Tuesday, November 27, 2012

2012-2013 scores table

1st ROUND:

TEAM YMCA I.ROBOT SCAA HO KWOK PUI ZHEN YUEN LONG WAI TOU SUN NIC GAN CHEUK LAI HK GIANTS HKU
YMCA - 16-2818-2231-1721-2021-3329-2521-2223-1828-24
I.ROBOT 28-16 -22-1824-1825-2428-2238-2025-2124-2034-19
SCAA 22-18 18-22-25-1430-2128-2436-2729-2132-20
HO KWOK PUI ZHEN 17-31 18-2414-25-20-2224-2831-2822-2418-2427-19
YUEN LONG 20-21 24-2521-3022-20-22-2233-2732-2120-2234-26
WAI TOU 33-21 22-2824-2828-2422-22-34-2632-3026-1832-20
SUN NIC GAN 25-29 20-3827-3628-3127-3326-34-23-2924-2732-25
CHEUK LAI 22-21 21-2521-2924-2221-3230-3229-23-19-1722-20
HK GIANTS 18-23 20-2424-1822-2018-2627-2417-19-22-20
HKU 24-28 19-3420-3219-2726-3420-3225-3220-2220-22-

2nd ROUND:

TEAM YMCA I.ROBOT SCAA HO KWOK PUI ZHEN YUEN LONG WAI TOU SUN NIC GAN CHEUK LAI HK GIANTS HKU
YMCA -







29-20
I.ROBOT







25-12
SCAA






23-16

HO KWOK PUI ZHEN





25-26


YUEN LONG




28-22



WAI TOU



22-28




SUN NIC GAN


26-25





CHEUK LAI

16-23






HK GIANTS
12-25







HKU 20-29







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TEAM MATCH PLAYED WIN DRAW LOST POINTS GOALS DIFFERENCE
I.ROBOT 10 100030273:19083
SCAA 9 80124243:18360
WAI TOU 10 61319275:24530
YUEN LONG 10 61319272:24032
CHEUK LAI 10 50515225:244-19
HK GIANTS 9 40512180:199-19
YMCA 10 50515241:245-4
HO KWOK PUI ZHEN 10 2086216:251-35
SUN NIC GAN 10 2086258:307-49
HKU 10 00100213:286-73

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Kits distribution night

Friday 17th, the Giants were down to the Dog House in TST to celebrate their new born sponsoring and receive their new kits, colorful and simply awesome:


It was also the time to share a few beers and make sure people around know who we are! And we didn't fail as we already got 2 American fans!




See you at the next event!

December trainings


Fellow Giants, 

A few more sessions before Christmas break. Also need to focus as final games for regular season are coming and we need to win all of them. 

We got 4 sessions for November, make your best to come down!

Also, we may have chance to play and train with CityU, date to be confirmed.

All the sessions will be held at the Wan Chai Park playground, you can find the map through this link.

- Tuesday 4th of December: 22h00 to 23h00
- Thursday 6th of December: 22h00 to 23h00
- Friday 14th of December: 20h00 to 21h00
- Tuesday 18th of December: 22h00 to 23h00


See you all down at the pitch!

Monday, November 19, 2012

HK Giants/Sun Nic Gan


This Sunday 18th of November, the HK GIANTS were playing their 5th game in the first division against Sun Nic Gan. After receiving our new awesome kits on the last Friday, it was a good occasion to honor our new colors and make sure we start a new series of win!

With 12 players on the game sheet, it’s with confidence that we started warming up, welcoming 2 new players. Another French, Matthieu, and a Hong Kong guy, Angus, new goalkeeper.

With 10min to go before the game, we had the bad surprise that our designated coach couldn’t come due to personal issue. Nevertheless, Jack ran to rescue us and make sure we have a valid coach for the game. Then, after a nice coin flipping and a few shots on the keeper, it was time to shout our war scream and scare as much as possible our opponents.

The game started on a normal basis, both team trying to find accuracy and set up a strong defense. First 10 minutes were a bit messy, with only 4 goals for each team. Our old Swedish scored first, followed by Stefan and Trond. Then, it was time for the GIANTS to wake up and show some nice combinations. Listening to the playmaker and pushing right or left brought us some easy shots, which permitted us to score a 10-2 in 15 minutes, to finally lead by 7 points with 5 minutes to go in the first half.

The team kept up the strong defense, helped by a few substitutions and reached the half time on the large score of 16-9.

The half time speech was easy as the defense was strong, and the attack shown some very nice moves. Not much to say, just need to keep it up and don’t lose our focus. With everybody agreeing that we should start the second half on a 0-0 basis, the 7 players went back on the pitch ready to show off.

