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The weather looks to have intervened and led to training evenings being postponed sadly.  A chance for everyone to rest up, squeeze in a personal gym session or in the case of some members, attend yet another meeting at Adel to continue the good work going on behind the scenes. Most of these meetings involve one club member more than others – to some of you Sam Jackson might just be a team mate, a guy Read more

For the first time this season the weather decided to intervene, meaning an early start for the Adel pitch clearing squad of Ball, Phillips, Jackson, Cockburn and Powley (who arrived late but did bring the coffees and biscuits).  The 10.30 game for the mens 5s had already been cancelled by an enthusiastic Andy Hedge who visited the ground at 8am but thanks to the removal of the snow the remaining 4 home games were able Read more

We are fortunate this season to have a number of committed individuals who give an enormous amount of their time off the pitch in organisational or committee roles.  Some of these people are up at the club 3 or 4 days a week at meetings, training with their own squad or coaching others. At Adel we have a good track record of supporting up and coming new coaches, developing our own members who want to Read more

The mid season break seemed to last a long time although the absence of outdoor hockey allowed some the chance to venture indoors and a few others to have a well earned rest from all the activity associated with getting out 12 teams on some Saturdays and multiple junior teams on Sunday mornings. Whilst a couple of teams were quick out of the blocks the weekend before last catching up with fixtures (well done the Read more