Remnants Hockey Club

• 27Jan

  Remnants 2s Vs Gillingham Anchorians- 21st January

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  Bon il paraît que je dois écrire un résumé du match. je sais plus trop pourquoi j’ai accepté de faire ca…

  Je sais pas trop par oú commencer. Étant fière habitante de ME7, j’étais sur le bord du terrain à 9.45 pour un match à 10.30!;) ça m’a donné assez de temps pour faire quelques kilomètres d’échauffement avant l’arrivée de notre capitaine Lady P, la vice capitaine A. Et le reste de l’equipe.
  Il faisait un beau soleil, bien froid et le terrain était sableux comme d’habitude.
  Vers 10.15 tout monde est enfin changé et près pour l’échauffement. Bon en fait il n’y avait que moi et Annelie à le faire. Sans doute la faute au coach partie à Rome en week-end.
  Enfin à 10.34 larbitre siffle le début du match. La défense, entraînée par Jayne, Paula, Tina et moi-même,  sauve quelques balles. Il y a aussi les belles remontées de l’attaque et bien sur des latéraux, en particulier Jocelyn qui a du courir 10km pendant ce match. (Ceci est juste une estimation)
  Enfin, après 19min et 20s, Cathy envoit la balle au fond de la cage sur un penalty corner. Superbe but.
  Maintenant il faut tenir jusqu’á la mi-temps!;) Le moral est au plus haut, Lady P A le sourire et chacun a quelque chose à dire à la mi-temps. J’ai même le temps de prendre une photo et denvoye un tweet au coach!;) Même depuis Rome elle est impressionnée.
  La deuxième mi-temps est toujours difficile quand on gagne et ça ne nous arrive pas si souvent!!;) Enfin je crois qu’on a bien géré puisqu’après 70 minutes, on était toujours à 1-0 en notre faveur.
  Lady P et le reste de l’équipe remercie bien sur les arbitres, les supporters et photographes!;) Et merci à gillingham HC. Toujours une plaisir de jouer contre cette équipe et en plus le déjeuner était délicieux!!;) Donc en résumé. 1 but marqué par Cathy. 10km courus par Jocelyn et Frenchy. 40 tacles par Paula, Jane, Tina. 25 passes de Caroline, 13 tentatives de but de Lesley, Caroline,Frenchy. 76 arrêts de Linda et quelques sprints pour ma part! Sans oublier, 1400 cris d’encouragements de Polly et Lenn!
  Et bien sur Caroline W a été votée PoTm et à reçu de bijoux avec fierté.

   

  For these people who do not speak French, here is the Latin translation: VENI, VEDI, VICI!

   

  Oh for the very few of you who don’t speak Latin: WE WON!

  Aurel

• 18Jan

  Tunbridge Wells 4′s v Remnants 2′s 14/1/12

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  First game after the christmas break, cue a brisk yet sunny Saturday afternoon in January. Since I arrived with 2 minutes to the start of the game, I missed the dynamic warm-up (sorry coach) and therefore can’t comment on how this went. But i’m sure “jazz hands” and “shoeing the chicken” were executed throughly, and with perfection. As we took positions, which for me means  figuring out which side of the pitch is L and which is R, we carefully sized up the opposition. This mainly involved talk of “O.M.G they’re soooo young!”. Captain P gave us a motivating pep talk: “the first 10minutes are going to be the worst”…how encouraging. However, it did seem to work and we held our own well right up until the point where when they scored their first goal at the end of the first half. Cheeky one it was, the girl pursuing the ball nearly up to the line and then hitting it in at the very last minute. A fortunate manoeuvre and almost flukey angle made them 1-0 up. Half time, the alcohol gets passed round, a 2nds ritual. Cathy’s eyes lit up as captain P proceeded to feed it to her?!  Second half, the stealthy youngsters immediately took control and scored in the first few minutes. Grrrrrrrr, 2-0. We pushed on, although admittedly tiring out as our passes began to whizz past our players straight onto the opposition’s sticks. Despite Linda’s best kicking and diving, they managed to squeeze another goal in towards the end making the final score 3-0. All in all a good game, obviously would have been better to win, but a vast improvement from our last encounter with them which saw us experience a 7-0 defeat. Pub afterwards, Cathy donned the POTM wand and necklace, definitely enjoying it much more than all her predecessors. We discussed important matters including “why is a tea towel called a tea towel” (Frenchy) and “if you were a shape, which shape would you be’ (Thalia). POTM: Cathy Mentioned in dispatches: apparently everyone! A real team effort. Noteworthy Injuries:  Captain P’s hockey stick imprint on leg.

