Lansdown Mens 4XI compete in the Hereford & Gloucestershire Division 2 of the Wales & West League.
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Saturday 5-Sep-09 |
Club day tournament & BBQ @ Bournside School (meet at: 15:30 - push back: 15:45) |
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Saturday 12-Sep-09 |
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Saturday 19-Sep-09 |
Stroud B Away @ Stratford Park Leisure Centre (meet at: 12:30 - push back: 14:00) |
Won 4-2 |
Will Ganniclift Sam Maylott Nick Chittock Bob "The Hammer" Moxom (MoM: Sam Maylott) |
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Saturday 26-Sep-09 |
Cleevilians a Home @ Bournside School (meet at: - push back: 15:30) |
Lost 1-5 |
Mark Davidson |
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Saturday 3-Oct-09 |
Gloucester City C Away @ (meet at: - push back: ) |
Lost 1-4 |
The hooded claw Bob Moxom |
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Saturday 10-Oct-09 |
Sherborne a Away @ Over there (meet at: 10:45 - push back: 11:30) |
Draw 3-3 |
Niall Hyndman Niall Hyndman Niall Hyndman (MoM: The tooth Fairy for granting my wish) |
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Saturday 17-Oct-09 |
Cirencester c Home @ Bournside School (meet at: 16.30 - push back: 17:00) |
Draw 2-2 |
Jon Dudbridge 1 Will Carr 1 |
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Saturday 24-Oct-09 |
Hereford b Away @ (meet at: 08:45 - push back: 10:30) |
Won 2-1 |
Nick Chittock (2) |
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Saturday 31-Oct-09 |
Winchcombe Home @ Bournside School (meet at: 15:00 - push back: 15:30) |
Lost 1-2 |
Jon Dudbridge |
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Saturday 7-Nov-09 |
Cheltenham d Away @ (meet at: 10:30 - push back: 11:00) |
Lost 1-3 |
Dave White |
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Saturday 14-Nov-09 |
Gloucester city d Home @ Pates Grammar School (meet at: 12:15 - push back: 12:45) |
Lost 2-3 |
Will Gannicliff Angus Young |
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Saturday 21-Nov-09 |
Ross-on-wye a Away @ (meet at: 11:30 - push back: 13:30) |
Lost 1-5 |
Oops |
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Saturday 28-Nov-09 |
Cirencester b Home @ Bournside School (meet at: - push back: 17:00) |
Draw 2-2 |
Jon Dudbridge Angus Young |
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Saturday 5-Dec-09 |
Wotton-u-edge a Away @ Castle School Thornbury (meet at: 12:30 - push back: 14:00) |
Lost 1-5 |
Angus Young
(MoM: Graham Hill) |
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Saturday 12-Dec-09 |
Newent b Home @ Bournside School (meet at: 15:00 - push back: 15:30) |
Won 3-0 |
Three Musketeers |
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Saturday 19-Dec-09 |
Newent b Away @ (meet at: 12:45 - push back: 14:00) |
Won 2-1 |
Its a bit chilly rematch please (Rematch scorer Dave) (MoM: Dave Kim) |
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Saturday 26-Dec-09 |
Santa and the elves |
Won 3-0 |
Rudolf, prancer and Bob |
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Saturday 2-Jan-10 |
New year resolutions |
Lost 0-1 |
Start winning |
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Saturday 9-Jan-10 |
Wotton-u-edge a Home @ Bournside School (meet at: - push back: 15:30) |
Draw 0-0 |
Oh the weather outside is frightful, the fire is so delightful, rematch please |
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Saturday 16-Jan-10 |
Cirencester b Away @ Deer Park (meet at: - push back: 13:00) |
Lost 2-3 |
Angus Young and Will Ganniclift
(MoM: Phil ) |
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Saturday 23-Jan-10 |
Ross-on-wye (dave XI) Home @ Pates Grammar School (meet at: 12:30 - push back: 12:45) |
Lost 2-3 |
Dave Young Dave Dudbridge (MoM: Dave Carr) |
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Saturday 30-Jan-10 |
Gloucester city d Away @ (meet at: 13:30 - push back: 14:00) |
Draw 0-0 |
Called of due to the aliens stealing gloucesters team, crop circles are real |
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Saturday 6-Feb-10 |
Cheltenham d Home @ Bournside School (meet at: 15:00 - push back: 15:30) |
Won 2-1 |
Jon Dudbridge pair of beauties
(MoM: The three/four/five subs that just kept arriving) |
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Saturday 13-Feb-10 |
Winchcombe Away @ The M5 motorway (meet at: 14:30 - push back: 15:00) |
Lost 1-3 |
Will Ganniclift
(MoM: The cheap balls that kept breaking) |
