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A quick reminder that discounted registration fees end on Sunday 28th June as it will be six weeks until the Goodwood Roller Marathon 2009!
If you haven’t registered yet then do register *and pay* in the next week for discounted rates.
A big thank you if you have already signed up. We hope you are looking
forward to the event and are doing lots of training 
Posted by Gordon Morrison as UK National News at 11:35 AM BST
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Congratulations to Herne Bay United and Letchworth for winning the 2008/9 Premier and National Div1 leagues respectively. HBU conceded their last match of the season to Middlesbrough last Saturday evening ending in a convincing 5-7 win for the Northern lads.
NOW SEE THE PHOTOS
HBU v Middlesbrough
HBU CSL v Bury
Posted by Gordon Morrison as UK National News at 2:25 PM BST
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This weekend will see the UK conference playoffs where all our age groups will be contested, Burwell and Soham are the venues hosting this competition with the finals on the weekend of 4th and 5th July.
The teams that have entered this year reads like a role call of clubs that affiliate to the NRHA. Some of the teams entered this year are, Bury, Cambridge, Cottenham, East Grinstead, Ely, Farnham, HBU, HBU Adders, HBU Cobras, HBU Pythons, HBU Vipers, Herne Bay, Kings Lynn, Manchester, Middlesbrough, Peterborough and Plymouth,. You can see and download the full list of teams and schedule by clicking here.
Posted by Gordon Morrison as UK National News at 5:47 PM BST
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Playing a conference competition is not a new thing we in the UK played it up until six years ago after which the Inter-Regional competition was introduced. Spain stage their conference competition in Oveido last weekend where the top team from each of the eight regions competed for the National under 17 champions. It was a treat for me to be able to go and photograph some of Spains future national team players. Josep Ordeig, Spains national coach was present for all of the three day tournament, may be looking for his U17 team for Dinan France in September. I managed to get some cracking shots of the young hopefuls and see some excellent Roller Hockey with friends from the Senior European championships of last year.
Posted by Gordon Morrison as International News at 10:43 PM BST
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Ten teams two days of roller hockey and one winner, CP Ribes from Spain. Congratulations to our European cousins from Catalunia who won the final beating Kings Lynn in a carefully planed attacking match. Teams from as far south as Plymouth all came together in the East of England to play for this prestigious trophy. This was a two day event starting on Saturday in two venues, Burwell and Soham and ending on Sunday at Soham with the final matches.
Posted by Gordon Morrison as UK National News, International News at 8:06 PM BST
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Sometimes something funny happens in our sport of Roller Hockey and when its caught on video camera we can all share in the laughter. This clip was taken yesterday at the warm up match at the start of day three of the 2009 Coupe des Nations in Montreux, Switzerland. No people wear hurt in the making of this video. Ladies match, Juventus v Diessbach.
Posted by Gordon Morrison as International News at 8:17 AM BST
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SCRA St Omer had a convincing win (4-1) over bottom league team Nantes last Saturday at St Omer’s home venue. SCRA St Omer are currently the French National Division one league leaders and with only three matches left in the season St Omer are on target to win Frances top Roller Hockey league.
Posted by Gordon Morrison as International News at 8:47 PM BST
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For a third year in a row England Roller Hockey teams are participating in one the most pretigious tournaments in Portugal,
this year I have decided to take a Minors (players born in 1996 & 1997) and Intermediates (players born in 1994) teams, Minors are players involved on 2011 & 2012 projects and Intermediates are players involved on 2010 project. These projects are part of the Development Plan for our sport to develope players to attend their first European Under 17 Championships.
This tournament will take place in Sesimbra a town half hour away from Lisbon, starting on Thursday and finishing on Saturday. The team will fly out on Thursday morning and will return to England on Sunday morning. This tournament will have 4 teams participating in each level from Under 11 to Juniors giving an opportunity for our players to have a couple of competitive games and watch quality Portuguese teams.
Posted by Gordon Morrison as UK National News, International News at 2:00 AM BST
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I understand that there is considerable confusion over what is the Conference System of Competition that we are playing this season. Below I have tried to explain it as simply as possible.
In order for there to be a Club National Champion of England, it was decided to introduce a Conference System of competition for this season.
The Conference System is split into sections, in order to save the cost of traveling if we had introduced a National League at all age levels.
The first section relies on the Regional Leagues from the three Regions, North, East and South, and works as follows :-
At any of the age levels, the top team in the Regional League wins a place directly to the Finals taking place over the weekend of the 4th/5th July.
The second and third teams go into a play-off taking place over the weekend of 6th/7th June from which the best team will make up the fourth team in the finals.
The Play-offs will be run as 2 pools of three.
Each pool will be played as a round robin with the winners of each pool playing for the fourth place available in the Finals.
Therefore, the Finals, comprising four teams at each age level will be played as a round robin to determine the Club Champions of England.
Keith Allen
Posted by Gordon Morrison as UK National News at 11:44 AM BST
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August 9th, 2009 sees the 8th running of the Goodwood Roller Marathon. Held at the historic Goodwood motor racing circuit near Chichester, West Sussex, the event offers the opportunity to skate outside, on smooth, traffic free tarmac.
The marathon distance of 42 kilometres is not the only distance on offer. A mini-marathon (5 miles), half marathon (13 miles) and double marathon (56 miles) are all available options.
Posted by Gordon Morrison as UK National News at 10:10 AM BST
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