nd The Eastcote Hockey Club Newsletter - 62 Season Editor: [email protected] Website: EastcoteHockeyClub.com Edition No. 676 Last Week's Results Saturday - 24 February 2018 2018 International Masters Men's 1s Marlow 1 H L Drew 1 - 1 Men's 2s Staines 2 A L Won 5 - 1 Congratulations to Lenny Conetta (England) Sarosh Talati (England) Men's 3s Maidenhead 2 H L Won 6 - 0 Men's 4s Amersham & Chalfont 2 A L Lost 0 - 1 Irene Hall (England) Dave Tipper (Wales) Men's 5s Slough Swifts A L Drew 1 - 1 Men's 6s West Hampstead 8 H L Won 4 - 0 Kim Spencer-Pell (England) Lloyd Wood (England) Eagles Milton Keynes 6 A L Lost 0 - 4 Past Masters Sevenoaks Supervets H L Lost 2 - 3 For being selected to represent their country at the Ladies 1s Marlow 1 A L Lost 0 - 1 Ladies 2s West Hampstead 2 H L Won 4 - 1 Masters World Championships in Barcelona and the Ladies 3s PHC Chiswick 2 H L Lost 1 - 4 Home Nations in Swansea. Ladies 4s West Hampstead 3 H L Lost 1 - 2 Ladies 5s Hampstead & Westminster 7 H L Won 2 - 1 Handy Cross Roundabout This Week's Fixtures Saturday - 03 March 2018 The roundabout & all slip roads will be shut from 9pm on March 2 Men's 1s Wallingford 1 A L Cancelled until 6am on March 5 & possibly March 9 to 12. This means no entry Men's 2s Phoenix & Ranelagh 1 H L Cancelled Men's 3s Marlow 3 A L Marlow SC 15:00 or exit at M40 junction 4, or from the A404 at High Wycombe. Men's 4s Reading 5 H L Cancelled Diversions are in place but allow extra time for your journey. Games Men's 5s Leighton Buzzard 3 H L Cancelled Men's 6s Wycombe 6 A L RGS Wycombe 13:30 at Wycombe, Marlow & Henley could be affected. More info Eagles Sonning 6 A L Cancelled https://parishcouncilwebsite.co.uk/docs/Handy-Cross-TRO-2018.pdf Past Masters Southgate Magnums H L Cancelled Ladies 1s Oxford 1 H L Cancelled Ladies 2s Teddington 3 A L Cancelled Ladies & Men’s 1st XI’s Sponsored by Ladies 3s Harrow 1 A L JLS Astro 14:30 Ladies 4s West Hampstead 4 A L Cancelled Ladies 5s BA Hayes 2 A L Langley GS 12:15 Sunday 4th March Lady Masters Reading Masters A L Reading HC 14.00 Found Thursday - 2 keys outside by bins Latymer Land & Property The EastcoNet 1 3rd March 2018 What do you call a collection of umpires? Chair Chat When I woke up on Saturday morning and Rob has seeing the weather forecast I thought that we may not see a full programme of received a large games but all went ahead as they did on number Sunday in sunny yet bracing conditions. of Whilst writing this on Thursday prospects for the Saturday are not looking good – but unprintable answers you never know. I watched the men draw 1-1 as I had an early (and late) umpire appointments and ! Printable answers whilst they had the best chances to win the game in the last 10 minutes a draw was a fair reflection. The Ladies were frustrated a. A befuddlement or at a narrow loss to promotion chasers b. A discombobulation Marlow. Re gards, The ladies teams followed a familiar Ian Emery pattern with wins for the 2s and 5s and The New Bubbly Challenge 2017/2018 losses for the 3s and 4s. A great win for the 5ths I should add. Wins in the men's for Sponsor a Ladies or Men’s the 2s, 4s, 6s and a draw for the 5s. The 4s lost to the league leaders for the first League Game, each team in the 18 time since the end of November. club has 6 sponsored games Bottles during the season Won So Far In respect of the team of the week there were 3 contenders, Men's 3s who thrashed This Week's Sponsors the league leaders, the ladies 5s who beat Ladies 2 A Teddington 3 Leanne Cooper the team just above them and the 6ths Ladies 5 A BA Hayes 2 Missy where Colin had his first win in …. well for Men's 3 A Marlow 3 Matt Ashton quite sometime. Colin the drink is yours. P Masters H Southgate Magnums Joe Godfrey See page 16 for more details. We have 3 ladies and 3 men selected for England (and Wales) age group international duty in age group games and congratulations to them all. NEED SOME NEW KIT? Get it from The Quiz on Saturday was good fun, very well attended and raised plenty of money. The Pro Shop in Brentford, A big thanks to Dan and Wrighty who Unit E, 30 Commerce Road, Brentford, TW8 8LE. managed the rabble that is known as Eastcote HC trying to keep order and be Tel 0208 5689929 heard. Also to Ravi who donated some delicious samosas for consumption. or order online at: http://proshopsport.com/eastcote-hc-12-c.asp You will see elsewhere in the newsletter an update from Selwyn on the recent trip to Our home kit for the Men is a TK