The only winners last weekend were our super Under 10's Boys and Girls teams who headed to the sub-tropical Armitage Centre to play in their monthly GM and Cheshire monthly Tournament! As the only Timperley teams to get any hockey played, it was great to hear know that our how the U10's did and feedback about how well our young blues are doing and following in the footsteps of many of our current Men's and Women's Performance Squads. These tournaments provide the hockey foundations for our young players - not just on the pitch - but also learning all about being part of a squad and hockey friendships.

This weekends hockey !
Seven home games on Saturday - The Men's 2 (v Deeside) and Men's 6's (V Brooky) push back the day at 12.30 and we round things off with the Men's 1 v Deeside at 18:00 - so why not get down to watch and catch up with hockey mates. We've a full programme of NW League games with our table toppers the L2 away at Lancaster Uni and the Men's 3's are off the Deeside.

Special shout out to Neil H and James L-W and others who've done a great job this week to enable our fledgling Men's Development side get a team our for the away trip to Buxton. Thanks to all the men playing too to help us get this side establishing to minor the success of our women's development side (previously L5 and now L6).
Keep up to date with all the NW Hockey results and tables throughout the day
https://www.englandhockey.co.uk/clubs/timperley-hc

We've a Super Cup Sunday too with three cup games as the masters hit the turf on the road to Lee Valley in the EH Championships
- Men's Over 50's head to Ben Rhydding
- Men's Over 40's play Bowdon at home 2.30pm
- Women's Over 35's play Liverpool Sefton at home 2.30pm
Plus the Boys U18 play Slazenger (Wakefield) in a friendly in preparation for the EH T2 QF on 26th February

We're also hosting North West Women's Masters Over 40,45,50 and 55's training on Sunday 12.15 to 2.15pm. Academy training will finish at 12.10pm this week as we've had to move this booking to fit in the rearranged Masters games

National League Hockey is back !
Men's and Women's 1's headed to Brooky on Thursday night for some more match time before the restart of the National League. The Women's 1's head to hills for the 11.30am push back v Pendle Forest in the 1st v 2nd in the table clash. The Men's 1's play Preston at 6pm at home on Saturday night.

Fancy being our Match Sponsor for our final National League match days (or any match day!) of the 2022-23 season only ? Sponsor as a business, an individual or a group of mates ! Contact Shelagh E for details including posters, social media and programme prices £75 - 100 and reserve your match day starting with the 4th February!

Re-arranged NW League Games
Last weeks games are now all moved across to Saturday 18th February - as this is half term please make sure you update your own - or your child's availability asap on Pitchero o help our captains sort teams and reduce the need for chasing !

Smile - and capture your match day !
We'd like to bring match days to life a bit more in our social media so the call out this week if for each team to submit one photo that captures the essence of their match day - could be a team photo, a changing room shot (decent ones only) team talk, or post match huddle or teas! Captains to post on the #OneClub Captains group with their results
- Connors has asked if photos can be take non the 'best' camera available in the team so we get as good quality images as possible.

Race Night with a Difference - date change !
We'll be under starters orders for this fab night on Saturday 25th February now (not 25th March) - so save the date and be ready to grab a ticket when they go on sale next week ! If you've not been before there's no grainy films of Kentucky horse races its all interactive and you're the owners and jockeys for the night ! Take a look back at our first Race Night from 2020 https://www.timperleyhockeyclub.com/videos/race-night-with-a-difference-at-thc--29th-feb-2020-157129.html

...more hockey to watch this weekend !
Gutted to see England Men crash out of the World Cup to Germany earlier this week having led 2-0 with less than 4 minutes to go they drew 2-2 and lost the shoot out. Good game to take a look at and see how the Germans never gave up proving it never is over til its over ! Lessons for us all there ! Watch or record the World Cup final on Sunday 1pm on BT Sport Germany v Belgium or catch the highlights online.

For lovers of Indoor its the Super 6's finals at the Cooper Box and you can now watch all the live action from Sundays Finals on the new England Hockey on line platform
https://englandhockey.live/home. EH has teamed-up with leading live sports streaming platform provider, Joymo, to develop and launch England Hockey TV - a new direct-to-fan digital service broadcasting the biggest and best domestic events. Its a paid platform and £3.99 to watch lots of hockey and if we get through the any national finals this season and you can't make the trip to Lee Valley those games will be streamed too !

Finally, if you missed our recent update on Whistling find out all about our latest Level 1 umpire to be assessed and the challenge we've laid down across the club to help #makehockeyhappen . Have a read of Woody Joins the Whistlers and why not see how much you know about the games by taking the online rules test challenge - players, coaches and even spectators ! If you're a hibernating whistler please help us out with a few games through to the end of the season and the Under 18 boys still have no umpires for Sunday 4pm so please help make this game happen and dust off your whistle ! If you can help please contact Andrew 'Fozzy' Foster

Good luck to all everyone involved in hockey this weekend - playing, coaching, whistling or spectating !