Another Plea for Help.

Folks, some of you will know that my nephew is an under-age ice hockey player most of you won't.
He has been nominated as a Nekoti Sherwood Ambassador and needs votes.
His name is Chris Boyd, he is my sister's youngest and the sacrifices she has made to help him have been nothing short of phenomenal. If he is successful then he gets sponsorship for the season.
If you are on Facebook and wouldn't mind clicking on the link, go to "Vote Now" and scroll down to Chris Boyd and vote.

https://www.facebook.com/NekotiSherwoodAmbassadorProgramme (Click on the Vote Now button and scroll down to Chris Boyd)

Chris Boyd
Aged 14
Goalie
Junior Belfast Giants
Chris started playing inline hockey when he was 7 years old. When his first team Ballymoney Badgers folded after just a year he moved to the Northern Cyclones where he will play his 7th season this year.He travels 130 mile round trip every Saturday to train and the same journey on game days During his time with the Cyclones he has helped his teams win the leagues and playoffs every year at every age group! Two years ago he became the first goalie in the history of the N Ireland leagues not to concede a single goal (in the u12 league.) 3 years ago Chris joined the Junior Belfast Giants and has been training faithfully every week. Again he travels over 120 mile return journey for every training session, which is twice a week. In total he travels nearly 400 miles every weekend to train for both inline and ice hockey! Every Friday night, Saturday morning and Sunday afternoons are taken up during the hockey season. If all goes well he and his team mates will be travelling to Scotland every month to join the Scottish ice hockey league which will require more dedication for a boy who suffers badly from travel sickness. Last year Chris represented Great Britain in u12 at the AUU Junior Olympics at inline hockey in Anaheim, Los Angeles. He is the only boy in his town who plays hockey and last year was a finalist in his local council's Young Sportsperson of the Year award. Junior Giants are the only ice hockey team in N Ireland so it was only this year that we have been able to organise friendlies and attend tournaments in Scotland. In his first competitive game Chris was awarded man of the match. He 'played up' with the u16 team in his first ever tournament and was awarded Goalie on the All Star Team. The under 14 team played in two Scottish tournaments and again Chris was awarded Goalie on the Dream team in Ayr and was also asked to 'guest' in the final for Ayr as their goalie became unavailable. Chris is a very quiet unassuming boy, he is very well liked and respected by all his teammates and coaches. Hockey, both inline and ice are his life, he sacrifices a lot of time to get to training - an hour's training can take up to 4/5 hours including late nights. He never complains or doesnt want to go, he just quietly gets on with it. I would love Chris to get the chance to become a Sherwood Ambassador, it would help him promote the sport that he loves and would give him a financial boost. It would also be great to see Northern Ireland being represented as although both sports are very minority sports here, those kids involved play with passion and drive.

Any votes will be most welcome and we will be very grateful to you all

done, I'll see if any mates will do it too

Done

Cheers CJ and Penfro. Appreciate any help

Done Rava ,


Seen it on Ozzy's facebook and will share it on mine now.

Portnoy is not going to like this, no exploitation of women, sport related... what's he going to complain about?!

How can I get my friends to vote on facebook? I'm not very good with it, can I message everyone and ask them to vote without contacting them individually?

PJ if you look on Facebook you will see "share" just above the comments. Click on that and that will make it visible to your friends.

Ok, can I attach a message to that to ask them to vote for Chris? Sorry, thick as mince when it comes to this sort of thing.

Shared it on my FB page too.

PJHolybloke wrote:Ok, can I attach a message to that to ask them to vote for Chris? Sorry, thick as mince when it comes to this sort of thing.

If you click on "share" it should also let you make a comment before you post.

Thanks Swanny

I was vote 85 :-)

If you want Rava, i can share it as well

Morning Billy.

I think I shared it on faceache - Rav, let me know if that worked.

Morning PJ, i will also share it on faceache then

I haven't got a Scooby when it comes to social networking Billy - analogue or digital as it happens - so I'm not certain it worked, if it did, I've learnt something new, which effectively means I can shut down for the rest of the day.

An early shutdown PJ, not even a beer needed

PJ, It worked.

Thanks again folks. From my sister: -

Morning folks - Chris has now moved up from 48th place yesterday morning to 12th place so thanks for all the votes! Hes still away behind the leader (283) so if you havent done so yet would you please go to the Nekoti Sherwood page, 'like' the page then go to 'vote now,' scroll down and you will see Chris's pic and place your vote. Only one vote per person allowed. Thanks so much!

