Month: September 2019

September 24, 2019

With the first league fixtures over for the Men’s sides, here’s the latest from HQ ahead of a busy few weeks with the EHL, Cocktail Party and More

Cocktail Party
October 19th sees the return of the Cocktail Party to Club’s social calendar after a years hiatus!

Join us on that Saturday from 7.30pm in the Clubhouse for the first Saturday night social of the season!

DJ til late, cocktail specials and more on the night! Tickets are priced at €20 on the Door, €15 Pre-Sale from team captains or email ladies.captain@threerockrovershc.com if you are a non playing member only to book a ticket with the names of the person booking and how many tickets you require, and €5 for u18s.

EHL
The Men’s 1s are playing Grange Hockey Club in their KO16 clash in the Pau Negre Stadium in Barcelona over the weekend of October 4-6 with their match first up on the 5th at 9.45 (CET).

Get your tickets here: https://ehlhockey.tv/tickets/

Good luck to squad as they represent themselves, the Club, Leinster and Ireland on the European stage again!

Subs
Subs are now due for the coming season!
You can pay yours here: 2019/2020 SUBS PAY NOW

Subs are vital for the running of the club during the season and beyond, please pay ASAP if you have not already done so.

Fixtures & Results
Results September 21st
M1s lost 3-1 to UCD
M2 won 6-0 at Railway
M3 won 5-3 at Wicklow
M4 drew 3-3 away to Glenanne
M6 won 3-0 against Wicklow

Below is quick report from the 3s game courtesy of their captain Ross.

A relatively young 3s team travelled to Wicklow on a sunny end-of-summer Saturday to kick off their season. With 4 players getting their TRR 3s debuts, Mark Smyth, Mark Kingston, Cillian Jennings and Mariano Pitre, it was a new look but strong team. A solid start put the 3s 3-0 up in the first half with debut goals coming from both Marks and a forehand volley rounding off the 1st half goals from the midfield maestro Peter Hinds.

A classic case of start-of-season concentration issues and improved opposition play at the start of the 2nd half brought Wicklow back into the reckoning with 2 goals in quick succession. The 3s regained control again however to finish the game number 1 with a 5-3 victory and a Mark K hat trick to boot!

Fixtures September 28th
Here’s this coming weekend’s Senior Fixtures.
Mens
M1 v Banbridge @14:45, EYHL (A)
M2 v Corinthians @13:00, Div 2 (H)
M3 v Rathgar @15:00, Div 3 (H)
M4 v Kilkenny @13:00, Div 4 (H)
M5 v Clontarf @15:00, Div 5 (H)
M6 NO GAME

Ladies
L1 v UCD @13:00, Div 2 (A)
L2 v UCD @11:15, Div 5 (A)
L3 v Weston @13:00, Div 9 (A)

September 16, 2019

Plenty on the horizon with the first league fixtures and the next club social this weekend!

Rugby World Cup 2019 Breakfast @TRRHC

This Sunday we will be showing Ireland’s first game of their World Cup campaign against Scotland on the bug screen in the club!
The Rovers Rest Cafe will be in operation offering a bap and a coffee/tea/juice for €5. Get yourself down to the club on Sunday morning, game is at 8.45am, as we host our second social of the season.

Stillorgan-Rathfarnham RFC, our resident rugby club, will be in attendance so will be a great chance for the two clubs to bond off the pitch!

Subs
You have been able to pay your subs for the season for the last few weeks, please do so ASAP if you have not already done so so that the club can continue to provide coaches, equipment, etc. for the coming season!

You can pay your subs here: 2019/2020 SUBS

EHL: Rovers Road to Barcelona
The Men’s firsts will play Scottish Club Grange in the KO16 in Barcelona on the 5th of October in the Pau Negre Stadium! Fresh from a victorious Round 1 in Barcelona last season the Men return hoping to be the first Irish side into the KO8. Be part of the Rovers Roar again this season as part of our Euro Rovers Rendezvous in the Catalan capital!

Buy your tickets here: EHL KO16 Tickets

League Fixtures
The men’s sides, including the returning Men’s 6ths, open the league season for the 2019/2020 year! Below are this Saturday’s fixtures!

