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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

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.

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.

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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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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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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