tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2251466388005560272024-03-06T02:54:48.471+00:00Double Coverage: UK American Football BlogBringing you the latest news, analysis and opinion on the NFL and UK American Football!Ownerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10031883306575524689noreply@blogger.comBlogger706125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-225146638800556027.post-50884342815541807822013-07-03T09:48:00.000+01:002013-07-03T09:48:04.454+01:00Kent Exiles - Maidstone Pumas Game Report<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small; line-height: normal;">The Kent Exiles dominated the Maidstone Pumas for the second time in 2013, this time in their home fixture at a sweltering Beaverwood Club, coming away easy winners 58-0.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small; line-height: normal;">The scoring came thick and fast, despite the Pumas showing obvious improvement from earlier in the season. The first quarter saw Ben McCarthy start the scoring on a 9 yard catch from Zac Ritchie, and then Ryan Wilson snagged an interception and returned it 71 yards for the second score. The return was the longest in Exiles history, beating the previous best of 67 yards set in 2005 by Michael Turner.</span></div>
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<i>by Nick Foxley</i><br>
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The Colchester Gladiators got off to an explosive start, running in three scores in their first four plays, on their way to an over-powering 51-6 demolition of their county rivals, Essex Spartans.<br>
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Under the floodlights at Hannakins Farm, Billericay, the host Spartans had no answer to the strength of running back Casey Campbell, who ran for another 176 yards from just 11 carries and three touchdowns, and a strong defensive performance, led by defensive lineman Dan Jones, who picked up 2½ sacks, and Josh Milgate, who led the team with eight tackles.<br>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Casey Campbell waltzes into the endzone for one of his four scores. Image courtesy of Charles Greig</i></span></div>
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Sheffield’s 19-game winning streak came to a sudden halt last weekend when they travelled north to face East Kilbride. In the first ever meeting between these two sides, the Pirates’ strength and experience of playing at the top level was too much for the Predators to overcome. East Kilbride received the opening kick-off and, on a wet and blustery day, promptly fumbled the greasy ball. Fortunately they recovered it and continued with their opening drive. Progress was aided by a couple of Ryan Hunter passes to veteran receiver Jason Byworth and the opening points arrived when Iain Dick carried home from the 12-yard line.<br>
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Presidents were somewhat stopped in their tracks as they lost to local rivals
Gateshead and then to the Clyde Valley Blackhawks and now sit at 3-2. They take
on Glasgow looking to get back to winning ways under Coach Ben Johnson.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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meanwhile, whilst not scoring much, have defended their way to a 2-1-1 record
and sit second behind the Senators. This could be a close game and will depend
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rematch of the opening day 13-7 win for Gateshead sees the Senators head North
to face Clyde Valley. Whilst the opening day was a close victory, recent games
have seen the away side open up on offence (read: give it Evander Harewood) and
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bottom two teams in the National Division North square off on Saturday. The
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that saw them head to the playoffs last year and are struggling amongst their
rivals. Maybe a win here can kickstart their season?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Pirates. Despite two high scoring offences partaking in this game, the winner
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the Mustangs who game away with the victory. Should that happen again this
season, the Premiership North title race will be blown wide open. For the
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the 2-2 Lancashire Wolverines (Lancashire currently average 10 points per
game). This is a must win game for both teams. If the Wolverines win, their
changes of a playoff spot will open while a victory for the Caesars will move
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There is no domestic Irish football this weekend but two Irish teams take part in the EFAF Atlantic Cup! We interviewed David Barker of Trinity College Dublin and Belfast Trojans' Head Coach, Drew Mikhael, but now we take a look at the teams themselves.</div>
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Whilst there is a mathematical probability that the Dragons could find themselves dropping down to fifth and being out of the playoffs, the likelihood is that it won't happen and that their offence will pull off another brutalisation of the Black Panther defence similar to what we saw in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BP-GkDvyrDY" target="_blank">week three</a> and keep them in playoff position. </div>
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With the Black Panthers offence getting progressively poorer throughout the season and their defence never having played at a great standard I can only see this one going in the Dragons favour. I believe it will be a case of trying to kill the game off before half time and then getting the backups in to finish the job. </div>
