THC News - hockey highlights, whistlers, half term camps and what's on
Catch up with all this weeks Blues News and Whats On and big congratulations to Joseph on his Umpire L1 Assessment
After the tropical weather last Saturday there's a distinct autumnal nip in the air for this weekends hockey! Catch up with this weeks THC News! Thanks to everyone who came down to the Pre Match Lunch, Pitch Opening on Sunday ably done by Nick Burnett, and M1's game last Sunday. It was good to see some old faces including Ruth Evans, Dick Venes, Dave Roper and Ian Marsh and our next lunch will be in the spring. Shout out also to Beatrice Tucker one of our young blues starting young and learning the ropes on the gate with her Dad, Gaz!
Some of last weekends highlights
- Top scoring teams - Ladies 3's with a 11 -1 win v City of Manchester 2 well done to Lydia and the girls who put on a real disciplined crowd pleaser ! Highest scoring men's team were the 1's with another 4 goals
- fastest goal - Anna Mawby after 3 minutes for L3 with a classy penalty stroke (not lost it !)
- total goals scored (senior teams) - 35 (same as last week!)
- total goals conceded -19 (senior teams)
- after 3 league weekends the M1 and L1 remain undefeated with 3 from 3 and 9 points on the board
- debut 3 - 1 win for our new coach Nathan Redman with the U14 Boys back at his old club Preston
Seven home games today and the chance to see both L2 (2pm) and M2 (4pm) as the 1's hit the road - Chester for the L1 and a trip over the M62 for the M1 on Sunday to Wakefield. The NW junior League is now in full swing on Sundays and pop down and see the U14 B (1pm) and U14 G (2.30pm) in their home games on Sunday.
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Whistling News!
This weeks feature picture of a new dynamic duo on the Whistling Scene - Siobhan and Joe who umpired the M8's games last weekend coached by Fozzy on his final weekend whistling at Timperley. Shout out to Sam Shaw who did the Otters with Fozzy too as he starts his umpiring journey. All the best to Fozzy at Deeside (see last weeks THC News).
Congratulations to Joe Williamson who passed his Level 1 Umpire assessment in September and is a great example of a young player whose picked up a whistle and developed through with the support of our umpire developers Nick Burnett and Fozzy. Siobhan did her Umpire course and Rules Test last season and as an unassessed L1 is well on the road to getting her assessment.
Umpiring a great way to get involved and be part of hockey and has no bounds as we've a standard and a game level for all, young, old, player, non player and everything in between. Our lead Umpire Developer Nick Burnett will guide you through the process and coach and support you and with radio's for all games it makes umpiring much more enjoyable working with your buddy! If you'd like to give umpiring a go or find out more contact Nick Burnett, Andrew Entwisle, Shelagh Everett, Anna Mawby or any of the committee or your captains and they'll point you in the right direction! There are lots of online resources too and you can even do the course on line too.
If you're an umpire and your whilst is collecting dust please get in touch and it would be great if all umpires in the club who haven't done any games yet this season could commit to do 1 or 2 before Christmas and we'll work with you to find dates / times that work for you in the game up to the Xmas break. We all enjoy our hockey because of our umpires so if your unassessed or assessed Level 1 please get in touch. We will also be focusing on making sure we share the umpiring out across senior teams so that all teams are contributing to the umpiring pool.
Umpire Co-ordinator - opportunity to get involved in #makinghockeyhappen !
We're looking for a new Umpire Co-ordinator to take on the scheduling of our Club Appointed Umpires each week - you don't even need to be an umpire to do this role (but would be brilliant if you were!). We've a small Umpiring (Officiating) working group who are looking at the wider development of officiating at THC (Nick Burnett, Andy Entwisle, Stu Nich and Holly Wragg) and working with the co-ordinator whose main role if to look forward for all fixtures needing THC umpires and work with our umpires to fill the gaps and support having a full set of umpires - and whistlers are umpiring the games at the level they feel comfortable. So if you love a spreadsheet, a bit of forward planning, working with and meeting people from across the club as part of a team this could be the ideal role for you. There's plenty of scope to grow the role too - but the initial priority if the appointments what we're moving to do on a 3 to 4 week rolling basis. To find out more get in touch with Andrew Entwisle, Shelagh Everett or any of the committee.
Half Term Hockey
Just a reminder that we don't stop hockey for Half Term - all sessions will be on as normal on Sunday and Monday's for our Juniors.
Hockey Performance Camps are also back with ALi G and Helen Weston we've two aged groups:
- School Year 5 to 8
- School year 9+
Three Hour Camps will be help on Monday 28th and Tuesday 29th October - and if demand is high we will add a further camp on Wednesday.
Bookings will open this weekend so be sure to have a look at the themes for the sessions and get your places booked!
Whats on - dates for the diary!
Saturday 19th October
- Men's 1 v Didsbury Northern at earlier time of 4pm so let's get lots of support that another local derby plus home games L1 (2pm) and L2 (12noon)
- Eighteen Hockey Pop Up Shop at the club all afternoon
- 300 Club Draw in the clubhouse at 6.30pm
Sunday 20th October - EH Championships start for the U14/16/18's and last day to buy tickets for the Club's Halloween Party from the bar - £8
Saturday 26th October - League break (no senior fixtures) make sure you get all those jobs done, catch up on non hockey stuff and get your availability updated for November !
Sunday 27th October - Halloween Party 2pm to 4pm for young blues aged 10 and younger tickets £8 from the bar
Monday 28th and Tuesday 29th October - Junior Performance Camps with Ali G and Helen Weston, popular 3 hours sessions return for HT booking open this weekend for players in school year 5 +
Saturday 7th December - the big Christmas Quiz, Curry and Karaoke Night
Master World Cup !
As many will know we have many Masters Internationals at Timperley and its a World Cup year so the opportunity to pit their hockey skills far and wide! Robin Cooper (M1) has arrived in Cape Town for the O35's World Cup and if playing for Wales. Go Robin we're all rooting for you and the Cape Town World Cup has a live stream to follow the games
Click for Master World Cup Cape Town 2024 live stream or follow on Facebookhttps://www.facebook.com/groups/wmh24
At the end of the month we have more Blues heading off on International Masters 'duty' to New Zealand for the Grand Masters World Cup.
...and finally this week it we send our best wishes to Malcolm Tucker whose due to undergo his long awaited 'Op' and look forward to seeing him back at the club after he's recoopered over the coming weeks. We also send our best wishes to John Wood, Club Patron and THC's no 1 supporters who has come out of hospital after a prolonged stay over the Summer and we send our love to Janet, Woody, Stu and all the family supporting him.
Good Luck to everyone playing, whistling and watching this weekend and look forward to seeing you at the Club and thanks to everyone whose paid their Subs / Membership we're just working through the final queries now. Big thanks to the captains for helping chase up those outstanding subs.