Despite some excellent results coming from across the Adel hockey club this weekend, it is in fact a week of mourning as something rather special finally came to an end. The Mens 4th team had been unbeaten since March 2016, accumulating 31 league wins, 2 draws, a goal difference of +129, from 157 goals scored vs 28 conceded, 17 clean sheets, and 1 league title spanning 22 months of sterling work from all our players. Read more…
Big Bens Men turned up to Adel a few hours earlier than usual for a home game. Those with hangovers felt this impact more than most. Although Boston Spa sit toward the bottom of the table previous encounters suggested this could be a tricky game. With the usual warm up complete Adel started spritely scoring within minutes of the start, from that point on Adel provided a very professional display working well in periods as a Read more…
It seems like a long time since we last had a day where all of our senior sides ventured on to the playing surface but Saturday finally saw 10 mighty teams from Adel go into battle against a variety of opposition with mixed success (5 wins and 5 defeats), some shocks and some scorelines that were more akin to Roger Federer playing in the Australian open. Lots of individual plaudits too with several hat tricks Read more…
Fans of the late Val Doonican [Editor’s note: are you serious?] will remember his song about Delaney’s Donkey, a brilliant but stubborn race horse who could not be cajoled, bribed or bullied into winning, until finally, with the aid of some dynamite, he crossed the line in first place. Sometimes life really does imitate art. The men’s 5th team have been due a big win, with a series of frustrating losses, then a narrow defeat Read more…
Thank you for your great response and engagement with the recent member survey that we sent out. An incredible 133 of you submitted your opinions, thoughts and ideas. As a committee, we were really pleased to see so many people taking part. In this blog post, we will share some of the results of the survey and how it is helping us shape our thoughts surrounding membership payments, and the 2018-2021 development plan we are currently working Read more…
Self-styled “goal machine” (in your dreams mate) Andy Hedge writes this week’s 5th team match report: Having spent most of the last 24 hours failing to come up with film puns for the match report I have given up and decided to write a more mundane review. It was great to see the continuing blossoming of the Men’s 5th XI in the 2-2 draw with Rotherham and to receive the showering of compliments from the Read more…
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