Our annual showcase “The Finals of the National Cup Competitions” are being held at the Lord Roberts Centre, National Shooting Range, Bisley on Saturday 5th July.
Start time is 10.30am and the order of play is as follows:
10.30am U 11’s Kings Lynn v HBU
Presentation of trophy, medals and U 11 Player of the Year
11.30am U 15’s Peterborough v Herne Bay
Presentation of trophy, medals and U 15 Player of the Year
12.30pm Ladies North v South
Presentation of trophy and Lady Player of the Year
Presentation of Under 15 most improved lady of the year
13.30pm U 17’s Peterborough v Bury
Presentation of trophy, medals and U 17 Player of the Year
14.30pm U 13’s HBU v Kings Lynn
Presentation of trophy, medals and U 13 Player of the Year
15.30pm U 20’s Bury v Herne Bay
Presentation of trophy, medals and U 20 Player of the Year
16.45pm Senior Middlesbrough v HBU
Presentation of trophy, medals and Henry Crystall Senior Player of the Year
As well as the Cups of the above events all the League Trophies and medals plus the Referee of the Year will be presented
A good attendance is urged which will make it a great day out for all the family!
The AGM of the NRHA is being held the following day, Sunday 6th July starting at 10am in the Lord Roberts Centre, National Shooting Range, Bisley Surrey
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A4 or A5
Posted by Gordon Morrison as UK National News at 12:58 AM BST
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Back in March 2007 Steve Sirkin contacted me telling me he would be publishing an A5 size magazine for skaters. Steve is a supplier of general skating equipment in and around London. Issue one came out in May 2007 with a small mention of the NRHA on the top of a page halfway through the mag. With the next issue pending I decided to ensure the NRHA would have good representation in every issue. Since then skaters have been able to read about traditional roller hockey (Quad) in all the issues of Skate mag.
I thought it would be a good idea to have one of the issues with a Roller Hockey theme, after speaking to Steve Sirkin in August 2007 we agreed I would supply the cover picture for the first A4 size magazine due to go on sale in May 2008. As you can see from the picture we made it happen, the current issue has Brendan Barker pictured on the front cover with double page articles from Aileen Barker (NRHA general secretary) and double page articles on Ian Morrison and James Taylor currently playing pro roller hockey in Spain and Italy respectively. A great read about other skate disciplines in this excellent issue.
Copies can be purchased by emailing me with your order on gordon@ukrollerhockey.com
Posted by Gordon Morrison as UK National News at 9:57 AM BST
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Last weekend twenty three teams in six groups took part in the 2008 Inter-regional Championships at the Bushfields Sports Centre in Peterborough. Over the three day bank holiday weekend tournament, regional teams from the North, South and East competed for this year’s NRHA Inter-Regional trophies. Congratulations to the following winners:- Under 11 Southern Counties, Under 13 Eastern Counties 1, Under 15 Eastern Counties 2, Ladies Eastern Counties 1, Under 17 Eastern Counties 2 and Under 20 Eastern Counties. A thank you goes out to our members who organised this years successful event, the referees and timekeepers and finally the players who travelled long distances to take part.
Posted by Gordon Morrison as Results, UK National News at 9:18 PM BST
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Tenerife 2008 CERS Cup Winners
The final four teams of the 2007/8 CERS cup will compete this weekend in Quevert France. Clubs from all over Europe registered last year to participate in this prestigious annual home and away competition. We Only had one English team, Bury RHC, who played Viareggio at Soham on 20th October last year, unfortunatly Bury were knocked out of this competition in the first round after a defeat at Soham and in Viareggio.
Now you can see the pictures of the final four teams of this years semi final and final.
Posted by Gordon Morrison as International News at 8:36 AM BST
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What a feast, 14 goals in 70 minutes all played at the highest UK level. HBU were confident and took control of this Premier League match having pushed the score to 6-0 by the end of the first have. Middlesbrough emerged from the changing room for the second half determined to salvage something from this game. The boys from Cleveland took on the Kent lads and pulled back the 7 goals giving the final score of 7-7. Did the suspension of Simon Hoskin and Sam Jackson for this match have a major effect or did Middlesbrough put into practice their additional training of the previous few days?
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Posted by Gordon Morrison as UK National News at 9:04 PM BST
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Last weekend I photographed the Spainish National Div. one match Areces v Tordera in the small town of Grado near Oviedo in Northern Spain. Areces are pushing for the top of league one with the hope of promotion to Division of Honour (the Spanish premier league) next year. Look out for the faces you may have seen playing for Spain in past European and World Championships.
Final score, Areces 3 - 1 Tordera.
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Posted by Gordon Morrison as International News at 11:26 PM GMT
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SCRA St Omer had a convincing win (8-2) over mid league team Ploufragan last Saturday at the St Omer home venue. SCRA St Omer are a semi professional team and are currently the French National Division one league leaders. With only eight matches left in the season St Omer are on target to win Frances top Roller Hockey league.
Keep an eye open for the pictures showing “stick bend” the phenomenon that occurs when energy is transferred when the stick strikes ball.
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Posted by Gordon Morrison as International News at 11:42 PM GMT
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Over the years the Team Picture album on this website has been a popular stopping off point whilst our visitors flick through our picture albums. This particular album is an achieve of players representing England at Roller Hockey’s European and World competition. The album has recently been updated to display team photos taken at Senior, Ladies, Junior and Schoolboy levels during 2007. I hope to continue in maintaining this prestigious archive of images as a roll of honour dedicated to the players who “play for England”.
To maintain this website the only avenue to generating the finance we need is through the sale of the photographs we take. Most of our team pictures as with the other pictures on this website are available to purchase as prints. If you would like to purchase any of these pictures please email me with your questions or order, in addition to this on the right hand side of our front page I have put a “Make A Donation” button so if you enjoy looking at the photos on this website and want to show your appreciation you can make a financial contribution to the running of this world famous site.
Posted by Gordon Morrison as UK National News at 1:41 PM GMT
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What a Tournament! Four matches, all went to extra time and two then went to penalties. This years Spanish Princes cup was hosted at the venue of the current holders, Areces . The home crowd saw four teams Areces, Macenet, Vigo Stick and Sitges (all National Division 1 teams) play some great hockey over Saturday evening and Sunday.
Over the years I get to see the European National teams compete and team players working as a unit. Watching this tournament between clubs you see the same team members batterling and exhibiting their skills against each other, I’m sure that some of you who have played for England will recognise some of the team so watch this space to see some of the action from last weekend.
Congratulations to Macanet who won the 2008 Princes Cup host in Grado, Spain.
Maçanet - Sitges 3-2
Areces Elecinco - Vigo Stick 2-3
Areces Elecinco - Sitges 3-4
Maçanet - Vigo Stick 6-4
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Posted by Gordon Morrison as International News at 8:40 PM GMT
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The weekend of the 2-3 February will see the Princes Cup (La Copa de S.A.R. El Príncipe) contested at the home venue of last years winners C P Areces. The Princes Cup is the Spanish National Division ones equivelent to the Division of honour’s Kings Cup, the top three teams of the Spanish Nat 1 after this weekends matchs will qualify. C P Areces automaticlly qualify as last years winners. As top of Nat League 1 stands now Sitges have qualified on points so there are four other posible teams for the two remaining places that could be competing (GEiEG, Alcon, Vigo Stick and SHUM Massanet). We will be photographing the four matches and all the best pictures will be posted here the following Wednesday.
Posted by Gordon Morrison as International News at 9:06 PM GMT
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