Archive for December, 2009

Review of the Year 2009

By Reading Hockey Club • Dec 29th, 2009 • Category: Home Page, News

It’s been an exciting year at The Lane with the club continuing to go from strength to strength. … Indoor Heartbreak Last winter the Men came 2nd in the Men’s Indoor League premier division earning themselves a place in the coveted National Indoor finals once again.  A narrow 4-3 victory over previous finalists Loughborough Students [...]



Christmas Dinner Survivors

By Reading Hockey Club • Dec 29th, 2009 • Category: Home Page Feature


L1: University of Birmingham 2 Reading 2

By Reading Hockey Club • Dec 4th, 2009 • Category: L1, Match Reports

Reading put a dent in their league campaign last weekend with a 2-2 draw against mid-table University of Birmingham. Conditions, pitch and goalposts all had their part to play, but Reading only really have themselves to blame for a lackluster performance that saw them drop a vital 2 points on Saturday, increasing the gap between [...]



Vets: Epsom 2 Reading 2

By Reading Hockey Club • Dec 1st, 2009 • Category: Match Reports, Vets

Wessex Supervets Fixtures Alliance. Reading Veterans v Epsom 28th November (away) A very hard fought game between two evenly matched sides neither of whom could establish any kind of dominance. Reading missed several chances before Epsom scored, and were one up at half time. Epsom, who top the league, were determined to keep there unbeaten [...]



Jonty’s Melbourne Update

By Reading Hockey Club • Dec 1st, 2009 • Category: About Hockey, Home Page, M1

Before we came out to Melbourne the Australians invited us to join in with Movember, a campaign to raise money for Prostate cancer and mens health by growing a moustache throughout November. Obviously, we accepted the challenge readily and apointed our two Movember captains in the shape of our two ‘net minders’ Nick Brothers and [...]



England vs Australia Movember Challenge

By Reading Hockey Club • Dec 1st, 2009 • Category: Home Page Feature


L1: Reading 7 Clifton 2

By Reading Hockey Club • Dec 1st, 2009 • Category: L1, Match Reports

Alex Danson grabbed her second hatrick of the season to help Reading breeze past bottom of the league Clifton, 7-2 in their last home game before the Christmas break. Reading started the game well and opened the scoring with their first attempt, Alex Danson’s skilful work on the baseline saw Reading players queueing up to [...]