Hard work goes unrewarded

Its the time of the year when the weather starts to intervene in weekend fixtures and the overnight snow on Thursday had left the Adel astro with a covering of snow on Friday.  Despite the sunshine, the pitch inspectors turned up at 8.30am on Saturday morning to find a quarter of the pitch still covered with snow/frost/ice although the junior footballers were running around safely on the other three-quarters of the pitch. With the 10.30am Read more…

Men’s 1s unbeaten run continues

The Mens 1st team traveled Sheffield Hallam with a few extra pounds after the christmas break. Not ideal as it looked like we would be playing a stronger Hallam ‘4s’ side than we beat 8-0 earlier in the season!    After a slow start for the Adel men and a harsh green card awarded myself (Purdy) Adel slowly started to get a grip on the game and dominated most of the first half creating a number a chances but Read more…

Adel Mens 4s versus Bradford.

The Adel men’s 4’s were looking to push on from their draw against Thirsk in the last game of the season and make a statement for their first game back. Where better to start then at home against Bradford; the first time the 4s played Bradford hockey club this season. The game started evenly as Bradford’s centre-half held off Adel advances, with some key tackles early in the first five minutes. But it was only a Read more…

Clean sweep for the ladies

Welcome back to the second half of the season and a happy 2017 to everyone. The ladies section picked up where they left off in 2016 with a clean sweep on the first Saturday of the new year with 5 wins out of 5 and only one goal conceded. The 1s had a long trek up to Whitley Bay and came back with 3 points courtesy of a goal from the returning Claire Hesslewood, showing Read more…

Level 1 Umpiring Course

Welcome back to the second half of the season after the Christmas break.  An early new years present for anyone keen to develop their umpiring skills is the level 1 Umpires course being held just up the road at our neighbours, Ben Rhydding.  Further details below for anyone interested. As we are not running a course at Adel in the near future this is a great opportunity for those of you wanting to get involved Read more…