Under 13 and Js training starts this Thursday.

Under 13 and Js training starts this week with a fitness season at Graceville this Thursday night (23rd of Feb), 6pm to 7pm. We know you’ve been sitting on the couch playing xbox/playstation all summer, so it’s time to get outside and get fit. Men’s senior training will be from 7pm to 8pm, so if any of the Js think they can out-run Tony & I, they’re more than welcome to hang around for that.

We had a successful turf trial at Centenary High last Friday, and the decision has been made to hold our turf training at the venue this year- dates and times to follow (once we work out some things with the women’s
club)

Under 7s, 9s and 11s training.

Training will start the week of March 19, at Graceville. The U7s and U9s will run in combined teams with the juniors from the women’s club, and we’re
finalising numbers so we can set coaching and training requirements. The
season for U7s and U9s is due to start Saturday April 14th, the BHA have been a bit slack in publishing a calendar for U11s, but I expect it to be around the same time due to Easter/School holidays.

If you have friends/family that are interested in joining, there’s still time ! Get them to send an email to juniors@swuhc.com, or send them to the website www.swuhc.com and we’ll answer as many of their questions as we can.

Why Hockey?

• Great for fitness, spatial awareness and hand eye coordination
• Complements summer sports like Little Athletics or Cricket
• It’s a Team sport that emphasizes participation and fun
• It’s a non-contact sport, with non-competitive games for under 7s, no finals or ladder for under 9s, and modified rules for under 11s

The season runs from April to August/September. We train at Graceville Memorial Oval and play at various venues around Brisbane.

More information on our about page.

If you have any other questions please contact Tony Meredith, Junior Coordinator, 0427 427 231, email: juniors@swuhc.com or for Seniors Dave Cole, Club President 0417 621 240, email: seniors@swuhc.com.

If you need a junior registration form, they are available here

Here is the schedule of training for the next few weeks.
If you are playing BHL3, you need to get cracking on your fitness. If you are currently playing summer/indoor/cricket, please attend training on the nights you are available.
The next 2 weeks looks like.

Sunday 12th 6:30pm Graceville Fitness
Tuesday 14th nothing – I’ve given everyone the night off for love.
Thursday 16th 6:30pm SHC Turf training
Sunday 19th 6:30pm Graceville Fitness
Tuesday 21st 7pm SHC Turf Training
Thursday 23rd 7pm Graceville Fitness
Sunday 26th 6:30pm Graceville Fitness
Tuesday 28th 7pm SHC Turf Training

Masters competition starts on the 6th March. BHL3 and 5 starts on 17/18th March.

David

FYI for new players –
Graceville – Meet on Plumridge St up towards the Train line (Graceville Memorial Oval)
SHC – State Hockey Centre – Lytton Road, Colmslie (2 turf fields)
If you are coming to turf training, please be there 15 minutes early for warm up (as we only have 1 hour on the field).

Hopefully the weather will be better for next Sunday’s Come and Try

SWU Hockey at Mt Ommaney Shopping Centre
Sports Sign-On Day
9:00 – 1:00
Saturday 12 Jan 2012

A reversal of the previous weeks score, we were reward for passing the ball around this week. We had Big Matt, Dan, Michael, Al, Nick and Harry on the court, with Morgs in goal. With Matt G & Tom away we had only one sub, so we had to work hard before earning a break.

Geoff took over coaching duties, as Tony was required at a BHA meeting. He knew things were looking good at the 2 minute mark when Matt broke away, laying off to Dan at the top of the circle. Dan drove forward, passing back to Matt who was at the spot; seeing Nick on the post, Matt pushed the ball wide to Nick, who made a great job of slotting it into the net to start the scoring for the match.

Leading the game 2-1 at half time, we were a bit tired and the opposition came out hard in the second half. Although the socre was level at 4-4 with 5 mins to go good team work allowed us to get ahead again and keep the score at 5-4

A close game where we had our chances but didn’t quite capitalise.

This week we had Big Matt (Spider), Al, Matt G (Princess), Harry, Nick, Morgs in goal, Michael and Dan

They had a quick break away almost immediately after the game had started, Morgs saved the first shot but despite Michael’s efforts and Morgan’s dive the second shot hit the back of the net. 0-1

A short while later we had a strong attack down the left wing Matt passed to Nick who was unable to get it in.

