Ashford (Middlesex) Hockey Club

A warm dry evening (for once) welcomed the Ashford boys for our 3rd friendly of the summer against our local rivals.
The squad “looked” ready, with the usual complaints of ‘I’ve just had my dinner’ accompanying our warm-up and Coach
won the toss and decided to make Staines play into the setting sun. The start was a […]

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It has all the latest news and updates:

Chairmans Chatter
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AGM
Astro Fund Draw - Winners
Weddings, Stork Club, Tours & Goodbyes
Annual Dinner
Men’s, Ladies & Mixed Summer Hockey
And So The Season Ended Like This…
Have a great summer everyone and come on you reds.

The Ladies Summer Hockey League has now been finalised, and will commence on Tuesday 10th June and matches will all be played at Short Lane on Tuesday and Thursday evenings, finishing on Thursday 14th August. We have eight teams participating, including Ashford A and B teams. As previously it will be run on a two […]

With a bit of work and time Ian has managed get us some summer friendlies.
Hopefully each game will allow us to play slightly different teams with a mixture of 2nd XI down to 6th XI players.
For more information, contact Ian McAllan.

Men’s Summer Friendly Fixture List

Opposition
Venue
Date
Meet time
Push Back

Windsor Hockey Club
Windsor Boys School
14/5/08
19:00
19:30

Sunbury Hockey Club
Ashford Hockey Club
3/6/08
19:00
19:30

Staines […]

The Annual General Meeting (AGM) of Ashford Hockey Club will be held at Short Lane on Thursday 15th May 2008 at 7.30pm.
A copy of the Agenda for the meeting plus the minutes of the previous AGM (June 2007) have been e-mailed/forwarded to all paid up Club members.
If you have not recieved a copy, please e-mail […]

I don’t what to say about this game - still in a bit of a daze about how we managed to lose it. It was certainly nothing to do with the trip and the prep before the game as we had a very pleasant drive up in perfect conditions and were there before the oppo.
The […]

On Sunday around 200 miles from the other big game that was being played up in Mansfield our under 13 side took on the cream
of the Southern Counties in the U13 mini-hockey tournament. We were in what was to proove to be ‘the group of death’ with Havant,
Reading and South Saxon, played in that […]

The winners in the Astro Draw for April 2008 are:

£500 Mark Burrows
£250 Val Hardman
£100 David Brant
£50 Martin Smith

Well done one and all, your cheques should be with you soon. Details about the draw and an application form are available on the website. The next draw will be in October at the […]

U9 Mixed SJB Tournament  13/4/08
Ashford had a slow start with their first game against the home team being 1-1 at half time, but stepped up a gear in the second half to win the match 3-1.  Goal scorers Sam (2) & Robin (1).
Ashford met Sunbury in their second game but won it comfortably 5-0. George scored a […]

After looking forward to this game for 2 weeks – a home game in the quarter finals of the National Plate – and a chance to show off the boys and how good they are, the resultant mismatch was a bit of an anti-climax. However you can only beat what is in front of you […]

Ladies League Hockey 5/4/08
Middlesex Premier
Mill Hill 1st XI 3 v Ashford 1st XI 3  For their last game of the season, Ashford Ladies1st XI had to make an early start to travel to north London to face Mill Hill 1st XI at midday last Saturday.  The Red & Blacks were without skilful regular squad […]

Goal scorers:
Shaggy, Big Amit
MoM:
Rhino
‘Imperial Airways! BOAC! Terminal 5! Concorde! That opera music on your ad! Complimentary hot towels! Willie Walsh - can you hear me, Willie Walsh! Your boys took one hell of a beating! Your boys took one hell of a beating!’**
Actually we came from 2-0 down to draw 2-all but it felt like […]

Ashford 2nd XI had to face League leaders West Hampstead 2nd XI at Short Lane in their penultimate league game of the season. Ashford were boosted though as former 1st XI skipper Nicky Benedict, returning after pregnancy and Annie Neyton returning from injury were added to the squad. Things started brightly for the […]

Departing pommie Bruce Cotton, managing the team for a last hurrah couldn’t fathom out ‘why this team isn’t top of the league’.
It was a master class in attacking hockey as Ashford rolled over a Sevenoakes side some 12 points ahead in the league.
The math was simple, a win by 4 goals and a defeat for […]