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2023 Summer Roundup

Summer Social Hockey

We are running summer social hockey (both Wednesday evenings and Sunday afternoons) from May until early August), so please come along! On Wednesdays, we play at Battersea Park from 8pm to 9pm. On Sundays, we play in a combined social hockey group/league (across a few clubs, including us and Barnes), with games held at Battersea Park Astro, usually at 1:30pm and 3pm. If you’re interested in coming along, please drop us a message here and we’ll come back to you. Please also fill in the join-us form, if you want to trial for a Saturday team next season!

We should be having a club day/Cup of Nations (friendly mixed hockey intra-club tournament) this July/August, with details to follow!

Trials!

We will be running trials for another enthusiastic intake of players this August. It will be at Battersea Park Astro on Saturday the 5th August 2023, between 11am and 1pm. If you can sign up via the link here, that would really help us manage trials! We’ll come back in due course with further details about trials and exact timings for each part of the club.

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Enjoy your summers till then!

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Pre-season Newsletter

Welcome back Wanderers!

With pre-season well underway, it’s time for the first Newsletter of the 2017/18 season.

Club Day *this Saturday!*

Come along to the Wanderers pre-season club day on Saturday 2 September from 1.45pm until 5ish. It’s a great chance to play some mixed hockey and catch up with people before the season starts. It’s free and open to current and new members!

Please bring a light and a dark top.

Stick around after (bring a change of clothes and shower stuff) for drinks and food at The Grove pub (SW11 4NE) which is a 5 minute walk from the pitch as the clubhouse will not be open until later in the season.

Training times

Details on training times and locations can be found on the Wanderers website: https://www.wanderershockeyclub.co.uk/training/

There will also be goalkeeping training sessions throughout the season at KP on Thursdays – the first one is 14th September. Further details can be found on the website.

Socials – start of Season & Christmas

Start of Season – 30th of September

Get your Americana costumes ready because Wanderers are going American for a full blown Frat party at the clubhouse. We’re talking beer pong, red cups, flip cup… Full details r.e. timings & team pairings will be announced shortly, please click attending on the FB event which will be posted to the Wanderers Facebook page shortly. If you don’t have access to the private FB group please request to join here then you should be able to see the event.

Christmas Party

This has been provisionally booked in for the 9th of December so please try and keep this date free. More details to be revealed in due course…

Annual subs

Subs will be £200 for outfield players, £120 for goalkeepers, students and unemployed.

An initial installment of £50 is due by Monday 18 September and then the remaining £150 (or £50 + £70 for students etc) is due by Monday 30 October. Money needs to be transferred to your team treasurer, who will then transfer to club treasurer.

Get into Umpiring course

9 October – 7pm – Wanderers Clubhouse – FREE to club members

Following feedback from a lot of you last season the club will be a hosting a Get into Umpiring evening at the Clubhouse. As a club we rely on support from all of you to ensure that games can go ahead. We want to provide you with the skills and confidence to go out there and boss it when it comes to your turn. The evening will be hosted by Surrey Hockey Umpire Association Secretary and L1 coach Matt Dean. He will cover off the basics of umpiring and to answer questions or concerns you may have, helping you feel more confident when it’s you’re turn to umpire.

Please put this in your diary, we expect a strong turnout from across the club!

Closed Facebook group

If you haven’t already, please request to join the Wanderers closed facebook group, as it’s where a lot of the club news is shared.

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Wanderers Club Newsletter

Happy Friday Wanderers!

Results 11 March

Womens

L1 v Fareham Ladies 1s 4:1

L2 v Oxted 1s 0:2

L3 v Epsom Ladies 2s 1:8

L4 v Croydon and Old Whitgiftian 1s 2:2

L5 v Leatherhead 1s 0:4

L6 v Spencer 6s 1:3

L7 v THD 5s 0:4

Commentary

Ladies 1s win 4-1 with Amy Hicks leading them to victory! MOM going to a team that is indecisive with Caroline Mary, Rose Harriet and Jennifer Hodges all having joint points, DOD to Mads Smags.

Ladies 5s suffered a 4-0 loss away at Leatherhead. Big thanks to Freddie Stacy for coming along early to umpire and to Amanda Harris for stepping into Goal. Mom unanimously goes to Fran Robinson for putting in a relentless fight and great running in midfield. Dod goes to Ellie Coward for thinking Manda’s child was called Rocky Road.

