The 2024 Club Tennis open was held at Good to Great Tennis center in Danderyd 31/8/2024.
With 10 Athletes representing 5 different countries it was a tight contest.
After the round robin series 3rd place was a close finish with team Smith and Kingsley edging out Team Larry and DK.
The final was thought to be a heated contest between Jordo and Ned Hall against Fernando and west Aussie Condy. when these teams met in the round robin all games went down to the wire. However the latter had run out of steam and were beaten 6-2 in the final set.
2024 winners were Ned Hall and Daniel Jordan remaining undefeated in all matches.
Eventual score 4-0, 4-2, 4-1, 4-3, 6-2
Big thanks to Jimmy O’Brien and Sean Logan for organising the fun event.
On en overcast day Södermalm CC Travelled to the far north of Stockholm to take on 4th place Upplandsbro CC. Winning the toss and electing to bowl was the decision of the day.
Sean Logan became the first South African in the club to obtain the beloved “Baggy Blue”. He was the cap 7 for the club and he was presented with it by club stalwart Andrew “guru” Smith.
After Smithy’s long and uplifting teary eyed speech the players took the field. It was immediately from the outset the opposition was in trouble and unable the handle the pace and swing of söders dominating left arm opening combination.
The movement, line and length was unplayable. After 3 overs the score was 4-10 with a catch going down to give the batsman a chance to make a game of it.
Joel Burnell claimed his 5th wicket in his 4th over putting the home team at 5-16 and becoming only the second player in the club to do so, after the Condor. Joel finish with figures 5-20 whilst newly capped Sean Logan a sharp 0-15.
Captain Kingsley brought on impact bowler Daniel Jordan who took of where Joel had finished. immediately into the action Jordo was looking a club second hat trick on only his 4th ball. There was abuzz around the players as the all come in close for a catch. with 4 slips in place it was a dot ball thru to the keeper.
Finishing the over with 2-0 off 1. Jordo was supported by the fiery and wild Alex Tesdorf. Tesslars pace was too hot not only for the batsman but himself. He was unplayable, batsman only scoring of his 5 wides finishing up with figures of 2-5 off 2.0.
The condor came on the clean up the last batsman with the score on 42. off 11.3 overs.
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Söder lost 2 early wickets to give Upplandsbro CC a glimmer of hope. however after the protest against thirdly dismissed batsman, Sam “big Blue” Austin, for poor uniform and incorrect thigh pad application, it was all over.
Ned hall and “Tip rat” Murphy remained unbeaten and steer the blue cappers to an anstounding thrashing victory chasing the 43 run in 5.4 overs
Södermalm CC now sit in 4th place with 3 wins and 2 losses. Those 2 losses coming off the last last ball of the innings.
Post match drink were enjoyed at Willis Pub and subsidized by the club legend “Guru”.
Next game is September 1st at home against 3rd placed Stockholm titan gladiators captained by Imran khan. Hopefully we can continue our form.
As the weather and therefore, the moods all around have vastly improved, there are plenty of Södermalm Sports Club functions to look forward to and brace yourself for (see attached). We have 36 paid up and registered members for Sodermalm Sports Club 2024!
Thats right folks it is official! the Club has Offically changed it name to Södermalm Sports Club! (SSC) now we officially cater for all sports! Our motto is “too much sport is not enough”.
In addition to our name change the club as found sponsorship in the ways of long time club member! Tim Readwin and Readwin consulting AB
READWIN Consulting AB specialise in building energy efficiency work place environment and economy.
Our LMS cricket chaps have got their penultimate fixture on the go as I type this and their final fixture is early July – our fearless chairman, Daniel Jordan, has just fallen 2 agonisingly runs short of a half ton, ably supported by Dan Kennedy (DK) on 47*. The Sunday T20 league cricket season kicks off pretty soon so please reach out to Alex Tesdorf if you are keen to join the squad! we are 3 wins and 3 losses
Club Drinks on Friday 5th of July from 17h00ish is the next official club event. +1 has been our mantra this year for the functions so bring a pal, a mate who is like-minded, and keen to have a beer, a laugh and meet some of the Soder living legends. Pelago Roof Top – Slussen.
