A massive weekend coming up for the M1 side as they face a double-header against two of the sides at the top of the table with them in the EYHL – Lisnagarvey at home on Saturday (3pm) and Pembroke away on Sunday (2pm). These games are always spectacular so make sure to bring the noise in numbers!
Here’s the weekly round-up:
1. This week’s fixtures
Saturday, November 7th
11am (front pitch) – M4 v North Kildare (league)
11am (back pitch) – W3 v North Kildare (Div 7/8 Cup)
12.45pm (Donabate CC) – W1 v Portrane (EYHL2 Qualifier)
1pm (back pitch) – W4 v Enniscorthy (Div 11/12/13 Cup)
3pm (front pitch) – M1 v Lisnagarvey (EYHL)
3.30pm (Mount Temple) – M5 v Clontarf (league)
Sunday, November 8th
2pm (Serpentine Avenue) – M1 v Pembroke (EYHL)
Youth fixtures
10.30am (front pitch) – Minor 1 girls vs Muckross
1pm (Kilkenny College) – U14B boys vs Kilkennny
3pm (Wesley College) – U14A boys vs YMCA
5pm (Donabate CC) – 6th class 5 girls vs Portrane
2. This week’s results round-up: Important 2-2 draws for the M1 and W1 sides in their respective leagues last Saturday. For the men, they got the shoot-out bonus point at Monkstown after Sam Walker gave us an early lead; Town swapped the lead around before Evan Jennings equalised with 19 minutes to go. The two points keep us in third place in the table.
For the women, they picked up their seventh points of a productive October in EYHL2Q with Juliette Duffy scoring her ninth of the campaign and Lucy Kelly netting a corner.
The day’s other highlight saw the W3 have a great away trip to Wexford with Faye Loughnane and Margo Schaaf earning a 2-0 win. It was their third win in their last four games.
The W2 lost 4-1 (Orla Giersch) to Trinity and the W4 were undone 3-1 by Portrane (Suzanne Jones) while the M4 fell 3-0 to Enniscorthy in the cup.
In midweek in the Neville Cup, we lost out 2-1 to a high-flying Railway Union first team and so will now go into the Neville Davin Cup where we will look to defend the title.
3. Safeguarding course – we have a Safeguarding 1 session with Hockey Ireland booked in for Monday November 16 at 6.30pm for two hours. There are maximum numbers allowed on the course so if interested, please email Phil Webb on safeguarding@threerockrovershc.com
4. South Dublin CC filming the club on Friday night – the first group of juniors training on Friday night on the back pitch will be filmed as part of a SDCC record of how their grant money has been spent. If any members would like to help by parking their bikes at the bike racks that SDCC paid for, we would be very grateful! They will be on site from 5pm so bikes will be welcome anytime from then on.
5. Lost and found: A reminder items will be kept in Lost and Founr for no longer than two weeks; please remember to take away any belongings with them when leaving. For items left beyond this time, we will be making a donation of items to Enable Ireland on 14th November.
If any member thinks they might have belongings in lost and found, text a description with their contact details to the club mobile number, 087 6575297; we will reply if it is found.
6. Club Skills Survey: Thank you so much for all the replies to date with about 40 replies. We would love to get up to 100 responses as we look to build a simple picture of the skills and expertise within our club community to help support future club projects and initiatives, including facilities development, sustainability projects, club upgrades, education programmes and more.
The survey is entirely voluntary, takes approximately three minutes to complete, and there is absolutely no obligation to get involved in any future projects.
We’d really appreciate all members taking a few minutes to complete the survey: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/r/7WYrMscmCC
7. Rockets recruiting – The Rockets – our Hockey ID team – are welcoming new members! The group is open for children and adults with intellectual disabilities aged 12 and over. Training is Tuesday evenings from 6.30pm to 7.30pm on the front pitch. Email/call Louise on 087 627 1612 or rockets@threerockrovershc.com to make arrangements.
8. Re-turn – we now have three yellow bins into which you deposit your Re-Turn bottles and cans with all funds going to the club. It has proven a very handy source of income for the club so please consider dropping your empties in!
9. New members If you or someone you know is looking to get into hockey, contact:
Juniors: junior.committee@threerockrovershc.com
Senior men: John Blakeney on mens.captain@threerockrovershc.com
Senior women: Andrea van Eeden womens.captain@threerockrovershc.com
10. Club membership: To be eligible to play, umpire or coach this season, Hockey Ireland Membership is required. Please sign up via the following links:
– HI Membership: https://membership.mygameday.app/regoform.cgi?aID=29011&pKey=da2c0f798cfdfa14090d0577d5fb6f48&formID=121278
– Three Rock club membership: https://threerockrovershockeyclub.clubforce.com/products/membership
11. Grow your knowledge – Hockey Ireland is continually running different courses on umpiring, coaching, safeguarding and Young Leaders certificates. If you want to upskill, have a look at what is coming up on https://hockey.ie/events/