  by Jayne ‘Hawaii Five O’

   

• 15Jan

  Super Sixes, Isle of Wight and Dublin!

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  Hi everyone and Happy New Year

  Just a few events for 2012 that I am organising.

  Firstly, I need confirmation of who is coming
  to Maxifuel
  Super Sixes on Sunday 29th January at Wembley Arena.

  I justneed  to know who is still coming so we can organise transport sharing and
  if anyone is not coming, i can then offer your ticket to someone
  else…

   

  Secondly, the Isle of Wight Hockey festival is now
  confirmed to be happening on the weekend of 12th and 13th
  May. that is Saturday and Sunday but we usually get down there on
  Friday evening. a few of you have already confirmed that they are coming. I need
  definite numbers so that i can start looking at
  accommodation, transport… and start ordering badges and shirts.

  Lastly, we have a few people interested in the Dublin Pink Hockey
  competition. it runs from Friday 29th June to Sunday 1st
  July. the cost would be £75 registration per person, £70 for
  flights, £70 per night for hotel (2 people sharing). these costs are
  approximate. if we don’t have a full team, we could have a look at joining other
  teams, like the Royals.

  There will be more events organised this year and the social sec and I will
  let you know about these very soon. Watch this space.

  I am especially looking at getting the club involved in the Olympics build-up
  events organised by England Hockey as well as celebrating our 20th anniversary!
  

   

  Aurelie

   

   

   

• 05Dec

  Kings Alleynes 5 Rems Twos 1

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  Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself. I was pleased about that. It meant that I could leave for hockey on time without having to tit about in a florists .

  One by one we arrived at the game, forming a huddle of early afternoon drowsiness. A trip to the changing room  saw me nearly set fire to it, merely by switching the heater on. Luckily Lesley spotted the smoke billowing out and called Fireman Sam, who arrived with Elvis and Penny and between them they rapidly got the situation under control.

  We were blessed with a cast of quite a few. Hannah making a return special guest appearance and Dani parachuting in to help us out.

  The first half was a bit of a blur, we ran round, they ran round, they ran round us (a few times) and then we ran round them. We were much heartened by the arrival of the rowdy Ones to cheer us on.

  Linda ‘Jonesy, Jones the Jones’ Jones saved a P flick and Lesley scored a goal. (It sounds as if it was going better than it actually was).

  Half time, inspiring chitter chatter, chocolates and Jagermiester. Game on.

  We won the second half, shutting them down and out (well almost, they just squeezed the one in). Awesome performances all round and huge cheering from our supporters!

  As Sir Bruce would say, Good Game, Good Game, and hey, let’s not bother looking at the old scoreboard.

  Player of the Match

  Jane ‘crofty’ Allcroft

  Mentioned in Dispatches

  Jonesy, Dennis, Hannah and Dani

  Casualty Count

  Frenchie   felt a bit dizzy

  Sarah        felt a bit tired

  Various   felt the sand on their skin as they fell over

  Huge thanks to all our supporters, especially Wesley who’d come off the night shift and not slept at all, and to Roz for umpiring.

  Captain’s Tip of the Week

  Don’t use too much expanding foam in holes in your wall. It expands a lot more than you could ever imagine.

• 30Nov

  My Cycle Kenya challenge

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  Crystal Palace just beat Man U and I thought today couldn’t get much better…  And then a wee ping from my phone announced an extra special donation to my Cycle Kenya challenge…  Thank you Rems!  I am truly overwhelmed (and a wee bit emotional from the CPFC win).  You really have made my day, thank you so very, very much.

  Juliet

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