Ashford (Middlesex) Hockey Club

Sunday 16th March 2008 - Mercian Home Counties Under 14 Play-off 1/4 Final
After a week of questions with very few answers about what was going on with our U14 division, we finally found out that we had done enough to qualify for the 1/4 finals. Defeats against Southgate and High Wycombe aside, our U14’s [...]

National Plate last 16 – Ashford 3 High Wycombe 3 (Ashford won 4-3 on pens)
Goals
Merchant, Sharpe, White
Followers of Arcane and Mystic Arts would have known what happened at half time in this National Plate cup game between Ashford u-18’s and High Wycombe u-18’s.
Playing for a place in the last 8 and against a talented [...]

The winners in the Astro Draw for March 2008 are:

£100 Neil Smith
£50 Seamus O’Connell
£50 Seamus O’Connell

The cheques will be sent out soon and Peter Cottrell drew the numbers out, so you owe him a drink or two Seamus!
Don’t forget that the final draw for this season will be at the Hockey Club Dinner on Saturday [...]

I am very pleased to announce that Councillor Marion Rough has forwarded Ashford Hockey Club a cheque from the Concil’s “Better Neighbourhoods Grant Scheme”.  The scheme aims to help the Council work better with the local community and improve well-being for residents at the same time.  Each Borough Councillor has a small fund, which they can allocate [...]

Player of Match:
Katie Greene
Ashford always knew that their home game against second in the League side Hampstead & Westminster 2nd XI on Saturday, was going to be tough, even if they had been able to field their full normal squad. However, a bad hand injury to key, and very much in form full back Sophie [...]

With the league won easily by Fareham, the only games of note are the ones at the wrong end of the table and Saturdays clash was an intriguing one for two reasons.
Ashford just HAD to win against a side that was in contention for the league earlier on in the season. Secondly it was the [...]

Goals
Fat Dan, Adamski
Man of the Match
Dan Williams
Well this team talk was up there with the 8 Words of Power (which must never be repeated)…Big Amit obviously wanted us to go in hard, saying ’50-50 balls, I want us to go in hard, 60 per cent - 40 per cent balls, go in hard, 1 per [...]

Player of the Match:
Sam Grant
Last Saturday, Ashford not only had to contend with the fact that they were playing top of the table team Teddington Ladies 2nd XI, but they had to do it without two of their star and most consistent players, namely sweeper JACKIE PARSONS and midfield dynamo KATIE GREEN. Ashford Coach MANDY [...]

The long awkward drive, the cold wet weather and the lousy showers couldn’t dampen a sunny performance from Ashford as they grabbed another 3 points.
Chichester until recent weeks had been on the tails of Fareham for promotion and looked a well organised and talented team coached by ex England International, Ben Barnes.
Neither side created [...]

Saturday 8th March 2008
Please note that the Ladies 1st XI fixture v Teddington Ladies 2nd XI will now be played at 3pm, the Mens 4th XI game v Harrow 2nd XI at 4.30pm and the Mens 6th XI v Amersham & Chalfont St Peter 5thXI has been cancelled by the opposition.

In their seventeenth League game of the season, Ashford Ladies 1st XI played host to the team who were one place and two points ahead of them, Harrow 2nd XI at Short Lane on Saturday. Ashford were able to welcome back defenders KIM FRY and ANNA PROTHOROE to help boost the squad, but were without [...]

If hockey were football then the return of Mike Williamson as guest coach would have been akin to the return of the messiah at Tyneside. The only other difference being that whereas Keegan is still looking for his first win, Williamson has already made his mark in helping Ashford secure a win against a decent [...]

Man of the Match
Ant Appleyard
Scorers
Dan Williams, Gordo
A new tip and a reminder this week - Tip no 4 for young, aspiring hockey professionals – don’t be cheeky to your mother and get yourself grounded so you can’t play hockey. I have been guilty of the first 3 but have never fallen foul of no.4 being [...]

Sat 19th April – Annual Dinner Dance at the Clubhouse starting from 7pm.
Tickets are £40 each and will include food, entertainment and a welcome drink.
Its that time of year again, when we remember the season 2007-08 (for those that want to!!!) and honour individuals and teams who have excelled in their playing with the annual [...]