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The Raiders surprised quite a few of us last week when holding out the majority of their top starters against the Vikings to turn what could have been an exciting game into a fairly dull encounter. This week I expect them to pull a similar stunt (although, when have my predictions ever come true) but this time be on the winning side of the scoreline over the leagues worst team, the AFC Rangers.</div>
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By this stage, I feel as if the Rangers are fully resigned to another winless season and having your season finale against one of Europe's powerhouses prOnobably hasn't done anything to change that sentiment. The Rangers need to keep building towards the future and if they do face a weaker Raider lineup it could prove to be a perfect opportunity to gain a little confidence going into next season, and who knows, maybe they'll try something other the letting Craig Maynard get beat up on every play as he tries to carry the team.</div>
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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-225146638800556027.post-82936954497056768192013-06-27T07:04:00.004+01:002013-06-27T07:04:52.856+01:00Atlantic Cup Preview: Trinity College Dublin's David BarkerThis weekend the Netherland's Amersfoort Untouchables and Belgium's Brussels Tigers head to Dublin to take on the Belfast Trojans and Trinity College Dublin in the EFAF Atlantic Cup. It will be TCD's first ever European competition so Double Coverage (<b>DC</b>) caught up with Club Commissioner, and linebacker, David Barker (<b>DB</b>):<br>
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There had been talk of an arrest warrant for days, with
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evidence, but to actually see such a big name star plucked from his swish digs
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WATCH LIVE: Authorities respond to Aaron Hernandez's North Attleboro home <a href="http://t.co/2MnclR15h0">http://t.co/2MnclR15h0</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23fox25&src=hash">#fox25</a><br />
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But nowhere near as shocking as the charges that were to
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Aaron Hernandez charged with murder.<br />
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Don’t get us wrong, Hernandez has had a pretty chequered
past. At Florida, his reputation as a potential troublemaker - combined with talk of failed drugs tests - damaged his draft
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There was chat of gang involvement and general uncouthness.
In short, Hernandez was considered a risk-reward kind of guy.<br />
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We should have known when the Patriots cut him loose. Bill
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Full statement from the Patriots following the release of TE Aaron Hernandez <a href="http://t.co/WdAz07raPm">http://t.co/WdAz07raPm</a><br />
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With the amount of insiders the Pats have, they would have
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This doesn’t appear to be a simple case of telling the police
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Now the official charges have been brought, it seems pretty clear cut; <b>Aaron Hernandez is in deep sh*t. </b></div>
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Ownerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10031883306575524689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-225146638800556027.post-90590177753939428232013-06-26T08:56:00.001+01:002013-06-26T08:56:08.122+01:00AFL Week 10 Review<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The difference on the day was that whilst the Giants were able to keep the ball and consistently maintain drives, the Dragons drives seemed to encounter multiple problems either through penalties or turnovers as they got further down field. This lack of execution and boom-or-bust feeling to the Dragons offence has been prevalent all season and is one of the keys to the Danube team improving in the future.<br />
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The decisive point of the game came at the start of the third quarter with the score standing at 20-7 in favour of the Giants, the Dragons conceded a 62 yard kick return which was immediately turned into a 33 yard Good touchdown pass. The Dragons then put together a 10 play scoring drive of their own before immediately conceding a one play 59 yard touchdown pass that took the score to 33-14 and from there the game seemed dead a buried.<br />
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This victory confirms the Giants a playoff spot and a matchup against the Raiders in the first round and amazingly leaves the Dragons still in the lurch with a regular season finale against the Black Panthers to navigate to secure their playoff spot.<br />
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Prague Black Panther 26 - AFC Rangers 12</h3>
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The struggle between the leagues bottom dwellers turned out to be a fairly even contest but ending with the predicted outcome of the Black Panthers offence managing to outscore the Rangers and in doing so claim their second win of the season and keep their very slim chance of actually making it into the playoffs alive.</div>
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The game winning factor on the day was the Black Panthers ability to run the ball and physically dominate the Rangers on both lines of scrimmage. This dominance meant that Craig Maynard was never able to be efficient in the passing and really struggled to crack the Black Panthers on the ground.</div>
