Dublin Uni 2 (Daire Coady, Steven Roberts) Avoca 1 (Scott Wilkie)
Steven Roberts proved the hero on debut for Niall Denham's Dublin University at Santry as he scored the odd goal in three against promotion hopefuls Avoca. Daire Coady began his year of grace in style, too, with a corner goal after five minutes. Roberts netted a scrappy goal-mouth scramble before Avoca turned up the heat, winning seven corners before Scott Wilkie finally beat Jack Hegarty.
Suttonians 3 (Ed Hipwell 3) Navan 3 (Simon Clarke 2, Keith Howell)
Game of the day at Sutton Park as Navan fought back on numerous occasions to earn an opening day point against Suttonians in spite of Ed Hipwell's hat-trick. He made it 2-0 inside 20 minutes before Simon Clarke's double levelled matters but Hipwell netted his third in the 45th minute to give Sutton the advantage. Keith Howell, though, equalised once more with 12 minutes to go and the Badgers came close to a fourth late on but left with a point, nonetheless.
Weston 4 (Daryl Carey, Vikram Singh, Dean Maguire, Phil Barron) Bray 1
Weston's greater strength in depth, allied to the quicker pace of auto-pass hockey saw them finish stronger against Bray at Griffeen Valley Park on Saturday. Daryl Carey dispatched a fine goal on his return to the club while there were corner strikes from Vikram Singh, Dean Maguire and a Phil Barron drag-flick saw the Lucanites pull away in the second half.
19 comments:
Doesn't it just go to show that expected form doesnt always happen on day 1. you would have thought that avoca and suttonians would have won but there you go. was at the weston v's bray match. bray put up a good battle in first half but fell apart in the second.
Weston played some very good hockey tho in fairness. They let a few chances go a begging. If they could find an outright goalscorer they'll do well
Predictions
1st: Weston*
2nd: Avoca*
3rd: Trinity*
4th: Bray
5th: Suttonians
6th: Navan
*Promotion battle.
feed back?
PWHC player
weston are definitely improving but no one should fool themselves in thinking they'll win the league. They have a new player coach and 2 other very good players but you have to play with 8 other players who are only probably getting coached properly for the first time. you must walk before run.
stephen, would you consider a div 2 summary and prediction piece similar to division 1?
predictions
1st Avoca
2nd Trinity
3rd Weston
4th Suttonians
5th Navan
6th Bray
1st: Weston*
2nd: Trinity
3rd: Avoca
4th: Sutton
5th: Bray
6th: Navan
predictions at this stage are crazy, especially that the final fixtures are not done.
the third round of matches will throw a major spanner in the works.
Avoca have already lost in Santry to Trinity. Will be surprised if Trinity lose many points at home so if they can bag 2 home games against Avoca, Weston, Suttonians it will be interesting
Think Weston will be hard to beat once they're up and running. Bray getting a few bad predictions not sure about that. Badgers fought well against Sutts and were missing two starters. Still highest place Leinster team outside Dublin!
The reason Trinity don't loose that many home points comes down to that awful pitch they play on,standards of pitches in Dublin need to be improved!
can we have more details on the Weston match?
Lads its madness to be thinking about predictions at this stage. Consider the amount of changes to teams that are left in the division and this whole third fixture business. First game of the season results can't even lend to idle speculation really!!
I'm sure we'll be seeing more than a few interesting weekends ahead though, looking forward to it.
its not "madness to be thinking about predictions at this stage".....listing the end of season league table in advance of the games is exactly what prediction entails
i heard Sutts were 2-0 and looking comfortable when Rueben got injured. with Richie and couple of others still to come back into team, i wouldn't write them off.
Former div 2 player
Wondered why Reuben came off. They threw him on up front at the end though so musn't have been too bad. They weren't too comfortable at the end, Navan should probably have won it but didn't take their chances. Squandered 4 shorts too...
did my hamstring...only came back on cos Tyson was called back on after yellow but had taken his shoes off. completely messed it up as result! by the way you're talking i'd imagine you're confident for the re-match?
Reuben
wouldn exactly say its "madness" to be predicting the league, although it seems like alot of the predictions were based with the week ones results in mind. eg. Weston coming top and Bray near last, but i can see where the Bray predictions are coming from with them loosing a few key players during the summer it might be tough, still a good outfit though.
But its still very tough to call how it will finish up.
i echo the last blog comment. there is little point other then just a little fun in predicting the final league standings. Lets see after this saturday if everyone still agrees with their previous predictions.
Not confident of the return leg, just delirious after a good result considering we got mashed last season. the yellow didn't help ye, i'll say that. Good match though, can't wait for Bray this weekend too.
Ru C
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