Rich's Blog: The Return of Ol' Glass Fingers

It’s the curse of the amateur blogger. You start writing a blog with a burst of excitement but, after a few posts, the excitement wanes and so does the blog.

I am no exception. Last autumn, I started writing a ‘newbie blog’ for a couple of reasons: (1) Dan asked me to; and (2) I wanted to get more people at the club with even less experience than me. But it fell away because I picked up an ankle injury (and got put on redundancy consultation at work!).

Now I’m back — and I’m also City’s web editor. This honour was bestowed on me at last week’s AGM. I’d like to thank my parents and my wife and my daughter and etc.

So what have I been up to since that last blog post?

Well, I’ve played a load more matches including a few for the first team. I’d love to say I was selected based on skill and not because of other people’s injuries… so I will! It’s true, honest. They were tough matches but it's great experience.

I’ve also managed to score a few goals in matches, and set up a few more. I’m  not a consistent scorer, but at least I know I can get them in from long- and short-range.

And there has been good and some bad news on the injury front.

The good news is I’ve overcome my ankle sprain. The bad news is that my abnormally weak fingers are getting injured so much that I’m caning our stockpile of ice packs single-handedly — or should that be double-handedly? Either way, don’t let it put you off trying  korfball. It's impossible that anyone else in Oxford has such dainty digits.

Anyway, that’s it from me for now. I’ll do some proper updates soon with more content and less self-indulgent blathering. In the meantime, I look forward to seeing you at training on Thursday.

If you’re new to the club then come over and say, ‘Hi’. I’ll be the one in arthritis gloves. Yes, really! Looking silly is the price I have to pay for glass fingers.

Rich Heap, web editor