Last weekend twenty three teams in six groups took part in the 2008 Inter-regional Championships at the Bushfields Sports Centre in Peterborough. Over the three day bank holiday weekend tournament, regional teams from the North, South and East competed for this year’s NRHA Inter-Regional trophies. Congratulations to the following winners:- Under 11 Southern Counties, Under 13 Eastern Counties 1, Under 15 Eastern Counties 2, Ladies Eastern Counties 1, Under 17 Eastern Counties 2 and Under 20 Eastern Counties. A thank you goes out to our members who organised this years successful event, the referees and timekeepers and finally the players who travelled long distances to take part.

Posted by Gordon Morrison as Results, UK National News at 9:18 PM BST

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Tenerife 2008 CERS Cup Winners

The final four teams of the 2007/8 CERS cup will compete this weekend in Quevert France. Clubs from all over Europe registered last year to participate in this prestigious annual home and away competition. We Only had one English team, Bury RHC, who played Viareggio at Soham on 20th October last year, unfortunatly Bury were knocked out of this competition in the first round after a defeat at Soham and in Viareggio.

Now you can see the pictures of the final four teams of this years semi final and final.

Posted by Gordon Morrison as International News at 8:36 AM BST

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What a feast, 14 goals in 70 minutes all played at the highest UK level. HBU were confident and took control of this Premier League match having pushed the score to 6-0 by the end of the first have. Middlesbrough emerged from the changing room for the second half determined to salvage something from this game. The boys from Cleveland took on the Kent lads and pulled back the 7 goals giving the final score of 7-7. Did the suspension of Simon Hoskin and Sam Jackson for this match have a major effect or did Middlesbrough put into practice their additional training of the previous few days?

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Posted by Gordon Morrison as UK National News at 9:04 PM BST

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Last weekend I photographed the Spainish National Div. one match Areces v Tordera in the small town of Grado near Oviedo in Northern Spain. Areces are pushing for the top of league one with the hope of promotion to Division of Honour (the Spanish premier league) next year. Look out for the faces you may have seen playing for Spain in past European and World Championships.

Final score, Areces 3 - 1 Tordera.

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Posted by Gordon Morrison as International News at 11:26 PM GMT

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SCRA St Omer had a convincing win (8-2) over mid league team Ploufragan last Saturday at the St Omer home venue. SCRA St Omer are a semi professional team and are currently the French National Division one league leaders. With only eight matches left in the season St Omer are on target to win Frances top Roller Hockey league.

Keep an eye open for the pictures showing “stick bend” the phenomenon that occurs when energy is transferred when the stick strikes ball.

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Posted by Gordon Morrison as International News at 11:42 PM GMT

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Over the years the Team Picture album on this website has been a popular stopping off point whilst our visitors flick through our picture albums. This particular album is an achieve of players representing England at Roller Hockey’s European and World competition. The album has recently been updated to display team photos taken at Senior, Ladies, Junior and Schoolboy levels during 2007. I hope to continue in maintaining this prestigious archive of images as a roll of honour dedicated to the players who “play for England”.

To maintain this website the only avenue to generating the finance we need is through the sale of the photographs we take. Most of our team pictures as with the other pictures on this website are available to purchase as prints. If you would like to purchase any of these pictures please email me with your questions or order, in addition to this on the right hand side of our front page I have put a “Make A Donation” button so if you enjoy looking at the photos on this website and want to show your appreciation you can make a financial contribution to the running of this world famous site.

Posted by Gordon Morrison as UK National News at 1:41 PM GMT

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What a Tournament! Four matches, all went to extra time and two then went to penalties. This years Spanish Princes cup was hosted at the venue of the current holders, Areces . The home crowd saw four teams Areces, Macenet, Vigo Stick and Sitges (all National Division 1 teams) play some great hockey over Saturday evening and Sunday.

Over the years I get to see the European National teams compete and team players working as a unit. Watching this tournament between clubs you see the same team members batterling and exhibiting their skills against each other, I’m sure that some of you who have played for England will recognise some of the team so watch this space to see some of the action from last weekend.

Congratulations to Macanet who won the 2008 Princes Cup host in Grado, Spain.

Maçanet - Sitges 3-2
Areces Elecinco - Vigo Stick 2-3
Areces Elecinco - Sitges 3-4
Maçanet - Vigo Stick 6-4

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Posted by Gordon Morrison as International News at 8:40 PM GMT

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The weekend of the 2-3 February will see the Princes Cup (La Copa de S.A.R. El Príncipe) contested at the home venue of last years winners C P Areces. The Princes Cup is the Spanish National Division ones equivelent to the Division of honour’s Kings Cup, the top three teams of the Spanish Nat 1 after this weekends matchs will qualify. C P Areces automaticlly qualify as last years winners. As top of Nat League 1 stands now Sitges have qualified on points so there are four other posible teams for the two remaining places that could be competing (GEiEG, Alcon, Vigo Stick and SHUM Massanet). We will be photographing the four matches and all the best pictures will be posted here the following Wednesday.

Posted by Gordon Morrison as International News at 9:06 PM GMT

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Herne Bay Utd 0 FC Porto 21

At the last of Herne Bay United’s home matches in the Euro League last Saturday we saw the host team on the constant defence. FC Porto one of Europe’s strongest teams powered on the pressure from the start, HBU held the Portuguese giants at arms length but after a period of testing the opposition the visitors started to notched up the goals. As the final score shows fitness was an issue for the non professional hosts, having said that, Brendan Barker along with Simon Hoskin and Neil Austin created many breaks but were unable to put ball between the goal posts.

During the second half HBU had a change to dinghy Porto’s goalkeeper a clean sheet with a penalty but Phil McVey failed to score after hitting the crossbar. The two HBU goalkeepers Dan Barton and Paul Nelson played to their best but this mountain was just too high to conquer.

HBU are away at CP Vic in Spain next month in there fifth European League match.

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Posted by Gordon Morrison as International News at 12:41 PM GMT

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I’m sure we like to see the pictures of our Roller Hockey matches especially if there is a chance that we could be in them. Some people like to see the goals and some like to see the conflict but overall we have a great game and through the medium of the internet our images can be seen by many all over the world.

Four years ago I put together a compilation of photos taken from national and international competition, making up an album of pictures depicting players falls and fouls during that past year. After speaking to many site visitors it was made clear that they enjoyed looking at the cheeky antics that players will try to get away with. In these photos the offending players don’t always intend to inflict discomfort but as the shutter opens to capture the 500ths of a second image see the competitors pushing the boundaries with them usually denying any intent.

Over the last week I have been looking through the many pictures I took during 2004 and 2005 when I accompanied the England teams competing in International championships. This compilation album that I have put together shows just these physical actions of players, to be fair a large proportion of the photos depict England players but you must remember in the early years I was taking photos for the English only websites.

Have a look at this collection of larger than usual photos, I hope this will show you some of the detail in the images that I get to look at when I am in the office after the competition.

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Posted by Gordon Morrison as International News at 8:52 PM GMT

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