| Westbury
& United Banks HC: Results for Saturday 18/12/04 |
| Team |
Opponents |
|
League |
Scr |
Scorers |
|
1st
XI |
v W Glos |
A |
Friendly |
4-2 |
Frost J 2 Webster Parish |
|
2nd
XI |
v W Glos |
H |
Friendly |
can |
(5-0 walk over?) |
|
3rd
XI |
v W Glos |
A |
Friendly |
can |
(5-0 walk over?) |
| Wanderers |
v W Glos |
H |
Friendly |
can |
(5-0 walk over?) |
| Wizards |
v W Glos |
A |
Friendly |
can |
(5-0 walk over?) |
| Worny's
Wonders |
v Sparky's Sprites |
H |
Inter
club match |
3-3 |
Small Carter Banting A |
| Sparky's
Sprites |
v Worny's Wonders |
H |
Inter
club match |
3-3 |
Taylor T Jones Baker |
| Slider's
Stars |
v Ger's Gazelles |
H |
Inter
club match |
4-3 |
Thomas 2 Palmer M Colton |
| Ger's
Gazelles |
v Slider's Stars |
H |
Inter
club match |
3-4 |
Nichols G Pritchard Coates |
| Match
comments |
| Comment:
Bristol's friendliest club could only manage
to fulfil one of 5 friendlies scheduled for today.
The
rest of W Glos must have been Christmas shopping! However, one of
their members was under the impression that we had called off the
games. Well the proof of the (Christmas) pudding is in the eating,
and we served up 4 teams at home who played each other in two very
competitive and well fought matches.
Sparky's team opened the scoring on the sand based
pitch, but Worny's team bounced back with an equaliser. In a matter
of seconds, Sparky's team regained the lead and added a third. Worny's
team responded by pulling back both goals to settle the match as
an honourable 3-3 draw. Everyone who played in the game agreed it
was a high standard match and a credit to everyone who took part.
It shows the strength of the club that we can put on matches like
this. John Fox showed up well in the game, matches like this are
a good opportunity for young players to learn from the experienced
players.
On the water based pitch Slider's team scored first
after some skillful work by Mark Crofts. Mark later retired form
the game with a bad back. Gareth Nichols pounced on a defensive
mix up to equalise and Moonies' great run allowed Paul Pritchard
to put Ger's XI ahead. Martin Palmer and Chris Cocks combined to
set up Pete Thomas for an equaliser. 2-2 at the half. Nick Coates
struck the goal of the game from a narrow angle after Slider's side
had lost Tim Palmer with a hamstring pull. Yet, the ten men with
Terry Watts and Will Halliday prompting from midfield gave Chris
Cocks a lot of open space and a disputed Mark Colton corner and
a second Thomas goal enabled Slider to win the match. Gareth Nichols
and Sam Parker played well going forward for Ger. |
| 1st
XI: In the only surviving match the
first team notched up a 4-2 victory on the new pitch at Badminton
School. The 1st XI built up a 4 goal lead before taking their foot
off the pedal and letting in two late goals.
|
| Westbury
& United Banks HC: Results for Saturday 11/12/04 |
| Team |
Opponents |
|
League |
Scr |
Scorers |
|
1st
XI |
v Robinsons |
A |
Div 3 Prem |
3-5 |
Mason Goodman Poulsom |
|
2nd
XI |
v Whitchurch II |
H |
Div
3N |
3-2 |
Jarvis 2 Armsby |
|
3rd
XI |
v Bath III |
A |
Friendly |
can |
|
| Wanderers |
v Bath IV |
A |
Friendly |
6-2 |
Hipwell 2 Norman Rickard Lee Banting
G |
| Wizards |
v Cheltenham IV |
H |
Div
NE W 2 |
1-1 |
Holland |
| Warriors |
v Westbury Widgets |
A |
Div
NE W 4 |
2-1 |
Nichols G Parker |
| Widgets |
v Westbury Warriors |
H |
Div
NE W 4 |
1-2 |
Harvey |
| Veterans |
v O Bristolians |
A |
Friendly |
3-5 |
Thomas Taylor T Cocks |
| Match
comments |
| Comment:
|
| 1st
XI: Missing 6 regular first teamers for
the rearranged match against Robinsons, the unbeaten run for the first
team came to an end. A disappointing result in the short term, but
there is still a return match when it will be seen what a full strength
team can achieve. Despite this set back the first still remain near
the top of the heap going into the Christmas break. I've also heard
that Newport have dropped out so the games against them will be deleted
from the league table. (The points deducted from the void Newport
games now puts the firsts in second place.) |
| 2nd
XI: In contrast the seconds
had a ding dong match with Whitchurch and came out on top winning
by 3-2. This was an excellent result and puts them in a position to
challenge for promotion in the second half of the season. Devizes
will win the division so the battle for second place will be down
to the team that holds its form together in the new year. JJ wrote:
After the hassle of selecting a team for this crucial match, the seconds
recorded our 5th win in a row with a hard fought 3-2 win over Whitchurch,
which keeps the team 3rd only 3 points behind Bath. Great team effort,
all the players brought up form the 3rds didn't look out of place,
and the second half performance was one of the best of the season.
