The Hockey Show would like to wish everyone a great start to the season.
For some it’s been a loooo00ong preseason, for others, we hope you enjoy your first training session last night. Whatever grade you play, have a good one.
See you on the forums, and keep dribblin’
THS
Hockey Victoria are holding a World Cup Final event at Crown – for details click on the image to the right.
Happy new year from all of us at The Hockey Show.
We hope your summer comps are kicking along like a dream…(ours sure is!) and we’ll see u in 2010.
Keep Dribblin’
That’s all…just thought we’d get a bit excited.
Woot Woot!
We’ve been swamped with suggestions for the look-a-likes piece. So thanks for everyone’s contribution.
We now start the process of compiling and sorting your suggestions.
The top 20 is on its way! We’ll give you extra points for guessing who the late Rodney Dangerfield reminded someone of.
Stay tuned.
We would like to congratulate Adam ‘Bartos’ Barty on his successful nomination to the casual vacancy on the board of directors of Hockey Victoria.
As a result of his appointment in order to ensure that there are no conflicts of interest Bartos has taken a leave of absence from his role with The Hockey Show which means he will no longer contribute articles to this site, make forum posts or moderate our forums.
We wish him all the best in his endeavors on the HV board.
As an affiliated member of the Victorian Olympic Council, Hockey Victoria recently nominated David Wansbrough as a Member of the Executive.
Congratulations to David on his successful election to the Executive at the Victorian Olympic Council’s Annual General Meeting which was held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground last night.
“David Wansbrough’s inclusion to the Executive of the Victorian Olympic Council is a great acknowledgment of the on-going positive contribution that he has made to the Victorian Olympic Council as a Committee Member of the Olympians Club of Victoria”, said Hockey Victoria’s CEO Ben Hartung. “His financial business experience will be invaluable to the Council and it is great to have a hockey legend represented on the Council”.
The Victorian U21 Women have made it into the finals at the nationals – lining up today at 1pm for the semi. The girls will be facing off against Tasmania who they were beaten by 1-0 in a surprise result in round one of the tournament. We’re sure the Vics will be out for revenge and we wish them the best of luck from everyone at the Hockey Show.
To follow the action simply check out their website by clicking here.
It was with a great sense of shock that we recently heard of Michael “Mouse” Brennan’s diagnosis with Lymphoma. We understand Mouse has had numerous tests already that have detected the cancer, but Mouse is about to undergo a series of further tests to determine the severity of the diagnosis.
Many Victorian’s will know Mouse, as he played a number of seasons with the Essendon Hockey Club, in which he helped lead them to two premierships. Before his triumphant return to the Kookaburra’s where he went on to win a Gold Medal at the Athens Olympics. Many Melbournians commented at the time that no single player in the history of Victorian Hockey had made such a definitive impact on the entire State League One competition…much less a Queenslander! In short: he was bloody awesome.