Internationals
Congrats to all our players who have been selected for various national camps and squads in the last few weeks #roversrepresenting!
– Freddie Morris, Johnny MCormack, Luke Madeley – Irish u18
– Gavin Gibney – Irish u 16 panel
– Stephen West – Senior 2 match series v England 10th/11th April
– Jody Hosking – South African national training camp
Best of luck guys!!
Promotions
Congrats to the mens 4ths on their recent promotion to division 5! Their promotion was secured thanks to a walkover from St.Brendans during the week. Huge thanks to captain Rob Johnson who has been superb in getting a team out each week.
The 3rds promotion is still up for grabs ass we await results from other clubs.
Fixtures
The Galtrim cup side take on Avoca this Thursday at 7.30pm in Newpark, while the long awaited u 21 final will now be played at home on Thursday April 17th at 7.30pm!
Best wishes
All in the club would like to wish the ladies 1st player Orla and her new husband Jason years of happiness following their wedding on the 4th of April. Orla was still playing less than 5 days before the wedding as she was part of the ladies 1sts game against Rathgar earlier in the week! We hope they had a wonderful day and will have many happy years to come
Div 2 playoff
Many thanks to all those who came to support he ladies 1sts last week in their divison 2 play-off. Unfortunately the girls were beaten 1-0 by Rathgar meaning that they have now been relegated to division 3 for next season. Hard luck to the girls, who had given their all not to be in this position. Thanks to all those who supported them in the season, not least recently with various outside issues.
As Siobhan mentioned at the AGM the ladies side of the club has found a number of things difficult in the last few years. What we ask now is that though this result, and indeed those of the other ladies teams, has been gutting this year, that players support us in our quest to turn things around. We are commencing with the restructuring of our junior side, and with the establishment of the player committee we have begun the process of building the club back up. The results of some our changes will not be seen for a while but please be reassured that everything is being done to develop our ladies side once again.
Final juniors day
Sunday saw the end of an era as the junior girls said goodbye to Wendy Lee after over 20 years of immense service to the club and the juniors section. Wendys role has often been spoken of and no words are enough to thank her for the job she has done. Indeed its taking 3 people to replace her next year!!!
At last Sundays FunDay Siobhan made a presentation to kids and parents to outline where we as a club are going with the junior girls. With over 200 members, they are our future and we wish to ensure they have the best one possible. To that end we are beginning to re-structure how things are run with Niall Denham (Irish u16 coach, Railway mens 1st XI coach, IHA coaching tutor, TRRHC member) taking on the role as coach co-ordinator. Siobhan Madeley and Suzanne Lowe will also come on board to deal with the admin side of the section.
We believe we have a strong team to bring us forward in year one, and hope that all parents will support us in this. Should anyone wish to volunteer some time with the running of the juniors please do not hesitate to contact us so that we can discuss what that may be!
Huge thanks to Wendy for all she has done, enjoy your well-earned hockey free Sunday mornings!!
