LA ROCHE SUR YON – FRANCE, 13-18 SEPTEMBER 2004
FROM CARLOS AMARAL:-
This competition involved 8 teams with 7 (Portugal, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, France & Holland) from “Group A” of the World rankings and England the only “Group B” team.
It was important to be at the event to represent England in the NRHA’s 100th year but [...]

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Report 2 -FROM RON BARKER:-
I thank all the team that came to France for the European Championship and making it such an enjoyable experience. Our target was the Germany match and to that extent we failed but we were up against it from the off. The German team, as reported in the Spanish and Portuguese [...]

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Over the weekend of the 11th/12th September the England
Schoolboy hopefuls, 4 goalkeepers and 8 of the 10 field players,
from whom the final selection was to be made, travelled to
Alcorcon near Madrid to take part in an invitation tournament.
This was part of the training programme set out by Paul Colton
and the competition was used to make [...]

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At 1-0 down from a 1st minute goal that the French scored rather than our mistake,the match was evenly balanced for the remainder of the first half. Even so the French scored their second goal just before half-time from a defensive error which left a man free in front of goal, arguably standing in the [...]

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Ron Barker, Manager, reported that in the match against Holland England opened quite well. The defense was holding and we had most of the attacking play which was rewarded after 3 minutes with a goal by James Taylor from a long shot through several players and under the ‘keeper. A couple of minutes later Brendan [...]

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Report from Manager Ron Barker says ” It was a good work-out for both teams. Everyone is OK. The score was 15 – 0 to Spain.
Todays match (4.30 French time) is against France who will play without Lional Savreux who is on a Red Card penalty.”

More info:
Reporter: Aileen Barker

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Manager, Ron Barker reported that the Teams motivation was down after the annnouncement of the Referees for the match. This was however rebuilt only to have their worst fears realised minutes into the game when a penalty was awarded against them for a foul clearly way outside the box. Chasing a match against Germany is [...]

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The Portuguese National Team apparently give the impression of having a different agenda to all the other teams in the competition.
Manager Ron Barker said he and Carlos were pleased with how our players had behaved under severe provocation. There were no complaints about any player’s performance in what could only be described as an unpleasant [...]

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Sunday 21st November 2004 – Farnham Leisure Centre
This year will be the 28th year that Farnham RHC has staged the Farnham Shield (formally known as The Maltings Cup) Invitational Roller Hockey Tournament at Farnham.
We would like to invite your team to join us for this annual event in the Roller Hockey season, as in previous [...]

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England v Italy was the opening match of the competition.
Manager Ron Barker reported that the aim was to use it to ‘play everyone into the event’ and not to get the best ever result against the Italians but disappointed it wasn’t better.
Carlos Amaral played all the team and was satisfied with their first performance [...]

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