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Westbury & United Banks (Bristol) Hockey Club
Founded 1924
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Home ground: Coombe Dingle Sports Complex , Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol.

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December 2004

Westbury & United Banks HC: Results for Saturday 18/12/04
Team	Opponents		League	Scr	Scorers
1^st XI	v W Glos	A	Friendly	4-2	Frost J 2 Webster Parish
2^nd XI	v W Glos	H	Friendly	can	(5-0 walk over?)
3^rd 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.

Alan Spark's team opened the scoring on the sand based pitch, but Dave Wornell's team bounced back with an equaliser. In a matter of seconds, Alan's team regained the lead and added a third. Dave'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 Duncan Armsby'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 Neil Moon's great run allowed Paul Pritchard to put Ger Openshaws 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 Duncan'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 the Armsby XI to win the match. Gareth Nichols and Sam Parker played well going forward for Ger.

1^st 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
1^st XI	v Robinsons	A	Div 3 Prem	3-5	Mason Goodman Poulsom
2^nd XI	v Whitchurch II	H	Div 3N	3-2	Jarvis 2 Armsby
3^rd 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	Jones
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:

1^st 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.)

2^nd 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. Jon Jarvis 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 Jones 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 Tom Taylor drilled in a short corner for 2-2. O Bs then scored 3 before Chris Cocks scored after a great pass from Alan Sparks.

Westbury & United Banks HC: Results for Saturday 4/12/04
Team	Opponents		League	Scr	Scorers
1^st XI	v Newport	H	Div 3 Prem	w/o	(5-0) Beesley claims all five!!!
2^nd XI	v Llanishen & Caerphilly	A	Div 3N	3-1	Watters Colquhoun Watts
3^rd 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
1^st 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.

1^st XI: Paul Croker 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 Roper 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 werePhil Meakin's 2 saves of the line - totally awesome! Neil Kinghad 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!

2^nd 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.

3^rd XI : The thirds were playing a Cheltenham team that beat them in the opening day of the league season. Alan Sparks 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. Ian Coles 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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