some passes and *nameless Humbersiders player (now plays for Hull Mariners)* threw the ball as hard as he could in my direction, unfortunate thing was that I didn't know that he had thrown it. He son realised that I wasn't aware that it was coming my way and so called my name so I knew it was coming, I preceeded to turn around only to end up stopping the ball with my faceguard which was pushed back and onto my face and so cutting my nose and causeing it to swell later that night making it painful to put on any t-shirt or jumper for the next 2 and a half weeks. Just to add insult to injury, another member of my team accidentally did exactly the same thing again :( I now have a beautiful scar on the ridge of my nose that is going to last me a lifetime. BTW, I have now adjusted my faceguard so that it cannot do that anymore.

Phil.

[Brogan]

Anyone in the last international in charleroi,if you were you will probably have heard of the melee between the referee of the ireland u21s v charleroi club team.the ref gave 2 penos aginst the belgians,sent off 2 players,which leaded to another player getting off the water in anger but was quickly turned around by his wife!the wife then went on to verbally abuse the ref. when the match was finished the player threw his paddles at the ref,which provoked a swift kick in the head by the referee!At this stage the coach of charleroi club approached the ref and after a short burst of words he grabbed the ref and threw him into the water.the ref jumped out of the water,ran up the stand followed by the player who then launched his helmet at the ref but missed and broke to pieces on the ground.after realising the ref had escaped unharmed he then went on a rampage by ramming his fist through a window!

[Albert]

Canadian Nationals 2003 Finals

It was storming and raining all morning after a weekend of nice weather at the outdoor pitch. The final was called delayed as the lightning got closer....

The visiting San Francisco club team after many minutes of delay went out on the pitch during the storm to warm up and see if we could manufacture an earlier start as one of our players had a plane to catch. All the fans, players and officials were huddled indoors and coverings.

I was thinking this was a stupid idea as I took warm-up goalie shots under the metal goal frames. Hmmm....raised metal over water with a nice carbon rod during a lightning storm. Our nice Canadian hosts obliged and we started the final in the rain. Our brave video volunteer sat in the raised bleachers outside holding a metal frame umbrella to keep the camera dry.

At the half there was a bright lightning flash and the thunder roared in 2 secs later. That was only about a dozen pitch lengths away. I thought that would be it along with most others....

Play On!!!

We won the final and a tornado touched down a little later not too far away.

albert
San Francisco #12

[ilona]

Brogan, I don't find this very funny. The organiser of the Charleroi tournament felt really embarrased by his local team, I think. This not a way to treat a reff even if he was really lousy (don't know if he was or wasn't). Not very good advertisement for a wonderful tournament.

[Brogan]

i agree with you completely that it was a very successful tournament and i had no intention of insulting the organisation of the tournament.Maybe it was just me that saw a funny side to the madness and i apologise if i have offended anyone.

[Juno]

1995 Schools National in New Zealand our team was playing into the sun in the morning so the sun was sitting right in our faces. Aarin roles up half blinded by the sun and with water in his eyes. Tosses the ball to where he can hear team mates voices; didn't help either that he was playing without his contacts. As his eyes clear and looking lost in the middle of the pool, I paddle past and he yells out "whats going on". In his haste to get rid of the ball he managed to beat the goal keeper and slot it into the back of the net.

I have also have heard of a player that I shell remain nameless from the Vikings team rolling up facing his own goal and taking a shot beating his own goal keeper in the process.

[Juno]

Then there was this one time at a Polo camp...

[Pyranhakeks]

lol, nice finish.

[Phil M]

I remember at the National Champs several years ago when St Albans A were playing in the semi-finals. It was a very close match, and the winning goal came in the dying seconds of the game. An opposition team member fancied his chances of scoring from halfway with the St Albans goalie under his goal. Everyone watched the long lob throw float towards the goal thinking it'd be saved easily. It wasn't. The goalie didn't even try to save it. And it was the winning goal.

