The 2As were looking in good shape for their third league game of the season at their home from home, the warm and welcoming wasteland that is the EHP. The opposition: Bromley & Beckenham 3s who had drawn their 3 preceding league games. Without Steeler, who was off playing golf and no doubt spending an [...]
Match weekend 2 saw the Mens 2As travel to Southgate to play their newly promoted 3rd XI. Southgate has a policy of developing skilful youth players and are something of a resurgent force in English hockey following the promotion of a number of their sides. However, buoyant by last week’s winning the start and a [...]
The Mens 2As kicked off their season with an away trip to last year’s league winners Spencer. It promised to be a difficult game given the 2As were missing no less than 7 of their squad/starting XI, including the experienced centre back pairing of Andrew “The quiet man” Steel and Roberto “All chat, all flair” [...]
London League Division One – 3rd place and Cup Runners Up http://www.londonhockeyleague.org.uk/ This season has been a bit of a rollercoaster for the 2As. The first half of the season was indifferent as a result of low numbers and poor availability and the team struggled to maintain mid-table. Nonetheless, the team proved hard to beat, [...]
Men’s 2A’s XI London League Division One Season 2006/07 Crumbs, where do I start on a season summary… each game itself is worth three pages of my drivelling text! Well, the 2A’s gained promotion into London League Division One, coming second place to Surbiton, and it was Surbiton where we played our first game. It [...]
Booyakashah Reading 2As 3 : Richmond 2s 2 2-0 down at half time, and we are thinking, not another week and not another loss please. We each necked a pint of confidence, with our International Urban Youth Development player, Pete ‘rough it up’ Roseff necking two pints for good measure. Note these pints were necked [...]
A bizarre event at Dulwich College Reading 2As 2 : Tulse Hill and Dulwich 2s 7 (seven) In ‘motoring news’ this week, Posh has acquired a very large black 3.0 litre, V8 BMW. Average fuel consumption for the journey into and out of London was approximately 23.4 mpg. In further ‘motoring news’, Johnny’s driving skills [...]
Safety of South Reading enables Reading to steal victory in dying minutes Reading 2As versus Hampstead and Westminster 3s Saturday October 7 2006 2-1 winners For the first time I was able to walk to a hockey match (other than at Uni). For the astute amongst you that means the 2As were playing at South [...]
This year’s Berkshire Cup was again held as a tournament, a one day event on a glorious late summer’s day at Braywick, Maidenhead. The day started brightly for Performance Director Downer, as he failed to keep down the pint of water he had just necked after waking up. Still completely ship faced from Titch’s leaving [...]
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