Words by Paul Lewis This game was the first of two successive local derbies at home for Adel Men’s 1st XI and attracted special interest, switched to an early Sunday start to avoid crowd trouble and for the benefit of worldwide TV audiences. And for the second week running the team were grateful for the hard work of volunteers from all sections of the club clearing snow from the pitch, ensuring that this fixture could Read more…
Ladies 4s were back in action this weekend against Slazengers 4s. Despite the midweek snowfall and the Adel pitch being under snow, Slzaengers were waiting for us at the icy 10:30am push back start time. Good play from everybody all round, lots of possession by Adel. Pam’s 2 goals from penalty corners, a fancy trademark reverse stick shot into the goal by Amy Fearn and a brilliant shot from top of the D by German Read more…
Sorry to say juniors is off tonight as the pitch is under snow and ice., let’s hope for a warmer February!!
This week Adel welcomed third placed Rotherham to Church Lane looking to avenge the painful defeat suffered early season. This fixture would not have happened without the sterling efforts of the AWMA hockey, football and rugby contingency, who’s efforts to clear the pitch followed by the excellent pitch preparation by our trusted green and bluekeeper, Steve, would lead to the home Adel teams smashing a collective 16 goals across Saturday afternoon to the cost Read more…
Words by Paul Lewis Adel 5 : 0 Sheffield University Bankers 4th XI Clean sheets; something that Adel Men’s 1st XI once specialised in obtaining, memory goes back two seasons to the successive 0-0 draws that the brave men of Adel fought for. But like on Jimmy Mayhew’s bed, clean sheets are not often seen these days, this being only the second of the 2014/15 season. However, Adel put together a strong performance Read more…
Huge thanks to all the folk from rugby, football and hockey who got together and cleared the pitch last night. Rugby managed to train on it last night, football are hopefully training now and fingers crossed we will get some hockey on tomorrow. Lots of our away games are being cancelled so it’s great to see the bigger association at work together. The groundsman gave it another brush earlier and he thinks it will be ok Read more…
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