When asked after the match why he hadn't attempted to save the goal, he replied "I didn't see the point. It wasn't going in". Myself and the other youth players standing around found this very funny. (Needless to say, the rest of the St Albans A team didn't)



On another occasion, in Div3 S in Luton, a lass of the St Albans B team got a bit too fystie and manage to whack someone round the head with her paddle, sending them off to Hospital with a fractured nose. Feeling she hadn't made enough of a spectacale of herself that evening, she decided to pretend to push in a fully dressed referee during a match. Unfortunately, her pretend attempt was a little too powerful, and the ref went swimming.

[roo]

2 incidents both from Uni competitions.

1) Imagine a very talented slalom paddler, pretty handy on the polo pitch too. Very unlikely to swim, especially in a swimming pool in Bristol...Lets call him Lardy to protect the innocent.

Gets a push in the game just as the ball is released. Play carries on elsewhere. In the meantime the upside down boat has drifted into the handrail/gutter at the side of the pool, end on. At least five attempts at a roll, every time stopped by the boat not being able to rotate in the gutter. The player pops his deck and is stood next to his boat as quick as, looking for the opposition player who must be holding him under.......No one else is within 5m of the swimmer!! Crowd pleaser.

2) At compton verney during the BUSA tournament. Two players mugging each other for the ball. Both capsize together, both holding the ball. Under water time seems like an age with boats bumping and lifting and rattling around, ball floats away, but ruckus continues. A significant lurch from one boat which remains upside down whilst the other rolls up to reveal a paddler moving quickly. Next up is a swimmer who looks like the sort of angry you'd be if someone had just pulled your deck off......Once again, Crowd pleaser.

Many more, to come but I'll stop there. Uni champs have to be the source of some good polo humour.

cheers
roo

[sp_edey]

This one is really funny now that I think about it. The national team was at a training camp and it was a game against the menA and menB. I was the SB and Brad had the ball as I was expecting a pass. He threw it really hard about two meters behind the target and it skipped and came up and nailed me right in the nose. Everyone couldn't help but laugh as I was about lose it because it happens to me quite offen.

[subzero]

At one game (that i will not name) a goalie (lets called her gabi) had just saved a great shot and was throwing it to one of her team mates that was already paddlering up the pitch.

Well cause Gabi's not that good at throwing the ball takes a nose dive the second it's released and hits an opposition players back of their boat, the balls boucnes off and bounces onto the front part of another oposition players boat, the ball then bounces off that boat and lands right next to one of Gabi's own team mates who proceed to paddle up and score a goal. the other team are really confused as to where the ball is.

Well it was funny at the time.

[slalomguyjay]

it was at training and i was watching (subbie could of been there or skipping) and a lad went over the ball accidently and another kid trying to get the ball lent over to see where it went and it flew out and hit him in the face guard and pushed him over. it was cool.

[subzero]

I think i might have been there for that one did it happen at HWP???

By the way, what took you so long to get on here sgj????

Luv Ya

Subbie

[slalomguyjay]

yea it was at hwp. who was the keeper u? tom? i didnt cum cause salom kicks polo ass

[Pyranhakeks]

Hmmm, I don't think that salom kicks polo ass is going to go down well on this forum! :gun:

I didn't realise that tom played in goal, I thought that it was nicola or jo!
hmm, probs jus me getting confused again.

So we (mariners etc) playing against yas in new years I hear, kool :D

Neways, enough ramblings.

Phil.

[slalomguyjay]

tom does goal sumtimes yea. slalom kicks ass and if they dont agree you know where they can shove their complaints

[tyler]

then there was this one time Keegan was paddeling with a different offset, took a stroke and fell right over. ha.


-just thought I'd continue my lets make fun of Keegan posts from the "greatest moments" thread.

sory Keegan I'm done now.
:D

[tyler]

Ps. -you started it.

[mrkeeg]

Ty... so far no votes for the "lagoon creature" hunk...

Yes, yes, it is funny that Keegan can't stay upright after being a kakaker for this many years. ...Not as funny when it is this cold out though.

