TEAM NEWSLETTER

March 2019

Hello newbies!

Welcome to our monthly GRD newsletter!

This newsletter is how we celebrate and communicate our progress and achievements internally at GRD. We hope you are settling in at our Sunday training sessions and are as excited as us to start your roller derby journey!

We want to say a big thank you to all the support the league has given this month. We had two successful intakes, supported Lincolnshire Thugly Ducklings with their T1MS game and cheered oh so loudly at The Grim Reavers championship game!

We have a quiet April coming up, during this time we will be preparing for the first Brothers Grim game of the year and the Grim Reavers’ third Championship game against Hull Deathrow.

March

The York Minxters Roller Derby

The Grim Reavers had their second British Championship this month against York Minxters Roller Derby. The Minxters put up an incredible fight and were winning throughout the game, until the last 15 minutes when our Grim Reavers started to pull back and secured a nail biting win!

A big thank you to everyone that came to cheer us on and our GRD officials for doing us proud!

The Grim Reavers 173 – The York Minxters 162

Best Jammer – Rolldemort

Best Blocker – Smash Brown

MVP – Kittie Hitter

Coaches award – Sugar and Spite

Intakes

We had two very successful intakes this month with great attendance. We are now training up budding new Brothers, Reavers and refs; as well as, Eve Gormley, Lady MacDeath, joining us from Team GB roller derby juniors.

Lincolnshire Thugly Ducklings

Our home venue hosted Lincolshire Thugly Ducklings’ T1MS game. We had our cake and merch stall at the event, some of our league members were part of the Non Skating Official team and we were able to cheer on our coach, KP!

It was a great day packed with excellent roller derby!

SDRD Mild Discomfort 268 – Oxford Men’s 150

Lincolnshire Thugly Ducklings 223 – Bristol All Stars 100

Coach Comments

Apr 2019 Calender

Year of the Reaver

Tuesday

02/04/2019

20:00 – 22:00

Training

Sunday

07/04/2019

09:30 – 11:30

Training

Tuesday

09/04/2019

20:00 – 22:00

Training

Sunday

14/04/2019

09:30-11:30

Training

Tuesday

16/04/2019

20:00 – 22:00

Training

Sunday

21/04/2019

09:30 – 11:30

Training

Tuesday

23/04/2019

20:00 – 22:00

Training

Sunday

28/04/2019

15:00 – 17:00

The Brothers Grim v TSI

Tuesday

30/04/2019

20:00 – 22:00

Training

GRD Lexicon

When you, the blocker, tactically hold an opposing blocker at the back of the wall, “GOAT” should be called to notify all the team that they need to contain the blocker to take advantage of the pack. This means it will be easier for the jammer to push the remaining blockers out of the engagement zone.

Birthdays

We want to wish a special Happy Birthday to our April birthdays:

06/04/2019 Michael Barnes
09/04/2019 Rebecca Lawtey
11/04/2019 Sharon Scimshaw
15/04/2019 Sue Reavers
22/04/2019 Jasmine Williams
23/04/2019 George Tupling

We hope you have the best day!

GRD. Let’s make this year, our year.