Unfortunately, the GIANTS felt their usual lost of focus directly from the first seconds and let the opponents score a 3-0 in 1min30. The next 6 minutes were chaotic; the defense was passive, letting the players do what they want. Hopefully, on some individual actions, we scored a few goals as well to keep our 5 goals lead. But then, we went through our worst period since the beginning of the season, losing focus, envy and solidarity. No more play, no more defense, a lot of turnovers. Of course, our opponents enjoyed this and in 8minutes, scored 6 goals to get back to a draw, 20-20. It was time to take a time out and try to brace ourselves. Unfortunately, it was not efficient and a second time out 5 minutes later was necessary, seeing our opponents leading us 22-21.

Hopefully this time, and with a few substitutions, the team stood up and found back his spirit, getting back ahead by scoring a 6-2 in the last 6 minutes. The final whistle arrived like a benediction and the score 27-24 for us doesn’t show enough the difficulties we had in 2nd half.

We saw a double face game, with a first half really good, strong defense and nice attack combinations. Some players found the frame and scored easily. Also, the playing relationship between players starts to improve and we are definitely getting better. But the second half was terrible, lost of focus and bad decisions that brought us to a difficult end of game while we were leading by 7 points at the half time. We need to improve this point and keep focusing during 60 minutes. Against some better teams, we won’t have that much chance!

A few highlights though, Trond, who finally happened to shoot at 9 meters, and score 5 wonderful goals as well as block a few shots; Matthieu, who scored his first goal with the team and 48h after arriving HK; Angus, who did some really nice stops and survived a shot in the face, Rolf and Ulf, great supporters!

With a few more games in December, we should as much as possible try to come over for trainings, and keep the good stuff done. We have now some proper sessions and drills, nice kits, a few new and motivated players, so definitely no reasons to continue to win!

Hope to see you all very soon!

Sponsoring!

GIANTS,

We are proud to announce that we signed a sponsorship with the Dog House and Eicó.

http://www.thedoghouse.com.hk



That allowed us to create some awesome kits which will definitely establish us as a proper team and club.
Take the time to visit them in their locations in Kowloon or Wan Chai and enjoy the drink and food there! Also, some goodies from HK GIANTS or Dog House are available in both bars so have a look and treat yourself with a great polo.

On the GIANTS side, we keep looking at new players, beginners or experienced to grow and increase the visibility of handball in Hong Kong.

You can contact us at hkgiantshc@gmail.com and we'll be happy to take care of you!

See you soon on the pitch or at the Dog House.

2012-2013 Games schedule


Dear Akitans,

We have now the full schedule for the game in 2012-2013. Of course, and needless to say, each game will be a total and complete win for the Akita team!

Also, please arrive at the picth one hour before the kick off!

DateTimeTeam  LocationResult

Sept 1617:45I.ROBOTChoi Hung Road Handball Court24-20
Sept 2313:00YMCAChoi Hung Road Handball Court23-18
Oct 0117:15HKUSun Yat Sen Memorial Center Park Sports Centre20-22
Oct 1417:45Cheuk LaiShek Kip Mei Park Sports Centre19-17
Nov 1813:50Sun Nic GanSun Yat Sen Memorial Center Park Sports Centre24-27
Dec 0816:15Wai Tou
Sun Yat Sen Memorial Center Park Sports Centre
26-18
Dec 1516:15Yun LongTseung Kwan O20-22
Jan 1318:55I.ROBOTChoi Hung Road Handball Court25-12
Jan 2019:15Ho Kwo Pui ZhenChoi Hung Road Handball Court18-24
May 2620:30SCAAShek Kip Mei Park Sports Centre27-12
Jun 12
Jun 23
Jun 30
Jul  09
Jul  21
Jul  28
Jul  30
Aug 03
15:35
10:15
12.55
19.45
12.40
15.00
20.35
18.40
Cheuk Lai
Wai Tou
Yuen Long
YMCA
SCAA
Sun Nic Gan
Ho Kwok Pui Zhen H HKU
Tin Shui Sports Centre
Shek Kip Mei Park Sports Centre
Sun Yat Sen Memorial Center Park Sports Centre
Choi Hung Road Handball Court
Shek Kip Mei Park Sports Centre
Choi Hung Road Handball Court
Choi Hung Road Handball Court
Shek Kip Mei Park Sports Centre
26-16
37-25
21-21
17-16
29-14
20-22
17-17
24-24


Games may be cancelled or postponed due to the weather, and update will be send to your email address, so keep looking your email box on game's day!


We'll keep update this post as soon as we know more!

The HK Giants Team

The HK Giants Team