Peterborough take the 2009 Farnham Shield
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.
| 1 | Farnham | 10 – 3 | Cottenham | | | FINAL POSITIONS |
| 2 | Peterborough | 14 – 0 | Plymouth | | | 1st Peterborough |
| 3 | Ely | 7 – 0 | Cottenham | | | 2nd Farnham |
| 4 | Bury | 22 -1 | Plymouth | | | 3rd Bury |
| 5 | Farnham | 6 – 3 | Ely | | | 4th Ely |
| 6 | Peterborough | 2 – 1 | Bury | | | 5th Cottenham |
| 7 | Cottenham | 8 -5 | Plymouth | | | 6th Plymouth |
| 8 | Bury | 12 -4 | Ely | ||
| 9 | Farnham | 1 – 6 | Peterborough |



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”.

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.


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.