Untitled Document

Westbury & United Banks HC: Results for Saturday 3/4/04
Team	Opponents		League	Scr	Scorers
1^st XI	v Gloucester	A	Friendly	can
2^nd XI	v Gloucester II	H	Friendly	5-4	Poulsom Dann J Harris Pearce-Smith Frost M
3^rd XI	v Gloucester III	A	Friendly	can
Wanderers	v Gloucester IV	H	Friendly	can
Wizards	v Gloucester V	A	Friendly	3-1	Poulsom 2 Ogilvie
Warriors	v Hereford IV	H	Div NE W 4	1-1	Parker

Match comments

2^nd XI: The seconds finished the season with a close win by the odd goal in five, this after falling behind in the first minute.

Wizards: The Wizards completed the season with win number 13. Chris Poulsom took his club total into 3 figures with his first goal to join the ‘hundred club’.

Warriors: The Warriors were saved from going 2-0 down in their final league game by an incredible head high stick save on the line by Tom Counsell. Austin Sheppard was probably the unluckiest man on the field. On another day he could have score 5, 6 or even 7 from his shorts. He came up against a keeper in incredible form. Sam Parker scored a late equaliser. The Warrior’s disappointing 5 game run without a win meant they finished in mid table taking only 2 points from their final 12.

Westbury & United Banks HC: Results for Saturday 27/3/04
Team	Opponents		League	Scr	Scorers
1^st XI	v Swindon	H	Friendly	can
2^nd XI	v Swindon II	A	Friendly	1-2	Griffin A
3^rd XI	v Swindon III	H	Friendly	can
Wanderers	v Swindon IV	A	Friendly	5-1	Griffin A 3Millman S Brown Wornell
Wizards	v Swindon V	H	Friendly	3-1	Lloyd 2 Coulton
Warriors	v Cardiff V	A	Friendly	2-3	Palmer M Small

Match comments

Comment: Swindon ones and threes cried off, perhaps they don’t like driving down the M4! The seconds and Wanderers made the journey in the opposite direction.

2^nd XI: The twos lost 2-1, Duncan’s text message said that the scorer was Griffin. The Wanderers were also away at Swindon and the text message said Griffin 3, so I presume that our club captain performed again getting a first ever hat-trick. (Which turned out to be exactly as presumes)

Wizards: The Wizards welcomed Simon Lloyd back to the fold and he responded with two goals. That makes it 12 straight wins, and they remain unbeaten over 17 games. The last time they lost was on 15^th November at Lansdown.

Warriors: The Warriors travelled to Cardiff. For the second week in a row they conceded goals in the opening minutes of each half. The team put up a spirited display and scored with a short corner at the end of full time to make the score 3-2. Brian Nichols and Tim Palmer gave solid performances in defence and Sam Parker looked back to his early season form. Limbo’s running caused the main threat up front. Paul Pritchard had to don the pads and made a couple of good saves against a lively Cardiff side. The penalty stroke that should have been awarded to us might have made it an even closer finish!

Westbury & United Banks HC: Results for Saturday 20/3/04
Team	Opponents		League	Scr	Scorers
1^st XI	v Whitchurch	A	Friendly	can
2^nd XI	v Stroud	H	Friendly	can
3^rd XI	v Whitchurch III	H	Friendly	can
Wanderers	v Chippenham	H	Friendly	5-1	Millman S 3 Small Sparks
Wizards	v Stroud II	A	Friendly	6-2	Poulsom 3 Lutwych Colton Pearce-Smith
Warriors	v Leominster III	H	Div NE W 4	3-4	Lampey 2 Parker
Widgets	v N Somerset III		Friendly	1-1	Nichols G

Match comments

Wanderers: The Wanderers won against Chippenham 5 - 1. Steve Millman acknowledged full credit to Chippenham for their part in an excellent and good spirited game, he also took his season’s total to 30.

Wizards: Chris Poulsom reported that theWizards won 6 - 2 away at Stroud. He notes “I got 3 (1 x PF), Lutwych, not sure who else, still a bit dazed from Friday night!! I thought it was 5 - 2 but 6 - 2 was on the board in the Duck.” Duncan confirmed that 6 goals had been scored. Mark Colton and James Perace-Smith completed the scoring.

Warriors: The Warriors put up a good performance in the league match at Leominster. They conceded a goal after 2 minutes but equalised before half-time. They then conceded one minute into the second half. The experience of the Leominster first team player was the key to their victory. We pressured them and James Lampey caused the type of problems to their defence that we have been missing for several weeks. Brian Nichols (suffering from a throat infection) earned the man-of-the-match award.

Widgets: George writes The Colts (mainly 12-15 year olds with a few old guys to make up the numbers) drew 1-1 with North Somerset (all 15-17 year olds). Nichols G. the scorer, with young Webster having a potentially winning goal disallowed on the final whistle. Enjoyable game, very good performances by the younger players, many playing their first 11 a side game on a full size pitch.

