Middlesbrough Roller Hockey Club fly to Porto this Friday in order to play their first round game of the CERS cup against HC Braga. Braga are a mid-table team in the top Portuguese league and are fully professional. In their ranks they have the once reputed best player in the world, Pedro Alves. Middlesbrough [...]

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Herne Bay United Kings play Lloret de Mar (Spain) on Sat 20th November in ‘home’ leg of European CERS Cup competition. These are a mid table team in the OKLiga who like all Spanish teams are professional. The doors and Bar will be open at 18.30 with pre-match entertainment by the Da Vinci Dance Troup, [...]

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We have been sent, by the CERH, the European governing body, the following set of “New Rules, Dornbirn 2010″. The changes/modifications/clarifications are highlighted.
Although, no official notification of these “New Rules Dornbirn 2010″ has been received from the CIRH, the World governing body, and they were not discussed or ratified at the Assembly of the CIRH [...]

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Please find below the link to the “Your Sport” episode which featured Roller Hockey and was first aired on Channel Five yesterday morning at 10am. I hope you’ll agree once you’ve watched the link, its going to be a brilliant tool to have and I hope will generate some interest in the [...]

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Spain 8 – 1 England
Half Time 2 – 1
Spain, the world champions, didn’t deserve this result.
England held Spain, the current World Champions, at 2-1 for 30 minutes until eventually tiredness affected our reaction in defence and gave the Spanish team the opportunity to score three goals in four minutes.

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England finished 7th out 8 teams. We were in a very hard group with Italy, Spain and France, reflected in the fact that all 3 teams played in the semi-finals. Although we had five players playing for first time at Under 20’s we improved from last year becoming more competitive and once more proved our [...]

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Photo by Gordon Morrison
England 2 Italy 5 (Half Time 1-3)
After the disappointment of the game against Portugal we saw a great response from our players in this game.
England started the game very well defending man to man restricted pressuring the man with the ball which gave us lot of counter attacking opportunities. Italy didn’t change [...]

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Photo by Gordon Morrison
England 1 Portugal 14 (half time 0-6)
This game showed exactly what I expected, which was more individual play rather than team play due to the pressure Portugal applied and the quality of their player’s. The only way to be competitive is to play as a team which only [...]

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A very impressive Opening Ceremony and we had 2,500 people watching our game creating a fantastic atmosphere
The team started the game defending well with man to man restricted but we had problems in attacking due to our lack of team training. In the first half, two of the German goals came [...]

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Portugal 9 England 1 (Half Time 4-0)
The individual technique of the Portuguese players aligned to the more competitive play and speed are responsible for the result.
In the first half the team executed the man to man restricted very well and kept position, which made Portugal look for alternatives to attack the restrict, using more one [...]

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