Some of our latest Clubs members at Pelago sporting the new club Blazer.
Dads n’ lads camping wraps up the Soder festivities for July, Benjamin Condo is your man for that. That event is in Gnesta from Thursday 18th of July – always been a hit and all are welcome even if your kids are busy or do not exist.
What you won’t see on the calendar are some events where you would need to reach out to those particular individuals heading them up. Please do so:
– Andrew Smith is getting some tickets for an ODI at Lords in September: Auz vs Eng.
– Sean Logan is running a trail half-marathon 17th of August just outside Uppsala. There is a full marathon and 10km too. He is also running the Lidingo Loppet (30km), Sunday 29th of September. Any runners out there?
Once again the 2024 Blue Ribbon Bowling event was held at Lucky Bowling on Sveavägen 118. A near record 15 players turned out. Defending champion Sean ‘Kungen’ Hargreaves was back despite having recently recovered from debilitating knee surgery whilst previous winner Condor was out sunning his flower in the Wild West of Australia and Kingsley was planting seeds in Nepal… The scene was set and the mob grabbed one or 2 cold ones before devouring the club sponsored Lucky burgers and chips. Somewhat prematurely, Jordo cracked one through the covers and immediately everyone made their way quickly to the bowling lanes…..
The scoring was free and fast just like Loges on the cricket field and many made it past the 100 mark. The far right lane was made up of Jordo, Big Bla and Jimmy O’brien and there were some high scores in the first round. It felt like we already had the finalists congregated. In the far left lane, Macca, Laser Larry and John Cullen were struggling with gutter throws, toilet visits and general poor play. In lane 2, Tesla was paired with the newbies Alastair and Abba Fernando. Alastair was still drinking the bar dry when the bowling started so they were constantly playing catch-up. Guru was floating around so it was difficult to know what lane he was assigned to however his greatest concern was beating Abba F.
The second game proved once again to be the high point. Jordo open like Condos arse with 3 strikes and from that point it was WA dust between him and the rest of the field however he pulled Big Bla and OB1 along with him and all 3 comfortably passed the 150 mark. And in the far left lane Lazer Larry (previous champ), Kelly Cullen and Macca were in a cat fight for last place. Loges was screaming like a hyena and 3M was scanning the talent on offer.
In the end, it was Jordo that won the night and he got his 4cl shot of tequila. 3M got a free beer for being best dressed and Kungen for being a good bloke and ManU supporter. Big Blue Austin handed over the trophy to Jordo but it was a bit of a tug of war as the protest he had left in had not been fully determined.
Well done one. Well done all. A great night to kick off the year.
Jordo won with 202 and will have his name inscribed on the trophy. Strangely, the 2022 winner was not present on the trophy but that maybe due to the rank cheating that went on that year…
A great evening was had by all participants, We warmly welcome the new members, Alastair, Fernado and big Dave the Victorian, to the club.
after the post match awards and drinks people made their home at a respective time.
We hope to see you all our next club event in March!
The club AGM was held on Saturday 17th February. The current board was re elected and stands as.
President : D. Jordan
Vice president : Sam Austin
Treasurer : Alex Tesdorf
Secretary: Ben Condon
4 brave men also volunteered to come on as supplements to the club board, they are, John Cullen-cycling, Sean Logan – social, Mark McManus – social, Andrew Smith – Sponsorship. Club membership remains at 500kr for the year payable 30th of may 2024.
Sunday, 27th of August at the Good to Great Collector Bank Area, Danderyd, was the setting for this year’s annual and always, hotly-contested, Söder tennis championship. With the weather, traditionally, proving to be pretty inclement in the last few days of August here in Stockholm, the championship was held indoors which proved to be not only a magnificent setting but a classy one too, and boy, was there some classy tennis action on the 3 side-by-side courts as the morning turned to afternoon! A lot of ‘ringers’ turned up to play which always makes for top competition.
