Welcome to the Warley Wasps website.  Warley was established in 1888 and runs both male and female water polo teams.  The club is situated about 3 miles west from the centre of Birmingham in the West Midlands, England.


     News 2009
Men's B team   "DIVISION THREE CHAMPIONS"
The picture above shows the Warley B team with the three trophies they have won this season.  L to R the Memorial Trophy, Midland League Division 3 Championship Cup and the Wrekin League Championship Shield.
Warley  21  v  4  Aston  (30th Sept 09)

Warley completed their season as unbeaten Champions!!
In addition, having the best record of all three divisions, they  won the Memorial Trophy.
Aston took the lead after just one minute, but it was the only time they were in front.  While Aston could only manage one goal per quarter, Warley scored 4 in the first, then 5, 8 and finally 4 in the last quarter, to win with ease. Next year, however, will prove to be a tougher test , but this present side has the talent to finish in the top half of Division Two.
Scorers for Warley were Graham Harrington (5), Philip Croft (4), Edward Smart (3), Norman Stephens (1), Roger Kennedy (5), Robby Williams (2) and an own goal by Aston.

Team
P
W
D
L
F
A
Pts
Warley B
14
14
0
0
233
78
28
Boldmere B
10
7
1
2
83
61
15
Stafford
11
6
2
3
100
80
14

 See  Results
Men's A team    "DIVISION ONE CHAMPIONS"

To see Warley's results go to:  A team results

To see other Div 1 results go to:  midlandwpl.co.uk
Warley   25 - 7  Nottingham       (17th Sept 09)

Warley completed their season, already acclaimed as CHAMPIONS, with an elegant display of attacking polo against a physically strong Nottingham side.  Having struggled to beat Nottingham in the away fixture (14 - 11 down in the last quarter, eventually winning 14 -15), Warley made few mistakes this time.  Alex Parsonage, on his return from Lugano (European B Championships), turned goal provider in the first quarter, with four assists leading to two  goals each for Warley's Youth internationals Graham Harrington and Roger Kennedy.  Five - one up Warley continued to score at will in each of the remaining quarters, winning them 4 - 2, 9 - 3, and finally 7 - 1.
Scorers for Warley were: Roger K (4), Graham H (5), Max Gerasimov (1), Dave Lane (1) Norman Stephens (2), Alex P (7), Paul Martin (2) and John Pridden (3).

Team
P
W
D
L
F
A
Pts
Warley A
14
12
1
1
201
112
25
Derby
12
9
0
3
119
94
18
Hucknall
11
8
1
2
135
105
17



By the end of  the second of five tournaments Warley had met all of the teams, except league leaders Hucknall, and only secured two wins.  The results at Ponds Forge, Sheffield were:
Caledonia         13     v    8       Warley
Swindon            17    v    14     Warley
Warley              15     v    14    South Derbyshire
Against Caledonia, Warley held the Scots in the 1st quarter, but were out of touch at half-time, trailing 9 - 4.  In a good 3rd quarter Warley fought back into contention, 11 - 8, only to fail to score in the last quarter.
Swindon was the game that Warley allowed to slip from their grasp.  Trailing 9 - 6 at half-time, Warley pulled back to 11 apiece going into the final quarter and had the momentum on their side.  However, poor defending cost them the match, with Swindon winning the quarter 6 - 3.

The Derby game was close throughout, the end of quarter scores being 2 - 3, 9 - 8 and 11 - 10.  In the final quarter Warley held a 15 - 11 lead with just over three minutes to go.  With two minutes left, Derby had reduced this to 15 - 14, but fortunately for Warley, they were unable to score another goal.
Warley's GB players
Warley players Alex Parsonge, Vicki Hawkins, Graham Harrington and Roger Kennedy have all been busy recently playing for their respective GB teams.  See below for reports and links.
European Championships (Mens)

Alex Parsonage helped the GB team finish 4th in this years Men's European B Championships (completed Sunday 13th Sept).  Winners were Turkey, followed closely by France, Netherlands and Great Britain.  Comments made about the GB team and Alex are on the ASA website (see below).

EUROPEAN SEMI-FINAL SPOT SECURED FOR BRITISH GAS WATER POLO TEAM       09 Sep 2009

The British Gas Men’s Water Polo team have successfully made it through to the semi-final stage of the LEN European B Water Polo Championships.

