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
Preamble: Captain Rich was keen to have some recognition of the three games that led up to this one, as successive DotDs have failed to provide any match reports. The game against Ramgarhia was typically tricky and disappointingly finished 1-1. The next game against City of York 5s wasn’t much of a contest, so much so that we reverted to a three-man defence, and ended with an emphatic 7-0 victory. That formation was maintained against Read more
Most league games take place on a Saturday afternoon, the occasional one starts on a morning and when weather intervenes some are rearranged for a Sunday afternoon. So it was a bit of a novelty to be asked to umpire a rearranged league game on a Tuesday evening. The ladies 2s rearranged game with Harrogate ladies 2s was a proper test for the floodlights at the Adel astro, having recently passed the North league requirements. However, Read more
As we enter the Christmas break, a number of our teams are well placed to come back in the new year with lots to play for and once again the club has the chance to earn promotions and championships. This time, after 2 years of the ladies section dominating the promotion successes, it is the mens section leading the way with 2 teams heading their tables and still undefeated at the midway point of the Read more
Ladies 3s currently in the dog fight of the middle table – fresh off the win on 19th Nov against Canalside, and the cancellation of Pudsey on 26th Nov – Adel needed to get their heads screwed on for the double header hockey weekend of Colne Valley and Pudsey. Sat 3rd Dec – a crisp Saturday lunchtime pushback started with Adel pushing hard and dominating. Plenty of space on the pitch, and long runs. It Read more
Last Saturday the Ladies 4s had a blast. We started slow but had lots of possession and territory but couldn’t manage to beat York’s strong defence. However, towards the end of the first half our perseverance and pressure paid off (and we remembered how to score): a short corner was taken with a straight strike from Charlie and we were away! We went into half-time with the momentum behind us and after a rousing and Read more