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As usual quarterback Andrew Shoop delivered most of the points for the Black Panthers as he passed for two scores and ran for another to round out a nice 300+ total yard game. And with that said there's not really much to add on this game, no one was expecting fireworks, and neither side delivered, both teams are still miles away from the standard that they need to be at to compete against any of the other teams in the league and until they catch up, this fixture will remain meaningless to everyone else except the Black Panthers and the Rangers.</div>
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My analysis of this game can only go so far as there was a clear difference in attitude between these two teams towards their future matchups that had a big impact on the scoreboard. If you didn't know already, the Raider rested starting quarterback Kyle Callahan and handed Adrian Platzgummer is AFL debut and also held some of their other starters out of the game. The Vikings on the other hand clearly had the goal of maintaining their undefeated season as they didn't try anything cute with their starters and let them go out and play, resulting in a fairly easy victory on the day.</div>
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New Raider quarterback Platzgummer may have made his AFL debut, but it was largely a day for him to forget as he really struggled against the leagues best defence completing only 7 of 19 passes for 49 yards and 3 interceptions which helped the Vikings keep the ball and the clock under their control.<br />
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With these two teams likely to face each other twice more this season there was clearly some gamesmanship at work here as the Raiders decided not to reveal anything new or expose their key players to injuries in what was essentially a meaningless game. When these two teams next meet I am expecting a whole different kind of game to take place.<br />
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STATEMENT FROM THE NEWLY FORMED DUCHY REBELS 22/06/2013<br>
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Comprising 17 players and 1 coach who previously called themselves "Cornwall Destroyers".<br>
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We feel it necessary to make a formal statement as certain statements/allegations have been made on various social media by Mr. Peter Hoccom (Hoccum) regarding our leaving the Cornwall Destroyers including a statement in the "stolen" thread on the BAFANL forum that we have left to join the Cornish Sharks and stolen equipment.<br>
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We simply want to play football so will make no further comment after we have made our position and the timeline of events clear in this statement. We feel this statement is now warranted particularly following claims on various social media from Mr. Hoccom to recruit players under false promises and making unfounded and untrue accusations against players and coaches in Cornwall verbally.<br>
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The group of players now known as the Duchy Rebels AFC made the decision to leave the Cornwall Destroyers AFC of their own accord and for the reasons listed below. Options for the future of the players were then discussed by us as a group and after these discussions, the decision was made to contact Coach Myatt to ask him to join us and resume his coaching duties. As an ex player and very experienced Coach in both American Football and soccer, we valued his experience and felt honoured that he agreed to join us. At no point did Coach Myatt contact any players with regard to transfer of their duties to an opposing team. Coach Myatt had left the Cornwall Destroyers a few days before we left having had a disagreement with Mr. Hoccom, who with no playing or coaching experience decided he knew more about coaching and American football than the one qualified coach in the organization.<br>
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We said in our preview for this weekend that two teams would come into the Shamrock Bowl Conference Wildcard Playoffs as favourites but also that there'd be two teams facing them that will give them hell in order to reach the semi-finals themselves. Not to blow our own trumpet but we were spot on.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px;">On 22 June 1996, Coach Jim Criner sat down with his Scottish Claymores coaching staff, a single malt for company, to prepare them for the biggest game of their season.</span><br>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px;">The next day on the 23rd he coached the Scottish Claymores to a stunning victory in the Claymores home stadium of Murrayfield bringing the World Bowl to the football daft Scottish fans.</span><br>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px;">On Saturday June 22nd at Stirling University Coach Criner and Coach Lynn Stiles (former assistant coach to Utah, Iowa, UCLA, San Jose State, Philadelpia Eagles, San Fransisco 49ers & St Louis Rams) are holding a coaching clinic for the British American Football Association.</span><br>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px;">The clinic is open to anyone, with a cost of £10 for non BAFCA members and BAFCA members will pay a reduced fee of just £5.00 as part of BAFCA's support for continued learning.</span><br>
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earlier this week we posted the video forthe Miami Dolphins Cheerleaders performing a cover of Taylor Swifts song "22"<br />