Assistant Team Manager Joanna Wray was delighted with their performance: “All of the team played well today especially Alex [Parsonage] and Scott [Carpenter] who were our top scorers.
To see the full results of all the teams click on the link below.
European Championships (Womens)
Vicki Hawkins  after winning the recent LEN Women's European Nations Trophy.  Well done girls!!
   And here we have Max winning the prize of "Medallion-Man",
   proudly wearing Vicki's medal.

Scotland 91's  12  v  10  Great Britain 93's      (29th & 30th August)
Roger Kennedy & Graham Harrington travelled to Scotland and played against an older Scottish team.  Not a bad result!!

Umit Oguzoglu Tournament in Istanbul in Turkey     (21st - 23rd August 2009)
This is an international tournament for players born 93/94 and is funded by the ASA.
There are 7 National Teams taking part,
Turkey
Bulgaria
France
Germany
Great Britain  (including Graham Harrington & Roger Kennedy from Warley)
Hungary
Ukraine
You can get the results and goalscorers by clicking on this link (RESULTS).


Under 14's     B'ham Sharks  8  v  5  Warley  (6 June 09)
Warley's Friday evening youth squad had their first ever game at Tiverton Road Baths against a more experienced Birmingham Sharks team.  It took Warley a couple of quarters to get to grips with passing, attacking and defending, but there was a visible improvement in each quarter's play.  In all 13 players took part in a very enjoyable match in which Coaches Richard & Dave plus Graham Harrington were very pleased with the way the youngsters played.  Players (in order of cap number) were Connor Jukes (goalkeeper for two quarters and scorer of 3 goals), Thomas Gardiner, Rory Kavangh, Chris Roberts, William Tomlinson, Millie Clarke, Georgia Mawdsley, Sam Dallow, William Bruce, James Clarke, Nola James, Amy Marshall and Kurtis Jones (scorer of 2 goals)

A MIni Polo session for boys and girls aged 8 - 13.  Have fun & learn the skills of water polo. If you can swim and you want to try, just come along on Friday evening, 7.45 - 8.30pm at Smethwick Baths, Thimblemill Road, Bearwood.  *First session is FREE*

Success in Australia
Those of you who remember Tony Hall should follow the link to the South Australian Water Polo website where you will see that Tony is the coach of the South Australia U14 team and that his son Dan is achieving success as a player.

   Link to:                Daniel Hall playing polo in Aussie land
Ladies team       CHAMPIONS 2008-09  !!

Champions for the second year running and winners in four out of the last six years, Warley Ladies can feel justifiably proud of themselves.  However, the result came as a little of an anti-climax.  The team thought that the title would be won by whoever won the final game of the season against local rivals Walsall.  Gearing themselves up to this final encounter they were somewhat disappointed, but partly relieved, when Walsall rang up less than four hours before the game was due to start to say they couldn't raise a team at their pool!!
Not only that, a glut of non-fulfilments meant Warley had already won the title and didn't even need to beat Walsall, who had slumped to sixth place.  All that worry & tension!!
Vicki Hawkins had the best scoring record in the league, scoring 52 goals in 8 matches, an average of 6.5 goals per game. Major queen for Warley, Maddison York 9 in 10 games.
Congratulations to all the players!   See all results

Runners up 2008-09
Warley were pipped into second place by a very good Wasall team.  Well done to all the players:

Philip Croft
Graham Harrington
Aaron Moorfield
Bradley Iles
Roger Kennedy
Adam Jackson
Oliver Jackson
Rory Edwards
Robbie Williams
Connor Jukes
Joe Watkins
Sam Smith
Next game: November 5th 2009
MDASA CHAMPIONS 2009



Warley (second top seeds from the West Midland Region) beat Hucknall (winners from the East Midlands Region) and then went on to play Walsall.

Having been pipped on goal difference by Walsall in the WMASA event, Warley came out on top this time beating Walsall 12  -  11.

Technical difficulties are preventing us from putting up a photo of this year's team. The players who took part were John Halstead, Alex Parsonage, Graham Harrington, Roger Kennedy, Adam Whitehall, Ian Wilkins, Dave Lane, Chris Carty, Paul Martin, John Pridden, Gaz Cheadle and Eddie Smart. Chris Dickinson coached the team.
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