red/white shirt, white Brazil where he handed over some sticks shorts & red socks & the Ladies is a TK red/navy shirt, and equipment donated by the Club to help navy skort & red socks. Away white kit is also available. develop hockey in that country. He is going to continue with this so any old sticks or The price includes a number & name on the reverse of the equipment he will gladly accept. And if you shirt so please make this clear when ordering. want to join him on a trip to Rio I am sure There are Polo shirts for colts he would be happy to pay for your flight ………………… Before you order your shirt please contact: I don’t want to talk about England's rugby performance. [email protected] or Rob [email protected] to get or remind yourself of your shirt number, this is essential for adult league rules to avoid a fine for no number, or number clashes and the resulting tacky looking tape on shirts! The EastcoNet 2 3rd March 2018 The EastcoNet 3 3rd March 2018 ALL OUR YESTERYEARS Edited by Des Francis From Irene Ailie MacAdam I’ve just listened to an interview of Ailie MacAdam on Radio 4’s The Life Scientific. You may remember Ailie from her days at Eastcote HC – she joined after university around 1984 and left in the early 1990s. She’s returned a few times to join the Pink Nutty Tarts at Club Weekend in more recent years. Using the link below you can listen to Ailie speak, very eloquently, about her career in engineering. Hopefully she’ll inspire some of Ailie bottom row left, also Sharon Adlem, Ginny Antony, Lisa Gaynor. our youngsters too! Left top row includes Danny Collins, Liz Owsley, Beryl Purdy. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09sn7yk Top row right Helen Bowen, Diana Antony. Before we reached the rather polished renditions we have of the EHC’s weekly Newsletter, we had at least two earlier Ginny may send you a photo of her during attempts at producing the same.her In Eastcote the early years years as whenwell. communications and technology were not quite at the level we have them today, we had to rely on land line phone calls and the Remington Typewriter to produce the news that everyone wanted to hear. We did not confine ourselvesThanks, to match reports and League Tables (Only First Teams played League Hockey in those years!), but upcoming tournaments and even population increases were reported. Irene In the early 1970’s Judy Rowley was our esteemed editor. Judy was married to Pat Rowley, the famous hockey correspondent for the Broadsheets.Irene ButHall Judy was also famous in her own right having won Olympic Gold for swimming at the Melbourne Olympics. 07786 625632 In the 1980’s, when the youth of the club was beginning to blossom, Tim Rawlinson and Gary Tucker took over the editorship of the Newsletter and what the script lacked in finesse was compensated for by the entertainment value. Thanks to Ravi for supplying the copy of the 1985 newsletter. Extracts from these eras are re-produced for your delectation and delight The EastcoNet 4 3rd March 2018 Teams TOP EUROPEAN HOCKEY ON ITS WAY TO SURBITON A European hockey event of genuine significance is coming to Surbiton Mannheimer HC (GER) Hockey Club this May. The Women’s EuroHockey Club Cup will be hosted th th at the club’s Sugden Road home from 17 -20 May 2018, giving people the chance to see a raft of Olympic champions and international players do Club Campo de Madrid (ESP) battle for their clubs just weeks before the Women’s World Cup. With improving European performances over the last three seasons, the Surbiton side (which includes several Rio 2016 gold medalists and some of G reat HC Victorya Smolevichi (BLR) Britain’s most exciting international talent) hopes a large home crowd will help them take the next step towards European glory this season. UCD Ladies HC (IRL) We are reaching out to our hockey community to spread the word about this event and we would so much appreciate if you could share information about this event on your social media channels and database. Below is the 's-Hertogenbosch (NED) link to the See Tickets website for ticket sales: AH&BC Amsterdam (NED) https://www.seetickets.com/event/eurohockey -club-cup-women/-/1194239/ All the best Jo Brown Surbiton HC (ENG) Event Coordinator Surbiton Hockey Club UHC Hamburg (GER) 07834 763879 The EastcoNet 5 3rd March 2018 Eastcote Support of Hockey in Brazil Having just got back from 35 degree heat, and drinking caipirinhas on Copacabana beach, I return to the freezing cold.