[subzero]

Yeah Tom and me normally alternate goals when were're on the same team, but were normally on opposite teams so it work out okay. No i think tom was in goal then cause that when Nic wanted to try and learn all the other postions apart from goal which i was (and still am) very good at.

Nic does play goal in the ladies league (i think) but i've never seen Jo play goal were was that????

AND WHAT have i told you, polo is better than slalom, even your addmit that polo's okay on the greenstar website so why not here, plus as well if you want to talk about slalom go to the other website. This is a POLO website. I've told you that James many many times. Oh well i'll just have to beat you on firday AGAIN!!

Luv ya

Subbie

[slalomguyjay]

three thing slalom kicks ass and i will talk where i want, second thing you srent that gud a keeper, and third you never have beat me and never will.

[Robski Aitken]

Well, I guess that most of the funniest things are all of the "looking back, it was funny" kinda things.

Just like (I heard about this one), once there was a tournament in Cork, Ireland ( :lepr: country), and some poor secondary boarding school player had an 18th birthday on the Saturday. His team ended up finding out, and decided to give him his first legal drinks... and they kept on coming... (I don't really know what happended after the first shots and pints, maybe Mike can tell us)...

Anyway, He woke up the next morning with an amazing hangover, having to play the first match on sunday!

He was nominated to take the start sprint... did so and went under... couldn't get up untill the sideline cought the boat... but managed somehow to righten himself at the dissapointment of the spectators and opposing team.

Then came free for an open goal.. dribbled as close as possible so he was SURE to score, picked up the ball, shot as hard as possible, ball went flying under goal, player capsized, came back up, and subed off....

Looking back, I guess it was funny that they fed me so much alcohol on my 18th birthday!! but really, I can't remember much about it apart from the stories they told me..

:hump:

Mike? help? fairy?

Rob. :bunny: :waah:

[Mike]

aaahhh, the memories :)

Well it started well for this poor student, but then one of the lads got an idea of giving him the colours (7 shots of differing colours, one after another) and washing it down with a guinness.
Then as it was the Kinsale sevens weekend aswell (a seven a side rugby comp) there were some rowdy rugger buggers around. When they decided it was a good idea to run naked around the pub, the poor lad was shell shocked, and thought he was hallucinating :)

Anyway, back at the house later, he wanted to know what was good for a hangover and was promptly told "fairy washing up liquid"
So, with his new found knowledge he proceeded to down quite a substantial amount, before bolting outside and landing on the boats in the back garden, where it and a lot of the evening's hard work came back to say hi...

He wasnt a well puppy the next day as you can imagine...
Sorry Rob :)

[Robski Aitken]

I was quite happy to have forgotten about that detail of the rugby team!

Thanks (AGAIN) mike!

:gun:

[clarke]

i was refereein a game in school.... totally into the game.there was this guy who was practisin his roll at the side of the pool...jus as he was to roll up, a fast break was on the go in the game... the wash created happened to hit the side of his boat while hes comin up... he roll back and hit the edge of the wall ... leavin a deep cut and a fracture nose,fallin into a short "coma"... amazinly he manage to pull himself out ogf his boat before lyin motionless at the side... no1 notice till i was runnin up the side and fall over him...it was a hell of a mess... and off he wen to the sitchin room...btw hes not playin animore...cos i shoot right at his nose after he a week...(it was a accident)

[Nidge]

Maybe three years ago at one of the Hull Internationals one of the lasses who, sadly, suffered from epilepsy (and all respect to her too because for sure I don't think I'd have the bottle to paddle if I suffered from that) was playing. And during the game she fitted - Which meant she not only lost consciousness but capsized too. She was quickly turned right end up, but as she still unconscious she was pushed by pretty well all the other players over to the ref's to the pontoon against the shopping center. (A big shopping complex actually suspended above the water on stilts for those who don't know the venue).
Now that was *not* funny.


What *was* funny was that just about everybody nearby thought they had to contribute something and lept onto the pontoon........ :rolleyes:
....... Which gradually sank


Thankfully the lass was fine once she'd come round (and *very* pissed off at being hauled away incase she'd inhaled any water).

Nidge