Grange Men's 3XI
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Sat 15 Feb 2014
Grange Hockey Club
Grange Men's 3XI
G Maiden (0')
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Away to Kelburne 2s

Away to Kelburne 2s

Ross Parker11 Mar 2014 - 14:49
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No. You'd say, "You look nice... John"

Last week's gratifying performance and result mean that we made the trip to the new national Hockey stadium to take on Kelburne with optimistic caution. However, this was almost washed away by the turgid drive through incessant showers and light snow flurries.
The newish pitch felt very heavy with all that water and players really had to lay into the ball to get it to skid across the surface with any pace.
We opened reasonably well, before a confusing incident in the D saw Kelburne awarded a goal, despite no-one being sure if they had touched the ball in the D. This was compounded 5 minutes later by some sloppy marking allowing them to deflect a direct free-hit into the rigging. 2-0 at the break but we had started to improve over the period.
The second half started brightly, as was the weather now, and our counters were slowly becoming more than quick jabs and we began to land a few blows.
The grabbed the advantage though after a good move was finished off, even if the shot was somewhat scuffed, cannoning off the inside of both posts before corssing the line.
We pipped the score back quickly with a swift counter-attack from our own 25, thanks to a great early ball from Ruairidh before being deflected-in by Rusty.
Moments later Stumpy just grazed the outside of the post and would have been intersting to see how both sides reacted to a 3-2 scoreline with about 10-15 minutes left.
In the end, we gifted them their final goal, a defensive error allowing them to stroll into the D and pass the ball about our keeper.
After watching the 2s' unedifying, scrambled win over Stirling, perhaps next week's derby game will be more intrguing than usual.
Thanks again to Ed for umpiring.

Photo - the stand at the National Stadium was similarly rammed.

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Sat 15 Feb 2014

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