Eyes down for .....the adult league 6 week count down, 8 teams still in the EH Championships, Bingo, Awards Dinners and gearing up for Summer Hockey ! With a break for most teams this weekend we go again next weekend.

Scores on the doors from weekend 8th / 9th February 2025
(including rearranged games)
Senior games (excluding M7 v M6)
- Won 4 / Lost 11 / Drew 1
- Goals Scored 28 / 41 Goals conceded (-13)
- Highest goals scored - Mens 2's with 6 - 0 win v Preston 2's on Sunday. The L5 also won a goal packed game 5 - 4 v Bolton 2's to stay in the promotion race.
- Fastest Goal - Peter Hallinan who recently joined the club from Wilmslow scored after 2 mins for M2's v Preston 2's with Paul Keeler scoring after 3 mins for M5's and Anna Mawby after 10 mins for L3's was ladies fastest goal
Hat Tricks - Andy 'Wez' Wareham bagged 3 on Saturday, Matt Hardern following suit for the 2's on Sunday.
See all the match details, goalscorers and details her ! https://www.englandhockey.co.uk/clubs/timperley-hc/fixtures

The Men's 1's drew with Leeds 1 - 1 in the top of the table clash and remain 6 points clear with 6 games to go. No counting of chickens yet but lets get down to support the lads next Sunday 23rd February at 2pm v Wakefield and 3 more points. The Ladies 1s came our 2-1 down v Kirkby Stephen and drop to 3rd and 4 points off leaders Brook, so as well as winning our own games we are in the hands of others. Shout out for the Ladies 5 who won a thriller 5 - 4 v Bolton 2's and remain in the race for promotion.

No cup games last weekend but we've two this week with the Ladies O35's away at Harrogate and Men's O55's at home (1pm) v Ben Rhydding in the EH Championships.

International selection
Whilst there are new caps for the England Senior squads this week we've also our own international to celebrate ! Congratulations to David Hans on his selection for the England O45's squad who'll be off to the Masters Euro's in Valencia in May. The Older mens squads and womens masters are still going through selection

Good luck to Josh H and Molly A who are both with England u18's this week at Lilleshall for games v Ireland, and all our Timperley TA players and of course Rob Turner who will be there coaching.

Getting Social !
The next big dates for your diary are.....
Saturday 8th March - Bingo Night following the M1's v Sheffield more details to follow this week
Sunday 30th March - Pre Match Lunch ahead a M1's final game of the season and tickets will be available via Pitchero
Friday 11th April - Senior Dinner and Awards
Friday 25th April - U14/16 Awards Dinner

Summer Hockey
We've a full programme for Summer 2025 and to make it all happend we're looking for folks to join the teams to make it all happen
Mens Summer League - Starts 9th May
Womens Summer League - Starts 13th May
Men's Lower Teams Tournament - 10th May
Women's Vet's 7's - 21st June to help Woody
Mixed - 5th July
plus we're host club for two EH 8 Area Masters Tournaments too on 17th / 18th May (WO40's) and 7th / 8th June (MO60) and we need a small team to make these events go really well and fly the flag for THC!

Please get in touch is you can help with the organising and or on the day/weekends!

Reminders .....

1.THC 24/25 Survey - Our survey closes on Sunday 16th February so last chance to share what you think about THC and help shape our plans for next season and beyond. Open to all, players (14+), coaches, umpires, supports, parents. We've had 103 responses so far so would be great to hit 125 or more. Click Here to complete the survey - takes about 10 minutes https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/THC_2024_25_Survey

2.Half Term Camps - 18/19th February
We're finalising numbers on today so final chance to book is on Sunday 16th February for our half day camps. See previous news item for full details and Click here to book: https://www.timperleyhockeyclub.com/payments/category/other

3. Training this week
All training is on this week for seniors and juniors - we don't have a break for Half Term!

4.GMS Website Match Sheets - names
Quick reminder that to log into your GMS account and go update your account profile settings so your name will appear on the public viewed match centre with teams, goals scorers etc rather than show as Name Withheld. Log into your GMS Account / Go to My Profile / Click on consents / Opt into show my name on EH website (for games)

Watch England Men and Women on Channel 4 You Tube
The reasons that there's no National League Premier League hockey is February is because England have FIH Pro League Fixtures out in India. You can watch all the games online Live and on catch up on You Tube - Channel 4 Sport

Like with the Olympic Qualifiers last year to help show that people want to follow and watch International Hockey its really important we get on line and show Channel 4 the appetite for hockey and build the audiences. C4 are backing hockey with additional online content with players and around the matches so take a look ! The matches are also at sensible times of day too ! Great for our younger players during Half Term !

Women's Fixtures

15 February - India V England PB 11:45 GMT
16 February - India V England PB 11:45 GMT
21 February - England V Netherlands PB 09:30 GMT
22 February - Netherlands V England PB 09:30 GMT

Men's Fixtures

18 February - England V Spain PB 09:30 GMT
19 February - Spain v England PB 09:30 GMT
24 February - England V India PB 14:00 GMT
25 February - England V India PB 14:00 GMT

We hope everyone's got all those domestic and school jobs done on a quieter hockey weekend and will be raring to go next weekend for more back to back hockey !