M1 vs UCD @3pm, Home
M2 vs Railway @4.15pm, Away
M3 vs Wicklow @12pm, Away
M4 vs Glenanne @11am, Away
M5 vs Monkstown @3pm, Away
M6 vs Wicklow @1pm, Home

Congratulations to the Men’s 1s on their victory against YMCA in the first round of the Neville Cup. They are into Round 2 after beating y 2-1 courtesy of 2 goals from James Walker!

Boys InterPros

Hard luck to the Rovers contigent who were part of the respective Leinster Under 16 and Under 18 Boys squads at the Inter Pros at Stormont. Both sides finished second behind Ulster and Munster respectively.

Training Times

Reminder of the season training times for Juniors and Senior section this season.

Youths
Girls
1st Class to 4th Class – Sunday – 9.30am to 10.30am
5th Class – Sunday 10.30am to 11.30am
6th Class – Sunday – 10.30 am to 12.00pm
1st Year – Sunday – 12.00pm to 1.30pm
2nd Year – Sunday – 11.30am to 1.00pm
3rd/4th Year – Friday – 6.30pm to 7.45pm

Boys
Under 8 – Saturday – 9.15am to 10.15am
Under 10 – Saturday – 9.15am to 10.30am
Under 12 – Saturday – 9.00am to 10.30am
Under 14 – Saturday – 5.00pm to 6.30pm
Under 16 – Friday – 6.30pm to 7.45pm

Contact youths@threerockrovershc.com with any queries regarding the coming season and Chris will help you out.

Ladies
Monday
L1s & 2s: 8pm – 10pm
L3s: 7pm – 8.30pm

Wednesday
L1s & 2s: 7pm – 8.30pm
L3s: 8 – 9.30pm

Men’s

Tuesday
Men’s 1s & 2s: 7.30pm – 9pm
Mens 3s-5s: 7pm – 8.15pm

Thursday
Men’s 1s-2s: 7.30pm – 9pm

Rockets
Tuesday
Rockets: 6.30pm – 7.30pm, contact Siobhan Madeley if you know anyone who wants to be part of Ireland’s first ever ParaHockey club side!

September 16, 2019

The Club is saddened to note the passing in recent times of some former Maids of the Mountain members, friends to many in TRRHC.

The Club is saddened to note the passing in recent times of some former Maids of the Mountain members, friends to many in TRRHC. Our deepest sympathies go to the families of Joan Blackmore (Obituary below), Joy Mawhinney, Anne Anderson and Hazel Armstrong.

Many thanks to Orla McKeown who compiled this obituary as a touching tribute to a member of the Rovers family and hockey community as whole.

Obituary
Joan Blackmore (née Matthews)
13th July 1936 – 17th August 2019

The hockey community in Ireland changed for many when we heard the sad news of the recent death of former and long-standing Maids of the Mountain HC member, Joan Blackmore following a short illness.

Cork born, Joan Matthews brought a uniquely feisty and imaginative Cork attitude to life. Always an outstanding athlete, she represented Ireland in the sport of fencing. Trained as a PE teacher, she taught in Sligo before she and Ken returned to Dublin and was able to unite her love of sport with that deep sense of caring for younger people which continued throughout her life as a teacher, an inspirational hockey coach and Matriarch of all the student and teaching body in Wesley College Ballinteer during husband, Ken Blackmore’s tenure as Headmaster, and indeed beyond into their mutual retirement.

A formidably talented athlete, she not only represented both Munster and later Connaught in Interprovincial competition, but also represented Ireland at hockey as well as in the sport of fencing. In addition, she was one of the three farsighted individuals who introduced indoor hockey to Leinster circles in the late 1970s. She also took an active role in the organising ( being organiser of Support Services and also Head of Security during the event) of the 8th Womens Hockey World Cup in 1994 which was held in UCD, the first time such a large hockey event had come to Ireland.

It was as a start of season hockey coach that most of the younger Maids, now Pavilion members of TRR, will remember her, ever encouraging, ever supportive, ever ready to pass on an unusual skill which gave an edge in a match.

When the history of the Maids of the Mountain HC was being researched, prior to the 1999 merger with TRR, the authors were thrilled to discover Joan’s history of activism with the aim of gaining female changing and showering facilities in the then shared grounds at Templeogue. There were no female facilities and when normal lobbying methods yielded no results, Joan took direct action. After one match, she grabbed her soap and towel and marched into the male facilities to claim a much needed shower. Female facilities were provided as a matter of priority very soon after, becoming the norm now expected and provided as a matter of course.

