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who is coming to peckham tonight? We havent been dogging in ages?

keen!

Out tonight I'm afraid. I've ridden into work on the BMX just to prove I could.

youre a cunt im back!

Thank fuck. I've been lost with out you. Never leave me again. You cunt.

Unfortunately, im out too got a bday thing to go to.

i'm down

I might make the effort and get down tonight. What time you getting there?

7.30

i can't skoota. am looking forward to the return of peckham and will be showing in the future. but tonight there is this thing

I turn my back and suddenly you create stelle rash porn?! sickos.
for that I'm going to come and show you how I roll. Probably literally.

No more vauxhall?
Peckham? I'll be there about 8.30 after I've seen that man with the dog.

bump! see you 730ish.

i'm down and in.

good to see you all last night. peckham is so different to other spaces, its strange playing under a roof again.

I won't be making it tonight doooods, too much work going on, do try to get along without me.

bumpbumpbump come on you lot, the NE thread is taking the piss out of this for no one posting....

Sorry dude. It's all about the North today. Come beat me at birthday polo fun. You know you want too.

don't think i can make it tonight, might be pulling another late one at work :(

Hey man happy birthday! Are you playing somewhere lit?

this is bloody woeful. Jonny moved, trevor rides small bikes, Tom? Sheep? Ali and Jo gone east, Aidan won't go without dt, I've worked the last couple of weeks. Hamster turns up but it's always a surprise. Stelle is a part timer too... I'm heartbroken, what the hell has gone on? We have an amazing court, that is warm, dry, lit and no fucker uses it anymore, come on guys lets get it together or at least get some new blood coming...

:(

go east now... theyll be there!!! go go!!

As much as i appreciate the gentle shove my friend it is not the point.

B,its lee,got bike probs at the mo so no polo for me but i pointed john in the direction of north court if your going up there, and we need to sort south out,people gettin slack

I'm exactly the new blood you're after.. I live about a minute away from the peckham carpark and am keen to give polo a try..

Unfortunately, I'm not there today.. soon though!

id come but since the shitty new polo on the other side of the river started weave lost all the people who used to come to south polo. they could of at least respected that south polo was on Wednesday and done there polo thing on another day

you right in that one Max, I will try to star coming to south from next week

yeah Max...you're right. we need more commitment.what was that thing Gandhi
said?..."we must be the change we wish to see". thats it :D

The thing is, we don't have a set day to play. There have been weeks where we played everyday... It's no disrespect, just convenience.
Now that the days are getting shorter, I'm guessing you can expect more people down at the peckham carpark.

^^^ this is true...

[Home truths time]

the thing is this is going to be inevitable... When... and thats a big when, north of the river find a peckham equivalent. Im sure it'll get worse.(sad but tru)

IMO i think we need to find a central court covered, which brings the points of the compass together.

If any one wants to do a early evening recce. Let me know.

Shin

I went to Peckham every week throughout the winter. I just couldn't be arsed to go to Vauxhall very often when it moved there for the summer evenings.

Wednesday + winter = Peckham

the very first line of this thread is "Hi guys / gals not wishing to steal thunder from the beloved brick lane court but.." there was a very good reason for this. Diversity is the key to keeping polo interesting, most of us southerners make the 10 or mile trek to brick lane or north london on thursdays, to see other people and to get in a different type of polo. Your floating game has managed to settle quite nicely on a wedsnesday when there was already a polo night. I'm not annoyed that polo is being played somewhere other than south london, people can do what they like and telling me to go east dosn't fix the south london polo scene/night. I just want to encourage more newbs to come and play, get people started this winter the way most of us did last winter. Brick lane isn't really conducive to rstarter' polo, because of all the hanging around there making it nervous for newbs. Peckham is very encouraging, fast and diversive. I'm perfectly happy to play polo somewhere central too, but THIS thread is about south london polo, so don't muddy the water. Peckham would like to see the likes of everyone grace it's beautiful and picturesque car park, but if you can't be arsed to put the miles in, fine just don't come on trying to make south london somewhere more northern. Lee mate good to see you on the thread. Wibble i'll look forward to meeting you. Hops winter = peckham = cookies. Mike tramps get your self a flip flop whilst you re-jig that bike fella, it'll help ENORMOUSLY.

edit: also dt, aidan, and hops made the effort to peckham from brockley almost every wednesday last winter. Dave brought 6 mallets everytime and the three of them are who most people should be thanking for supplying mallets and balls when no one else had any and skill that upped everyones game when no one else had any. Brockley to peckham isn't exactly 'just round the corner' but these guys should now have to go further north or central, because of other lazier people? Sorry but i think thats BS.

Skoota, don't tar us all with that brush. I love playing south, it is a different game and for me peckham in no more difficult than vauxhall. But you are right about people being lazy and sticking to the north east court, it's never been a defined day and we do play a lot of the nights of the week which inevitably means Wednesday as well, this is a shame and to be honest I see no way to fix it during the summer months.

But winter is a good time for the peckham court, Yesterday we played until 8 and it was already dark. I generally finish work just after 6 which means maybe an hour of polo at most by the time I get to the north east court. By October when the clocks change it'll be dark by the time I leave work, Peckham is the prefect solution as you can play until as late as people can be arsed.

You can't stop people being lazy but hopefully people will realise how god your facilities are when the polo league forces them to come south to play your homes games.

Skootz, I reckon once the winter sets in ppl will be back down cosy Pecks Cp.

I'll be down there not neccesarily fo Bike Polo but frontin some skillz instead - you dig? ; )

This is the death match conversation I stumbled into (and out of again, when you and Aidan threw me off the table) last night isn't it? As I mumbled last night, I'll revisit the polo in Peckham once the summer ends...

flatz i be diggin your skillz it'll help me learn up the wheelie n that and you can always borrow a bike if you want a game. Snowy, through you off? Asshole i buy you a beer and you didnt even sit with us. ;)
Emilie, i would never tar you or anyone else with the same brush, you have always made lots of effort and were one of the first and friendliest people i met at polo, any polo. x
peas.

Coolcool. Provided we can still shit talk on the court it's all good.

Sweet.

I'm back in London this weekend so I'd be up for my first polo session sometime next week if anyone will be around?

One thing though.. Go easy!

em...course we can what do you take me for you fuckerrrrrrrrr. x
wibble what do you think we mean by 'new blood' ?
;)

By the sounds of some of the polo threads.. That by the end of the night I'll need some pumped into my veins!

I wouldn't mind trying out a bit of polo... (recovering from broken arm so not 100%) I'm in brockley take me 10 mins to carpark. I might be going for south pub crawl tomorrow... meeting 5ish waterloo opposite evans in pub I think. Might be a good time for organising regular polo sesh and meet you lot.

Don't worry Wibble, you'll get used to the endless injuries, we've only had a few serious ones.
Skoota, glad to hear it (you cunt)

when you say cunt it just sounds like hug to me.

It's always intended as such.

it's that time of week again, should be a decent turnout this week.

Brendan is not about tonight...but i think dicki will be.as will I

im up fo a bit of peckam polo

Not sure if I'll make it down this evening.. What time is everyone rolling down?

I'll get down there for 7:30 i reckon

NS is in for next Wednesday, peckham court right?

yep