After an undeserved defeat in their opening league match to Barnsley 1st last week Slazenger’s Men’s 2nd team deserved their home win against Doncaster 6th on Saturday. Slaz won convincingly 4-2 but loss of concentration cost them a clean sheet 2 goals. Slaz started the match strongly and were continuously creating chances in the first 20 minutes and were soon leading 2-0. The first was scored by Matt Green with an unstoppable shot from a through ball passed by Matt Banks. Matt Green also … [Read more...] about Report: 01-10-2011 – Mens 2nd’s (4) vs (2) Doncaster 6th’s
Mens 2nd XI
Report: 26-03-2011 – Mens 2nd’s (2) vs (6) Hull University 2nd’s
Slazenger Men’s 2nd Team travelled to Hull University 2nd team looking to get a win against a team who had lost their last 5 matches but were unable to do so and ended up losing 6-2. Although Hull were the better team Slaz did put up a good effort and in the first ten minutes there was little to separate the teams and were both creating chances. It was Hull who took the lead with 2 well-worked goals but Slaz got back into the match with a goal from Man of the Match John Sykes, Simon Taylor … [Read more...] about Report: 26-03-2011 – Mens 2nd’s (2) vs (6) Hull University 2nd’s
Report: 12-03-2011 – Mens 2nd’s (1) vs (4) Chapeltown 3rd’s
Slazengers men’s second team hosted league leaders Chapeltown 3s, in the end losing 4-1. Although the result shows why Chapleltown are top of the league, it was a match of two halves. In the first half Slazengers were Chapeltown’s equal creating as many if not more chances than the visitors and both teams could have taken the lead but going into half time the score was 0-0. (Perhaps this was aided by the infamous pre-match team talk from Rob Whawell "We're probably going to lose.....") The … [Read more...] about Report: 12-03-2011 – Mens 2nd’s (1) vs (4) Chapeltown 3rd’s
Report: 06-03-2011 – Mens 2nd’s (7) vs (2) Lincoln 3rd’s
With a heavy loss the day before slazenger men’s 2nd team were hoping to get a result with a home match against bottom of the league Lincoln 3s. The home side won the match 7-2.Although Lincoln are bottom of the league they took the match to slaz who went behind after 10 minutes of end-to-end hockey. This however seemed to wake slaz up who reacted by creating more chances. And by half time Slaz were leading 3-1.The second half started as the first ended with slaz piling the pressure on the … [Read more...] about Report: 06-03-2011 – Mens 2nd’s (7) vs (2) Lincoln 3rd’s
Report: 05-02-2011 – Mens 2nd’s (2) vs (6) Leeds Uni 6th’s
Slazengers Men’s 2nd team travelled to University of Leeds on Saturday knowing they were facing a team pushing for promotion. As they expected it was a tough match with Leeds uni winning the match 6-2. Slaz managed to hold out for the first twenty minutes but the home side were to strong and were soon 3-0 up going in at half time.The second half started as the first ended with Leeds uni scoring two gaols to make it 5-0. Slaz however got themselves back into the match with two quick gaols, the … [Read more...] about Report: 05-02-2011 – Mens 2nd’s (2) vs (6) Leeds Uni 6th’s
