Snow, snow, more snow and a little bit of hockey

Yet another snowy start to a Saturday morning meant that the Ladies 1s waited to hear news from Harrogate. With most people still in bed or lounging about the ladies were surprised to here that the Harrogate pitch was playable and the game was on. Relieved to not have another postponed game the ladies set off. Upon arrival the conditions seemed to deteriorate pretty quickly with the warm up alone being a cold snowy affair. Read more

Away wins bring home more silverware for Adel

Once again the wintry conditions decided to intervene and spoil hockey proceedings at the weekend.  The 8.30 am pitch inspection on Saturday morning saw the astro covered in light snow and the prospects of play looked very slim.  Phil Bayford had already made his own mind up and was still enjoying a Saturday morning lie in.  With Harrogate the away team at 10.30 due to play the ladies 2s and Scarborough v the ladies 4s at Read more

National Pie Week – a Mens 2s Match Report

Last week was national pie week, I mention this as we had an outstanding Sheppards pie made by yours truly for after match teas, so out standing man of the match was a close run thing and nearly ended up going to the pie it’s also a good metaphor for what we were throwing at the oppo goalkeeper whilst in search of goals during the match – pies, and lots of ’em. As per the Read more

Out of orbit, warp drive and launch control

Men’s 3s – but not as we know it ,  Out of orbit, warp drive and launch control Men’s 3 had a two big games this weekend to continue their quest to the top of the table. With Captain Tom Beale missing Saturday , and a few changes in the line-up,  Greg Hilton stepped up to lead the Men’s 3’s away game against Boston spa.  A challenging away fixture as Boston were  3rd in the league.  As Read more

Injuries, absences and the weather can’t stop a memorable weekend for Adel

This season, the weather seems to have frustrated us more than ever, causing postponements and fixture rearrangements that have given our fixtures and umpire secretaries nightmares.  Deadlines from the YHA for final games of the season, the threat of further bad weather and our astro already maxed out on Saturdays with 5 home games mean it gets increasingly harder to find that Sunday window of opportunity to squeeze in rearranged games.  Thursdays snowstorm created a Read more

British Hairways

With the season coming to a close, this weekend originally was going to be the last of our many double-header weekends in which we took on Rotherham 3s for our final home fixture on Saturday and Hallam 7s away on Sunday that has been in the pipeline to be played since last November (I think) with endless rearrangements due to the weather having it in for us Saturday ended up being conceded to us as Read more