Points mean prizes
Another week, another 7 MASSIVE wins, making it 2 out of 2 for the M2, W2, W3 and Dockers! It’s league points central. And if that’s not enough points for you, we’ve got Team of the Year points incoming too…
TOTY
Team of the year is back! For those who don’t know, Team of the Year is the formal process by which all the wonderful things teams do to give back to the club are counted to crown a big winner at End of Season Dinner.
Here is the scoring that will be applied this year:
Please make sure that all your good deeds are tracked in the relevant places so if you’re volunteering with the Kidds, put it on the tracker and when you’re off to a social remember to note down how many came. If you want to directly report any achievements, feel free to ping the Secretary an email.
Tour
After a really successful tour to Sonning last summer (thank you Maddie and Ollie for organising), we are really keen to get the tour and potentially ski vibe going again across the club. For this to happen, we need people both to organise and to attend. If you’d be interested in either, please fill out this short google form.
Current suggestions are Sonning, the Netherlands, Ireland and a Ski trip but we’re open to any other ideas or connections people might have across the globe!
Umpiring
Umpiring is a wonderful way to give back to the club and earns you £15 per game, as well as being a great way to meet people from other teams. We have two incredible Umpiring Development Officers, DC and James Holmes, who are there to provide support for all. You won’t be thrown in the deep-end, there are plenty of opportunities to start with games in the lower leagues (or with the Kidds), and umpire alongside someone very experienced early on. Our Umpire Liaison Officers, Jane and Smithy, have the job of finding umpires each week and it can be really, really tiresome if there isn’t enough of a pool to support this - even umpiring a game here and there makes a huge difference.
We remind teams that they should all have 2 qualified umpires (W8 and Dockers are exempt), and that there is a team allocated to cover a game before/after theirs in the case of a game going unfilled.
There are weekly online Level 1 courses open to all so get in touch with the team if you’d like to know more (wappingudo@gmail.com)
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Meet the Coaches
This week’s instalment of ‘Meet the coaches’ appears on our Instagram with Smithy of the M4 talking about his experiences of developing as a goalkeeper coach, his time at Wapping Hockey Club and much more! Check out the video here.
… ANd Meet the kidds!
In case you’re not aware, our Kidds have their very own Instagram account where you can follow all their fun and games. Be sure to give them a follow to show your support.
Teas at the Northcote
As of tomorrow, we will be starting our two week trial of teas at The Northcote in Leyton (15 min walk/next to Leyton Stn) for matches at Lee Valley.
It’s an excellent boozer (with £5 pints), and the owner is incredibly lovely and delighted to be hosting us, so please please ensure you head down and show some love - the price of the teas for the season is dependent on how much we can show them we spend over the next fortnight.
This is a trial for us both so it would be great to hear your thoughts on the venue. All feedback to be emailed to wappingsecretary@gmail.com
Last week’s Results
This week’s fixtures
Dates for your diary
Oct 12th - Women’s Day, LV all day and social after
Nov 2nd - Halloween Social
Nov 9th - W1s vs East London derby and social, 6pm @ LV
Dec 7th - Christmas Social
Member discounts:
Check out our Members' area (Password: whc1989) which has all of our available offers, including:
5% discount and 5% club kick back at the Moretown Belle
20% off NuSmile dentists
A free Psycle session
Grubby: 50% off + free delivery on 1st box, plus 30% off for the rest of the month
10% off all beers at Tap East
Balling: All members = 15% off, W1 and M1 = 25% off. We also get 25% off OTE sports (sports nutrition bars, etc)
