Slip week! (for some)
The Ladies’ side of the club had an unbelievable set of results last week with all seven teams picking up points, including a 5th win in a row for the L1 (match report below). With slip week coming up, lots of us will enjoy some hard-earned rest for recovery. However, whilst I will be sipping a cocktail on the beach on Saturday, there is unfortunately no rest for the M2, M8, M3 and L7 who all have matches this weekend, including a derby for the M8 against East London.
L’Ump month donation link: https://www.justgiving.com/page/lump-month-2023
Slip week hockey
Slip week social Saturday needs more players! 2pm @ John Orwell. Very friendly. Everyone welcome.
Register here: https://forms.gle/keghNB5e6wkKS9J78
The M3 are playing in the slot before at 12:30 and there will be a pub trip afterwards so why not make a day of it?
Team of the year
Team of the year is back! Each year we tot up points for all the things you do that make Wapping brilliant, and the team that gets the most points is awarded the very prestigious title of 'Team Of The Year'. Points range from performance, to social attendance and volunteering across the club. Some ideas to start boosting your team’s points below:
Get all your team at the Halloween social for attendance points (7:30pm, The Castle, 4th November)
Bonus points (and bragging rights) to the best dressed team!
Get winning - the team with the most wins each half of the season will get points
Volunteer: coaching, kidds sessions, umpiring, becoming a first aider = points
Post a team reel…. (more details below!)
Reel of the season
This is your chance to showcase your team's highlights, lowlights and everything in between - on and off the pitch!
Team of the year points are at stake:
50 for Best Ladies' and Best Men's Reel
15 points for entry (some of the easiest points going!)
All entries will be uploaded to the main club Instagram account with your team's account added as a collaborator.
Deadline – 1st March 2024. Voting via team Instas sent to the main club account by 5th April 2024 (You can't vote for your own team but you can vote for each category.)
Talk to your team's social media sec for full entry details and get scrolling on insta reels/tiktok to get your creative juices flowing!
Some inspo:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CriSHR9JGB4/
https://www.instagram.com/p/CjC--MfrWug/
https://www.instagram.com/p/B-AVRXngFEs/
Women in umpiring
Following research and reports of the issues and barriers that Women face in umpiring, the Women in Hockey Officiating network have announced the date of an upcoming workshop where they are inviting london female umpires in particular to discuss.
Details: Tuesday 28th November 8pm
Sign up details to follow - keep an eye on @womeninhockeyofficiating on instagram for more information.
L1 match report
The Ladies’ 1 have gone top of London Prem with 5 wins out of 5 (including wins teams who were 1st, 3rd and 5th in the league last year). Last weekend they had a tight 4-3 win over Surbiton 3s…
On a partly rainy partly sunny day wapping L1 gave up another Saturday to travel into the depths of south west London to take on Surbiton. The addition of two new teammates with 8 legs between them and heartbreaking smiles kept spirits high in the lead up to our game.
To contrast with our usual expectations, our new coach Lou gave a positive and peppy pre match talk. This seemed to do wapping well as within 5 minutes of push back, tash fired the ball into the D and found Sarah on the back post for a deflection to put wapping in the lead. Unfortunately, Surbiton were awarded a flick and took their chance to equalise, 1-1.
Wapping kept strong attacking down the right and took a chance to win a corner. With space on the right post, Lucia deflected the ball into the back of the net, 2-1 wapping.
Feeling composed after half time Wapping won another corner which Pippa converted, sending Wapping 3-1 into the lead. Surbiton kept themselves in the game and looked threatening on the attack. However, Wapping continued to shift the ball around and a great cross from Ellie H found Shears on the back post who then found the goall.
From 4-1 up Surbiton clawed back another two goals (boring).High tensions on pitch but cool heads from Lou and Matt on the sidelines allowed wapping to finish the game 4-3 up and in high spirits. The winning streak has left wapping in a solid position at the top of the table going into slip week.
Mom went to our superstar new keeper Jenna BL for keeping us in the game.
Dod went to mum to be Liv Corry who will one day learn to sign her name properly.
Please do email your match report to wappingnewsletter@gmail.com if you would like it featured in the backpost!
Results update:
Last week in a line: WLLLDDLWWDWDWWWWD
Fixtures this week
Member discounts:
Check out our Members' area (Password: whc1989) which has all of our available offers, including:
20% off NuSmile dentists
A free Psycle session
30% off Grubby meal kits for 4 weeks
2 weeks free trial of El Tab app giving members 4 free drinks in London nightly
20% off Sharp Movement
Discounted club trip to Leyton Orient on February 13th 2024
