Curry night on Thursday April 1st

No fencing on April 1st .... this is no April fools joke :)

It's a curry night instead at the Waterend Barn (Lloyds) which is in the centre of St Albans.

Please arrive at 8pm. You can have a look at the website here and also find a map on how to get there.

See you there! If you haven't been fencing for awhile, then please come along and catch up with everyone.

Round Up - 25 March Round Up - 25 March

In celebration of the long weekend, please join us for a Curry at the Waterend Barn on 1st April - meet there at 8 and then hopefully onwards for a night on the town!

For those of you interested in competitions and sabre (a minority I know!)

this

might be of interest.

The AGM returned a committee in the form of:

Jon Daley - Chairman

Philip Allen - Treasurer

David Reid - Secretary

James Bird - Armourer

Liam Nichols - Webmaster

Helen Turner - Social Secretary

A very warm thank you to Hazel for all her efforts as Social Secretary over the past two years and also to John Williams for his enormous contribution over the past five years.

Finally we are accepting designs for a new logo to go on club branded kit - so grab your coloured pencils and get scribbling. We'll be looking to select a design in the first week of May - the designer of the winning logo may get something for their efforts.

Newspaper article on the St Albans Fencing Club

For those of you who have not seen the article in the Herts Advertiser which was published on March 11th, 2010, you can download a scan of the article from this page or view our flickr page

Annual General Meeting

AGM - Tuesday 16th March 8PM at the Portland Arms

It's that time of year again - time to stand up and be counted, your chance to stand for high office without the danger of being embroiled in an expenses scandal.
8PM start at the Portland Arms http://theportlandarmspub.co.uk/ at AL3 4RA.
We'll be feeding you, so no need to eat before you come.
If you'd like to see the agenda before hand, or have anything you'd like to add to the AOB section, please contact one of the committee.
Look forward to not being able to squeeze into the bar.

Hold the front page!

Hold the front page!

We're in the Herts Advertiser - Thanks to some background work by David and an evening hosted by Jon, we've a good spread in the 11 March issue.

Not normaily given to flights of fancy, the reporter describes been introduced to a 'strapping young gentelman' - Names on a post card please!

A fantastic bit of publicity for fencing generilly, and most importantly for St Albans Fencing Club.

The full article can be found at hertsad24.co.uk - a scan of the article is available on our flickr account

Herts Senior Championships

Herts Senior Championships are on the 15th May (Saturday):

Check-In Times:

Novices Foil 10:00 - 10:15
Seniors Foil 11:30 - 11:45
Sabre 14:00 - 14:15
Epee 15:30 - 15:45

Upcoming matches

Upcoming matches - St Albans v

Home to Watford            11th March 2010

Home to Milton Keynes      8th April 2010

Away to Bedford               18th May 2010

Home to Luton                   8th July 2010

Match report - Feb 24th

Watford Vs St Albans 24

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It is most pleasing to report an overall victory in our fourth fixture!  A convincing win in epee (7:2) but another 4:5 defeat in foil.

Teams: Epee- David White, Jason and David Reid
Foil –Peter Davies, David White and Philip

DW did several ‘catwalk’ changes in order to fence epee and foil, doing the club proud in both. Peter Davies defeated Andy Docherty convincingly in the first bout, Andy being a past HFA Foil Champion.

At 4:4 in the foil it fell to DW for the decider, but victory was not to be ours. There is the return match, though, at home on 11 March, so do come and support your teams!