Thanks….

….to everyone who attended the AGM this week on Tuesday evening.  There were over 40 people at the meeting with representation from all teams and sections.  As an aside, this is a greater turnout than AWMA get for their AGM across all 12 sporting sections at Adel! It was great to hear of the success over the last season and the plans to take the club forward in the next few years, with a focus Read more

Don’t forget the AGM!

Leeds Adel HC AGM on Tuesday evening (17th April) at 7.30pm at the club. Please come along to attend and provide your input to the running of the club as well as avoid being nominated in your absence for one of those vacant committee roles.  There are some important issues on the agenda tomorrow evening to consider, as per the agenda and revised proposals for membership/subscription fees so if you want your views to count Read more

Divine intervention restores orange pride

  The Men’s 5th team went down 4-1 to Chapeltown 3s in their last game of the season.   Chap deserved  the win, although the score is slightly flattering – Adel dominated play in the second half and won a succession of short corners. But the damage had already been done in the first period, and the lack of a practised routine meant the odds of scoring from a short corner were slim, especially in the Read more

AWMA Annual Quiz night – Saturday May 12th

The annual AWMA quiz night has conveniently been arranged for the evening after the hockey section end of season dinner so what better way to cure your hangovers, meet up with people to find out what you had forgotten from the night before and get along to test if your brain cells are still functioning well enough to remember various facts without the help of Google or Alexa….. Sam Jackson has kindly agreed to organise Read more

Happy families…

At last the weather decided to play fair but it was clear the Adel reputation had spread around the county and three of our opponents conceded their games earlier in the week.  Looking at the league results on the YHA website, it appears there were around a dozen teams unable to raise a side whilst at Adel our ladies 3s and 5s seemed to have a squad the size of an American football team – we Read more

Champions!

The mighty phowars were praying to mother nature to keep the snow off till at least after 13:00 when they were due to play Slazengers which if we won would make us champions and gain a second promotion in two seasons. After some persistence from both teams, Slazengers called to say the game could go ahead. Before a single hockey ball was touched there were a few people who could have easily got themselves DOTD. Read more