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…
words by Toby Ratcliffe Adel Mens 2nd XI returned from the Christmas break top of the Yorkshire division 1 and eager to re-assert themselves as the dominant force in the league from the off. The first fixture of 2019 saw Adel face Boston Spa at home, a game that looked comfortable on paper but could have posed problems if Adel were off the pace. The boys began in usual fashion, pressing well, turning over the Read more…
Words by Mr R. Higgins Saturday saw the meaningful return to action for the 3s after the festive break, making the short trip to Huddersfield to face some dragons seemed to take forever but we still wound up with an hour to kill in the changing rooms listening to gabbo explain why he can’t say no to free fruity fridays, marvelling at Beale’s beard and waiting for Boag! We were all drilled into our roles Read more…
This past weekend will probably go down in history as one of the busiest ever for representative teams from Leeds Adel HC. At the last count 17 teams donned the orange shirts and went into battle against a variety of opposition in league games, friendlies, social fixtures, under 10 matches in the YYHL, national EH mixed cup competitions and by the end of the weekend there were some tired and weary bodies, sore heads but Read more…
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