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Saturday 20-Feb-10 |
Hereford b Home @ Bournside School (meet at: 15:00 - push back: 15:30) |
Draw 0-0 |
Again the crop circles appear and the opposition disappear, oh well rest weekend
(MoM: Phil Sidey- Captain Fantastic) |
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Saturday 27-Feb-10 |
Cirencester c Away @ Cirencester college (meet at: 11:00 - push back: 12:00) |
Lost 1-2 |
Will Ganniclift
(MoM: Graham Hill) |
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Saturday 6-Mar-10 |
Sherborne a Home @ Bournside School (meet at: 15:00 - push back: 15:30) |
Won 10000-0 |
Romulus and Vulcan must be full by now, alien abductions meant no game AGAIN
(MoM: Our Captain for putting up with me) |
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Saturday 13-Mar-10 |
Gloucester city c Home @ Bournside School (meet at: 15:30 - push back: 15:30) |
Lost 1-2 |
Tony Moule
(MoM: everyone of course) |
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Saturday 20-Mar-10 |
Cleevilians a Away @ Christ College (meet at: 13.00 - push back: 13:30) |
Lost 2-3 |
Will Ganniclift (with the most rubbish yet scoring stroke)
(MoM: Niall "stand in stonewall" Hyndman) |
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Saturday 27-Mar-10 |
Stroud b Home @ Bournside School (meet at: 15.00 - push back: 15:30) |
Draw 3-3 |
J. Dudbridge W. Ganniclift C. Jockleson (MoM: Stonewall, as always) |
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Saturday 3-Apr-10 |
Easter hols |
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Saturday 10-Apr-10 |
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The honourable mens 4th XI, aka lions, have now finished their season
The final summary………
So the curtain has fallen for the final time on the Lansdown Lions season, 26 matches played some won, some lost and a lot drawn. What a rollercoaster ride we have had my friends, the giddy highs when stuffing Stroud and the demonstrable lows being spanked by Wotton. At least we can say we tried.
But is trying enough I ask.
Well in this case, no.
What we want, need, desire is the one thing we cannot have. MORE. The season is too short we were only just starting to get going a la super tankers, long time to speed up but once going the bow wave of yellow and black was to be inexorable.
How do you summarise the season, I will go with three words. Educational, shaping and enjoyable
Educational, we learnt about each other and what we can do, some can do lots and will do great things. Others, not so much, at least the worst player on the team knows who he is and is happy with being the most attractive male in the club, well at least his mum thinks so, shame his wife does not!, Sidey back off.
Shaping, younglings gained experience that will be invaluable for their coming years, not just in hockey. The talks, that a certain member of the team gave, will stand them in good stead for life, or at least keep them out of jail.
Enjoyable, this biographer has played all types of sports for the last 25 years and I have found this team has that rare quality, they realise in the end it is only a silly game and we are here to have fun. Trust me all you others, play because you want to have a laugh, it does not matter if you get relegated or miss promotion, you will try again in 6 months, it does not matter if an umpire makes a bad call, you will get one going your way next week. I played rugby at a pretty high level and forgot to enjoy it, thus I stopped, lesson learnt.
Enjoy the limited time you have, just 1 hour 10 minutes every 168 hours, it is not much is it. Especially as this weekend marks the point that you have 4032 hours until next season. The Lions do this cheeky banter thing before every game, fun, frolics and festivities during and straight back to banter after. Nice.
So the results.
10th in the league out of 15
Scored 54
Conceded 59
Top scorer- J. Dudbridge
Team player of the year- G. “Stonewall†Hill
Best Goal – W. Ganniclift, you know which one, not the quality, but the humour won it for you
Best/ worst Hair- W. Ganniclift and Sam Bate-Williams, hair cuts alround
Best sponsor- Fox News, they are forcing me
Best flirting with the umpire- N Hyndman
Best foul/ accident/ deliberate cheat- N. Hyndman
Most “sorry sirs†in a match- N. Hyndman
Most match reports- N. Hyndman
Worst match reports- N. Hyndman
Best impression of a spitfire- N Hyndman
Most awards at end of season- N. Hyndman
Ladies and gentlemen I bid you farewell, remember this though.