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Now it's come to our attention that the New Orleans Saints cheerleaders (the "Saintsations"...) also made their own cover of the same song and more to the point released theirs a day earlier! Being in the business of balanced reporting we feel it necessary to share the video for comparison.<br />
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Playoff football! The Shamrock Bowl Conference heads in to
the post season as the Wildcard Playoffs take place tomorrow! It’s been an up
and down season and it’s going to have the same pattern going into these match
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Pumas are having a season to forget, a season in which they could break a
record for the most points conceded in a season.</span> <span style="background: white;">We hope it doesn't come to that, but for now Milton
Keynes will roll over those Pumas and make</span></span> <span style="background: white;">them purr.</span><br />
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<b><span style="background: white;">Nottingham Ceasars at Sheffield Predators</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Perhaps
one of the winners of the restructure, the Sheffield predators managed to avoid
a season</span> <span style="background: white;">slicing through division
one like a hot knife through butter and instead find themselves playing</span></span>
<span style="background: white;">with the bigger boys. They have been more
productive in the North than their final rivals from</span> <span style="background: white;">last year, the Saxons, have been in the South. The
Ceasars on the other hand have looked frankly</span> <span style="background: white;">dismal.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br />
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<b><span style="background: white;">South Wales Warriors at Cambridgeshire Cats</span></b><span style="background: white;">A long
away game for the Warriors, as the two teams on either end of the Geographical
spectrum of</span> <span style="background: white;">the premiership south
square off. Cambridge swept aside Sussex last weekend by just outscoring them, and</span></span>
<span style="background: white;">with South Wales looking in worse shape than
Sussex, the Cats should have no problem clawing out</span> <span style="background: white;">this victory, however they will want to show some
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<b><span style="background: white;">Berkshire Renegades at London Blitz</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">The
London Blitz have taken to the habbit of outscoring the London Warriors in as
many games as they</span> <span style="background: white;">can. The
Renegades faced a brutal 71-0 defeat and if the Blitz are wanting to stay in the
continued</span> <span style="background: white;">outscoring form, they
will be looking to better than. Spirits may be somewhat higher in the Renegades</span>
<span style="background: white;">camp after a good outing against the Olympians,
but the Blitz, the Olympians are not. (#yoda)</span><br />
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<b><span style="background: white;">Bristol Aztecs at London Olympians</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Our
shout for game of the week right here. With the Cats snapping at the heels of
these two teams,</span> <span style="background: white;">one can't help
but feel this will be the decider for the third place in the South. The Aztecs
have</span> <span style="background: white;">looked on great form, with
Gareth Thomas finding his rhymn in the last game throwing for over 300</span>
<span style="background: white;">on Sussex. The Olympians have been a little off
the beat, not being able to put away the lower ranked</span> <span style="background: white;">teams in the same fashion as the Blitz, Warriors and
even Aztecs. One thing riding in the O's favour</span> <span style="background: white;">is being at home, and that could well swing the balance. Both teams will
have circled this as potentially</span> <span style="background: white;">their
biggest game of the season from the get go, with away trips to Scotland in the
playoffs on the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span>mind of
both teams, it's a must win affair.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">This
one will go down to who wants it more, and which team can pull out the better
line play (the</span> <span style="background: white;">big difference
between a good team and a great team).</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">The
Olympians have been at #3 all year for the reason that we think they will end
up there.</span><br />
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Now that we’re a considerable way into the season, we felt that it was
time for a change with our Premiership rankings. Therefore, we’ve decided to
combine the two rankings together, as well as introducing a writer’s power
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as the #1 team in our new and improved Premiership ranking. With the Renegades
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With a 7-0 record, the Warriors could easily be the number
one team on this power ranking, but for now, they claim the #2 spot. With their
final three games spread over the next nine(!) weeks, the Warriors won’t be
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A 39-7 road win over the Lancashire Wolverines cemented the
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coming up against the undefeated Sheffield Predators, the Pirates may be in a
battle to retain their spot for another week. </div>
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