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Westbury & United Banks (Bristol) HC: RESULTS PAGE

November 2007

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WEEKLY RESULTS

Westbury & United Banks HC: Results for Saturday 24/11/07
Team	Opponents		League	Scr	Scorers
1^st XI	v Cheltenham	A	Premier 1	2-2	Thomas J Roper
2^nd XI	v Cheltenham II	H	North Div 1	3-0	Moon 2 Colquhoun
3^rd XI	v Robinsons IV	H	Avon Div	4-1	Pearce-Smith 2 Woodward 2
Wanderers	v Firebrands IV	A	Br & NW Som Div1	1-2	Farrell
Wizards	v N Bristol II	H	Br & NW Som Div 1	2-5	Fox J Chase
Warriors	v N Bristol III	A	Br & NW Som Div 2	0-3
Widgets	v O Bristolians V	H	Br & NW Som Div 3	1-7	Sheppard
Match comments
1^st XI: The first team returned from Cheltenham with a point which maintains their position in 5th place in the Premier Division. Joe Thomas and Shads scored the goals.
2^nd XI: The seconds took all three points in their home match v Cheltenham. More from Slider soon. Here it is: Wowzers! What a team performance this was. Coming into the game with a couple of regulars missing, we spoke about discipline and individual responsibility in all areas of the pitch and by jingo did the lads do their jobs yesterday. Bees, Warney and Catchpoley came in to replace the absentees and all performed excellently under consistent pressure from a strong Cheltenham side. Early on we struggled to gain possession as Cheltenham began strongly, but once they began to sit back in a unnecessary half-court defensive strategy we were allowed to pass more freely and hence our confidence grew. On Ger's orders, the skipper took responsibility for marking their playmaker and Reston moved into the middle with Village. We went into half-time at nil-nil and asked for everyone to dig deep in the second half. Boy did we play well second half. Each player raised their game and we won practically every tackle . A swift counter attack saw us sneak the lead through TC, nicely rounding the keeper if I remember correctly. Paxo saved a short corner into the valiant Ger who stopped the deflection on the line with both stick and thumb... sadly that was the end for Ger... off he went, thumb broken cursing his misfortune and a long evening in hospital awaiting him. Changes were needed - Reston dropped to the back, Limbo moved top diamond and ran his socks off in the middle, Village sat deeper and controlled the middle with ease. Another break saw Moondog make it 2-0 with 10mins to go. Cheltenham didn't know what had hit them, better structure and more discipline had reaped its rewards. TC then tucked into midfield in a pre-arranged plan and we defended stoutly before earning a last minute short corner. 1 short, 1 goal with Moondog finding the corner with ease. 3-0 and game over. This was an awesome win against a very strong side but sheer determination to work hard for each other and sticking doggedly to the gameplan worked wonders. We've moved 3rd now with a crunch clash with top of the table Gloucester City to come next week. MAN OF THE MATCH votes were shared between 8 of the team including Reston 2 votes, Warney 2 votes. The winner this week was decided with Ger's vote from hospital making it 3 votes for the skipper. Cool! Ger though gets a special award for bravery even though Terry said he cried like a schoolgirl in hospital (I may have made that up). We wish Ger a speedy recovery.
3^rd XI: With the game tied at 1-1 a spell of Westbury pressure caused all sort of panic in the visitor's D resulting in a rash challenge that turned into a penalty stroke. JPS made no mistake from the spot and the thirds were back in the driving seat. The team were playing well, whilst Robinsons drove forward as a unit but lacked the right pass, with 6 or 7 of their through balls shoot over the back line beyond their own sticks. The game's comedy moment came when Robinsons pressed forward only for the lights to go out! Someone had turned off the wrong switch as the sand pitch bereft on any players was lit up! It took a Bees hone call and ten minutes for the lights to 'boot up' before the game could continues! Robinsons still found the final pass eluding them. In contrast Nathan Walkey and Hugh Woodward were causing trouble down the flanks. Nathan cleverly wormed his way into the D and slipped the ball back to Chewie to thump between the goalkeepers legs for 3-1. The break had not done any harm for Westbury as they turned in a short corner from JPS to complete a merited 4-1 win.
Wanderers: The wanderers fell to their second league defeat in a close game against Firebrands. Fazza scored for the Wanderers, but the home team who played well snatched the winner in the second half.
Wizards: The Wizards gave it a good go against N Bristol. Martin Rees cleared the ball off the line from N Bristol's first attack. The visitors scored twice in the first half, but Joel Chase slipped the ball to Jon Fox who found the perfect reverse stick touch to guide the ball past the keeper and over the line. Poker made a vital block to stop a certain goal. N Bristol's second goal came after Martin Eland had pulled off a brilliant point black diving save, but the ball ran to a N Bristol player who tucked in into the net. The second half saw good hockey played by both sides. Then came two penalty strokes in as many minutes. Cocksy back foot stopped a goal, but Martin Eland pulled off a save from the penalty stroke. At the other end Westbury were awarded a stroke and Joel Chase gave a master class in scoring. The game was end to end, with Will Holmes having a good game down the right. N Bristol put together a very slick passing move that ened with a wellplaced shot to give them a 4-2 lead. A green card for Westbury was followed by a yellow. The ten men stuck at it, but N Bristol added a 5th. As the player returned to the game a second yellow was issued and the last quarter of an hour was played a man short. There was a lot of good play by Westbury who gave it everything.
Warriors: The Warriors played in a scrappy match at N Bristol. The pattern of the game was the same as last week, with some excellent defending and some positive movement in the middle of the park. Pete Thomas for the second week in a row received some good ball. His one cross flashed across the goal, but no one got a stick to it. N Bristol scored from a short corner. As the game wore on there were more mis-directed passes which prevented Westbury from building any sort of movement to pressure the home side. Mike Harvey had a good first half. There were some neat touches from Pete Ratcliffe and Max Longden. Max was given a bit of a hammering by his marker earning a damaged finger that needed an x-ray at A&E, but proved to be bruised and not broken. Westburys few shots all came from shorts with Max coming the closest hitting a rebound from his dad's shot. Jez also cleared a shot off the line. Once again the team worked hard and JJ in goal was in superb form. His double save was outsatnding, he also made a brilliant diving save only to see the ball run to a home forward who scored. The team plays well in the defensive two thirds of the pitch but come unstuck when everything gets tight at the other end. It was good to see Pat Tampkins back in action after a long lay off with injury.
Widgets: The Widgets found O Bristolians a much stronger and better organised team than the side they have become used to playing. OBs ran in seven goals. Shep struck a consolation from a short corner.

