Tuesday, September 29, 2009

News in brief: General meeting agenda

* The agenda of the Leinster Branch’s September General Meeting, to be held on September 30 at 7.30pm in Three Rock Rovers Hockey Club Grange Road, Rathfarnham, Dublin 16, will be as follows:

• Minutes of previous General Meeting
• Matters arising from minutes of previous General Meeting
• Report of the Honorary Treasurer
• Presentation and adoption of Statement of Accounts
• Fixing of rates for fees, subscriptions etc for the following season
• Report of the Fixtures Committee
• Report of the Indoor Committee
• Report of the Youth Committee
• *Report of the Branch Development Committee
• *Report of the Branch Grounds Management Committee
• *Report of the Umpires Association
• Report of the Irish Hockey Association
• Proposed Rule Changes
• Report on Merger between Leinster Ladies, South East and Leinster Branch
• General Business


* The IHA’s indoor social hockey league gets underway on Thursday in Wesley College. This league is aimed at ladies that have played hockey before and want to get back into the sport.

The league is played indoor in a 5 a-side format with the emphasis on having fun whilst playing hockey and staying fit. For more information and to register contact us on 01-7163265 or email indoorsocialhockey@gmail.com.

* Pembroke and Glenanne will play a high quality, EHL warm-up game tonight at Serpentine Avenue as the pair seek to emulate tournament conditions. A full TD box, scoreboard and quarters will be employed for the game which tips off at 7.30pm and a good turn out of supporters would help add to the atmosphere ahead of their trip to Barcelona.

20 comments:

Anonymous said...

Glenanne V Pembroke
3.1 Glenanne

Anonymous said...

What was the score between Pembrooke and Glenanne last night?

Anonymous said...

What was the score from the Pembroke Vs Glens game?

Anonymous said...

Anyone see the Glenn's and Pembroke game last night? Which Irish team is going to win the EHL?

Anonymous said...

How did the Pembroke V Glens EHL prep game goyesterday evening?

Anonymous said...

I believe the Glens beat Pembroke 3:1

Anonymous said...

If yis could decide on keepin the aul subs down that'd be great....not all of us are uber-posh hockey players ye know!!

Anonymous said...

Something that should be discussed is the use of sand based picthes in League 1, ISC and IHL games - it should all be played on water.

Anonymous said...

sum clubs cant afford to get a water based pitch in so u cant just ban matchs from being played on then

Anonymous said...

No sand pitches - water based only - are you for real - remember its a minority sport - that is really struggling to survive never mind grow - to say only water based pitches allowed - would kill the game off.

Anonymous said...

I think people are trying to say no more games on shocking sand based pitches like Santry or Sportslink. There are plenty of good sand based pitches out there.

Also isn't there not a guideline to phase out water based pitches?

Anonymous said...

It looks like Trinity have secured 3 Rock as a venue to play their home games for the rest of the season.

Anonymous said...

Steve, are you going to have a preview of the EHL games?

Anonymous said...

No Sandbase pitches, WaterBase only!!!, whoever wrote that obviously won the Euro Millions Jackpot last week if he thinks All top teams should have water base pitches. I do agree that the pitches in Sportslink and Santry are discraceful but they are 2 of a kind. Corithians and Clontarf have 2 brilliant pitches allong with ex division 1 side Kilkenny. Waterbased pitches are a bonus to the teams that own and can AFFORD them. Hey if you want Waterbase pitches everywhere either move to Holland and go to all the Premier Dutch league games, or you could lend Clontarf, Corinthians, Fingal, Monkstown, YMCA, and Railway Union all about 300, 000 euros each of your Euro Millions Jackpot, then you can have your water based pitch.

Anonymous said...

when will all ireland schools group stages be announced

Anonymous said...

navan are now playing in Kings Hospital's new surface instead of sportslink santry.

Anonymous said...

There are plenty of good sand based pitches around such as the one in Corinthians. To suggest banning sand based is insane and unrealistic.

That being said however, certain pitches should be banned (Santry is a disgrace- so bad that Trinity even complain about it themselves to their own University in the latest University times).

Fingal is another one that comes to mind, along with Sportslink, RCSI.

Anonymous said...

YM are playing on water in Alex

Anonymous said...

Railway's pitch is waterbase.

Anonymous said...

Knowing a few Trinity players myself I know they all hate Santry as a pitch and that's why they are now hopefully going to be using 3 Rock Rovers as their home pitch for this season, I can't see anyone stopping them on Waterbase pitch

JD