STORM BLITZ ISSUE #48 Wednesday 9 July 1997 If you have any comments on Storm Blitz, please feel free to e-mail into.the.storm@poboxes.com any time. --------------------------------------------------- In this issue : * B&H Cup draw announced * Season ticket delay * Steelers challenges scrapped? * World Rollin' Thunder unlikely * Stormforce sponsored by ISP * Player positions * Storm launch kit on 22 August * Medway name change * Download back issues of Storm Blitz * How to unsubscribe to Storm Blitz --------------------------------------------------- > B&H CUP DRAW ANNOUNCED The Benson & Hedges Cup groups have been announced with Manchester Storm taking part in Group A. Each team will play the others in their group home and away. The top four teams in each group will go through to the quarter-finals and the final will take place on Saturday 6 December 1997 at Sheffield Arena. GROUP A Manchester Storm Sheffield Steelers Ayr Scottish Eagles Newcastle Cobras Telford Tigers Paisley Pirates GROUP B Basingstoke Bison Bracknell Bees Cardiff Devils Nottingham Panthers Slough Jets Peterborough Pirates > SEASON TICKET DELAY There have been reports of a delay with the season tickets. They were supposed to be available to collect from the Nynex Arena last week but will now be available in a few days time. > STEELERS CHALLENGE SCRAPPED? It appears that the Sheffield Steelers challenge matches planned for the last weekend in August have been scrapped. Instead, Storm will begin their B&H Cup campaign with a home game against the Steelers on the same night - Sunday 31 August. > WORLD ROLLIN' THUNDER UNLIKELY The World Rollin' Thunder roller hockey tournament that was to hold the final in Manchester in August is now in doubt as several of the competition's financial backers have pulled out at the last minute. > STORMFORCE SPONSORED BY ISP One of Stormforce's sponsors for next season will be Planet Internet, an Internet Service Provider from Leeds. > PLAYER POSITIONS As far as I know, the positions of the current squad are as follow: NETMINDERS: Grant Sjerven DEFENDERS: Dale Jago Stephen Cooper Brad Turner Kris Miller Kevin Hoffman Troy Neumeier FORWARDS: Craig Woodcroft Mike Morin Hilton Ruggles Brad Rubachuk Jeff Tomlinson Dominic Maltais Rick Judson Jeff Jablonski Dave Morrison NOT SURE: Stefan Kotela Mikael Viklander > STORM LAUNCH KIT ON 22 AUGUST Manchester Storm will launch its the new kit - and the new players on the Friday before the International tournament (22nd August). Replica kits will go on sale on the weekend of the International tournament (from 23 August). > MEDWAY NAME CHANGE Medway Bears have changed their name for the coming season. They will now be known as INVICTA DYNAMO. > DOWNLOAD BACK ISSUES OF STORM BLITZ All previous issues of Storm Blitz are still available. If you didn't get them, or want them again, you can now download them from the Internet individually, in bunches of 5 in a .zip file or all at once in a .zip file. There will soon be a Web page to access them all from but currently you can get them by entering the individual URLs : http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/3859/blitz01.txt (replace 01 with the number that you wish to see). To get the groups of 5, go to http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/3859/b01-05.zip (other files are b06-10.zip, b11-15.zip, etc up to b36-40) or you can download all of them from http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/3859/ball.zip. When accessing the individual .txt files, you will be better off saving the Web page to your hard disk and then opening it in NOTEPAD as the Web browsers don't seem to word wrap .txt files. > HOW TO UNSUBSCRIBE TO STORM BLITZ Easy! Send an e-mail to into.the.storm@poboxes.com telling me that you don't want Storm Blitz any more. Also use this address if you wish to change e-mail addresses or if you have any comments. *** END OF STORM BLITZ ISSUE #48 *** INTO THE STORM can be accessed at: http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/3859/storm.html OR http://www.poboxes.com/into.the.storm