Rava, when does it close?

I think its done on a weekly basis so probably Saturday/Sunday.

Chris has now moved to 11th place and has 99 votes.

Thank you all again.

Does he need to win Rava?

PJHolybloke wrote:Portnoy is not going to like this, no exploitation of women, sport related... what's he going to complain about?!

How can I get my friends to vote on facebook? I'm not very good with it, can I message everyone and ask them to vote without contacting them individually?

Done Rava.

Just don't ask me to do so more than is reasonably allowed.

Portnoy wrote:

PJHolybloke wrote:Portnoy is not going to like this, no exploitation of women, sport related... what's he going to complain about?!

How can I get my friends to vote on facebook? I'm not very good with it, can I message everyone and ask them to vote without contacting them individually?

Done Rava.

Just don't ask me to do so more than is reasonably allowed.

Good man Portnoy. It's a one vote deal.

You're done.

done

Cheers, Portnoy & Lord Dowlais

no probs

Not on FB but got people to vote in my place, savage commitment from the young fella and his family. Fair dues. At least ti's not something like figure skating or swimming having to do it at like 5 in the morning!

Once again, a big thank you to everyone who took time out to vote and to put the message out to their friends.

We have been able to push Chris up to 8th place with 129 votes. The current leader has 291 votes so it is looking unlikely that we will be able to overcome that. However through your efforts we have already raised Chris's profile and that of Ice Hockey in Northern Ireland. That in itself is a victory.

Nope sorry pal. Done this before and it makes a huge overwhelming advantage. No fair

Voted. The more we raise the profile of kids wanting to do any sport has got to be a good thing. It doesn't matter what sport it is.

Good luck Chris and good luck Rava.

Done

Not on Faceache but voted off the wifes

Guy and Gals, Chris is sitting in second place only 32 votes behind. I think this is the last day for this session so if you have a Facebook account could you please take a moment to vote.


https://www.facebook.com/NekotiSherwoodAmbassadorProgramme (Click on the Vote Now button and scroll down to Chris Boyd)

He's in first now Rava - and the page just made this post-

Nekoti Sherwood Ambassador Programme
5 minutes ago
Northern Ireland are thumping the leaderboard!

Get in there then!

606v2 is one hell of an internet weapon.

What a magnificent bunch of members we are... I think...

I am not on facebook (can't remember account details), but this kid Boyds resume sounds amazing! He would certainly be deserving of "Ambassador" status.

Thanks again PJ, and thanks Nore.

Update. At the minute we are 34 ahead but the lad in second place obviously has his admirers as well.
Keep up the good fight.

Thanks folks

When does it close Rava?

Ozzy3213 wrote:When does it close Rava?

Tomorrow lunchtime Pete.

From the Nekoti Sherwood FB Page: -

Nekoti Sherwood Ambassador Programme
7 minutes ago
Chris Boyd from northern Ireland entered the Nekoti Sherwood Ambassador Programme leaderboard at the bottom only 5 days ago and is 6 votes short of 500!

I've tweeted it out again and spammed Facebook in a final push for a few more votes mate. Fingers crossed for one o'clock.

Chris is on 505 votes now, the lad in second is on 421.

Chris, my nephew has won Round 5 of the competition.

A big big thanks to all who took the time out to vote and tweet and whatever else you did.

Brilliant Rava, made up for you and the lad.

The result was never in doubt once you'd posted Rav, what 606v2 wants... chuffed for the wee fella, and all the family.

Good work 606ers.

Congrats to the young fella his committment is unreal and his family deserve a lot of credit. Read the piece again but is inline hockey using roller blades on a lino/wood floor yeah?

Well done to the voters on here. We are a great force for good and possibly evil (more on that later)

From my sister - June Boyd
Overwhelmed is the only word! Chris and me (and the rest of the Boyds) dont know how to thank everyone who took the time to vote! There were a lot of people working behind the scenes 'tormenting' family and friends of friends etc to get him votes and without you all he'd only be a wee boy from Northern Ireland whom nobody knew about!!

We dont know everyone persoally and Ill probably walk past a lot of you without knowig who you are (except those in Eqypt, Motreal, Boston, New Zealand, Scotland, England.... and so the list goes on!!)

Need to call Mr Sherwood and see what happens next but thanks, those of you who know Chris know how important his hockey is to him!! Thanks everyone!!!