Saturday 8th October at Coombe Dingle The Ladies 1s rolled out of bed when it was still dark for an early push back at Coombe Dingle. Clifton, who had started the season strongly, and with a young buoyant team would be a tricky proposition for Reading. Coach, Simon Letchford, made sure his team were ready [...]
1st October 2011 It was a beautiful Indian Summers day that welcomed Birmingham University to The Lane for the third league game of the season. Although Reading were coming into the game three points ahead of Birmingham history suggested that this was going to be a close fought game. Birmingham started the sharper of the [...]
12.30pm Sunday 25th September, Sonning Lane Last weekend saw the first of five Super Sunday’s at Sonning Lane, with the Ladies opening the festivities with a 1-0 win over local rivals Slough, and the Men following suit, beating last-years champions Beeston 2-1. Despite snazzy new adidas kit, booming music during the warm-up and a packed [...]
September 17th 2011 Reading Ladies’ defence of their first national championship started with a tough away trip against EuroCanterbury. Both squads were missing a few England players, still resting after a long summer of hockey. In the first half both teams struggled to create opportunities, with openings to score few and far between. EuroCanterbury came [...]
Press release: 14 June 2011 Reading Hockey Club consolidated its position this weekend as one of the leading Clubs in Europe with an exciting and well deserved bronze medal in the Euro Hockey League – hockey’s equivalent of the Champions’ League. Sponsored by Savvis Inc. and playing in The Hague, Holland, Reading played with pace [...]
Reading Ladies secure European qualification and a place in the EHL Championship final Reading Ladies achieved an all time record for the club this weekend – beating EuroCanterbury at the Kent ground on Sunday to qualify for the 2012 European Club Champions Cup. The win also takes them into the Premier League Championship final at [...]
Club Captains Johnny Downer and Sue Newman have summarised the season so far as it comes towards an end. Click for reports on Men’s and Ladies’ sections respectively…
From Club Captain Johnny Downer… I don’t want to spoil my end of season report which is announced at the end of season awards dinner (make sure you have your ticket for an excellent night on April 30th!) – so this update is brief and to the point: The Men’s 1s have faced a tough [...]
From Club Captain Sue Newman… The season is not quite over for the Ladies Section; a mixture of catch up games due to snow postponement and, excitingly, EH playoffs for our 1st XI. With their International players away on duty for a large portion of the season leading up to the Christmas break, the Ladies [...]
The Rovers’ season has been an extraordinary one for many reasons. The club decided that we should move from the London League to the MBBO (Middx, Bucks, Berks & Oxon) and made it a club objective that we get promoted. We won the league with 59 points and the most goals for (96) and least [...]
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