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
24/25/26th Nov:  Three games in three days, thirty two Warley players scored a total of 57 goals for and 24 goals against, winning two games and losing one narrowly. Well played everyone!!
Walsall 4  -  14 Warley       (26th Nov 09)
This game got better with each quarter.  Warley took the lead with goals from Sue Strudley and Cally Parsonage without reply from Walsall.  The pace improved and Warley scored three goals in the 2nd, five in the 3rd and four in the last quarter.  Casey Lee and Tasha Egan both gave good displays of the more difficult push-shot.  Keeping Walsall's goal tally to just 4 goals was due to some splendid defending from Nicola Peniket, Cally P, Vicki Hawkins and some great saves from Danielle Iles.  
Other scorers for Warley were Casey (3), Hayley Bird (2), Sue (5), Vicki Hawkins (2) and Cally (2).

Next game: Warley v L'boro, Wed 2nd Dec, 8.45pm

Warley   11 - 10 Coventry       (18th Nov 09)
This was a game that was spoilt by fouling that went unpunished. Tasha Egan made a good hard working debut.
Scorers were Kirsty Peniket (1), Susan Strudley (4), Vicki Hawkins (3), and Casey Lee (3)

New Photo Needed!!
Boldmere  19  v  16  Warley  (24th Nov 09)
Warley Juniors got their season off to a promising start at Boldmere last night.  Warley were 6 - 3 up in the first quarter and in open play were the better team.  In the 1st quarter each team was awarded a major and both teams scored from them.  However, this equality did not continue as Boldmere were fortunate to be awarded 3 penalties, 7 majors and one Warley player dressing roomed, resulting in ten of their goals scored.  Warley were given 2 penalties and two unconverted majors.  So, in open play Warley scored 14 against Boldmere's 9.  Not bad, considering George Wibberley, Sam Curruthers, Connor Jukes  and Jack Roper all made promising debuts.  It was great effort, by a team that has not had much opportunity to gel together yet.  Rory Edwards and Max Peters both returned to polo after a long break, but seemed to have improved despite it.  Robby Williams played well in goal and gave some good passes to the outfield players. Roger Kennedy played the pit excellently, scoring 7 goals and Ollie Jackson worked tirelessly offering support and scored an unbelieveable lob from the wing.  But man-of-the match was Graham Harrington (Captain) who seemed to pop up in every position in the pool, just when needed and scored 8 goals.
Next game: HGSOB v Warley, Friday 4th Dec, 8.30pm start.
Warley  27  v  1  Newport  (25th Nov 09)
Warley dominated play from start to finish with all the players scoring, apart from Warley's elegant play-maker Chris Carty.  Newport, despite having five man-ups, just couldn't put the ball past Warley's goalkeepers John Halstead and Robby Williams.  That is, until in the final seconds of the game Mike Jukes deflected a Newport shot past the awaiting hands of Phil Croft.  Scorers for Warley were Will M (2), Phil C (3), Richard C (4), Robby W (3), Glynn S (1), Graham H (2), Gaz C (3), Roger K (4) and Mike J (1, plus an own goal).

Next game:  Warley v Newport, Wed, 25th Nov, 8.45pm

Warley  24  v  7  HGSOB  (11th Nov 09)
Scorers for Warley were Nick Covington (1), Robby Williams (2), Richard Cox (5), Philip Croft (4), Ollie Jackson (2), Roger Kennedy (6), Graham Harrington (1), Mitch Poulton (1) and Glynn Sheppard (1)
Venue: Walsall     FINAL Tournament     14/15 Nov 2009

To avoid being in the  "Div 3/4 Play-Off"  Warley needed to beat league leaders Hucknall (on Sat) and South Derbyshire (on Sun) and rely on Swindon not getting a point against City of Birmingham and bottom placed Solihull.
Saturday:  The weekend started with CoB beating Swindon 14 - 10.  In the third tournament Hucknall had beaten Warley 8 - 14, but the game had been close up until the last quarter.  Could Warley keep the dream alive by beating undefeated Hucknall?  At half-time Hucknall led 7 - 5.  However, this time Hucknall faltered in the second half, only scoring three goals while Adam Whitehall (3), Graham Harrington (1) and Nick Covington (2) scored for Warley to win an absolutely incredible match, 10 - 11.  This was certainly Warley's best performance of the season and made one wonder why they were in such a precarious position.
Sunday:  Solihull having obtained their first points of the season the previous day now doubled their points for the season by beating Swindon 15 - 10.  Warley's hope of finishing above Swindon was now in their own hands.  Beat Derbyshire and Swindon would drop into the play-off place.

Warley had beaten Derby at Pond's Forge 15 - 14.  The score shows that it was a close match, but Warley had led 14 - 10 and 15 - 12 with less than 2 minutes left.  Could Warley produce a repeat performance?  The game started poorly for Warley who found themselves 3 - 0 down in the first two minutes.  At half-time Warley trailed 9 - 6.  At the end of the third Derby still held their three goal advantage, 13 - 10.  Despite a big effort on Warley's part they were unable to achieve the standard of play they had shown against Hucknall and failed to bridge the three goal gap.  Derby winning 15 - 12.
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
14
11
0
3
131
103
22
Hucknall
14
10
1
3
169
126
21

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
16
16
0
0
270
92
32
Stafford Apex
16
9
2
5
159
122
20
Worcester
16
9
2
5
176
114
20

 See  Results
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 solar powered 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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