Match Reports 2004/05

Since 2003/04 the club has produced a weekly newsletter, during the season, containing match reports from each of the games played that weekend.

Mon 08-Aug-05

Guildford LadyBoys Mixed Festival (15/17-Jul-05)

The Guildford tour is without doubt one of the highlights of the summer hockey season. Great weather, great company and mostly great hockey. Saturday was our day of champagne hockey..... Nick J and Loz carved the defence up at the front, JC..... ran all day and showed some silky skills and Tom was the rock in defence. The girls generally showed the boys how to score goals (Rebecca, Donna and Lou, the latter in spite of the significant amount of champagne that she was carrying from the night before). Then we encountered the Hampstead team - who were under the illusion that we were playing some sort of cup final rather than festival hockey....so after quite a bit of swearing at JC, Nick and the umpires, they suddenly realised we had beaten them convincingly by three goals. We strolled off to our secluded encampment for afternoon tea and some pastries. Add that win to the other three and all was going to plan .....an immaculate goal keeping performance saw Skoolie in charge of a clean sheet at the end of day one.

And then the wheels came off - Saturday night saw us dressed to kill in cowboys and indians fancy dress. Anna P showed her Birmingham roots and arrived with no fewer than 5 "toy" guns.........Will was finemaster and employed the sambucca bottle to devastating effect, the early and late casualties of which were the Nicks. Nick T won his race round the field against the fox, but then made the mistake of taking on the frog - and fell over before it fell in the pond. Nick J got past the frog........but not out of the tent in time. Liz and Rebecca were clearly delighted. The Morgans never left the dance floor (clearly too embarrassed by their matching tent 'n' umbrella combo to go home) and the rest of the team never made it on...........EJ was apparently trying but couldn't see the dancefloor for the man in the very very large headdress until it was way too late.......

Smart in Guildford Sunday dawned very very bright and far too early for some class sambucca hockey. Skill was optional, coordination absent and the finishing was.......finished. Nick T mistook his team mates for the frog and wreaked havoc - Lou received a black eye to prove it. Not even the star Partington performance (not mine, couldn't even make it onto the pitch) and the arrival of JC fresh as a daisy after a civilised evening on the roof terrace (darling) in London could lift us. Fortunately the downturn in performance was all in the game plan to ensure that we didn't have to play in the final at 4. We drew two, lost one and went into the final game of the weekend almost on our knees but assured that the last pool game was the very last - and won with style. There was a slightly scary moment when our only winning oppo suddenly had an attack of conscience (or sunstroke) and owned up to playing 6 lads against us. We graciously declined the points and retired to lunch secure in our moral victory and second place in our group. An excellent weekend with an excellent group of people - huge thanks to Mark Jones for organising, all those who umpired and to the team as a whole for making it as usual one of the best tours every summer.

Lucy P

Team: Schoolie (GK), Tom Alexander, Nick Jacob, Loz Mockery, JC, Nick Thomson, Will Morgan, Lucy Partington, Anna Partington, EJ, Lou Morgan, Liz Young, Rebecca Ridgeway & Michelle Morgan.

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