As a longstanding Maids HC member, Joan was always available to give of herself both in a coaching and advisory capacity and on a personal level to the younger Maids, ever the caring mentor. She also served officially as Club Captain in the 1962/1963 season and as Club President from 1987 to 1989. When in the post Templeogue years, the club needed a home ground and a mini kitchen, Joan very kindly arranged for the Wesley school facilities to be made available for home matches. She was strategically involved in the planning and researches to try and find a permanent home ground for the Club. She was also a huge financial support to Maids HC and when funds were required to enable the club to buy into the Grange Road facility as Licensees after the sale of the Templeogue grounds for housing in the early 1980’s, Joan, along with the late Jill Cox, provided an interest – free loan to the Club to enable the Club to invest in the facility and leading directly to the security of tenure enjoyed since the 1999 merger of Maids HC with TRR.

After many years in Wesley, Joan and Ken retired and made their home in rural Wicklow free to enjoy the company of their five sons, five daughters in law and eight grandchildren and of course their dogs. In more recent years they moved closer to Wicklow town in order to be closer to the services of an urban area during their later years.

Joan’s contribution to female involvement in her much loved sport of hockey is ongoing every day that Three Rock Ladies step onto their home grounds in Grange Road, something she directly enabled. Her contribution should never be lost in the mists of time. She will never be forgotten by those of us who were lucky enough to have known her and enjoyed her inspirational friendship.

ÓMcK

September 9, 2019

Two weeks out from the 2019/2020 season tipping off, here’s the news from HQ

Masters Hockey
Many thanks to Roger West for this piece of information that went amiss during the summer

Stuart Switzer captained the Irish Masters Over 65 team in June at the European Championships in Antwerp (Dragons) – they had a successful tournament finishing higher than the Irish 70s or 60s at the same venue in their respective tournaments. Also, Harrold de Jong and Roger West represented TRR on the Irish O60s Masters with a respectable record: two wins, two draws and two losses. In our six matches we only conceded 5 goals including a well fought 2-0 loss to the world champions (the Dutch).

The next target for all three TRR former players with other squad members, including Robert Haughton, William Haughton and Cedric Christie, at this level is the World Cup in Japan late next year.

Season Opeing BBQ

This Saturday we will have a jam packed fixture schedule of friendlies and a BBQ from 4pm or so and the All Ireland Final replay on the TV from 6pm!

The Ladies 2s & 3s will play host to Loreto Hockey Club at 11am and 1pm respectively.

While the Men’s 3-5s will be playing a friendly in house match at 11am

While the Ladies 1s and Men’s 1s play host to Old Alex Hockey Club and Glenanne Hockey Club at 1pm and 3pm respectively.

While Loreto play host to Cork Harlequins at 3pm on the back pitch as well so there is plenty of hockey to keep you sated til the Replay throws in at 6pm!

Burgers will be available from 4.30 or so on the day as well a drink as part of the 10 euro deal we are providing! If you would like to have your name/s added to the list ahead of the day please contact club.manager@threerockrovershc.com or contact us via social media before WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 11th.

EHL
The Men’s 1s will play Grange Hockey Club in their KO16 match at the Pau Negre Stadium in Barcelona over the weekend of the 4-6 of October!

Their match is first up at 09.45 (CET) against the Scots in Barcelona on October 5th which is the second day of competition.

You can get your tickets HERE: EHL 2019

Get booking those flights and be part of #RoversRoad2Barcelona this season!

2019/2020 Subs
The Senior Subs link went live a few weeks ago and you can find it below and can pay your subs for the coming season before the season tips off in two weeks!

PAY YOUR SUBS HERE

The sooner you pay your subs the better as the money is vital to paying for coaches, umpires, equipment, etc for the season ahead!

September 22nd: Rugby World Cup Breakfast
Ireland play the Scots in their opening World Cup fixture at 8.45am on Sunday morning September 22nd and we will have the game live from Japan on the big screen alongside a breakfast bap and tea/coffee/water for €5 to get your Sunday morning off to the right start.

It is as per usual cash only on the day!

We hope to see you all there to support the boys in green and be part of what promises to be a great morning up at the clubhouse!