Northern Counties squad managers have announced that they are holding training sessions for squads for minors, intermediates, schoolboys and Juniors on the weekend of 4/5 January.
The executive of Northern Counties have been pulling out all the stops to ensure that players interested have the chance to compete nationally and have appointed managers Ray Stewart, Stewart [...]

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Albert Parker, a Referee of long-standing in Kent, is stepping down from Top Level Refereeing in English Roller Hockey. Albert was the Referee of the game between HBU & Manchester, that was controversially abandoned into the 2nd half.
Upon investigation by the NRHA Chair of Officials, Albert advised he abandoned the game due to the actions [...]

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The National Roller Hockey of England and PlayRollerHockey.net wishes all the readers of this forum the best possible Christmas and looks forward to working to improve our sport in 2003.
Merry Christmas

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England should be proud of their performance at the World Championship and having qualified from the hardest group, with Austria 5th and Macau 6th, have shown that English Roller Hockey is on the improve!
Captain and goalkeeper Daniel Barton played outstandingly, as did the England defence, with England achieving the best goal difference of any team [...]

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After a briefing from Coach Amaral, where the team were instructed to play restricted man to man and focused on strong performance, England started with their main five.
Within a few minutes it became clear Colombia were the best team in the competition, with a mixture of youth and experience, that made England nervous after the [...]

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The other semi final of the World Championship went into extra time as Andorra went 2-0 ahead, but Uruguay pulled it back to level the score at 2-2. In extra time Andorra scored a further 2 goals to win 4-2 and go into the final against Colombia that had beaten them 3-0 in the earlier
rounds.
Australia [...]

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England stayed with it’s successful starting five (Daniel Barton (captain), Joe Wheatley, Darrel Pearce, Mark Waddingham & James Taylor) to begin the match against Macau, after a brief from Coach Carlos Amaral to play a restricted man to man defence and for either of the Pearce brothers to pay close attention to Macau Coach and [...]

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The World B Championship has seen a brilliant team performance from England that is truly worthy of note.
After 3 matches England has scored 19 goals without conceding any to their opponents making them and Columbia the only two teams in the competition to have kept clean sheets.
As fait would have it, England face Colombia this [...]

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In a surprise upset South Korea beat an under performing Australia 3-5 for 9th place in the championship.
As expected Colombia significantly beat New Zealand 11-0 and Andorra scraped through with a late penalty to beat Austria 2-1.
The host nation Uruguay faced South Africa in what turned out to be a great game in where the [...]

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Last night at the worlds New Zealand beat Australia 5-4, with New Zealand’s Craig Mackie scoring a hat trick of 3 in the match. As a result after just 2 games Australia will have to play South Korea twice for the 9th to 10th position!
South Korea lost to South Africa 0-12, Austria drew with Macau [...]

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