Goal scorers were Slider in the first minute of the second half to
level the scores, then myself with 2, with the winner coming 8 minutes
from time. This sets us up for a great battle for the rest of the
season to see if we can finish as high up the league as possible.
Well played all 12 members of my team!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
| Wanderers:
The Wanderers won their match in Bath with an
unlikely pair of infrequent scorers. Will Lee and George Banting both
got goals in the same match.
|
| Wizards:
The Wizards were not as sharp as last week and
had to settle for a draw in their rearranged league match with Cheltenham.
Cheltenham opened the scoring in the first half when the Wizards had
more control and time on the ball. Several chances were missed before
a series of good strikes from short corners saw the visiting keeper
make some good saves. An equaliser came on the stroke of half time.
Yet another short corner was earned by the Wizards, this time it was
slipped left and Ben Holland scored his first goal for the club with
a clever flick. The Wizards did not move the ball round so effectively
in the second half, and it took some great saves by Pete Murphy in
goal to keep a point. Alan Christopher was not reintroduced into the
side after rolling out in the first half. His midfield prompting was
missed.
|
| Warriors: The
Warriors and the Widgets played out a hard fought league match. There
were two winners - firstly the Warriors, who somehow managed to sneak
all three points, secondly the Widgets who, to a man played a massive
game and nearly pulled off a shock result. The Warriors rarely got
going and found passing difficult. The Widgets closed down the midfield
and at times it looked as if they were playing with 12 and the Warriors
with 10. Gareth Nichols opened the scoring for the Warriors, but with
the last touch of the fist half Mike Harvey grabbed an equaliser.
In the second half the Widgets worked very hard in defence and Jamie
Cranfield was credited with driving them forward in midfield. The
Warriors defence held firm with some good covering by Tim Denner and
Brian Nichols who was later named man-of-the-match. Brian Callis,
Tim Palmer, Dave Ratcliffe and Dave Holliday were excellent throughout
the game for the Widgets, and Stuart Horn in goal made several fine
saves and controlled his D very well. The Warriors were denied a goal
from one short corner, but Sam Parker steered in a Martin Palmer short
corner flick to take the lead. The Widgets almost snatched a last
minute equaliser when Jamie Cranfield just slapped in wide. |
| Veterans: The
Veterans had their second run out of the year and came up against
an O Bs attack which was just a little too sharp in the D. Pete Thomas
'stole' an equaliser early in the second half, and Tonka drilled in
a short corner for 2-2. O Bs then scored 3 before Chris Cocks scored
after a great pass from Sparky. |
| Westbury
& United Banks HC: Results for Saturday 4/12/04 |
| Team |
Opponents |
|
League |
Scr |
Scorers |
|
1st
XI |
v Newport |
H |
Div 3 Prem |
w/o |
(5-0) Beesley claims all five!!! |
|
2nd
XI |
v Llanishen & Caerphilly |
A |
Div
3N |
3-1 |
Watters Colquhoun Watts |
|
3rd
XI |
v Cheltenham III |
H |
Div
NE 2 |
1-1 |
Sparks |
| Wanderers |
v Cheltenham IV |
A |
Div
NE W 2 |
5-2 |
Rickard Hipwell Norman Millman S
Wornell |
| Wizards |
v Winchcombe |
H |
Div
NE W 2 |
5-2 |
Coles 2 Christopher Crofts Ogilvie |
| Warriors |
v Hereford III |
H |
Div
NE W 4 |
6-0 |
Palmer M 2 Gibbs Parker Nichols
G Harvey |
| Widgets |
v Ross-on-Wye |
A |
Div
NE W 4 |
0-11 |
|
| 1st
XI |
v Slough |
H |
HA Trophy |
3-4 |
Webster Parish Harris Dave |
| Match
comments |
| Comment:
It seems Newport are a troubled club, they've
lost 5 first team players last week and were unable to fulfil the
fixture. A 5-0 walk over doesn't really represent the type of result
the firsts would have got. Perhaps we've reached a stage where 8-0
might be a more appropriate score for conceding a game! The firsts
have now scored 103 goals if you count today's fantasy goals! The
upside of this is that the team remain rested ready for the Slough
cup tie on Sunday.
