TORNADOS HOCKEY SOCIAL NEWS

Dear All,

This Saturday will see Australia play New Zealand in another Bledisloe Cup match! A game sure to be full of excitement, flair and passion! Will Australia sneak it with a last minute three pointer like last week? Will New Zealand continue their dominance of this years' Tri-Nations?

Don't care?......Well you should!!!! As your Tornados Harry's Card needs to see some game time!!!!!!

Join other Tornados to watch this event whilst enjoying some beers nicely discounted by your Tornados Harry's Cards!!!!!!!! (Harry's HPL bottled lager at $5 each!!!!!!!)

Event: Australia v New Zealand

Location: Harry's @ Robertson Quay

Date/Time: Saturday 11th September 2010, 6pm KO (followed by Everton v ManU at 7:45pm)

Get down there to support The Tornados!

Regards,

Fishy

(Social Secretary - Tornados Hockey Club)

Prodigal Son Brings Win for 3s

Div 3 - Tornados 1 OVA 0

The Tornados Div3 team won their first game of the league which should keep us mid table. Not the best, but certainly an improved performance across the board and some good individual performances.

A great game for Paul Bains to come back and show us what he's learnt in Hong Kong including goal scoring, and great to meet a few more players that is making our game that little bit tighter. Huge game for everyone that helped out in defence, which just didn't stop communicating all through the game. MoM was a hard choice, Barry Daniels quite rightly took the award for a strong performance in that defence. A deserved 1-0 win, well done lads!

The game was very tight, with incursions into both D areas frequent enough, but neither team getting the killer instinct to take them ahead. The odd ball coming into the keeper just pinged back off, and though several penalty corners were awarded to OVA, the runners, lead by Barry, kept them from a decent shot on goal all day long.

The light took a turn for the worse in the second half, with floodlights not being in full working order, but the game carried on after the umpires brought out their light meters and confirmed with captains.

Paul B's goal was just weird: he's claiming a dribble in from his own D, but we really know it was closer to their 25. Still fantastic, and though the writer was unsighted, the cheers from the forwards and the shrill umps whistle meant loud cheers from the sideline cheerleaders and goalie as well.

Comedy moment of the day? Watching Dan and Barry trying to stand up and leave Harry's after a couple of beers. Trust me, we were laughing for 5 mins....because that's how long it took!

Huge thanks to all that came to watch us, many thanks for lending your voices, cheers and assistance throughout the game. Please keep it up: it's a bit further away next time!

Next games:
Friday 17th Sept - 8:00pm v CSC - Sengkang Pitch 2
Sunday 19th Sept - 10:30am v IA - Sengkang Pitch 2

Please start filling in the google doc

Beez Still Looking to Earn Stripes

The Killer Beez are still looking for top gear as they lost a game against SCC that should have been there for the taking. The Beez went 1-0 down early in the 1st half when a poor 16 was intercepted as it crossed the top of the D allowing the SCC forward to shoot unopposed into the far corner.

SCC doubled their lead later in the 1st half when the Beez were caught with far too many players forward. SCC broke away and ended up with a 3 0n 1 on the Beez goal.

The Beez did manage to improve in the second half but went down 3-0 from a strong reverse hit which Garfield got a hand to but will be disappointed not to have kept out.

The Beez have now probably played all the strongest teams in Div 2 and must now regroup to put some points on the table. An outside chance of a playoff place is still there.

Games Week End 5th Sep.

Hi all,

 

below are this week end Games :

 

Sunday, September 5

 

4:30pm

 M2 v SCC at Delta

 

6:00pm

 M3 v OVA

 

M1 does not played and will resume league game on the 19 Sept.

 

good luck to M2 and M3

Tornados move top of Division 1

30 August 2010, SINGAPORE |Tornados move to the top of the Singapore Hockey Federation SHF Men's Division 1 table following their fine 2-1 win over defending champions Singapore Recreation Club (SRC).
Despite sitting at the pinnacle of the league, the Tornados know that they still have lots to do if they are to wrest the title they won back in 2008 this term. Singapore Cricket Club (SCC) and C&C United are both undefeated and look truly solid.
The mix of experience and youth has aided SCC's quest for the title this season but newly promoted C&C are the surprise package of the league. The former came back from 2-goals down to beat the league leaders Tornados 3-2 while the youthful look of the latter has injected much needed freshness into the league and more positives are expected from the team coached by Fred Martens.
Meanwhile, last season's finalist Hollandse Club lie a lowly 6^th in the table following their shock 2-1 reverse at the hands of C&C United. SRC are a place below them no thanks to alphabetical ranking. However both these sides are expected to bounce back and make headway in the right direction as the league progresses.
Old Rafflesians Association (ORA) and Nanyang Technological University played out an exciting 3-3 draw to help neither side make progress up the table. Nonetheless, ORA are now in 4^th spot and that would be somewhere they would like to be at the end of the league.
Results and upcoming fixtures:

