Who are we?
Fire Of London have consistently been one of the top 3 teams in the UK since they were founded and have always challenged hard in the European and World Championships.We train hard but have fun doing so and enjoy a ‘healthy’ social scene with our female counterparts Iceni.
Fire also run a long standing second team where the focus is more on development while still competing at the highest level possible. The club has strong ties with various places with players coming from Cambridge, Portsmouth and even as far off as Australia.
History
Fire Of London was born in 2004, evolving from ‘Chevron Action Flash South’. Founded by the likes of Paolo Nistri, Paul "Larry" Larkin, Nick "Mango" Smith, Pete Cotton and inspirational caption Ian "Ploughdude" Pearmain (not to mention current day legends Lewis Glover and Ed Russell).
In 2005, captained by Joff Log, Fire won the Tour after a nail biting sudden death point in the final at Tour 4 against Leeds. Fire nearly repeated this feat in similar fashion in 2008 under the joint captaincy of Pete ‘Rodders’ Wright and Joe Bolton but couldn’t defeat a gritty Fusion team in the final of Tour 3, handing the overall tour to Chevron (who we beat in the semi- grrr!!).
Other highlights in Fire’s short history include a great showing in Perth, 2006 for the World Championships where Fire came 10th and in Paris, 2008 where Fire reached the European Club final, losing narrowly to Swedish team, Skogs.
Below are Fire’s results from the major tournaments over the last few years:
Tournament, First Team, Second Team
2004 Tour ? n/a
2004 Nationals ? n/a
2005 Tour: 1st n/a
2005 Nationals: 4th n/a
EUCC 2005:18th n/a
2006 Tour: 2nd 11th
2006 Nationals: 2nd 9th
World Clubs 2006: 10th n/a
Euros 2006: 10th n/a
2007 Tour: 3rd 11th
2007 Nationals: 2nd 11th
Euros 2007: 11th n/a
2008 Tour: 2nd 17th
2008 Nationals:3rd 21st
Euros 2008: 2nd n/a
2009 Tour: 3rd 5th
2009 Nationals: 2nd 5th
EUCC 2009: 11th n/a
2010 Tour: 3rd 8th
2010 Nationals: 3rd 16th
World Clubs 2010: 27th n/a
When and where do we train?
Fire generally train on Clapham Common (during the summer every Tuesday night from 7pm and most Saturdays 11-2 by Eagle Pond see map below and Events). Trainings are of a high standard but unlike most other top level clubs, we encourage any players who are in the London area and want to see what we are about to come along (NB. Players should be of intermediate to advance level).
In the off season, we will also be running a series of open training session and skill days as well as official trials in February/March so watch out for these to be announced on Brit Disc.