Club Champo's

Apologies Splashers for being a bit behind the times.

A certain comment made by A. Johns has made my last fortnight resemble that of the French soccer team's assault on the World Cup.


RESULTS

30 Metre
1. Ally Hunter
2. Brian Power
3. Mark Pullin
B/T. Jayden Whiller
B/T. Neil Buchanan

90 Metre
1. Andrew Hackworthy (0.05)
2. Wade Byrnes (0.08)
3. Adrian Booth (0.27) Towel
4. Emma Jago (0.29)
5. Val Hoggett (0.33)

QUAY THERAPY DAY: Club Championships. Another reason to be at Presentation Day! Southern Metrops entries are in thanks to hours of political wrangling and complex calculations by Martin who made the hard decisions in the best interests of the Club. Relay teams are being coordinated so clear your diaries. List to be sent out with names of relay team members. It was only day THREE of being an Australian, but already that pervasive 'she'll be right' attitude had its grip on Len Welch. No show for his weekly breaststroke demonstration lap!

 No show for his washing up responsibilities! Len, the washing up isn't a right, its a privilege! That said, all reports from the Ceremony were that your rendition of the National Anthem while playing a chair as a bagpipe was immensely moving. Fingers crossed we'll have some pictures soon.

Hot on the heels of Origin humiliation, inter state rivalry was compounded this Sunday. Rhonda was swimming with the St Kilda Serpents down in Victoria, Whillier made his dreams of being in Queensland widely known, and we're going to lose Annabelle for Icebergs day in favour of waterpolo in Victoria!

What was the other news? Oh, the Surf Club badge draw. Here's hoping that Estimates Committee isn't called to explain the repeat offending 100 each week on surf club donations. I am sure Sure SURE we will get a return soon. I mean, let's just catch a ride on Peter Ryan's luck. He walks into, ok, fair enough, we all know Peter doesn’t walk, he shambles, into South Juniors and scores himself $6000! Someone's in the know however, as two days into him having his licence back, a new TV show called RBT has started up. If they combine THAT footage with the C.X.H footage from last weekend, the Splashers are in for some major publicity.

Turning to the results in the 30 metres. Despite repeated assurances that she was 'only here for the bbq', this week's 30 metre saw first place awarded to Miss Ally Hunter. Given that the girl has gills, its not that surprising until you realise she has basically lost a second a week since the season started. So congratulations to her. Not just for her swimming, but for a charming acceptance speech in which she, clearly mindful of the relationship between our financial reserves and the quality of the prizes, first remembered to thank our sponsors!

Talking of sponsors leads us to the day the Bronte Splashers, Fast Skins, FINA, the WSAA and CONTROVERSY came to blows. Loyal members and sponsors both, Fiona Botella and Ms Quay Therapy Bours, met with the wrath of pool deck officials by appearing in their World Masters' Games suits for the Club Championships. They were both good sports about their disqualification and have now, appropriately, set their sights on New Dehli.

Bankrupt the Splashers long weekend

RESULTS

Pipeline Plumbing 90
Metre
1. Len Welch (0.07)
2. Neil Buchanan (0.10)
3. Lizanne Wilmot (0.12)
4. Ginny Hedderman (0.15)
5. Max Sayer (0.44)

Palfrey Plumbing Skins
1. Matt Carter
2. Cameron Mercer
3. Chris Hutton
4. Harry Gatt
5. Jayden Whillier

60 Metre Hobby
Plumbing
1. Greg Reynolds
2. Rhonda O'Grady
3. Tony Natoli
B/T. Katie Vesper
B/T. Lizanne Wilmot

PALFREY PLUMBING AND HOBBY PLUMBING: Big thanks to Martin and JH for their concerted efforts to re-balance the books on Sunday, and for JH’s genius accounting which somehow made him think he was drinking for free! And of course to Col who put in a marathon catering effort on the day and then didn’t stop working until the sun was well gone on Sunday evening. It was a big day. First up, disappointments - there was someone with a video camera at the Charing Cross Hotel, and Graham Kerr and Brad Preston - our stalwart of the long weekend - were MIA. But in good news, there isn’t another long weekend until October, Les was down, Val Hoggett was in situ to receive her pink champagne, Peter Hoggett and Brian Russell remain friends after being entered in the same heat, Scott Carr has been signed on for another season as the face of David Jones, and John Hobby’s new status as a family man paid off as he did a few makeovers while his brother put his hand up to help (read ‘do everything’) with the website. Annabelle Carter successfully stared down the long arm of the law while her brother outwitted and outswam a field of Splashers that failed to walk the fine line between too slow and too fast in the Palfrey Skins Event! Some of the trailers were spared by break times, notably by Miss O’Grady who took our last female out of contention, but, as ever, it was a great spectator event, ably captured in photosby Rhonda. Len Welch was in fighting form to take out the 90 metre, after a week of late nights diligently reciting the Australian National Anthem in preparation for his impending citizenship ceremony tonight!

Skins specialist Matt Carter holds the trophy aloft 

Checking the Splashers archives, I can happily advise that some things never change as the photos, the suspects, the poses and the behaviour was all EXACTLY the same as last year! I guess its not surprising given our commitment to the lifestyle manifesto of Swim, Drink: Repeat.


SOUTHERN METROPS
Martin has been collecting names for interested Metrops participants for the past couple of weeks. If you’ve put your name down, and you’re entered and paid for, its always the icing on the cake if you come along ready to swim on the day. Martin + Band + Dance Floor = always worth a day at Icebergs.

Dear Kiel Smith, THERE IS NO PLACE FOR LEATHER JACKETS AT SPLASHERS!

If you want to wear them, piss off to the Ice Bergs.