Hot favourites and eventual winners, Jimmy and Big Blå were brought back down to earth in the first round of fixtures losing 6 – 3 to Ned the lover of Led and Danny Perillo. Meanwhile, centre court action saw the South Africa duo of Loges and Big H blowing a 4 – 2 lead to the late additions to the tennis ‘tournie’ of DK and Murphy, who powered through from behind to come out tops 6 – 4. This momentum gained by this cool and composed pairing saw them see off their next two sets of opponents to qualify automatically for the final, which was again to be staged on centre court. They would be heading into this final with an ‘undefeated tag’ – heavy lies the crown proved to ring true come finals time!
Other highlights from the first three rounds of pool fixtures saw a few tie breaks which always makes for exciting and at times, some desperate tennis and attempts with some of the Söder boys throwing their bodies around the courts. What was pleasing was that not too much colourful language nor raw emotions were thrown around but would tennis be tennis without a racquet or two being thrown at least once? Keeping with this theme, there was some racquet throwing on court 1 in the final round of pool fixtures – no names mentioned but one of the opponents happens to hail from WA, who got aced, so a lot of antagonising had taken place back and forth.
2023 FINALIST
Immediately after club president Jordo and Söders tennis guru, A Brent Smith, went down in a gut-wrenchingly tight tie break to BIG Blå and Jimmy, a play off on centre court took place with WA’s Big Bronza “Condy” and the lucid left-hander Triple M-Macca joining the fray but got pretty much blown away by the tennis trend-setters of the day. Crowd favourites DK and Murph had the boys howling encouragement and plenty verbals but this attempt could not help derail the ‘Blue Train’ with both Jimmy O and Sam full steam ahead from their serves, net play, general tactics and believe it or not, fitness! final score 6-0, 6-4.
See you at our next social event! The 2023 Södermalm Golf handicap – Sep 23
The Clubs 5th Annual Dads and kids Camping long weekend took place at the Klämmingen lake in Sunny Gnesta.
Again The Mayor of G town B.Condon provided some great weather and late evening BBQ ribs to match! As the drizzle cleared up in the first hours upon arrival people began to pitch the tents! and enjoy the late summer weather over the course of the weekend.
With the temperature soaring above 20 degrees the kids were hopping from the 5 metre hop platform all day long late into the evening. The club welcomed Matt Hodgson and kids as first time club camper. He turned up in Style in his vintage 1950’s Red SAAB classic car which created a buzz amongst all the campers, he also manage to land a 40cm Pike with his Boy Oscar.
The chess board was alight all day, to late into the evening with Grand master Elias K giving everyone a tickle up! especially Murf who he played blind folded.
On the Saturday arvo it was annual Kids v’s Dads cricket. the kids are finally coming of age with the bat and ball posting 148 runs on the board. the dads though it might not be enough. Starting the chase strongly the dads were off the a flyer! however a late breakthrough and a middle order collapse saw the kids in total control! brilliant bowling and masterclass catching brought them back into the contest.
Piney almost went for another Quacker but escaped narrowly escaped! to wag the tail but alas the dads could only post 135 going down by 13 runs! the kids celebrated hard ! with a late evening swim in the lake.
By Sunday the fun was all over and many wished it could have been longer. We all started the pack up around lunch and manged to slip away before the Rain came back.
Another successful camping weekend with 6 dads and 11 kids. We hope more can get along next year and we look forward to the cricket rematch against the kids!!!
feel free to get in contact with the club about more info on camping! 20230729
As we approach summer holidays our cricket season is coming to an end. We have had a team in SCF the national league and a team in LMS weekday comp. Our first season with a team in the league has been a success. we were challenged with injury however With a solid base of 25 players, we managed a team to all games. we are actively looking for new players to join our club.
Whilst the Wins have been few and far between, again we were the most social team with a few post BBQ and beers. Some highlights this season were Smithy notching up his first 50 n.o, Jordo taking clubs first Hattrick, DK getting a diamond duck. We look forward to the awards night later in the year. to reveal all achievements from the season. feel free to join us.
After the summer break we will head into our social events! first up is the Södermalm ProAm golf on a Friday night 11th of august 17:30 at Ågesta GK.
But next up is DADS and Kids camping weekend in Gnesta 27-30 july. contact the club if you would like to know more about our social events or get involved.