Westbury & United Banks HC: Results for Saturday 17/11/07
Team	Opponents		League	Scr	Scorers
1^st XI	v Cardiff Univ	H	Premier 1	3-1	Hancock 2 Frost J
2^nd XI	v Team Bath Buccs IV	A	North Div 1	4-1	Armsby Haslett Blake Butt
3^rd XI	v N Wilts	A	Avon Div	3-1	Alger T Pearce-Smith Walkey
Wanderers	v W Glos III	H	Br & NW Som Div1	4-2	Millman S 2 Holliday J Crofts
Wizards	v N Somerset	H	Br & NW Som Div 1	w/o	N Somerset could not raise a side
Wizards	v Bristol University III	H	Friendly	1-3	Chase
Warriors	v Imperial	A	Br & NW Som Div 2	2-3	Cranfield Longden J
Widgets	v N Somerset II	A	Br & NW Som Div 3	3-3	Ogilvie 2 Money
Match comments
1^st XI: The first team recorded their 4th league win of the season. Their 50% record places them in 5th place in Premier 1. Tim Hancock struck twice and Frosty scored once.
2^nd XI: The seconds were victorious at Bath Buccs with goals from Slider, Village, Chris Butt and Stuart Blake on his debut.
3^rd XI: Third team returned to their winning ways with a good result awat at N Wilts. Tommy Alger, JPS and Nathan Walkey were on target.
Wanderers: The Wanderers had a bright opening to their local derby with W Glos establishing a 2-0 lead with goals from Tufty and Jimmer. There followed a period when the team went off the boil. Things then brightened up as the Wanderers reasserted themselves and Tufty scored again. W Glos pulled a goal back but Croftsy scored number 4. Late in the game W Glos score once more but the points were in the bag and a good result was achieved to wipe out last week's disappointing score.
Wizards: Somehow N Somerset were unable to raise a first team, although they did field a second side. With a team, pitch and umpires likely to stand idle the students from Bristol University were up for a second game after playing their 'B' v 'C' team derby. The students ran out winners, but the Wizards were able to have a competitive game against a side that were fast and fit. Joel Chase scored a consolation goal in a 3-1 defeat.
Warriors: Imperial scored early against the Warriors and then found the Warriors' defence in a resilient mood with AJ, Jez and Dave Ratcliffe threw a barrier that shut out Imperial. The home side scored a second goal, both their goals came from short corners. There was a lot of good build up play, but in the final third of the pitch the Warriors could not conjure up the telling passes to open up good goal scoring chances. In the second half Max Longden who had a fine game won a hit out wide. Pete Tomas took it to Jamie Cranfield who struck from the edge of the D to score. Imperial scored a third goal. The Warriors worked very hard and it was good to see Paul Pritchard turn out despite suffering a bad back and remind us of what he is capable of. With two minutes to go Jez Longden struck a perfect short corner shot to make it 3-2, but time ran out. At least we won the second half! Imperial rotated their umpires at half time which may have infringed rule 8.4 c) A “temporary” umpire must not be part of rolling substitutions with players and must not be replaced at half-time by a player who has participated in the first half of the game.
Widgets: The Widgets battled out a 3-3 draw with N Somerset who are top of the table. The Widgets surged into a lead and then swapped goals with the home team so that the game was tied 3-3. As time expired N Somerset had a short corner. They managed to get two more corners and on the last, there was a frantic goalmouth scramble as the home team had several goes to sweep the ball in, whilst the Widgets defenders were stretched to stop them scoring. The umpire blew for an offence and a point was secured

