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www.bradforddragons.co.uk

#oneclubonefamily

Bradford dragons are supported by:

Player Autographs

@bradforddragons @dragonsbradford

NATIONAL TROPHY QUARTER FINAL

Sunday 27th January 2019

vs

WORTHING THUNDER

2

TODAY’S TEAMS

HEAD COACH CHRIS MELLOR

ASSISTANT COACHES TIM REDFEARN

PAWEL BOHDZIEWICZ

DAN TORDOFF

PHYSIO LAURA MALONEY

TEAM MANAGER DEBORAH KRAJNIEWSKI

6 RAFI SAIPE Leeds 6’2” PG

7 ANDREAS LYCOUDIS Dronfield 6’3” G

9 MATTHEW ARMSTRONG Newcastle Upon Tyne 6’2” G

11 JERMAYNE LAING Bradford 6’2” G

12 RIHARDS ŠULCS LATVIA 6’3” F

13 RICKY FETSKE USA 6’8” PF

15 ALLIE FULAH London 6’8” PF

20 JOAQUIN CALVO SPAIN 6’3” G

21 CLAYFELL HARRIS London 6’8” PF

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SUPPORT YOUR CLUB

SPONSOR A PLAYER OR COACH

We are providing you with an exciting opportunity to sponsor a player, or a member of our

coaching team, for the 2018/19 season.

This is a fantastic way for you, or your company, to show support for your favourite player/

coach.

In return you will have your name or company logo displayed on our club website and Match-

day Programmes. You will also be entitled to a signed photograph of you and your player/

coach, taken by our club photographer at one of our home games.

The following sponsorship packages are available:

Players

£100 per player, or

£25 for match shirt £25 shorts

£25 warm up top £25 training top

Coaches

£100 each

Please contact us at info@bradforddragons.co.uk to arrange your sponsorship.

EASYFUNDRAISING

Did you know that you can support your club every day, simply by surfing the internet? Just

check out our easysearch link -

http://bdbc.easysearch.org.uk.

Every time you search the web, via this link and click through to a website, the club will receive

a donation. It costs you nothing and it really is as easy as that.

You can also use easy fundraising every time you shop online. With major shops and

travel agents, such as Debenhams, M&S, John Lewis, Argos, Disney Store, Thomson, Thomas

Cook, First Choice, Expedia , Hotels.com plus many more, there really is something for every-

one and it costs you nothing.

Search for Bradford Dragons Basketball Club when you register at www.easyfundraising.org.uk

and click ‘Support this cause.’

VOLUNTEERING

Bradford Dragons Basketball Club rely on the support of our many volunteers to help keep the

operations of our club running smoothly. If you, or anybody you know, is able to get involved in

supporting the club with your time, please get in touch.

We have opportunities in many different areas of the clubs operations, including match day

stewarding, social media, marketing, video editing and much, much more.

Contact info@bradforddragons.co.uk.

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Player/coach sponsorships

MATCH SHIRT

£25

SHORTS

£25

WARM UP TOP

£25

TRAINING TOP

£25 RAFI

SAIPE

ANDREAS

LYCOUDIS Your name or

company logo here

Your name or

company logo here

Your name or

company logo here

Your name or

company logo here

MATTHEW

ARMSTRONG Your name or

company logo here

Your name or

company logo here

Your name or

company logo here

Your name or

company logo here

JERMAYNE

LAING SIMON P. CARTER Your name or

company logo here

Your name or

company logo here

Your name or

company logo here

RIHARDS

ŠULCS Your name or

company logo here

Your name or

company logo here

Your name or

company logo here

Your name or

company logo here

RICKY

FETSKE Your name or

company logo here

Your name or

company logo here

Your name or

company logo here

Your name or

company logo here

ALLIE

FULLAH Your name or

company logo here

Your name or

company logo here

Your name or

company logo here

Your name or

company logo here

JOAQUĺN

CALVO

CLAYFELL

HARRIS Your name or

company logo here

Your name or

company logo here

Your name or

company logo here

Your name or

company logo here

Players (£100 per player, or individual items as below)