Go Söder. you can follow us on instagram södermalmafc
Saturday 4th March 2023 Södermalm AFC held it’s annual general meeting yesterday at the Old Brewer in Stockholm. A big thank you to all the members from last year and if you missed the Presidents Report we all should be congratulated on a very successful year. During the meeting, the club welcomed a new board member and had some exciting news about the new Södermalm Sports Club to play this year in the Swedish Cricket competition. All members can catch up on the minutes or check up all the news via the Official WhatsApp Group.
The 15th Södermalm Ten Pin Bowling Trophy followed the AGM and there were a few big names out. While the reigning champion was bronzing himself naked on the beaches of WA and Mr Professional had packed up his shoes and ball and gone home, there was no clear favourites. That all changed when The president himself bowled 212 in the warm up game before the final. The tickets fell off him pretty quickly though and while Don Key and Larry had a crack but it was Sean ‘Kungen’ Hargreaves who took control of the final to win the trophy with a score of 165. Congratulations Kungen!! and to top of his day his son Jack took home the club fishing trophy fishing trophy earlier in the day.
Thanks for a great afternoon and for all the members who came along. It is going to be an exciting year.
Please contact the club if you would like to join our social events or play some sport!!
Next up is the annual social Curling event held on 24th march 17:00 at Sundbyberg curling centre let us know if you want join.
In 2022 we are coming off the back of the Covid 19 pandemic. This year we held no less than 15 social events with 1 new event the Södermalm cricket awards night, couple of social cricket matches, Aussie fathers day, kids camping, Gotland 360 curling was back by popular demand and several LMS cricket matches.
Our membership was 29. holding steady
some of the highlights from the year was –
bowling was won by condo
SAFC golf open won by briscoe and Zach tipping
footy tipping – AFL – Clayton NRL-Jordo
9 games of LMS was played at the JCG -we came 3rd
7 members rode the Gotland 360 bike race representing Söder
The SAFC handicap golf – Sam P Austin again
Pool – Daniel Fergusonl
Chess – our junior in the club Elias Kingsley
Jack hargreaves another junior won the Fishing comp with his gädda
we attracted 3 sponsors
Hyundai center stockholm –
Niras AB –
Andrew smith
Hopefully we can retain these sponsors.
We have entered a cricket team into the swedish league for this coming season
We look forward to attracting new members and also having a better attendance from all our members in 2023. so get around you mates and be sure to bring them along in 2023!
Södermalm CC will be enter their First XI into the national Cricket competition 2023 starting in 2nd division. We welcome all new players to the club and hope to see everyone at the upcoming AGM to have their say on how the club should be run this year.
If you interested in joining the Club to play cricket or be involved on the board or even just to help out or have beer, please drop the club an email!
see you all soon at the AGM, date to be set for March soon.
Södermalm First XI took on a combined DIF/SCC old boys in a T25 down at the J, skarpnäck cricket plan last saturday 17/9/2022.
Södermalms Captain Danne Jordansson won the toss! and with clouds building up he elected to bat! it was obvious we were playing under English condition. PDP and smithy opened the innings for Söder, however after a huge defensive campaign to take the shine off the ball, both openers were dismissed within 3 over! in came Jordansson and Big blue, quite vigourously noted on the day they were partially representing MacArthur Cricket club from Sydney, unbeknownst to the cricketing public at the ground that the Macarthur CC had been defuct. for 20 years…….
The pair manage to take the total from 2/13 to 3/82 at 10.1 even batting thru the rain, this steady the ship and allow the remaining batter come out swing! Stalker went cheaper however Murf, Condy and Kingsley closed out the innings smashing boundaries and moving the total to a Södermalm highest T25 score 6/199
Setting a target of 200 for the visitors, play resumed after a 15 minute down pour. there was some talk of finishing the second innings at the Pub but the old boys were having none of that talk from skipper Jordansson.
The old boys started strong with Tiwari and Anand starting strong, Big blue and Condy were get hammered all over the park, so a changed was called upon. New recruit Will e boy came in and broke the partnership with a great catch by PDP on the boundary. next over J:sson dismissed Tiwari with an absolut garbage balls which should have been hit for 12. but alas the tactic work and the visitors had slipped from 0/48 to 4/72. the bowling changed took 4/23 of 4.2. 2 wickets each!
then on came Smithy the Destroyer. looking to get a triple wicket maiden first time not only in the clubs history but smithys life as well, however 2 of the wicket were unfortunately called no balls so hi finished his second over 1/2, byt a break thru none the less.