The Lansdown world is a better place with people like Mr Phillip Sidey, our MIA Captain, without this stalwart of the club, the Lions would not exist and you lot would not play, I bet he has umpired for you all, so thank him and all the others that make this club work, otherwise they will stop and you lot will be playing for Cheltenham. You have been warned
à bientôt mon amis et rester à l'école
Niall
P.S. We again gave Stroud one hell of a game to finish the season, (Stroud B, yeah right you guys were recognised that did not belong), we actually felt sorry for them, so let them draw 3 a piece.
A pity draw, at first good idea but afterwards, not so good. It was as bad a feeling as selling your ex-girlfriends kitten on eBay, good at first, but you feel a bit guilty when you look back on it.
Niall Hyndman on 28/03/2010
Team selection for 20th March 2010
Mens 4s
Cleevilians A (Away)
Ben Sienewicz
Dan Dalton
Will Howes
Alistair Brown
Luke Foster-Turner
Sam Bate-Williams
Angus Young
Niall Hyndman
Will Ganniclift
Gerald Reeves
Dave White
Nick Fairburn
Mike Kim
Mark Davidson
Jon Dudbridge
Meet at Christ College at 1.00pm. Please confirm you can play by contacting Phil by text at 07769658063 or by e-mail at men3@lansdownhockey@hotmail.co.uk.
Steve Vickery on 15/03/2010
Lansdown 4th XI more butch than Chuck Norris
What is the difference between a prostitute and the mighty Lions.
The prostitute gets to play with men.
No game as Sherbourne A have vanished.
I once met someone that believed they had been abducted by aliens, this was a long time ago though, no probes or test, but he did say they were rough and forced him into a small transport pod. The next thing he knew, he woke up and had been rescued by the Police and was being looked after by them in a cell, obviously nowhere else to keep him whilst unconscious.
Lucky guy.
So troops onward four or so matches to go, before we end this years campaign, lets keep scaring the opposition so much they don't turn up, we must be so butch looking or something.
adiós amigos y amigas,
Lucky Pierre
Niall Hyndman on 07/03/2010
So how was your weekend? That is what I will be asked on Monday morning in a horrid Hospital on the south coast.
Fair will be my response, and that is a good reflection on the match.
The gnarled Lions travelled and lost again, but boy it was close, yes Cirencester was the better side and deserved the win, but we finished the game with 8.25 players, Dave White broke down 20 minutes in, then Mike Kim took one hell of a blow to the knee and off he went. the bigger the problem though, the tighter the team gets, weird.
Next weekend we are amputating Will Ganniclift's leg, my hands and Dave Tathum's head, result, one win, tidy
At this point I could regale you with a story of how Lansdown Lions, paid for by www.adultfinder.com, got on, but no, that is not my way, this week it is a quiz with a prize so first one to get all the answers to me wins
1 What year did Lansdown HC start
2 How much was this years annual subscription
3 How many trials did Hercules face
4 How many cards have umpires shown me this year (it is less than Phil expected, clue for those in other teams less than 5)
5 Who is the clubs top scorer (men) this year so far
6 What programme has the big red balls
7 In Atlanta Georgia what is it illegal to do to a giraffe
8 How many rings on the Olympic flag
9 Do I take anything serious on weekends
10 Who starred as the Six Million Dollar Man
11 Did the club make a mistake giving me access to the club website
Email me the answer at my name at aol.com and the prize is yours.
So I am off to have a beer and watch some recorded rugby.
Final thing, man of the match AGAIN (bloody teachers pet this one) Graham stonewall Hill, keeper supreme, nice one sir
Ciao tutti
Niall
Niall Hyndman on 01/03/2010
Men 4th XI match report and a small other thing
So another week has passed into the annals of history and what have we learnt.
Personally I learnt, only playing the lottery when £113 millions are on the line is folly. A punch in the gentlemens jewellery hurts just the same if a man does it or your precious 1 year old daughter does. Starting an argument between two different religions and egging it on gets you in lots of trouble, as aside note if God does exist I am in serious trouble, finally we get to the most important part of the week- St Valentine’s day.
