Spooky Saturday
After a weekend to recharge and actually see non-hockey friends, hockey is back with all teams but the L6 playing this weekend. Perhaps more important is the Halloween social 👻 coming up on Saturday night. This backpost features important updates on socials, reminders about the Formby tour and Rainbow laces campaign, as well as a spooky ghost story to get you in the mood for Saturday!
Note from the Co-Chairs
Thanks for all the volunteering offers! Great to hear so many of you are keen to get involved. Please keep letting your captains know if you’d like to start umpiring/helping coach Wapping Kidds or get involved with fundraising. On a related operational note, your captains will shortly be chatting to you about ‘team roles’. It’s likely you’ll have some of these in your teams already (team treasurer, social sec. etc) but we’ve come up with a list of roles all teams should have to make the club run more smoothly and get more people involved. Watch this space!
Socials updates!!
👻 Halloween 🎃
The Halloween social is this Saturday at The Reliance pub in Shoreditch from 7pm (food to be served from 8pm). We hope you've got your innovative fancy dress planned, there is a prize for best dressed! Tickets are £4, collected by your team social sec.
🌎 World Cup ⚽
We have tables booked for the evening England games (7pm KO), here are the details:
November 25th vs USA from 6pm at Feeney's Irish pub
November 29th vs Wales from 6pm at Wapping Tavern
December 4th vs TBC from 6pm at Wapping Tavern
🎄Christmas 🎅
The Christmas social is on December 3rd - get the date in the diary as it's a busy time of year! It's at Patch St Pauls, with more details to come soon. It would be fantastic to see as many people there as possible to round out what has been a brilliant year for Wapping.
Formby tour: as mentioned last week, we are hoping to get some groups up to Liverpool for this mixed 7s weekend from April 7th-9th. More information and sign up details in the link below
Rainbow Laces Campaign: another reminder that Stonewall’s Lace Up and Speak Up campaign is encouraging players to wear Rainbow Laces in matches this Saturday in support of, and in alliance with, the LGBTQ+ community. Wapping has bought laces so contact your captain on how to get your hands on them for just £2. More information at Stonewall
Fixtures 29/10
Lee Valley Schedule
10:00 L7 v London Edwardians (LV1)
11:30 M4 v Southgate 4 (LV2)
13:00 M3 v Croydon and Old Whitgiftian 1 (LV1)
14:30 L2 v PHC Chiswick 1 (LV1)
18:00 M1 v Guildford (LV1)
John Orwell Schedule
11:10 L4 v West Hampstead 3
12:30 M6 v Wanderers 5
14:00 M8 v Bromley and Beckenham Harriers
15:30 M10 v East London 8
Away Schedule
10:00 M7 v Wanderers 3
10:30 M5 v Harrow 1
10:30 M9 v London Royals 2
11:30 M2 v Spencer 2
12:00 L3 v West Herts 2
13:30 L1 v Southgate 2
15:30 L5 v London Academicals 2
A ghost story: The Haunting of Hackney Wick
Wednesday 22:36
Holly sits at the Beer Merchant’s Tap enjoying a few Floris’ with her teammates after training. They laugh at Shelly’s failed aerial last weekend and deeply discuss the pros and cons of chamois grips. As the group part ways outside BMT to go home Holly catches a glimpse of a small boy in the window of the flats opposite, with slicked back hair as greasy as oil, a face as white as snow, and a suit as smart as an investment banker. Holly quickens her pace to Hackney Wick but she feels his eyes follow her as she disappears into the night.
Thursday 13:03
Holly is countif-ing all over an excel with TayTays Midnights on repeat when she hears a stern knock at the door. Could this be her Halloween costume? Her hello fresh box? Her new Wapping stash? She opens the door expectantly but there is no one there. Just as she goes to shut the door with annoyance she sees the small boy on the other side of her road, pointing at her with intent. She turns back for a second look but a bus whizzes by and, as it clears, he is gone.
Saturday 13:42
Holly is killing it against Hampstead and Westminster. She rolls strong from midfield, attacks many left feet and wins a short. As she lines up at the top of the D to take the corner she feels nervous but excited with butterflies in her stomach. This goal will make her joint top goalscorer with Lucia and put her on track to win player of the season. As the ball is injected and stopped she takes one final look at the goal to take aim when her eyes lock with the greasy boy standing behind the goal. She freezes and her body locks up. As play shifts to the other end of the pitch she runs over to the umpire to ask what he saw. Unsurprisingly, he admits he wasn’t really looking, but Holly knew what she saw.
Saturday 15:47
Holly is feeling better at match teas, content with a soggy sausage roll and smug that she just managed to successfully open three ketchup sachets in a row at Lee Valley. However, this fleeting happiness is shattered when she sees the greasy suit boy on his scooter out of the window.
Saturday 22:04
After a successful pres, Holly is loving the Halloween social at the Reliance. She is breaking out the dance moves, heavily judging other people’s outfits and screaming She Wolf by Shakira at the top of her lungs. However, then she glimpses a small man weaving through the crowd. Surely the greasy boy didn’t make it to Shoreditch? Surely it’s just a ghostly looking M4? Holly sticks with her team, she’ll be safe with them.
Saturday 23:12
Holly goes to the bar to get another drink but feels like someone is looking at her. In the corner of her eye she glimpses a suit. She immediately turns and weaves back through the crowd grabbing her hockey kit and making an exit through a window and, without looking back, she marches to the nearest bus stop. As the bus pulls up she feels a hand grab her shoulder. Instinctively she swipes back with her hockey stick, jumps on the bus and doesn’t look back.
Dragon Hockey Discount Codes
Must use THIS LINK and the following codes to receive discounts!
Sticks: 20% off with code WAPPING20
Bags & Accessories: 20% off with code 20CLUBBAGS
Clothing: 10% off with code 10CLUBCLOTHES
