This weeks hockey news from THC - we've all the scores on the doors from last week, 5 gold medals, tickets on sale for the Christmas Quiz and a heads up on the impending cold weather ! Big Thanks to Annie Boyne who came along and captured last weekends games in some brilliant photos!

Some of the on pitch highlights from 9th / 10th 3rd November weekend
- Men's 1s go 5 points clear at top of Conference North following a 9 - 1 win v Oxton and maintain their 100% record. The win was made even more sweet with news on Sunday of title challengers Doncaster losing 2 - 1 to Ben Rhydding
- L1's bounced back to winning ways with some real crowd pleaser goals to win 4 - 0 v Garstang and stay stay top of NW Prem on GD from Kirkby and Brooky who we play next week
- highest score was M1 with 9 v Brooklands (9-1) and with 7 difference scorers on the match sheet - followed by M2 and M5 both with 5 a piece
- fastest goals - after 1 minutes for L2 (FG) from that high scoring player 'name withheld' followed by Luke Foo-Davies (FG) for M2 in 4 mins and Lilia Scott with a PC for L1 after 7 mins
- total goals scored (senior teams) - 41 (34 previous week)
- total goals conceded (senior teams) - 22 (34 previous) another really good improvement in our defending
- seniors won 8, drew 1 and lost 5 games
- Great progress in EH Junior Club Championships with U18B, U18G (after a thrilling shoot out) and U14B all progressing to the next round. Sadly the U16B had to concede as we couldn't field a team
- U16G lost in the tightest of matches in the EH Tier 1 Supra League to neighbours Alderley 4 - 3 but still hope to qualify for Tier 2 after the rally of league games
- and a fun afternoon with lots of hockey and development at the Armitage for our U10 boys and girls for in the GM junior league

Another super hockey weekend at Stockport Road !
Another bumper 8 game Saturday - capped off with the Men's 1's penultimate home league game of 2024 v Ben Rhydding at the slightly earlier time of 17:30. Download this week's programme and lets get a bumper crowd in for this one - U18's are free and great opportunity to inspire our young players. Let's push 100+ for tonight's game ! We also welcome back former THC M2 coach Chris Simcock whose coaching Rhydding now ! M1 only have three home games after the break from February so don't miss out on the chance to support them tonight or on 30th November v Durham Uni

Games start today from 12:15 with M4 and M6's and then flow on with M7 and L3 at 13:45, W5 at 15:15, L2 at 15:30, L6 at 16:45 and M1 at 17:30.

Sunday its all about the Cup - with the Ladies O35's v Belper at home v Belper (13:00) and the Mixed XI v Alderely away at 15:30 - so pop down and support both teams if you can as they head out on the road to Lee Valley !

Its back - the Christmas Quiz, Curry and Karaoke Night !
Big thanks to the M1's who are again organising the senior teams Christmas Quiz Curry and Karaoke Social on Saturday 7th December 2024 from 7pm. This was a brilliant night last year, a sell out and raised over £1k towards the pitch fund. Tickets on sale now from the THC Pitchero Shop so don’t miss out and get your teams organised !
https://www.timperleyhockeyclub.com/payments/category/tickets

September Kit Orders
The orders are now being packaged up for delivery - some arrived on Friday and more should be due over the next few days. Please contact Katy at EV2 if when you receive your order you have any queries.

Five Golds .....
Our intrepid 6 down under have only gone and won 5 gold medals and 1 bronze at the International Masters World Cup in Auckland, New Zealand. Congratulations to our latest gold medalists ! This is a huge event - take a look at the teams involved and sport other NW faces playing for England, LX, Alliance and this the second big tournament of the year as the younger age groups were in South Africa earlier in the season - who says hockey isn't a sport for life !
Gold for Debbie Chalcroft, Lou Hutchinson, Sarah Impey, Mike Carson and Mark Andrews.
Bronze for Col Taylor.
https://masters.altiusrt.com/

Weather update - its beginning to feel a bit like winter !
Temperatures are due to drop to around freezing next week so its going to be an interesting time learning about how the new blue pitch behaves in the cold and at what point it is likely to freeze. If you want to be a real hockey badger you can become an expert if (or crystal ball gazer!) at trying to predict when 6000 m2 of artificial turf may freeze ! With the recent drainage work completed we hope this will be a positive as water can drain freely from under the pitches.

Winter Weather Pitch Watch will be back in action next week and we will be posting updates for training sessions on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday via all the usual channels to keep everyone up to date. So if travelling a distance please check in next week to check that we've dodged an early visit from Jack Frost! All the usual processes will be put in place for next weeks matches to check on pitches home and away

League Match Slip Dates - please be aware that IF league games are postponed with SLIP DATES will be confirmed by the League but will be likely to be the weekends 14th December and 4th January 2025 - so be aware there may be hockey on these weekends!

300 Club Draw
Its that time of the month again and our club development 300 Club Draw will take place in the bar after today's M1's match around 7pm. Buy a number in the draw for £5 on the night (pay at the bar or Nick Burnett direct) and be in with the chance to win one of our cash prizes (min. 1st prize £125). The 300 Club makes a real difference to club development projects and contributed £25k to the new terrace so its a win win - support investment in the club and win cash prizes ! We've had a lot of lucky hockey winners recently and Malc Tucker scoped the 2nd Prize (£70) last month

Eighteen Hockey Black Friday Pop Up Shop
Our sponsors, Eighteen Hockey will be back with their pop up on Saturday 30th November from 12noon. Pop down to see Jo for a natty on all things hockey and take a look at their Black Friday online offers, and contact Jo in advance if interested in any particular items. Demo Sticks to try. Jo's also playing for our O35's tomorrow after her debut at LEek and its great to see her in blue !

...and finally this week a shout out to 12 of our volunteer army who are taking time out on Monday evening to do their First Aid course. Just another thing our brilliant volunteers do to #makehockeyhappen. Big thanks to Welfare Officer, Sarah Wilkins for organising.