Mens (unfortunately I only have those results that are on FixturesLive and Facebook this week)

M6 v Old Kingstonian M1s 0:1

Home games this weekend

Battersea Park

11.00-12.30  Mens 3s v EUHC Gamblers London

12.30-14.00  Mens 1s v Fareham

13.30-15.00  Ladies 3s v Richmond

15.00-16.30   Ladies 4s v Reigate Priory

Kennington    

11.00-12.30 Mens 5s v Surrey Spartans

12.30-14.00 Ladies 7 v Bank of England

We love boozing

The L7 are currently leading for the ladies and the M4 leading for the men’s. It is a very tight contest for the men though, so depending on how the next couple of weekends go, it could swing one of many ways! So get down to the Clubhouse and help your team to the main victory that matters this season!

Heads up that the last Saturday that the Clubhouse is open this season is 25th March… only 2 more Saturdays to go! Any teams playing after this date will have to organise home teas in a local pub. Please talk to Becky Reid if you have any questions about this.

Wedding Bells!

Congratulations (in advance) to Wanderers Social Secretary and M6 player Oli Dobbs who is marrying L3s GK Lou Matson this Saturday in Belfast.

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Wanderers Club Newsletter

Happy Friday Wanderers!

A good week on the whole last week with the majority of wins for the club. The sun in shiny and frozen pitches a distant memory so we look forward to a weekend of Wanderers wins!

Results 28 Jan
Womens

L1 v Surbiton 3s 0:1
L2 v Richmond 2s 5:1
L3 v Oxted 1s 1:2
L4 v Epsom 3s 1:1
L5 v Barnes 3s 1:1
L6 v Wimbledon 3s 2:0
L7 v Berrylands 1s 5:1

Mens

M1 1 – Reigate Priory 0
M2 4 – Oxted 5
M3 6 – Trinity Mid Whitgiftians 1
M4 4 – Reigate Priory 3
M5 4 – EUHC Gamblers 5
M6 7 – Surbiton 1

Home games this weekend

BP
11am L2 v Wimbledon 2As
1.30pm M2 v Epsom 2s
3pm M4 v Woking 3s
KP
11am L5 v Old Freemen’s
12.30pm  L7 v Guildford 3s

Umpiring
Local Level 1 umpiring courses – deadline approaching!

Shudder when it’s your turn to umpire? Try to get out of it by offering cash? Well save those pennies and go on the level 1 course!

The level 1 course is accessible to all and is great for teaching you the basics and upping confidence.

The entry-fee is refunded by the club on successful passing of the classroom and practical elements of the award (Level 1, assessed).
There are several courses running locally (details below). Please sign up before they sell out!
Details: https://www.englandhockey.co.uk/courses.asp?section=296

  • Level 1 Umpire Course- Deadline 01/02/17
    Venue: Alleyn’s School, Townley Road, London SE22 8SU
    Start date: 12.02.2017 | Duration: Sunday 12th February 2017, 9am-4:30pm |
  • Level 1 Umpire Course – Deadline 01/02/2017
    Venue: Hampstead & Westminster HC, Paddington Sports Club (Classroom), Paddington Recreation Ground (Pitch) W9 1HQ (Classroom), W9 1PD (Pitch)
    Start date: 12.02.2017 | Duration: Sunday 12th February, 9am-5pm

Surrey Umpire Assoc are offering those who have sat the L1 assessment the opportunity to be assessed on 25th Feb. If you have sat the L1 qualification and are awaiting assessment then please get in touch with Scrappy by Sunday evening.

We love boozing

All things social…

Clubhouse open THIS SATURDAY – 6 NATIONS!

We’ve got some beer pong cups and balls behind the bar and along with board games so just ask Georgie and Ken if you want to use them. Not to mention (probably) the cheapest bar in Clapham!

All Saturday Six Nations games will be shown at the CH, both on the new big screen in the back bar, and the TV in the front bar, starting with:

Saturday 4th February 2017

Scotland v Ireland 2:25pm
England v France 4:50pm

Remember, use it or lose it!

Wanderers does social media

Wanderers Instagram @wanderershc. Please follow and use the #wanderershc for all your Wanderers pics (that are suitable for the public domain!) and I will re-gram photos where possible.

Twitter: @wanderershc please to tweet your results/match-day photos/social pics. Your tweets and re-tweets will help greatly to increase the online presence of our club

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