JUNIOR RELAY: With so many excellent Junior Splashers dominating the results these days, we’re calling upon parents to help us put together a ten a side Junior Relay over at Icebergs. Lily and Amy Delooze, Bella and Ally Hunter, Mackenzie and Jayden Whillier, Alex and Eleanor Ryan, Emily and Georgie Ryan, plus a multitude of others who perhaps are less shy and retiring, but just as fast and enthusiastic, put your hands up! We are putting our entries in on Monday 21 June so could all those dedicated parents let us know if they feel like traipsing over to Icebergs on Sunday 11 July before we put our entries in this Monday?

.....AND WE ARE BANKRUPT

Sunday 6 June – Brian Power Carpet Biz Day

30 Metres
1. Greg Reynolds
2. Andrew Hackworthy
3. Harry Gatt
B/T Fiona Volpatti
B/T Richard Ede

60 Metres
1. Rhonda O'Grady
2. James Hudson
3. Warren Whillier
4. Benson Hodgson
B/T Len Welch

90 Metres
1. A Hackworthy (0.12)
2. Ray Hobby (0.25)
3. Paul Carter (0.50)
4. Liz Russell (0.62)
5. Chris Hutton (1.03)


CARPET BIZ - Thank you to Brian Power for sponsoring last Sunday and for keeping the Bronte Splashers happily supplied with Carpet Biz pens. Congratulations and many happy returns to Laurie who turned 13, and, I am advised by her father, is the first person coming out of Ireland who can swim butterfly.


PALFREY SKINS 30 METRE + HOBBY PLUMBING 60 METRE + PIPELINE PLUMBING 90 METRE This Sunday all the Splashers favourite things come together: PLUMBING and PUBLIC HOLIDAYS. Oh, and there will also be some very competitive swimming, with a pledge already received that the Skins Trophy will be returned – regretfully - from its current keeper Matt Faddy on Sunday morning. That’s all. There is all Sunday to talk rubbish!

See you down at the beach - Hobby and Skipper will be doing their best on what they are calling 'bankrupt the Splashers day'. Can two men drink the Splashers into the red?

Get to the beach to find out!

SUNDAY MAY 30 - GEMFEN MASONRY DAY

SUNDAY MAY 30 - GEMFEN MASONRY DAY

30 Metre

Katie Vesper

Len Welch

Peter Hoggett

Ray Hobby

Keith Blades

60 Metre

Katie Vesper

Wade Byrnes

Peter Appleyard

Peter Ryan

Michael O'Sullivan

90 Metre

Lizanne Wilmot (0.15)

Ben Nguyen (0.42) 

Eliza O'Grady (0.54)

Paul Turner (1.20)

Andrew Hackworthy (1.37)

SUNDAY 30 MAY

The Splashers Committee is clearly still in situ at Bronte - not the Maldives as was planned up until the $12000 windfall failed to come our way.  But we did still enjoy a glimpse of lady luck when the forecast cyclone failed to come our way on Sunday (although conditions were still rough enough to warrant dispensing with the lane ropes and to throw out everyone’s 90 metres). But luck had no role in the smashing triumph of Ms Vesper (vegemite toast for breakfast I bet) as she easily took out the 30 and 60 metre quinella. Maybe that isn’t the correct term, in fact, maybe that would mean that she came first and second in the same race? Greg? But if you won the 30, 60 and 90, wouldn’t you call that a trifecta? ENOUGH! But speaking of gambling, WHO’S THE PUNTER who decided to pay for their drinks with an April TAB ticket?! I will be heading to the green machine soon to check and, if we win, Ivory Pegasus can be our new mascot.

The starters did a great job down on the deck, managing time trial-ers and crashing waves, while Jayden kept his eye out for the endearingly diminutive Billy Hunter. Martin is probably not even hobbling after the 10km soft sand run at Bondi Beach, and the 50 Metres in the Nelune Foundation Relay. But maybe from the 1000 schooners he committed himself to after.  Sorry to miss Keith M, but he was on football duties. Dave M has brought his daughter, Emma, back to the Splashers fold. Can Col lure his Emma back from NZ to do the same?  

SPONSORSHIP

We have a few opportunities available in the Splashers calendar for 2010.  Any new members who think that the $10 membership fee is in inverse proportion to the FUN and want to try their hand at running a day with prizes and events, put your hat in the ring.   

SUNDAY 6 JUNE 

This Sunday will be brought to us by the Power Brothers from Carpet Biz and Carpet Power.  Word is, they will be doing a carpet laying demonstration and setting us up with a presentation catwalk. And now they are committed to it. IF YOU NEED NEW FLOORING YOU CAN CALL THEM. Too easy! In their honour, we’ll have a special 90 metre event. Anything to make life harder for Angus. One lap form stroke and 2 laps freestyle – in that order. 

INJURIES

It’s a tragic sight to watch Mr Welch breaststroke up the pool each Sunday, before he gets to the good part of the day (washing up). No one wants to hear the words rotator cuff. So there are some exercises attached (all the way from Western Australia where their favourite ocean swim is 20km!). 

QUINCY UPDATE: Update from Col McDermid on the Quinlan’s travels. Quincy and Karen have left Turkey.  They were on that Turkish boat of relief workers that was raided by the Israeli's at sea the other night, but he is safe after warding off the troops and then acting as "negotiator" and using the "Quincy Code of Peace" he was able set up peace talks at the United Nations. Go the  'Quincy Code '  A true "freedom fighter".

LONG WEEKEND MADNESS: For those of you looking for something to do on the long weekend here is my plan for success.

Sunday 9.30am - Pay $2 and sign on for Splashers

Sunday 12.00pm - Lead assault on BBQ 

Sunday 6.00pm - Still lead assault on BBQ and beers

Monday 4.30am - Cheer Socceroos home against Ze Germans.