Flaming Six Volleyball Club

The Coyotes take on the Lionhearts Cats, with the winner advancing to Sunday’s Premier promotion match against the Bears 👀

Club support for our women’s team would be hugely appreciated - let’s bring the energy and get behind the Coyotes! 🔥🧡

📍 Ernest Bevin Academy
🗓 Saturday
⏰ 2 PM

The Coyotes returned from Bellatrix with a 3–1 win, which sounds comfortable on paper and absolutely wasn’t in reality.

It was one of those games where momentum kept changing hands just often enough to keep everyone slightly on edge. Bellatrix showed up ready to make us work for it, and to their credit, they did. Long rallies, scrappy points, and the kind of sets where no one really knows how the ball is still in play—but it is, and now everyone’s sprinting.

We took the first, dropped the second, and then had to properly dig in to close it out. Not our cleanest performance, but definitely one of our grittier ones. The kind where you win because you refuse to quietly go away.

Special mention to Freya, who after a series of increasingly enthusiastic defensive efforts, is now reportedly browsing libero jerseys and considering a positional rebrand. We’ll be having words.

With second place already secured, it would’ve been easy to ease off. Instead, we did what we’ve done all season—kept showing up, kept figuring it out, and occasionally made things more dramatic than necessary for the sake of character development.

Another sports hall ticked off, another win in the bag, and a season wrapped up the Coyotes way: not always straightforward, but always together.

Bellatrix, thanks for the battle. Same again sometime.

A wild final weekend on the high seas to close out the season.

First up, a proper battle against Spikers - we stormed ahead 2–0 and had match point in our grasp… but from that moment the tide turned, and the momentum slipped away like treasure through our fingers. We took it to 5 sets and fought ‘til the very end - the kind of match that hurts, but reminds ye what this crew is made of.

Less than 18 hours later, we were back on deck against SQUAD - and aye… the legs were heavy, the cannons misfiring, and it showed. Turns out even the toughest pirates need a bit more time between battles.

It’s not the ending we were sailing for, and it means we’ll be dropping back to Division 3… but make no mistake - this crew has grown stronger through every storm, every rally, every fight for the point.

Massive love to everyone who showed up, battled hard, and kept spirits high all season long ❤️

We may be changing waters next season… but as the great Arnold once said - we’ll be back.

The Pirates set sail once more against London Spikers - chasing good volleyball, good vibes, and giving it everything left in the tank.

No pressure, no mutiny… just playing for the love of the game and seeing how far we can push it one last time this season.

Then it’s SQUAD on Sunday - lower ceilings, full sails, same fearless crew.

So the question is… can we plunder a last-minute result? 👀

All hands on deck. Let’s find out.

Another cruel early Sunday start saw the Lambeth Pirates battling the top of the group. Sticking to our tried and tested game plan, we generously gave Britkong the first two sets to boost their confidence… and, unfortunately, they took full advantage and closed it out in the third.

Despite the result, it was a full team effort, with everyone getting involved - and plenty of DOTD contenders. Special mention to David, whose ambitious (and memorable) net dump secured him top honours.

Two games left this season, both at home. We’re all quietly hoping for a miracle reprieve in Div 2… despite our best efforts to suggest otherwise.

See you all at Lambeth and Battersea this weekend to finish the season with true Pirates pride 🏴‍☠️

The Coyotes took a trip to West London to face Onyx again — same teams, same stakes, but this time we politely declined a five-set saga.

Finding the venue, however, was a saga. Their sports hall turned out to be less “gym” and more “escape room,” with multiple Coyotes getting lost en route. At one point, we had to send out search parties. Character-building before the warm-up had even started.

Set one began at 11–0, which felt great for us and deeply confusing for everyone else. Naturally, we then decided to make things interesting by letting them back into it, because apparently we enjoy a bit of self-inflicted drama. Still, we closed it out before it got too embarrassing.

After that, we remembered we can actually just… win volleyball games. Three sets, job done. Efficient by our standards, which is to say: only mildly chaotic.

Huge shoutout to Elise, our MVP, who pulled off an outrageous pancake dig that had no right being saved. Ball said “floor,” Elise said “absolutely not.”

No home games left now — just us, the road, and an ever-growing catalogue of sports halls (and now mazes) we’ll never emotionally recover from.

The Coyotes are heading to West London for our second-to-last away game. No more home matches, just us and an ever-expanding knowledge of other people’s sports halls.

We’re up against Onyx again. Last time, it went to five sets. We won. It was all very character-building.

So here we are. Same teams, same setup, just with a clearer understanding that things may, once again, take longer than strictly necessary.

We’ll aim to keep it efficient this time. Fewer sets, fewer theatrics, and ideally no need to prove our resilience quite so extensively.

West London, see you soon.

Sunday morning. Alarms ignored, coffees barely doing their job, and yet somehow Pirates vs Britkong is actually happening.

Expect a slow start while everyone remembers how knees work, followed by at least one “I’m still half asleep” serve into the net. Pirates will be hoping their teamwork kicks in before their caffeine does, while Britkong might just try to win points before anyone realises the game has started.

There’ll be questionable decision-making, surprisingly good rallies, and at least one player wondering why they agreed to this time slot in the first place.

One thing’s guaranteed: by the end of it, everyone will either be fully awake… or ready for a nap.

LAST GAME FOR LLAMAS - and of course we’re finishing the season with a home game against Londinium!

Come enjoy one more performance in Div 1 from your favourite chaos-filled team!

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This is the end. One last game before the annual knee pad wash for our Cobras, the end of season “did you give you kit back yet?”, and the split between two groups: those who will join sandy courts for the summer and those who’ll aestivate (that’s “hibernate” in the summer months 🧐 TMYK), showing up for random park socials and hoping it won’t be noticed in September.

This Friday we meet Malory for the second time, hoping that our age won’t show and that we can keep up with these eagles’ bullet attacks and great defense... And, let’s admit it - they have the best chants in the division. Now that the bench has mastered the count to three, we are sure Cobras will be able to match it! 💪

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Time is ticking for the Pirates

Saturday started rough - Lionhearts came out firing and nicked the first. We were 18-16 up in the second… then politely let that slip. Third set? Let’s just say the pub was calling 🍻

Sunday afternoon and game two was a glow-up. After a 21-10 wake-up call, we bounced back to take sets two (22-20) and three (21-19), including a chaotic ref moment we absolutely accepted without question.

We nearly pulled it off in the fourth (lost 21-23 after match point 😬), and ran out of time in the fifth (6-7).

Overall: chaotic, slightly questionable, but much better. But time is running out for the Pirates.