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O...k. Long time since I updated this one. Hmm...Blackburn. They were tougher than we thought, they were much improved from last season (or maybe it was just coz Fiona wasn't pissed this time), but we still beat them. We won 6-3. Sadly Fiona got all three goals, but saying that it wasn't really surprising coz she's their best player. It was a pretty crappy game if I remember rightly, but the important thing is we came away with the win.
We played Telford last Sunday, at home. We weren't sure what to expect from them really, since they'd had a season in the Premier and last time they were in our league they kicked our asses every time we played them. But, since then they've lost their best player (Rigby) so we weren't sure if the rest of them could keep up the level we expected of them. As it turns out, they couldn't. We won 13-1, and the game was pretty easy to win really. It definitley wasn't as tough as I was expecting. They have a couple of good players, but no-one as good as Rigby so they weren't really anything to worry about. Their keeper had only played in net twice before apparently, but she was really bad. She didn't even have a goalie stance. Me and Leanne rattled a few shots off her in the hopes of scaring her. Not sure if it worked, although I think my shot that hit her in the head shook her a bit (and no, I wasn't aiming for her head). I scored a goal and got one assist in that game, which means I'm still 6th in the top ten points scorers of the league. Little Steph is 1st, Leanne is 2nd, Sarah is 3rd and Big Steph is 8th. Not too bad, but we can get more of our players up there if we try hard enough! What else...oh yeah, the game was a pretty easy going game, nothing too dirty from either side, although you wouldn't know it to look at the gamesheet. Both sides had loads of penalties, but a lot of them were pretty dubious. Little Steph got called for hooking, but all she'd done was knock the girl a little as though she was body checking her, but because her stick went under the girls arm and the girl fell down, Steph got called. The later, I got called for tripping, but I hadn't touched the lass. And I'm not just saying that because I got called, I honestly didn't touch her. She'd fallen over at the opposite end of the ice a couple of minutes earlier then she skated down into our defensive end and I was chasing back after her, she went to stop just outside of our crease but she fell down. I stopped behind her - and still didn't touch her! - and as she stood up I said to her 'Not very good at staying on your feet, are you?' Next thing I knew, the whistle had blown and he'd called me for tripping. I couldn't believe it. I hate when Boynton referees. However, Sunday we play Whitley Bay and we have my favourite ref in the world reffing - John Kerry. Slight sarcasm there. I hope he does his job right this time. So yeah, we gotta beat Whitley. It should be a good game.
Roller hockey news: GB trials on Saturday. New coaches, so I'm gonna go and see what it's like. Apparently the Championships are in Detroit next year, so it'll be worth going if I can get on the team again. Fingers crossed.
We played Telford last Sunday, at home. We weren't sure what to expect from them really, since they'd had a season in the Premier and last time they were in our league they kicked our asses every time we played them. But, since then they've lost their best player (Rigby) so we weren't sure if the rest of them could keep up the level we expected of them. As it turns out, they couldn't. We won 13-1, and the game was pretty easy to win really. It definitley wasn't as tough as I was expecting. They have a couple of good players, but no-one as good as Rigby so they weren't really anything to worry about. Their keeper had only played in net twice before apparently, but she was really bad. She didn't even have a goalie stance. Me and Leanne rattled a few shots off her in the hopes of scaring her. Not sure if it worked, although I think my shot that hit her in the head shook her a bit (and no, I wasn't aiming for her head). I scored a goal and got one assist in that game, which means I'm still 6th in the top ten points scorers of the league. Little Steph is 1st, Leanne is 2nd, Sarah is 3rd and Big Steph is 8th. Not too bad, but we can get more of our players up there if we try hard enough! What else...oh yeah, the game was a pretty easy going game, nothing too dirty from either side, although you wouldn't know it to look at the gamesheet. Both sides had loads of penalties, but a lot of them were pretty dubious. Little Steph got called for hooking, but all she'd done was knock the girl a little as though she was body checking her, but because her stick went under the girls arm and the girl fell down, Steph got called. The later, I got called for tripping, but I hadn't touched the lass. And I'm not just saying that because I got called, I honestly didn't touch her. She'd fallen over at the opposite end of the ice a couple of minutes earlier then she skated down into our defensive end and I was chasing back after her, she went to stop just outside of our crease but she fell down. I stopped behind her - and still didn't touch her! - and as she stood up I said to her 'Not very good at staying on your feet, are you?' Next thing I knew, the whistle had blown and he'd called me for tripping. I couldn't believe it. I hate when Boynton referees. However, Sunday we play Whitley Bay and we have my favourite ref in the world reffing - John Kerry. Slight sarcasm there. I hope he does his job right this time. So yeah, we gotta beat Whitley. It should be a good game.
Roller hockey news: GB trials on Saturday. New coaches, so I'm gonna go and see what it's like. Apparently the Championships are in Detroit next year, so it'll be worth going if I can get on the team again. Fingers crossed.