Coaches

£100 EACH

CHRIS

MELLOR MATTHEW O’DOWD

TIM

REDFEARN

Your name or

company logo here

PAWEL

BOHDZIEWICZ

Your name or

company logo here

DANNY

TORDOFF

Your name or

company logo here

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HEAD COACH JOSH GODDARD

ASSISTANT COACHES JAMES QUINTO

MIKE BLATCHFORD

TEAM MANAGER REECE TESTER

0 JORGE EBANKS CAYMEN ISLANDS 6”1’ PG

5 TOM WARD UK 6’4” G

6 JOSH GODDARD UK 6’5” F

7 ISHMAEL FONTAINE UK 6’3” G

8 BRENDAN OKORONKWO UK 6’3” G

9 KEVIN MOYO UK 5’9” G

10 NAZ MCLOUGHLIN UK 6’0” G

11 ZAIRE TAYLOR USA 6’4” G

15 ALEX OWUMI NIGERIA/USA 6’5” F/G

16 LUKE ATFIELD UK 7’0” C

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2018/19 FIXTURES

COMPETITION DATE HOME AWAY WON/LOST SCORE

Preseason 22-09-18 Liverpool V Bradford Dragons WON 58-76

National Trophy 29-09-18 Team Newcastle V Bradford Dragons WON 51-88

National Trophy 30-09-18 Bradford Dragons V Manchester Magic WON 94-71

NBL1 06-10-18 Bradford Dragons V Nottingham Hoods WON 103-91

NBL1 13-10-18 Loughborough Riders V Bradford Dragons WON 82-88 OT

National Cup 14-10-18 Bradford Dragons V Barking Abbey (D3) WON 104-52

NBL1 20-10-18 Bradford Dragons V Manchester Magic WON 87-55

NBL1 27-10-18 Derby Trailblazers V Bradford Dragons LOST 116-93

National Cup 28-10-18 Bradford Dragons V Worthing Thunder LOST 78-98

NBL1 03-11-18 Bradford Dragons V Worthing Thunder LOST 75-89

NBL1 04-11-18 Bradford Dragons V Reading Rockets LOST 89-95

NBL1 10-11-18 Hemel Storm V Bradford Dragons WON 84-114

NBL1 17-11-18 Leicester Warriors V Bradford Dragons WON 88-98

NBL1 24-11-18 Bradford Dragons V Team Newcastle LOST 66-72

NBL1 01-12-18 Thames Valley Cavaliers V Bradford Dragons LOST 115-90

NBL1 15-12-18 Bradford Dragons V Team Solent Kestrels WON 86-83

NBL1 05-01-19 Barking Abbey V Bradford Dragons LOST 84-66

NBL1 12-01-19 Nottingham Hoods V Bradford Dragons LOST 90-65

NBL1 20-01-19 Essex Leopards V Bradford Dragons LOST 91-79

Nat. Trophy (SF) 27-01-19 Bradford Dragons V Worthing Thunder

NBL1 02-02-19 Worthing Thunder V Bradford Dragons

NBL1 09-02-19 Bradford Dragons V Derby Trailblazers

Nat. Trophy Final 10-02-19 V

NBL1 16-02-19 Reading Rockets V Bradford Dragons

NBL1 23-02-19 Bradford Dragons V Hemel Storm

NBL1 24-02-19 Bradford Dragons V Leicester Warriors

NBL1 02-03-19 Team Newcastle V Bradford Dragons

NBL1 03-03-19 Bradford Dragons V Loughborough Riders

NBL1 09-03-19 Bradford Dragons V Thames Valley

NBL1 10-03-19 Manchester Magic V Bradford Dragons

NBL1 17-03-19 Bradford Dragons V Essex Leopards

NBL1 23-03-19 Team Solent Kestrels V Bradford Dragons

NBL1 30-03-19 Bradford Dragons V Barking Abbey

Playoff (QF) TBC

Playoff (SF) TBC

Playoff Final TBC

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For more information, please visit our website.

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new merchandisE

We are currently taking pre-orders for these items.

To order please send details to

info@bradforddragons.co.uk and name your email

‘Merchandise.’ Include your name, the reference number,

colour, size and amount.

