Area Training & Master’s League
First Y&NE Men’s training on 18th Sept at Leeds Adel HC (Church Ln, Adel, Leeds LS16 8DG) – Over-60s (all groups) 14:00-16:00; Over-35s-Over-55s 12:00-14:00
For 2022/23 we want to have a mix of all area get togethers and start more informal leagues
for masters as well as the EH cups. The EH calendar has priority dates for Area activities and these do not clash with either England training/trials or cup dates. We have therefore agreed to have 4 dates when whole Area activities and development of area Champs teams will take place and 4 or possibly 5 dates when we can have league matches – see below for the dates and log them in your calendar. There are some different dates for some age groups/sexes; but we should be able to arrange to have some masters hockey activity for everyone at least monthly from September through to April.
| Whole area by age groups – fixed across Area | League dates – played as triangulars 20mins each way – 3 hrs total |
| 11 Sep women; 18 Sep men | Either 9 Oct and/or 23 Oct |
| 11 December all except W45 plus and M50 plus;18 Dec – ditto for W 45 plus and M 50 plus | 13 Nov W 45 plus;20 Nov everyone else |
| 5 Feb – all except W 45 plus; 12 Feb W 45 plus | |
| 19 Mar | |
| 16 April | |
| 22 April – Women play Scotland; men to havepractice games for area champs? |
New Leagues
Open to Womens O35s and O55s and Mens O40s, O50s and O60s. These leagues are about increasing participation and opportunities to play with people of similar age so we expect clubs and individuals to get together and create a team for their locality.
Rules will be light – if you need a couple of under age players to make up numbers then fine if within 5 years of the qualifying date. We will be looking to play triangular fixtures – 3 teams playing each other in 20 mins each way matches over a 3 hour pitch booking – so there will be a team spare to provide players if you are short and also to provide umpires if needed.
Help needed
Could you be a locality co-ordinator or team organiser?
- Locality co-ordinators – their job will not be to organise teams but hopefully to find others to do that and act as a postbox to pass on people interested in playing to team organisers; and keep in touch withprogress
- Team organisers – for each age group in each locality; don’t need to captain just get a team together, decide on colours to play in and others can captain and collect money
Please let Chris Randall at cjrandall1@btinternet.com know if you are interested by the end of August!
Get in touch
If you cant find a team in your area but would like to be put in touch with the nearest team entered then you can drop a line to Chris as above, until we have co-ordinators in
If interested in midweek matches once a month ( probably a Thursday pm) in a central location at over 50 or over 60 drop Chris a note with relevant agegroup;
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