The Field Hockey Society

I was referring to the old man, not you and your brother, I think I know your faces though.

Ah...again, given our team, old man could be one of about 5! Though I think I know who you mean

Anyone else here assembling/taking a team to the Edinburgh 7s tournament festival in early June? Beer, hockey, partying, and beer! http://www.edinburgh7sfestival.com/info/about-us/

After our dazzling cup run defeating sides from Glasgow and Aberdeen en route we crashed out in the semis last weekend , very happy to have made it to Peffermill though, lovely pitch. The only low part would be when the goalkeeper took me out, first time it's happened

Don't think so, I see you're from Edinburgh which team do you play for?

I used to play for Waverley Inveresk Trinity, but just been playing intra-mural at UoE for the past year due to s**** lecture times and work

That's not great. :/ Hope you don't mind me asking, what position and that are you haha?

Depends what period in my hockey career you're asking haha, in my school days I was centre-back (the few times we actually had a game that is), then when I was at WIT I normally played either full-back or winger I gradually changed to, and now I usually play forward.

Care to regale me with your playing story?

Oh come on, I can't be the only one who plays field hockey here can I?

Depends what period in my hockey career you're asking haha, in my school days I was centre-back (the few times we actually had a game that is), then when I was at WIT I normally played either full-back or winger I gradually changed to, and now I usually play forward.

I'm still in my school days :P.
I started off as a defender and that's where I played for 1 and 1/2 seasons until my coach decided to try me up front for the rest of this season indoors and then outdoors. I'm currently top scorer

A lot of folk at my school used to play for WIT I think, my brother and I used to play for CALA so there was bad blood there!

Aberdeen uni only has a one day 6s intramural tournament, its a pity because I think a longer league would be quite fun and we could probably find enough people for law, medics, sciences and OTC teams.

Clearly a while back, they're short of much-needed youth at my time of leaving!

Yeah intra-mural are a massive amount of fun cos people just wanna have fun (except those bastard serious medics and vets...) we've got at least 9 or 10 teams in our league, that stretches pretty much the whole year, playing eachother 2/3 times.

I guess it is a while ago! My old school coach probably isn't involved anymore to push people along. Inverleith and CALA maybe have stronger youth training sections, though for all I know my old team may have gone to pot as I think my favourite coaches went the year I left.

Medics can be pretty darn annoying... We get a few matches a year but they are so infrequent that my commitments to the uni club tends to prevent me playing.

I'm looking at playing for Highland hockey club next year because I'm moving but I don't know if I'm good enough having let my self get lazy in the uni club and I'm no longer sure what I'm good at.