For example:

Ref: BBM

Colour: Black/Red

Size: Medium

Quantity: 1

Personalisation (Hoodies only): XXX

Please make payment with your order - we accept cash,

cheque (payable to Bradford Dragons Basketball Club) or

PayPal*.

All items are high quality genuine products.

Images are artist’s impressions and may differ slightly

from finished products.

Note: All items are subject to us achieving minimum

batch quantities. Refunds will be given for any item that

does not achieve this.

NEW PRODUCTS

AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW

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LEAGUE TABLE

TEAM Won Lost % F A Diff Pts

1 Team Solent Kestrels 11 2 84.62 1077 856 221 22

2 Worthing Thunder 11 3 78.57 1242 1132 110 22

3 Reading Rockets 9 5 64.29 1222 1159 63 18

4 Thames Valley Cavaliers 9 4 69.23 1117 1039 78 18

5 Loughborough Student Riders 8 4 66.67 1031 920 111 16

6 Derby Trailblazers 8 7 53.33 1278 1286 -8 16

7 Nottingham McDonalds Hoods 7 7 50.00 1142 1101 41 14

8 Essex Leopards 7 7 50.00 1206 1247 -41 14

9 Bradford Dragons 6 8 42.86 1199 1235 -36 12

10 Team Newcastle University 5 8 38.46 966 962 4 10

11 Barking Abbey Crusaders 5 8 38.46 964 1040 -76 10

12 Leicester Warriors 5 10 33.33 1160 1328 -168 10

13 Hemel Storm 3 9 25.00 1045 1084 -39 6

14 Manchester Magic 1 13 7.14 967 1227 -260 2

NATIONAL BASKETBALL LEAGUE DIVISION 1 (correct as of 25/01/2019)

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MEET THE PLAYERS

COACH MELLOR

Good afternoon and welcome to today’s game, the National

Trophy semi-final, against our visitors from the South Coast,

Worthing Thunder.

Both teams will obviously be highly motivated, with the prize

awaiting being a place in the final. Worthing come here

currently sitting second place in the division and have as

talented a roster as their is in Division One and will be

pushing Solent, I feel, for the title, come the end of March.

From our perspective, today we have to be concentrated,

tough, execute at both ends of the court and leave it all out there on the floor.

Thanks for the support and enjoy the game.

Coach Mellor

Please join us after today’s game at the University of Bradford Sports Bar, where you will

be able to socialise with the players and officials. Note that the location has changed,

from previous seasons, due to the recent closure of the Westleigh Hotel.

There are ample car parking spaces available in the University car park (Longside Lane,

BD7 1SA). Turn onto Shearbridge Road and then take a right onto Longside Lane.

To gain access to the car park, just reference Bradford Dragons over the intercom.

Please then use the side entrance to the University bars.

Everybody welcome - Family friendly. We hope to see you there.

The official ball supplier to the National Basketball League

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CHAIr’S CHAT

Wow!

What a game!

Were you there?

Where?

When

The last game of the year, against Solent Kestrels, the league leaders, who were on

an unbeaten run of ten games.

This was either the best, most exciting game that you have ever seen, or the best,

most exciting game that you have missed. The Dragons were magnificent and Rihards

Šulcs was in a league of his own. In fact, the entire team played out of their skin.

What a victory! Two amazing three-point buzzer beaters from Šulcs, the second of

which, with only 0.9 seconds remaining on the clock, gave Bradford the win - which

had looked unlikely only seconds earlier.

And since then … well, it’s been back down to earth in 2019. By the way, Happy New

Year to everyone at the Dragons, the players, the coaching team and of course you

the fans.

We welcome Worthing into the Den for our first home fixture of the year, in the semi-

final of the National Trophy. How we would love to come away with the win and make it

to our first National final since we were runners up in the Shield, way back in the

2009/10 season. Worthing will be tough opposition and we will need to be at the top of

our game, with everyone playing at their best, if we are to secure the victory that we all

so much want.

I’m confident that we can do it.

Go Dragons, Go!

Steve Valentine