The NCRHA has just advised that insufficient numbers of people have contacted them with regard to attending this weekend’s trial for the NCRHA Representative teams in the National Leagues.
“It looks like Clubs just have not advised their players” said Peter Lonsdale, “We will definitely have at least one team in each grade, but we really [...]
Entries from December 2002
Wake up North!!
December 10th, 2002 · Comments Off
Tags: Regional
Best Result Against Macao in Years!
December 10th, 2002 · Comments Off
England’s starting five (the same as yesterday) Daniel Barton, Joe Wheatley, Darrel Pierce, Mark Waddingham and James Taylor started the match determined to cement England a place in the finals by beating Macao.
Both teams played man to man defences within a restricted area but within 6:00 young Taylor took a quick free hit from the [...]
Tags: News
Other World Championship Results
December 10th, 2002 · Comments Off
Monday – NZ 2-6 Uraguay, SA 0-2 Columbia, South Korea 2-22 Andora
Tuesday – Andorra 4-0 South Africa, Colombia 14-0 South Korea, Uruguay 8-2 Australia.
More info:
Reporter: Kos Galtos
Tags: News
Roller Hockey Players on Channel 4
December 10th, 2002 · Comments Off
Jo Kingman and Graham Scurr, 2 well known figures in UK Roller Hockey will
be promoting our sport with various T-Shirts worn by them when they appear
on Channel 4’s ‘The Property Ladder’ in January. “Yes, I wear a Roller
Hockey Shirt in almost every scene, quire by accident and totally
unobtrusively” said the northern ‘Gadgie’ as [...]
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Hockey looses to Administration!
December 9th, 2002 · Comments Off
Despite the weekends announcement of the withdrawal of 2 teams from the World B’s in Uruguay and the reorganisation to ensure a better competition, a request from the Uruguayan hosts that the competition revert to the original format has been upheld by the CIRH.
“The change would mess up all our plans” said the Uruguay delegation, [...]
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England beat Austria 2-0
December 9th, 2002 · Comments Off
15:30 local time, on a sunny 24-degree day, saw England strongly begin its World Championship with a 2-0 win in front of 1,000 plus spectators.
Dan Barton (GK/Capt.), Joe Wheatley, Mark Waddingham, Darrel Pierce and James Taylor started in a tough opening game where both teams played man to man from on the 42 by 22 [...]
Tags: International
Plymouth’s largest ever invitation tournament
December 9th, 2002 · Comments Off
Plymouth’s three Roller Hockey Clubs hosted Plymouth’s largest ever invitation tournament this weekend with over 100 players taking part. The Southern League Invitation Tournament had to be held at 3 different venues after the event proved so popular that it was impossible to fit in all the games in one weekend at one venue.
Teams travelled [...]
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Ref Comes Through For McVey
December 8th, 2002 · Comments Off
In what was the right thing to do, and a pleasant surprise, the CERH has contacted the NRHA to advise that at the request of the match referee the red card incorrectly issued to HBU’s Phil McVey during last weeks European Cup Match in Italy has been withdrawn.
When issuing a yellow card to McVey the [...]
Tags: International
Late Withdrawals Help England
December 8th, 2002 · Comments Off
England’s quest for promotion to Group A is on track after receiving a boost today with last minute advise that North Korea and Egypt have withdrawn from the World B’s and that the competition has now been split into 2 groups of 5 teams, which are:
Group A: Australia, England, New Zealand, South Africa and South [...]
Tags: International
England Arrive in Uruguay
December 6th, 2002 · Comments Off
The NRHA has just received word that the England Senior Team has arrived safely in Montevideo, Uruguay and has begun preparation for the start of the World B Group Championship.
The competition will commence on Monday 8 December at 10:00 Austria Vs England, and PRH will be publishing articles and match results for the entire competition [...]
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