Northern Suburbs Junior Men's Hockey Newsletter

2004 #17

Thursday 8^th of July 2004

Postion Held	Name	Home Number	Mobile or Work Number
President	Peter Burke	3366 0615	0428 632049
Treasurer	Rhondda Hevey	3300 3154	0422 621071
Secretary	Sally Willington	3300 6391	0419 765071
U17 Coach	Craig Lagerroth	3252 5656	0419 659288
U15 Coach	Andrew Kemp	3719 5882	3373 1110
U13 Coach	Graeme Higgins	3877 2326	0411 104 107
U11 Coach	Wayne Tucker	3857 6302	0422 433556
U9 Coach	Kent Rainbow and the Rendells	3851 4958	3559 5333
U7 -Minkey Coach	Tony Battams	3256 3210	0419 675116

Events Calender

What	Where	Date	Day
Junior Womens Trophy night	Club House	17/09/04	Friday
Music in the Moonlight	Club House	16/10/04	Saturday
Final Working Bee	Club House	10/10/04	Sunday

Last Weekend Results (26^th and 27^th of June)

Team	Against		Goals for	Goals against
Minkey			-	-
Under 9s	Kedron Wavell		2	0
Under 11s	SWU		0	8
Under 13s	Valleys		0	5
Under 15s	PR St Andrews		1	4
Under 15s	Commercial	SUN	3	3
Under 17s	St. Andrews	SUN	3	3

Next Games (10^th and 11^th of July)

Team	Against	Date	Time	Where
Minkey		10/07/04	08:30	Shaw Park
Under 9s	Valley	10/07/04	09:30	Shaw Park
Under 11s	Easts	10/07/04	12:15:00	Shaw Park 3
Under 13s	Kedron Wavell	10/07/04	08:00:00	BUR
Under 15s	Kedron Wavell	10/07/04	10:45	BUR
Under 17s	S.W.U	11/07/04 (Sun)	08:00:00	SHC(2)

Match Reports

Norths Under 11s Report Saturday 26^th of June

N/Available

Norths Under 13s Report Saturday 26^th of June

For this game we had 14 players, with James Battams, Drew and Issac playing off the bench. Our regular keeper, Nick, was away but Corrie stood in.

We had some good moments when things clicked and others that were not very good. Corrie produced some great saves during the first half and kept us in the game. We failed to close down some good attack and they scored towards the end of the first half and we went into the break at 0-1 down.

A little chat about commitment and ensuring we channeled users out wide and did forestick tackles at the half break did little to stop them scoring three goals in about 2 minutes after the restart. We failed to mark, failed to tackle and simply let in simple goals – we failed to reignite at the break and suddenly we ere down 1-4 with 27 minutes to go. To the boys' credit they got back into the game with some smart passing but we continued to turn over possession and then failed to clear well which cost us dearly as you cannot win games or even compete if you give the ball away.

The fifty fifty contests were poorly contested and were more likely close to 20-80 contests. The need to bend our backs, hold our sticks correctly and even know what the umpires signalling are important and so I need to touch on the basics again. How to hold the stick, how to bend, how to tackle, what set pieces are and how they are signalled. We'll get there – today was a bad day at the office.

Some more commitment on Thursday to practice and some 'heart' on the field should see us get into the final four but to compete with the others we have to stay with the plan and sharpen our skills and this needs more practice at HOME!

Under 13's Coach

Graeme Higgins

News

Levies

A turf levy for all teams that play and train on artificial turf (Colmslie and Kedron Wavell/ Burringbah) will be imposed this year. The cost of the levy will be finalised and the players in the teams that play on this surface will be required to pay this levy by the commencement of the games.

Norths Website

The website for the club is www.gjames.com.au/norths. Add it to your favourites. The newsletters will be posted on the site each week. Also the club is celebrating it's 30^th year and there is a lot of history and information contained in the site. Feel free to browse. There are also shortcuts to other hockey sites as well as wet weather details etc.Welcome once again to the 2004 hockey season.

Contact graeme_higgins@gjames.com.au by the Tuesday of the next week if you have any information to add to the newsletters – simply email the text or send an attachment.