I am male, I don’t care about some twaddle day that has been expanded to encapsulate all that is wrong with this modern corporate world, why the hell should anyone buy a card (£3), Flowers (min £12 but usually £25), Chocolates (£8 because they have added a heart on the printed packaging, the extra print costs £0.00000000001), meal (£45-70) and finally if you are trying really hard, up to £200 on crappy jewellery.
I am sorry but no!
Men of Lansdown it is time the line is draw in the sand, do not bow to this drivel, fight back, say no more!! Why should we be expected to do this, women do sod all for us, they buy a card (or even more insulting, they make one and expect us to appreciate the effort, just go to a shop) and then moan and fire off a tirade that we don’t care, we must not love them and that their mother was right you are not good enough for them.
Garbage, rubbish, tosh and twaddle. I know most men in this club and your female or male counterparts are damn lucky to have you, they should cherish you, love you and treat you special. Where are our gifts, our dinners out, nights on a promise and crappy waste of money bits of jewellery.
NOWHERE.
Well, the revolution starts here with me brothers, I will take the first step, this brave new land will be called “Stag world†and we will be its masters.
Now if I am not allowed to play next week you know the uprising may have failed and I am grounded
P.S. Lansdown Lightning played and got some sort of result, Lansdown Lasers won 3-2 against the Lansdown Lynch Mob/ ladettes/ Libidos (working on this one) and the mighty Lansdown Lions powered by moonpig.com lost 3-1 to winchcombe
Niall “Che Guevara†Hyndman
Niall Hyndman on 13/02/2010
Everything these days are sponsored or in “conjunction withâ€, Football with Barclays, Skiing with Audi, Ant powered by Dec and Catwalk modelling with vomiting. Even our very own Lansdown Lightning (the male 1st XI, I am re-branding everything, the wife is currently trying to stop me changing her name by deed poll to something not suitable for this website) are sponsored by “Snape construction†and the fine ladies section have a hairdresser helping. So it is time the Lions got in on the sponsorship gravy train.
So welcome to a new dawn, the new era (or false dawn and lawsuit) here follows the weekends match report for…………
The Lansdown Lions powered by Viagra, score off the pitch like they do on it
………………beat that Liverpool, scousers powered by beer, quelle supris mon amis. Anyhoo back to the job in hand, a very important thing happened this weekend and then a less important thing, we won and then we lost, great.
Now I understand you lesser teams play less than 24 games in a season, unlike us who have a mammoth season of 26, we would like to say if you are feeling a little out of shape, low on zest or just plain rubbish get your mojo back by coming down and supporting or playing for the Lions in association with “ooooooooooooooo bodyform, bodyform for youuuuuuuuuuâ€, white lycra and rollerblades are not essential but that is how we roll, we also do after dinner speaking and I am a fully qualified masseuse, cheap rates for an exemplary service.
Nearly forgot we beat Cheltenham 2-1 and lost 3-2 against Cirencester, plus good to see the lions have by far the best team bond, evident in the pub with the battle of Britain re-enactment going down well and severe amount of abuse being handed around to all and sundry after the Cirencester match, L’Oreal- its because you ask for it, or am I just covetous
Onwards men time to crush another enemy
Niall “Slendertone†Hyndman
Niall Hyndman on 09/02/2010
The pride of Lansdown have done it, victory at home, now along winded match report would happen normally but I wasn't there. Sorry lads, drinking again and no it's not becoming a problem as some caring sole pointed out.
Lets just say that heroes were found today and the Cerberus was put to the sword, valour, hard work and a ruthless killer instinct put three blades into the beasts heart.
Excellent, but unfortunately the beast is applying plasters to its wounds and will awaiting the Argonauts this Saturday at its home, so onward Jason, Hercules et al to the gates of hell (otherwise know as Newent school, I promise to be sober and do as I'm told
Niall "AA" Hyndman
Niall Hyndman on 14/12/2009
Mens 4th XI- armbands, Rubber rings and a lift home from Noah
The mighty 4th's travelled down to Monmouth to face Ross-on-Wye on a day that could be best described as moist. Upon crossing the border into the land of shepards and dragons, the skies unleashed a torrent of rain that made going tough, we haven't even started the match yet!