They quickly brought the ball back to our defensive circle and took another shot. This time Morgan had a great save which was picked up by Matt who ran the field and took the shot. 1-1

They came back at us hard, there was a good defensive clearance from Matt G and Morgs, but a turn-over saw them come back again. This time Matt G held them up until enough players could get back and break down the attack. The game see-sawed for a couple of minutes until they got into the circle again, this time they passed around Morgs and got the ball into the back of the net 1-2.

We had an immediate reply with Matt running the field and putting it in the back of the net. 2-2

They won a series of corners until the ball unfortunately clipped Dan and flew into the back of the net. 2-3

They then got another opportunity to score and took full advantage by passing to around Morgs and putting in it in the net. 2-4

With only seconds remaining in the half, Matt G ran down the right and placed a short pass to Matt who dragged a defender then put it behind the goalkeeper. 3-4

Half time

We came back from the half time all fired up to win.

We got straight into the half with a pass from Matt G to Dan who then passed to his brother Matt who took a high shot into the back of the net. 4-4

Before you knew it the brothers where at it again, Dan got a pass off to Matt who then got a corner. Dan pushed out to Matt who then dragged two people and put it out to Dan on the post. Dan’s great deflection put us into the lead. 5-4

The blue sticks were not out as they then showed us when they put the ball passed a sliding Morgan to even the score. 5-5

They then got a corner in the last seconds of the game. Morgs showed us what he could do with a brilliant save. The ball deflected to Matt who quickly ran the field and passed to Nick on the post who pushed in the winning goal. 6-5

A special thanks to Tony for another great game and all the parents that brought their kids. Also on a special note anyone who played in the under 13 SWU team last year Kiko’s sister Fila was playing on the other team, she was their best striker (with a blue glove).

We took an Early lead at a minute and a half with a well worked goal by Matt. A number of good chances went begging and eventually we made a mistake on a free hit, gifting them the ball which put them in and at half time the score was 1-1.

In the second half once again we were applying pressure but not scoring. We defended all of our defensive corners and some great play by both keepers kept the scores even for the first couple of minutes. Eventually we made another mistake in the defence and they were able to go round us for a second goal. Within a minute they were in again through good team work and we were 3-1 down. This was really the first time that they had scored without our mistake.

We replied with some good team work and individually good play and drew a penalty stork which Matt W. converted.

Unfortunately, the wheels fell off at this stage and they scored again putting them ahead 4-2. In the last minute or so, they were able to score another when their centre forward wondered into our circle between four of our player who all failed to attempt a tackle and threaded the ball past Tom. We were pressing at the end but being 2 goals down had no chance of winning.

I short we were competitive but failed to capitalize on our chances. We have to slow our attack down in the circle and ensure that we score, especially when we have a 2 or 3 on one on the goalkeeper. We need to play out the whole 18 minute half not 15 or so minutes of it. We have still to jell together as a team up front, when this happens we will score more goals and win.

We scored 3 they scored 1.

Ok mum said I need to put in some adjectives.
So here it is…

We scored 3 awesome goals they scored 1 bad goal 
We won

Mum said it had to be longer
3rd time lucky…

South West Warriors v Random

We welcome Al back from his break (Get it… Break … he broke his arm). Corny I know, my mum made it up.

The game started pretty evenly with Morgs making a couple of good saves in defence, while in attack we had a lot of passing between Matt, Al , Dan, Matt G and Nick. Our first goal came from a penalty corner. Nick pushed out to Matt who had a shot about waist height on the goalie who was not fast enough to save it. 1-0

After half time random came out in attack mode and both Matt G and Morgs had to do some saves and clearances. Tom made some nice attacks down the right wing, but we could not convert his efforts. Random won a penalty corner and took a fast shot to the right post finding a small gap in between Morgs and Matt G. 1-1

The next few minutes the teams fought really hard till the frustration got the better of a random player who back-chatted the umpire and got a 2 minute suspension for his efforts. (Note to self; no matter how frustrating the umpire is, shut up!)

Matt used some impressive stick work to launch the attack and Morg held up his end with a great sliding save. Harry, Dan, Nick and Al combined well to pass the ball and draw the keeper before passing back to matt who scored again. 2-1

We then covered the boards forcing Random up the middle where Matt intercepted and ran it up the middle who scored again. 3-1

We slowed down the game and ran the clock down to win 3-1.