This years end of season dinner will be held at the George Hotel in Huddersfield on Saturday 28th of March 2009

After a prolonged meeting the members of Huddersfield Hockey Club have voted overwhelming in favour of merging with Lockwood Park Dragons Hockey Club.

The Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) to vote on the merger with Lockwood Dragons is this Wednesday

All matches at Lockwood park have already been called off for Saturday. Away matches will either be called off tonight or tomorrow morning depending on the time of fixture and when the oposition captain can be bothered to check their pitch!

Huddersfield 4XI (1) Vs. (3) Sheffield Hallam 6

Huddersfield turned up for another early start against a young Sheffield Hallam side, captained by the “pig-faced-little-b******” that we all remembered so well from the away fixture. Some bright early passing down both wings cut the visitors open early and Huddersfield were unlucky to not find the net in the first 5 minutes. As has happened too many times this season, the visitors took the lead from a set piece (that was pretty unstoppable) as the Sheffield striker blatantly mis-hit his strike at the short corner (as it actually went in). Huddersfield kept their heads high and some great work down the right wing found George Pritchard in the D, one quick pass onto Dan Stolworthy allowed a brilliantly placed strike into the bottom left corner to bring the home team back into the game. Unfortunately for the lads, Gurveer Birdi’s inspirational half time speech was closely followed by some input and a little bit of “tinkering” from foreign coach number 1 (Olivier De’Clarke). Needless to say, Huddersfield came out and seemed to be a shadow of their first half selves, and soon the young (bunch of t******) Sheffield team were ahead again. Another sloppy goal made it 1-3 to the visitors and all the late pressure from the home team could not bring them back into the game. Finally a big thank you for Chris and Ozzy for helping us out after we were short, and then when Jake got hit on his gammy ankle…

George Pritchard from the 4th XI is running the London Marathon this year with his brother. He’s looking for sponsorship as he is running on behalf of SENSE, the National Deafblind and Rubella Association charity.