John Jones and Simon Hosking
This years National Cup Final was a great success with the day ending with a fantastic mens senior match. Fourteen teams competed for seven titles in all of our sports age groups. Congratulations go to the winners Under 11’s Kings Lynn, Under 15’s Peterborough, Ladies South team, Under 17’s Bury, Under 13’s Kings Lynn, Under 20’s Bury and Seniors Herne Bay United who were all victorious on the day.
During the day other awards were presented and a big congratulations goes out to the following players, under 11’s player of the year went to Alex Mount under 15’s player of the year went to Sam Cayley, under 15’s most improved play went to Chloe Stevenson, ladies player of the year went to Kirsty Ingham, under 17’s player of the year went to Owen Stewart, under 13’s player of the year went to Kieran Brady, under 20’s player of the year went to Josh Bishop and the under senior player of the year went to John Jones.
In addition to the matches and presentations the July 600 club was drawn. Congratulations goes out to Tim Nelson for winning £150.
Ladies final result North 0 - 4 South
See the mens results
Posted by Gordon Morrison as UK National News at 12:41 AM BST
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Our annual showcase “The Finals of the National Cup Competitions” are being held at the Lord Roberts Centre, National Shooting Range, Bisley on Saturday 5th July.
Start time is 10.30am and the order of play is as follows:
10.30am U 11’s Kings Lynn v HBU
Presentation of trophy, medals and U 11 Player of the Year
11.30am U 15’s Peterborough v Herne Bay
Presentation of trophy, medals and U 15 Player of the Year
12.30pm Ladies North v South
Presentation of trophy and Lady Player of the Year
Presentation of Under 15 most improved lady of the year
13.30pm U 17’s Peterborough v Bury
Presentation of trophy, medals and U 17 Player of the Year
14.30pm U 13’s HBU v Kings Lynn
Presentation of trophy, medals and U 13 Player of the Year
15.30pm U 20’s Bury v Herne Bay
Presentation of trophy, medals and U 20 Player of the Year
16.45pm Senior Middlesbrough v HBU
Presentation of trophy, medals and Henry Crystall Senior Player of the Year
As well as the Cups of the above events all the League Trophies and medals plus the Referee of the Year will be presented
A good attendance is urged which will make it a great day out for all the family!
The AGM of the NRHA is being held the following day, Sunday 6th July starting at 10am in the Lord Roberts Centre, National Shooting Range, Bisley Surrey
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A4 or A5
Posted by Gordon Morrison as UK National News at 12:58 AM BST
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Back in March 2007 Steve Sirkin contacted me telling me he would be publishing an A5 size magazine for skaters. Steve is a supplier of general skating equipment in and around London. Issue one came out in May 2007 with a small mention of the NRHA on the top of a page halfway through the mag. With the next issue pending I decided to ensure the NRHA would have good representation in every issue. Since then skaters have been able to read about traditional roller hockey (Quad) in all the issues of Skate mag.
I thought it would be a good idea to have one of the issues with a Roller Hockey theme, after speaking to Steve Sirkin in August 2007 we agreed I would supply the cover picture for the first A4 size magazine due to go on sale in May 2008. As you can see from the picture we made it happen, the current issue has Brendan Barker pictured on the front cover with double page articles from Aileen Barker (NRHA general secretary) and double page articles on Ian Morrison and James Taylor currently playing pro roller hockey in Spain and Italy respectively. A great read about other skate disciplines in this excellent issue.
Copies can be purchased by emailing me with your order on gordon@ukrollerhockey.com
Posted by Gordon Morrison as UK National News at 9:57 AM BST
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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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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?
SEE THE PHOTOS
Posted by Gordon Morrison as UK National News at 9:04 PM BST
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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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Bury’s home match to Middlesbrough at Soham on 8th Dec. started with Boro taking the first goal of the evening, the boys from the north were strong especially Micheal Ableson who has recently returned from Portugal after playing Roller hockey there for 14 months. Bury applied the pressure sealing the match at 8 - 5. See the pictures
Posted by Gordon Morrison as UK National News at 10:20 AM GMT
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Herne Bay United will take on the 2001 CERS Cup winners Club Pati Vic (Spain) in the Champions league match on Saturday 17th November doors open 7pm at the pier pavilion, Herne Bay. Last month HBU played their first “new format” Champions League match in Porto Portugal to approx 1000 spectators.
The Kent based club is having to finance entry into the competition which includes, travel and accommodation for the two referees (approx £1000) for each home match, travel and accommodation for the team on away matches, plus all of the smaller cost like hall hire for the home matches. It is expected to cost around £11,000 to compete in this years league. To fund their participation the club are having to raise money from ticket sales and local sponsorship, any short fall will have to be picked by the players themselves.
To have this type of competition in this country will be good for our sport and makes great entertainment so keep your calendar free for 17/11/07 (HBU v Vic, Spain), 15/12/07 (HBU n Prato, Italy) and 19/1/08 (HBU v Porto, Portugal). Tickets are available at the pier at £4 per adult and £ 2.50 for children. A three home match discount ticket is available at £10 for adults and £6 for children.
Posted by Gordon Morrison as UK National News, International News at 11:10 AM GMT
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Around 100 fans watched Saturdays CERS Cup first round match at the pier pavilion. Viareggio (Italy) were always going to be a tough nut to crack for Bury St Edmunds but when the Italians arrived you could feel the tension in the air when they walked through the middle of the home team spectators in the reception area of the pier.
Bury had a young team which was evident at the line up at the start of the match and Viareggio’s professional team stood tall against the our boys in green. The match started well and on the whole Bury played well against the Italians with Carlos Amaral jr. scoring the only goal for Bury in the second half of the match. The power of the visitors took its toll on the home team giving the final score of 1-13.
Bury will travel now travel to the Mediterranean town of Viareggio for their return match on 17 November.
Now see the pictures
Posted by Gordon Morrison as UK National News, International News at 12:36 PM BST
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Bury meets Viareggio (Italy) in the first round of the CERS Cup this Saturday (20th October start 7.45pm) at the Pier Pavilion, Herne Bay. This is one of the four big matches to be held at the pier in the coming months. Herne Bay Utd. are away in Portugal on the same day to play FC Porto in their first round match of the European League. The 17th November will see Herne Bay Utd at home to C P Vic (Spain) and Bury will be away in their return match in Viareggio Italy. So mark your diary and don’t miss this opportunity to see some good International roller hockey.
Posted by Gordon Morrison as UK National News, International News at 9:10 AM BST
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