Westbury & United Banks HC: Results for Saturday 10/11/07
Team	Opponents		League	Scr	Scorers
1^st XI	v Cardiff & UWIC	A	Premier 1	3-4	Poulsom Goodman Thomas J
2^nd XI	v Cardiff & UWIC II	H	North Div 1	2-2	Small Moon
3^rd XI	v Devizes II	H	Avon Div	2-3	Walkey Colquhoun
Wanderers	v Bristol Univ III	A	Br & NW Som Div1	3-10	Millman S 2 Taylor A
Wizards	v Firebrands IV	A	Br & NW Som Div 1	1-2	Fox J
Warriors	v W Glos IV	H	Br & NW Som Div 2	0-2
Widgets	v Weston-Super-Mare II	H	Br & NW Som Div 3	1-5	Money
Match comments
1^st XI: The first team came close to a result yet lost for the third time by one goal in a high scoring game. Psycho, Goody and Joe Thomas scored the goals in a 4-3 defeat.
2^nd XI: Tezza's tale: Skipper Duncan was away this week, so Ii stepped into the breach to take the reins as captain. We were also missing our main man Tim Dawson so in came Chris Cutts and Warney. This meant we had new players in the team and some usual players playing out of position. Not ideal for the visit of top of the table side 'Cardiff and UWIC'. In fact, Duncan's last instruction to me before the game was "i'll take a point fella, i'll take a point". The warm up was efficient but we was lacking in any passion or emotion.The game did not start well for us, in fact we were awful for the first ten minutes. We gave them far too much respect and quickly found ourselves 2 nil down. After about 15 minutes, we settled down and realised that these boys aren't actually anything special. We relaxed and started to play some good hockey and finished the half the stronger side. The consensus from everybody at half time was that this game was far from over. We were in fact the better team and we were more than capable of still winning it.We started the second half on fire and it set the tone for the rest of the half. After about 10mins Hugh picked the ball in their half and magically beat three players before slipping the ball to Lambo who neatly finished. The fight back was on. We continued to push forward looking for that equalizing goal which left us exposed; Cardiff had several chances to score on the break. With seven minutes to go will still needed that goal. Then the magic happened, while on the halfway line Moonie whispered in my ear "Tezza we need to think about going three up front here". So i made the call, Warney stepped off and Lambo came back on, it was all or nothing. Ger was heard muttering I am "I am not sure about this..." With the extra forward on we pushed forward penning them back. Eventually we won a short corner with 30 seconds to go. Up stepped Moon Dog, who ghosted around the number one runner and smashed the ball under the keeper and into the goal. Get in! The final whistle went and it felt as good as win!Ger won the man of the match award with an awesome defensive performance.With a full side out and a decent start we would have beaten them by a couple of goals. Maybe that opinion is a bit biased but who cares!
3^rd XI: The thirds played a belter of a game against a strong Devizes side. Devizes scored in the opening minutes from a short corner. A slick move ended with Nathan Walkey getting the equaliser. Things were all square at half time. A deliberate back stick by a Devizes defender allowed TC to score from the spot, but Devizes countered with a quick equaliser of their own. Smurf pulled off a great save only to see the ball fall to a visiting forward who rifled it in to take the lead to 3-2 which is the way it ended. There were a lot of good performances across the team which was not a t full strength due once again to unavailability.
Wanderers: The Wanderers found Bristol University, the new league leaders, too hot to handle. With a number of Wizards drafted and several players playing in positions they were unfamiliar with, the defence predictably leaked a substantial number of goal. Whilst Alex Taylor on his return got one and Tufty two, the students ran in ten goals.
Wizards: With the Wizards weakened by calls from above they took on Firebrands and caused a shock by scoring the only goal of the first half. In fact it was the only Westbury shot of the half! A smart Will Holmes cross was deftly deflected past the keeper by Jon Fox. Firebrands opened the second half with a goal from a short to tie things up. A second goal from another short put them ahead. The Wizards' defence played another storming game. Mike Harvey in goal made some crucial saves and Poker, Reesy, Cocksy, Will Glynn dealt with everything that Firebrands were able to throw at them from open play. Will Holmes had a good game along with Dave George who harried the home team in midfield. The Wizards lost one of their midfield at half time who had another engagement. Playing one short did not help the cause!
Warriors: In an end to end game neither side really got a grip of the game, and passing moves were at a premium. At half time the score was 0-0. W Glos managed to turn two of their attacks into goal, but the Warriors were out of luck with their shooting. Harry Newington had a strong game and Max Longden showed his growing potential.
Widgets: The Widgets were unable to repeat last seasons result (a comfortable win) against Weston. Dave Money scored a consolation goal in a 5-1 defeat.