Highlights of the day was bug blue trying to take a catch running in from the boundary in the wet only to fall slipping on his arse and letting the ball bounce once for 4. Another missed opportunity was J. murphy missing a stumping and dropping the 12 year old, ring in, Vijay singh, off his first ball! Vijay was forced to retired by Capt. Cribbin for defending to well and not being able to get out.
Highlights of the day was bug blue trying to take a catch running in from the boundary in the wet only to fall slipping on his arse and letting the ball bounce once for 4. Another missed opportunity was J. Murphy missing a stumping and dropping the 12 year old, ring in, Vijay singh, off his first ball! Vijay was forced to retired by capt Cribbing for defending to well and not being able to get out.
The hong Kong born Captain Cribbin and Ayyappa made a last ditch effort to smash there way to 200 in the remiaing over only to finish at 6/167.
a great day was had by both team, the weather was drissly and shit until the BBQ started. Söder put on a lushous BBQ for both team and we all join the Local weekly Peruvian national day celebrations with loud music coin tossing and beers! as the weather cleared.
The chance to win one of Söders most coveted awards- The Blue Jacket, saw a smattering of Söders finest golfers gather in the Agesta GK car park for the traditional pre-game bbq. Söder illuminaries such as Jordo, Brissles, Condo, Macca, H , were joined by newcomers Tipping and du Plessis to watch Electric Blue produce one of Soders finest bbq’s- black angus burgers with the lot With H lending his skills from learnt from Afrikaans boy scouts the coals were fired up to red hot and a selection of Aussie tunes reverberated throughout the carpark much to the enjoyment of the punters practising on the close by driving range.
Unfortunately some late pullouts, Hagberg sickness, Kingsley and Logan “teachers meeting” saw a shortened field of contenders With names picked out the hat the following pairs strolled to the tee Condo/Macca McCormick-Sam Electric Blue Austin/Jordo- self declared early favourites and best golf bag du Plessis/ H Van Niekerk- most racist pair Brissler/Tipping- Old Dog/New Dog
It became evident very quickly when Zach “Tiger” Tipping produced night vision goggles before teeing to ascertain pin distance that this pairing was going to be tough to beat. With Condo and Macca using the forest to their advantage is was also going to take some time for this pairing to get through 9 Jordo and Blue teed off next and quickly showed why they were so confident with some nice clean hitting directed at the foursome in front who were still on the green. H and no clubs DP were next and with H threatening physical violence if his partner did not perform at his best they too showed that they would be in the mix
The greens or browns as they were called, were clearly going to be a factor and caused havoc to all groups who made the best of approach shots- it has to be said they were disgraceful Newcomer Tipping who had recently been offered a tour card with Greg Normans LIV breakaway tour was clearly a cut above the rest. His long smooth driving and assured approach shots along with Brisslers cunning and guile saw them master the browns , Electric blue and Jordo however were not to be denied and kept coming like two old dogs at a bone
With the blue jacket coming down to the last hole all groups teed off together on the par 3. With the final hole settled and a barnstorming par by condo/macca the shots were counted 1 st Place and Blue Jacket Winners- Johnny Briscoe and Zach Tipping +2 Runner Up- Jordo and Electric Sam Austine Blue +3 3 rd Place H Van Niekerk and Pierre du Plessis +6 4 th Place – Ben Condon and Brendan McCormick +9 And with that H told everyone to go fuck themselves, stormed down to his specked up Hyundai and smoked it out of the car park, whilst condo went to the driving range to collect balls for the ones he lost on course.
and gone home, there was no clear favourites. That all changed when The president himself bowled 212 in the warm up game before the final. The tickets fell off him pretty quickly though and while Don Key and Larry had a crack but it was Sean ‘Kungen’ Hargreaves who took control of the final to win the trophy with a score of 165. Congratulations Kungen!! and to top of his day his son Jack took home the club fishing trophy fishing trophy earlier in the day.