We arrived and things did not look good the ladies match on before us was splashing around a pitch that was not draining, wet tops, tick, cold weather, tick.
We got ready and even before the match started, we discuss if it should go ahead, as balls in the warm up were only travelling 5 yards when hit, but stand in captain, Niall "the cat" Hyndman, the umpires and their captain thought we should try. Idiots.
So the first half was tricky rain lashing down both teams were evenly matched, except the midfield were Will "the eel" Carr made a mockery of all trying to stop him. For both teams the only problem was attacking the final third where the water logged pitch stopped the ball dead, making both keepers rushing backs, having to kick out balls that on a normal day would have flown off the pitch. We had a couple of shorts but the lake made it near impossible to do anything with the ball, even hitting an open net for Will Ganniclift proved to much, not his fault though.
The opposition closed the half the strongest with two shorts, the first was saved off the cats' stick and knee and the second, a very scrappy affair, which resulted in their goal, Grahame in goal was unlucky as he had been working well and hard.
Half time, a short break with Nemo and Dory entertaining the masses
The second half started with more water on the pitch and a Ross attacker being tripped, he slid some distance and got a 9.5 from the judges, this lead to the Captains and Umpires having a brief chat and ending the game, best call though not all happy, the following match was cancelled affirming our decision. So a rematch at some point which we will win, if not Will Ganniclift has agreed to shave his head.
Man of the Match- The Eel
Champagne moment- The call off
So Cirencester at home, 5pm is next, so cry havoc and let loose the dogs of war
Niall
Niall Hyndman on 22/11/2009
Men 4th XI-Season So Far including Saturday 14th
So the fourth XI this season are having are bit of a hard time, we have not picked up many wins but this only tells one part of the story. The team is a good hard working bunch with talent and a great work ethic, this was personified at the weekend with the match against Gloucester D, yes we lost 3-2 but as with nearly all our games it was really close, and we could of snatched the win ourselves.
We now have a solid core to the team, Jon Dudbridge, Luke Foster-Turner, Will Ganniclift, Adrian Blazey, Big G Reeves, The Hammer Moxom the list goes on, honest players that play for the team not themselves.
As we all know saturday was interesting in the meteorological sense, Lansdown played in their new home strip, scuba gear, starting brightly, the game ebbed like the weather end to end stuff with neither team nudging ahead. Now I could go on to give a full report but a night of heavy drinking has blurred my memory so lets just say it was a great game enjoyed by all we tried hard and came up short but all teams beware we are getting better every week and will start regularly beating teams. One side note well done Angus Young on your first goal for the club, Kudos sir.
Next week will see a proper match report (maybe) but well done all 4th players and thanks for teaching me how to play out field, starting to get better even tricked their attacker this week
On to Ross men
Niall
Niall Hyndman on 15/11/2009
Lansdown 4th XI lose, but are not defeated
So on what seemed an even hotter day than last week, the 4th XI lost, in what resembled the Battle of Thermopylae. Cleevillians started very well in the opening minutes carving through the Lansdown field entering the D and hitting a reverse stick shot that flew into the top of the net, a bad omen for things to come. After gathering ourselves the men girded their loins and locked shields, no more easy shots. It was clear they had the numbers on us in attack but strong work from Mike Kim, Adrian Blazey and Gerrard Baker, repelled wave after wave of attacks.
This gave the troops chance to counter, Nick "King Leonidas" Chittock led by example, making fools of players many years his senior and twice his size, this inspired others, "The Hammer" Moxom distributed like a demon, and we pushed forward. With the half flying by it looked positive until the opposition hordes got a short, which they dispatched hard and low, Adrian Blazey unlucky to not stop, Lucky to keep his hand. Half time whistle soon followed.
Second half saw much of the same, mass attacks from Cleevillians, washing against our defence and Bob Moxom sending out quick counters to awaiting forwards. But eventually the hordes numbers started to count, goals came from free play, but the damage would have been worse if not for Andy "The Cat" Gayler, stopping many a shot and marshalling our stretched forces. We did wound the beast once, a short corner, pushed out, hit in, their keeper saving only to have Mark Davidson pounce and parry home. Small consolation but still felt good.
This may have been a defeat, but we feel much was gained and will stand us in good stead for the future and the return fixture in which we shall return the favour.
Niall Hyndman on 28/09/2009