Westbury & United Banks HC: Results for Saturday 3/11/07
Team	Opponents		League	Scr	Scorers
1^st XI	v Bristol Univ	H	Premier 1	2-1	Mason Goodman
2^nd XI	v Bristol Univ II	A	North Div 1	2-1	Dawson Nichols G
3^rd XI	v City of Bath II	A	Avon Div	2-4	Pearce-Smith 2
Wanderers	v O Bristolians II	H	Br & NW Som Div1	1-4	Millman S
Wizards	v W Glos III	H	Br & NW Som Div 1	0-3
Warriors	v Bristol UWE III	A	Br & NW Som Div 2	1-4	Harris Dom
Match comments
1^st XI: The first XI secured an important 2-1 win against Bristol University. Mace and Goody scored the vital goals that pushed the firsts up to 4th place.
2^nd XI: Slider says: 9 points from the last 3 games and we're only 3points away from the league leaders. In truth we've played far better the last 2 weeks, with our structure and game plan being much improved and each man carrying out his individual responsibilities far better over the last few weeks. As a team we've excelled. The Uni boys were quick and never tired but for large periods of play we controlled possession and should have created one or 2 more chances to kill of the game. GOals came from a slipped left Nichols short-corner strike and from Dawson playing a 'high-sweeper' role was found lurking on the edge of the 'D' to roof it with ease.Man-of-the-Match votes were shared by the skipper, Reston, Terry and Ger with the Vice Captain Terrrrrence Wattttts deservedly gaining the award with a tremendous performance. Onwards and upwards we go...
3^rd XI: The thirds were knocked off the top spot when City of Bath won their first game of the season with JPS getting both the goals. Griff summed up the game in three words: Match report - A poor performance !
Wanderers: The Wanderers also slipped off the top of the table when they fell to a 4-1 defeat to O Bristolians. Tufty scored the consolation goal.
Wizards: The Wizards conceded a first half goal against W Glos. JJ was playing his second game in goal and pulled off one superb save in the opening half and another in the second. Unfortunately the ball went to a W Glos player who grubbed his shot and saw it trickle over the line. The Wizards surged forward with some strong counter attacks, but their penetration into the D was poor. Passes were intercepted by the experienced W Glos defence who counter attacked and scored three goals in three minutes.
Warriors: The Warriors put up a good show against Bristol UWE. Bristol scored first but Dom Harris snapped up an equaliser when the home team were unable to clear a short corner. The home team scored again and Westbury were desperately unlucky not to get an equaliser. The Bristol goalkeeper pulled off three brave saves. There was a lot of good tackling and covering in the Warrior's defence, but the home side still managed to add two more goals. Jez Longden, Dave Ratcliffe, Brian Nichols and Will Enderby played well having to face constant pressure. Dom Harris worked hard in midfield and created a several scoring chances, but none could be taken. This was a spirited effort by the Warriors.

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