Westbury & United Banks HC: Results for Saturday 13/3/04
Team	Opponents		League	Scr	Scorers
1^st XI	v Lansdown	H	Div 1N	3-0	Webster Poulsom Colquhoun
2^nd XI	v Neath	H	Div 3N	0-3
3^rd XI	v Bridgwater III	A	Friendly	2-2	Clifton Taylor T
Wanderers	v N Wilts II	H	Friendly	Can
Wizards	v Bridgwater IV	A	Friendly	4-3	Ogilvie 2 Callis N 2
Warriors	v O Bristolians IV	H	Div NE W 4	2-3	Lutwych Sheppard

Match comments

Comment:

1^st XI: The first wrapped up their highly successful league campaign with a fine display of hockey against a Lansdown team needing points to finish runners up. The first were all over their opponents who were rarely able to mount any sort of significant attacks. A combination of missing James Frost, James Goodman and Dave Harris who have scored 50 odd goals, some bad luck in front of goal and some inspired goalkeeping by the visiting goalkeeper. At half time the score was 0-0, but possession was something like 90% - 10%. When the goal did come it was ‘a cracker’. Tony Webster in a two minute spell earned a green card for explaining the advantage rule to the umpire, give Tommydom a bit of stick for not passing to him and then struck a superb reverse shot to put the firsts in front. Chris Poulsom moved one nearer to his ton with a shot that took a deflection and bobbled over the line. Rich Deakin, Phil Haslett and Paul Mason were at the top of their game in a very good team performance. Tom Colquhoun completed the scoring.

2^nd XI: The seconds played their rearranged match against Neath. After weathering Neath’s opening attacks the twos were equal to the task with Warren Smith being a tower of strength in the middle of the park. They were unlucky when a shot cannoned back into play off the post and then suffered a goal against during a period in the game that was slightly against the run of play. A Neath forward played a square pass behind his body to a team-mate who slapped it in. The team were never out-played, but conceded two further goals.

3^rd XI: The thirds played away at Bridgwater and found themselves 2-0 down. They staged a spirited come back to tie the game at 2-2. They had several chances to sneak a winner but had to settle for their first draw of the season.

Wanderers: The Wanderers waited for North Wilts who never materialised. Perhaps they were playing in a different space/time continuum!

Wizards: The Wizards were successful against Bridgwater winning by the odd goal in seven. Duncan Ogilvie and Neil Callis, both scored twice in their race for the Wizard’s leading scorer trophy!

Warriors: The Warriors took a 2-1 lead against Old Bristolians with another thumping short corner from Austin Sheppard. Old Bristolians played half the match with a keeper (who was a converted outfield player) spurning wearing any pads! He donned the pads in the second half, but the Warriors who once again played well in defence and midfield, were unable to pressure the D. Only three short corners were earned, nullifying the advantage of Shep’s striking prowess. Dave Ratcliffe, Will Enderby and Brian Nichols were very noticeable for the Warriors. Richard Gee made a number of excellent saves, but in the end we were just not good enough up front to sneak a result. O Bs are a well organised and skilful side. We lost to the champions in both games by 3-2 pushing them close, but not quite close enough.

Westbury & United Banks HC: Results for Saturday 6/3/04 and Sunday 7/3/04
Team	Opponents		League	Scr	Scorers
1^st XI	v Yatton	A	Div 1N	10-0	Frost J 7 Goodman Alger T Harris
2^nd XI	v N Wilts	H	Div 3N	1-1	Frost M
3^rd XI	v Hereford II	H	Div NE W1	10-2	Clifton 4 Evans N 2 Carter 2 Catchpole Sparks
Wanderers	v Hereford III	A	Div NE W 2	5-0	Brown 2 Rickard Taylor M Wornell
Wanderers	V Clevedon	H	Div NE W 2	2-5	Rickard Dann J
Wizards	v Imperial	H	Div NE W 3	3-2	Taylor T Lampey Coulton
Warriors	v Firebrands VI	A	Div NE W 4	1-1	Palmer M

Match comments

Comment: It was business as normal again this week with the 10^th unbeaten Saturday. The 30 goals scored on the day puts the total goals scored this season at 499. A new club record.

1^st XI:The firsts visited Yatton & scored ten without reply. James Frost scored a ‘magnificent 7’ which equals his last year’s goal tally and takes his club total to 103. The firsts also passed their ton for the season.

2^nd XI: The seconds were held to a home draw by North Wilts and that is two points that they could ill afford to drop.

3^rd XI: The thirds were back to form with Gavin Clifton back from injury. Gavin’s 4 goals takes him to 36. Can he reach 44 the third team record set by Dave Money? His goal scoring record this year is testimony to the attacking flair of the team he is playing in. Steve Carter told me that the score was a little flattering because they had eleven shots at goal with ten them going in!

Wanderers: The Wanderers made the journey to Hereford and scored 5 without reply and then took on Clevedon on Sunday. Our roving reporter Steve Millman writes: I watched the game on Sunday. Our goals were scored by Geoff Rickard and Jamie Dann, which gave us a 2-0 victory from open play! All 5 Clevedon goals were scored by the same player from a very impressive short corner routine. We took the lead but were comprehensively outplayed in the first half, Ade Daniels in goal preventing a rout. The second half was much more even and was a credit to the battling qualities of the team, and to the introduction of Matt Weston! Young Jamie Dann really got into the game and showed some of his great promise. Saturdays Wanderers performance was one of the best of the season. We took advantage of meeting at 10.00 for what turned out to be a 14.00 game by practising our corners, and then scoring from 3 of them including one very slick effort. Hereford have a very mean defence so to score 5 was outstanding.

Wizards: The Wizards were happy to take all three points from Imperial, but very worried that they would be out-drunk in the bar by their opponents. Imperial (who will be relegated) were celebrating with the vigour of a team at the other end of the table. James Lampey made it 8 goals scored in 5 successive games.

Warriors: The Warriors took an early lead at Firebrands (there may still be a steward’s enquiry on the goal). Firebrands were a very skilful side and took full advantage of the umpire’s generosity in the second half. Their late equaliser coming from an aerial assault, with all the defence expecting a whistle that never came. To a man everyone at the back was very angry and it came as no surprise that the umpire reached into his pocket for a yellow. Dom Harris, Will Enderby and Brian Nichols shared the man-of-the-match award in a game where the defence & midfield were all stars on the day.

Goal Chart: After 27/4/04 (includes total goals for the club)