Northern Suburbs Junior Men's Hockey Newsletter

2004 #18

Thursday 15^th of July 2004

Events Calender

Last Weekend Results (10^th and 11^th of July)

Next Games (17^th and 18^th of July)

Doubles Headers for 11s,13s and 15s!!!!!!

Match Reports

Norths Under 11s Report Saturday 9^th of July

As this fixture was at the end of school holidays the team was down
quite a few players. Fortunately, the Under 9's came to the rescue with
Callum and George helping out. We ended up with only 8 field players
with Cosmo having to fill in as goalie at the very last minute.


The first half saw us outnumbered to some degree as Easts attacked
throughout. However midfielders James and Drew ran tirelessly and led by
example with some good passing to our lonesome attackers Isaac and
Alexe. Callum and George (halfbacks) were in everything and obviously
enjoyed the chance to play up a grade. Tom and Mitchell D were solid
defenders and Cosmo kept busy in the goal circle. It is good to see our
sixteens being hit quickly and often to the left food of the opposition.
Our players are also becoming more confident of using their skills and
taking on the opposition. This is all good stuff.

With the day being quite hot and having only eight field players on our
side, the floodgates could have been expected to open in the second
half. However to all 9 players credit they kept running (and running...)
in both attack and defence and were rewarded with a good goal to James.

It was great to see the commitment shown by the players on the weekend
in testing circumstances. This augurs well for future games when we have
a full compliment of players. Keep up the good work.


Gary Martin

Norths Under 13s Report Saturday 9^th of July

My James was out, but James Battams, Draw and Issac from the under 11's were on-hand again for a stint against the big blokes – and they're very welcome too.

Kedron haven't been a problem thus far this season and we scored within a couple of minutes of the start of the game. Our game plan is always simple – keep the ball in tight control and we'll win most games. Against the more skilled players we get dispossed but at least we're out there trying our best and improving (usually) from game to game.

On saturday we saw Corrie score a nice goal and set up another – well done Corrie.

Nick kept well in the net all day and it's usually an excellent goal that gets by him or we fail to clear the ball properly, this happened again when Nick did a good save but we failed to clear. The player on he left post has to clear the keepers pads after he makes the save and we mustn't let players have free shots from corners, you must get out with your stick on the ground and close them down.

We got clear by two goals but by the break they had pegged us back to 2-2. No panic though as we were looking the better team – we just had to dig a little deeper to get out on top. In the second half everyone contributed well, with a solid game right across the field. Well done.Again, our rock was Jayden in the centre who is now throwing some excellent passes.

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.

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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.

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