The Belper Dev8s welcomed the North Notts development team for their second meeting of the season with memories of Alan’s 80th birthday cake still fresh in their minds. It was a good thing that they had something to take their minds off the foul weather. In good development hockey style, our team was bolstered by some new faces and it was a pleasure to welcome Blake and to see Peter joining Max on the pitch. Read more…
Belper Ladies 4 were away at Uttoxeter. We arrived in good time, but were unable to get in- had to make do with a 10 minute warm up😬 what a load of bull. Belper dominated the first half, but were unable to get a goal. 0-0 at half time. 16 minutes into the 2nd half saw some skullduggery from whizzy Lizzie , a pass-in the D, seeing Wendy putting the goal in😁 We managed to hold Read more…
Ladies 4’s were at Shobnall playing Burton 3’s We had Kitty and Erin from the 3’s, Hannah from the 5’s and Sally joining us this week. We lost the PB, however Belper dominated from the start. Sally got her first goal after 11 minutes. Hannah did a great run into the D, and scored from a cracking strike, however the goal was disallowed as deemed she had swung and intimated a player – poppycock- great Read more…
Another enjoyable game of development hockey was played at the ever friendly Goosedale venue. The first half was an even encounter with plenty of strong play from Belper. The second half saw a strong start with a well fought for goal shortly after resumption of play. There were several more good shots on the Nottingham goal, but all were met by impressive saves and Belper were denied the chance to go further ahead. With few Read more…
Mad Dog Sports will be bringing their pop up shop to the Club on Saturday 25th Nov, ~11:00 – 15:00 They will bring a range of clothing samples and gifts and will be taking orders for delivery before Christmas. New items have been added to the Club online shop. For example, have you seen the Adidas Stadium coat for £75? As well as Club clothing, Mad Dog Sports can also supply equipment, shoes, shin pads, Read more…
The Belper Hockey Christmas Social Sat 2nd Dec, in the Clubhouse, from 6.30pm, Ladies, Men, Girls and Boys, Parents, all welcome. Time to get those Christmas jumpers out! There will be an Oli Phillips Quiz Challenge (~6:30pm) followed by a Curry for those who fancy it, but if you don’t want to eat with us just come along anyway for the quiz. There will be beer, banter and bafflement. The event is free but if you would like Read more…
It was a beautiful sunny day at The meadows for the ladies 4’s against Barton Barton had been undefeated in the league so far, so it was game on!Barton had the PB and game out strong from the start, catching Belper by surprise and scored within the first minute. Barton were obviously used to dominating and being physical, their player 55 was green carded for pushing and taking old duffer Suzy out. Belper started putting Read more…
Ladies 4th team played their rearranged match against Ashbourne Ladies 3 on Sunday 29th October. Ashbourne were generous in letting us use their pitch for our “home game”.With the weekend being a slip date and half term we were struggling to get a team together and working through the EH rules was challenging! We recruited Caoimhe and Isabel from the development squad, Hannah from the 5’s and were given permission to have Lou from the Read more…
Belper Hockey Club reels after Floods – an appeal for help. On October 21st following Storm Babet the river Derwent flooded, covering our Astro pitch and watering system with 1.5 metres of water, mud, and debris. Even our Clubhouse which is built above the alleged 100-year flood level had 400mm of brown silty water inside. On the approach of Storm Babet our members were busy moving items above flood level even to the extent of unscrewing Read more…
