English Senior Mens Curling Team

Thanks to everyone involved for a fantastic Senior Championship finals!

The final was tight this morning between Team Taylor and Team Loftus. Congratulations to Team Loftus on retaining the title! 🥌 We look forward to seeing you in Geneva in April...!

Thank you to all of the teams competing this week, to The Flower Bowl Entertainment Centre for the great ice, and to John Brown for umpiring!

Photo: Marianna Ward

Your English Senior Men’s Champions 2026! 🥇🏆🥌 👏🏼 next stop Geneva, Switzerland for the World Senior Championships end of April! Thank you to all our sponsors, supporters and opposing teams for making it a super competitive tournament.

Won second playoff. Final at 10am tomorrow against Team Taylor.

First playoff won 8-2. That guarantees us a place in the final tomorrow at 10am. Next playoff game at 7pm, to determine our opposition tomorrow.

It’s the English Senior Playdowns this week at Preston and we’ve had a good round robin., going 4-1. Heading into the playoff round kicking off at 2.30pm! 🥌

This weekend we played in our first competition of the season at Kinross in The Rest of British Superleague. 3 good wins - 8-3 v Ukraine men, 7-2 v Welsh men and 9-2 v Team Zen. Thanks to Lee McCleary for stepping in as guest skipper for the weekend. Great to see everyone, fantastically run event and good to be back on the ice! 🥌

Team update:
Unfortunately, we need to let everyone know that Ken has had to step out of the team for the coming 25/26 season.
Ken was diagnosed a few years ago with low-grade non-Hodgkin lymphoma. He has now been diagnosed with high-grade non-Hodgkin lymphoma and is currently starting chemotherapy which will take him out for the rest of the season. We are gutted that Ken is not able to join us this year, but he is still very much part of our team. We would like to take this opportunity to wish Ken all the best for his upcoming treatments, and hopefully, we will see him back on the ice with us soon.
We do not currently have a replacement for Ken; we will announce this in due course.

One member of the team had his first game of the new season training with a new group of athletes today 😉 Was a great game & good fun had by all! Followed up by a hard training session 🥌

Fredericton is proving more difficult to get out of than we anticipated! 3 of us had our original flight cancelled so a hotel move & an extra night drinking in Fredericton it was. Rearranged travel today so fingers crossed 🤞 🙏

Posting a few days late! But we wrapped up the competion with a fantastic closing banquet on Saturday night, after being asked for our autographs again! Was great to catch up with all the competitors socially & we even got the chance to meet some elite curlers. 🥌
It was brilliant to travel with the English ladies team, they should be proud of how well they performed at their first outing and we had a lot of fun with them.
Fredericton and all the volunteers did an amazing job, going above & beyond to make sure we were all really looked after. We have made some new friends and memories to treasure for a lifetime.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Wasn’t to be today. Tough playoff against a top Scotland side. Wishing Scotland & Canada all the best in the quarter finals. Proud of our performance after only playing together for a dozen games! Now we can finally let our hair down! 🕺