Winter winners
Last week was a superb set of results all around, with all but one men’s side picking up a win. Our U8s, U10s and U12s put in some fab performances on Sunday, the Women’s 5s furthered their lead at the top of their league table, and many other teams are now sitting firmly in the top 3 as we approach the halfway mark of the season. At this point I would like to say a massive thank you to Lizzie, Matt, Jenna, DvS, the club captains, coaches and captains for all their hard work around performance across the club. There’s been a huge amount of effort and the results are testament to everyone’s hard work 🫶
🎄Christmas Social🎄
Our Annual Christmas social is almost upon us! And this time we’re taking over our favourite clubhouse and turning it into a disco so get ready to party and grab your tickets now! 💃🏾🪩🕺🏼
When?: Sat 7 December, 20:00-1:00
Where?: The Moretown Belle 🔔✨
Tickets?: £10 (available from your team social sec) - bites will be provided.
Why?: 🍻🍷🎄☃️
Dress code: Fancy Dress
Again, there will be prices for the best dressed teams! (judging method TBC 😛)🪩
Fixtures
Our fixtures sec, Eleanor, has done a brilliant job as always and has now inputted the fixtures for the second half of the season - please do update your availability where possible, it really helps with planning.
City and Wharf Hockey League
Everyone’s favourite summer league will be back next year! For those new to the club, the City and Wharf Hockey League is a summer league run by Wapping from April to August and features corporate teams from all across the City alongside a number of Wapping teams and other social entrants. Not only does it provide a cracking summer of hockey but it also funds the Back to Hockey sessions which contribute to our aims of bringing free hockey to the community.
We appreciate that lots of company social budgets reset at the start of the year, so if you think your company might be interested in entering a team, it’s never too early to ask us for information. We’re also very much in need of a team to cover the logistics again - the more people helping, the less work all around and there are roles of all sizes to accommodate any amount of free time. Please email cityandwharfhockeyleague@gmail.com for any information or to offer to lend a hand.
Umpire action required
Hi all, a reminder that it is a League Regulation that all umpires for all league games are registered as umpires in GMS - I’ve just been sent a list by England Hockey and a large number of people doing matches are not registered.
To be clear, this means you need to have the ‘free’ EHO Bronze Membership, nothing higher for insurance purposes.
Why should I care?
Umpires not registered in GMS cannot be added to the match sheets (reg 11.1.4) - which can result in points deductions for the teams involved on a 3rd+ breach (I suspect from the data almost all teams are in this territory of risk already)
Failure of umpires to be registered as members of EHO can result in fines for the club (reg 11.3)
I’m not sure if I’m registered as an umpire, how do I check?
Go to My Profile (under your name in top left hand corner)
Click the Loyalties tab
You should see ‘Wapping HC (Umpire)’
If you don’t you aren’t registered
How do I register as an umpire?
Go to gms.englandhockey.co.uk
Click the “To register for GMS click HERE” link
Select ‘Officiating’ as your role
Enter the same email address as your main (playing) GMS account
Await your verification code
Complete the form, ensuring you select Wapping HC as your club
This will add the Umpire profile to your account
Newsletter sec
Those of you who are glued to your inbox in anticipation of receiving this newsletter will have been sorely disappointed not to receive one last week. Sorry - we forgot! We would be really grateful still if someone can step in and fill the role to relieve a bit of brain space for the Chair/Secretary who have been cobbling it together each week.
Last week’s results
This week’s fixtures
Dates for your diary
Dec 7th - Christmas Social (and last pre-xmas game providing no rearranged fixtures)
Jan 18th - Games restart
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)
