Roller Hockey Photos

Celebrations for the Under 17’s Peterborough team last weekend with winning the 2009 Farnham Shield. Six teams entered this years competition which had its age limit raised to Under 17’s as Farnham, hosts of the competition, were unable to put together an under 13’s team as in past years.

In addition to the winners teams from Bury, Plymouth, Cottenham, Farnham and Ely all entered the tournament displaying a good level roller hockey for this age group. One match displayed good attacking and skating skills, Peterborough and Bury fought hard for a place in the finals with Peterborough sealing their place in the final with a second goal in the last half of the match.

In the final Peterborough again played well against a confident Farnham who defended well in the first half but after conceeding the third goal appeared to loose the fight.

Congratulations to Arthur Corr and the Peterborough players.

The ‘Fair Play” award went to Plymouth and Sam Cayley took the “Best Goal Keeper” award.

Over many years the Farnham Shield has been played by under 13’s by many clubs but for this year the age group has been changed to under 17’s. Sue Marshall one of this years organisers said “we haven’t got an under 13’s team so we can only enter our under 17’s team”.

This years entrants are Plymouth. Peterborough, Bury, Ely, Cottenham and Farnham. The competition will be on Sunday 8th March at the Farnham Sports Centre, Dogflud Way, East St. Farnham GU9 7UD and starts at 9am.

Apart from the shield, medals for first place and runners up will be awarded with each team receiving a miniature shield for entering. Awards for best goalkeeper and a fair play prize will also be awarded on the day.

I’m sure this competitions new age group will bring a fast and exciting level of play.

Click here to see the order of play

Over the last two days teams from all over the country competed in the 2009 knockout rounds of The National Cups, at the Bushfields sports Centre, Peterborough. You can see all the results from the two days listed below. Congratulations to the winning teams who will compete in their age groups on Cup Finals day.

Congratulations to Jeannette James of Ely club for winning the 100 squares raffle.

Under 13’s
BURY 6 – 5     ELY
BURY 3 – 6     KING LYNN
HBU     4 – 0     PETERBOROUGH

Cup Finals Day match is Kings Lynn v HBU

Under 15’s
BYE     – KINGS LYNN
PETERBOROUGH     5 – 0     HERNE BAY
ELY (two) 1 – 10 BURY
ELY (one) 5 – 4 MIDDLESBROUGH
KINGS LYNN 1 – 5 PETERBOROUGH
BURY 8 – 2     ELY (one)

Cup Finals Day match is Peterborough v Bury

Under 17’s
HBU 2 – 11 BURY
PETERBOROUGH 1 – 3 MIDDLESBROUGH
ELY 2 – 1 HERNE BAY
BURY 6 – 2 MIDDLESBROUGH

Cup Finals Day match is Ely v Bury

Under 20’s
MIDDLESBROUGH 4 – 6 HERNE BAY
HBU 4 – 1 BURY

Cup Finals Day match is Herne Bay v HBU

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Houghton Regis hosted their home National Division one tournament last Sunday. Farnham, Norwich, Halifax and Cambridge all traveled to the Bedfordshire town with the first match starting at 8.30. Houghton came out top of the days tournament table with maximum points, carry on like this lads and you’ll take the league trophy.

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Six teams will be competing in this years Allen Mezzanines League Cup, Letchworth, Herne Bay United, Bury, Houghton Regis, England Ladies and Middlesbrough. This annual two day event being held at the Bushfield Sports Centre on Saturday 6th and Sunday 7th September will start at 10am with Letchworth v Herne Bay United.

England Seniors 2008

This week Carlos Amaral NRHA’s head coach announced the team that will represent England at this year’s Seniors European Championships in Oviedo Spain. The bi-annual championships will start on Monday 21st July at 3.45pm with Switzerland v Germany. Our boys will have their first match against the unforgiving Portugal at 7.15pm (6.15pm British time). England are in the same group as Portugal, Switzerland and Germany, at the last Senior European championships in Monza, Italy our team were victorious over Germany. Switzerland have a new team this year and expectations of a successful tournament for the Brits are high. Congratulation to the following players who will be going to Spain on Sunday.

Russell Lloyd (Plymouth RHC)
Marc Waddingham (Grimsby RHC)
James Taylor (Hockey Sarzana, Italy)
Grant Zaccaria (Middlesbrough RHC)
Michael Ableson (Middlesbrough RHC)
Karl Smith (Herne Bay United RH&SC)
John Jones (Middlesbrough RHC)
Ian Smith (Middlesbrough RHC)
Ian Morrison (Areces, Spain)
Marc Rutland (Middlesbrough RHC)

Management
Carlos Amaral
Ron Barker
Steve Taylor

Steve Clarke (HBU CSL) clears Eddie Revel (Grimsby)

The 2008 National Cup Finals was a great success and a good day out for our members and spectators. Now you can see the pictures from the day plus two other long awaited matches played in June from the National Premier League, HBU v Bury and HBU CSL v Grimsby.

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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

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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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Print the official poster
A4 or A5

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