|
| 1st
XI: Poker summed up the cup match v Slough
with his observations: I have never seen a team so hell bent on disagreeing
with the umpires. 3/4 of the team were lucky to stay on the pitch
in my book. Even their "waterboy" wanted to get in on the
action. After the game I said to a few of thier players "well
played, and what a good game." Their response was along the lines
of " Yeah we did our best but what can do you about the umpires",
they were acting like they just lost the game not won it!!! On the
other hand though I thought we were unlucky on serveral ocasisons
with Gary not able to net two possible shots (which if this was any
other game they would have landed in the back of the net.) The team
played well and at times moved the ball across and up the pitch at
speed and directly to players. Slough found this hard to cope with.
Also key to note were Meakin's 2 saves of the line - totally awesome!
Kinger had another top game, moving out and claiming loose balls (hockey
ball) at the top of the D. Serveral first class clearances. All in
all the team did well and were unlucky. Was
a good game to watch guys.. Well done one and all! |
| 2nd
XI: The seconds completed
a double over Llanishen on a pitch that Andy Griffin described as
newly laid with piles of sand and grass making it an unusual surface.
The twos have a rearranged fixture for next Saturday. |
| 3rd
XI: The thirds were playing
a Cheltenham team that beat them in the opening day of the league
season. Sparky gave the side the lead. The team looked very strong
and must have felt confident of going on to win. Cheltenham scored
an equaliser and then claimed that they got an edge to a ball that
flew into the goal. However, the eagle eyed umpire had spotted that
it was a defensive stick and a corner was awarded. Westbury then thought
they had won the game. A free hit into the D came back to Nick Coates
who struck a brilliant shot from the edge of the D. The umpire at
first awarded the goal, but then after talking to his colleague who
quite rightly pointed out that the original free hit was lifted dangerously
into the D. Still, this was a good result against one of the leading
teams in the division. |
| Wanderers:
The Wanderers keep their run of wins going which
now stretches to 15 games (including 4 from last season) and means
that they finished their first half of the league with 10 straight
wins. They have now scored 84 goals this season and today's win completes
a double over Cheltenham.
|
| Wizards:
The Wizards looked in much better shape for
their game against Winchcombe. Colesy must thank the goalkeeper who
contrived to stop his short corner (struck somewhat high up the pads
in my view), but then, in falling over he turned and kicked the ball
into his own goal. BIZARRE! The game was sewn up before Winchcombe
scored a second late consolation goal. Alan Christopher stayed on
the pitch for the whole game doing well to overcome some provocation
when an opponent kicked him. This result too, gave the Wizards a double
over their opponents. Matt Taylor had a storming game and worked back
well on one occasion to clear a dangerous cross at the back post.
His quick passing down the right was very decisive and opened up a
number of good moves.
|
| Warriors: The
Warriors played some excellent first half hockey to establish a 2-0
half time lead. Tim Palmer was outstanding in defence in the opening
half and Rob Hughes had his best game yet. Having Frank Gibbs at centre
half enabled the Warriors to find a quality player who always made
himself available for a pass. Martin Palmer on his return after a
six week absence due to a broken finger scored two, the second being
a superb solo run into the D with a reverse stick shot (even if I
say so myself). To ensure he didn't get a hat-trick he was sent to
the bench for the closing minutes of the game! Gareth Nichols had
a hand in two well worked goals with unselfish passes to his unmarked
team mates. A good team performance cements the team's position near
the top of the table. |
| Widgets: The
Widgets came away from 'Ross-on-Wye did we go there' as Paul Pritchard
bemoaned as 11-0 losers. Sean Lemoir donned the pads for the first
time ever and made some good saves. The Widgets had to draft in a
friend of one of the players to make up the numbers so consequently
they were very light weight up front. It's a shame that some of the
kids who come on Wednesdays can't be called up to play. |
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