Date	Home	Score	Away	Time	Venue
27 Aug 10	SCC	3-2	Tornados HC	8pm	Delta
29 Aug 10	Hollandse Club	1-2	C & C United	3pm	Delta
29 Aug 10	NTU	3-3	ORA	4.30pm	Delta
29 Aug 10	Tornados HC	2-1	SRC	6pm	Delta
Date	Home	Score	Away	Time	Venue
5 Sep 10	SCC		C & C United	3pm	Delta
5 Sep 10	SRC		ORA	4.30pm	Delta
5 Sep 10	Hollandse Club		NTU	6pm	Delta

EHL 2010-2011: Draw and Venues known!

Euro Hockey League 2010-2011: Round 1 Draw and Venue Announcement

2 September 2010

The Euro Hockey League (EHL) and the European Hockey Federation (EHF) are delighted to announce both the draw and the venues for the first Rounds of the 2010-2011 EHL Season. The draw was made jointly by Marijke Fleuren (NED) and Jorge Alcover (ESP), Vice Presidents of the European Hockey Federation.

Round 1.1 will take place in The Netherlands at Eindhoven's HC Oranje Zwart between the 15th and 17th October 2010. The tournament will feature the teams drawn into Pools B, E, F and H, which include European giants such as Rot-Weiss Köln (GER), HGC (NED), Club de Campo (ESP) and reigning EHL Champions UHC Hamburg (GER), as well as the host club who will be participating in their first ever EHL event.

Round 1.2 heads to Spain, with Atlétic Terrassa HC hosting the teams that will compete in Pools A, C, D and G between the 29th and 31st October 2010. As well as the famous team from the host club, other big names include Teun de Nooijer's HC Bloemendaal (NED), 2009-10 EHL Semi Finalists Real Club de Polo de Barcelona (ESP) and Mannheimer HC (GER), the new club of Germany international superstar Matthias Witthaus.
At Eindhoven, German champions Rot-Weiss Köln have been drawn into Pool B where they face a tricky start to their EHL campaign against Madrid's Club de Campo (ESP) – a team featuring former Club Egara stars Edi Tubau and Guillermo Schickendantz – as well as Belgian runners up Racing Club Bruxelles. Pool E sees European Champions UHC Hamburg facing Belgian and Russian opponents in KHC Dragons and Izmaylovo Moscow respectively, while former EHL finalists HGC take on Pembroke Wanderers (IRL) and Olympia Kolos Sekvoia (UKR) in Pool F. Host club Oranje Zwart have been drawn into Pool H, where Russian champions Dinamo Kazan and Polish runners up KS Pomorzanin Torun will provide stiff opposition.

Atlétic Terrassa Hockey Club has the pleasure of welcoming HC Bloemendaal – EHL champions in 2008-09 – who will compete in Pool A against England's Reading HC and SC Stroitel Brest of Belarus. Home favourites Atlétic Terrassa will be vociferously supported by their fans when they face Beeston HC (ENG) and CA Montrouge, the champions of France. Ashley Jackson's East Grinstead (ENG) will do battle with RC de Polo de Barcelona (ESP) and Kelburne (SCO) in Pool D, while WKS Grunwald Poznan (POL), Mannheimer HC (GER) and Glenanne HC (IRL) will fight it out in Pool G.

Over the course of the two tournaments in Eindhoven and Terrassa, 24 teams will be reduced to the 16 participants that will take part in Easter's famous KO16 event.
"The high quality venues at HC Oranje Zwart and Atlétic Terrassa ensure that the Euro Hockey League is continuing to pursue the high standards that we have set over the past three seasons", said Jan Verboom, Operational Manager of the Euro Hockey League. "The EHL and the European Hockey Federation are greatly looking forward to working with both clubs in the organisation of what should be two outstanding first round events."

Full information regarding the draw for the EHL first rounds can be found at www.ehlhockey.tv. A full listing of the match schedule for the tournament will be released next week, with details regarding the sale of tickets being announced in the coming weeks.

KL Tours Pictures online

Official Pictures of RSC tournament of July 2010 are now online :
http://s800.photobucket.com/home/jonathanrsc/allalbums