HockeyBhoy Activity
2024-2025 Season: Two Cup wins in a week After turning down Kettering, I was totally focused in getting the team prepared for the trip to Derriaghy Cricket Club on Saturday afternoon. It was another banana skin of a game, following on from Tuesday's...
2024-2025 Season: Poppies are deflowered When you are doing rather well in the managerial game then it's obvious that you are going to attract the attentions of other teams, and this is no exception whatsoever. So far, I've declined offers from...
2024-2025 Season: Killyleagh conquered in extra time Intermediate Cup success It's safe to say that the back to back defeats from Newington and Coagh have an effect on the dressing room. Whilst the lads are still behind me, the mood has definitely be...
2024-2025 Season: Getting prepared for the trip to Killyleagh The feeling on the bus back from Coagh was a question of: how did we manage to lose that game? The answer was equivocally obvious; we were absolutely dog poo when it came to shots to being...
Great achievement so far, how much transfer funds have you been allocated? Sure you're not doing this on a shoestring budget? Hopefully you're a full time professional outfit now. Be interesting to see how you go on at this new level.
2024-2025 Season: Two losses on the spin… After the dramatic collapse in the last minute in Larne, we knew we had to put it right as soon as possible before it becomes a problem. However, Saturday's opponent in the shape of Coagh United represented a...
2024-2025 Season: Licking one's wounds It has to be said that the mood on the bus coming back from Larne on Tuesday night was as depressing as you can imagine. From looking good at 0-2 in the 26th minute to losing it with two goals in a frenetic fina...
2024-2025 Season: Late goals end the Cup defence The new week would see the start of the hectic schedule of games, four in eleven days. Therefore we might need every body available to us to get us though it. However, I started the week with my second...
2024-2025 Season: Cindy gets the old bullet, but I'm going nowhere…. When the rest of the results came through on Saturday teatime, the big one we were waiting for was from The New Grosvenor Stadium in Lisburn where Newington were in action. Much to...
2024-2025 Season: Ascending to the summit after another six goal show With November now pretty much confirmed, we headed into Saturday's home game with basement dwellers Limavady United with our confidence still on a high. We're unbeaten in six, scor...
2024-2025 Season: Cup capers and other nonsense… The trip back from Portadown was indeed a very happy one indeed. Once more, a much changed line up had come up trumps in what could have been a very awkward Cup game. I could have easily fielded the he...
2024-2025 Season: Six of the best as Hanover are hammered So Saturday means the road towards the National Stadium starts in earnest for clubs like ourselves. We have set an objective this season of actually making the stage where the top clubs enter...
2024-2025 Season: Feeling honoured Coming away from Ballywalter, I felt a proud man indeed. My changed side had gone into a cup match which could have ended in my eyes, an embarrassing exit to a team that plays four divisions below us. That's why I w...
2024-2025 Season: Away the Lads! PSNI enjoy a fabulous five-star night in Ballywalter Having extended our unbeaten run in all competitions to six, we had every reason in the world to feel confident about making it seven on Tuesday night despite think...
2024-2025 Season: Still sitting pretty As we sat on the coach going back to Belfast following that dramatic win at Ballymacash, the question was: had we done enough to ascend into top spot? The answer was unfortunately not as Newington had beate...
That National League has so many former Football League sides in it. Brilliant to be ahead after a third of the season gone, but plenty of hard work needed to gain promotion to the promised land. Out of interest, who are PSLFC?
2024-2025 Season: Saturday came around and with it, a league match. Actually we were one of only four league matches being played as some of the other sides were involved in Intermediate Cup action. Before heading off to meet the boys at The Dub for...
2024-2025 Season: October coming to an end If the League win over Knockbreda had been nothing short of fantastic, then the Steel and Sons quarter-final win against the same opponent was on a whole new level indeed. It had ended 5-2 but I felt we coul...
Interesting…. One thing I would to advise, there is an easier way to do the screenshots without taking pictures of the laptop. Plus it would look more awesome that way, let me know if you need help doing this. Would enhance your story better for sure...
2024-2025 Season: Knockbreda knockout as we make the Final Four The talk the days before the game was what would we expect from Knockbreda on Saturday. Considering that we had beaten them just three and a half weeks previous in one of our best perfor...
2024-2025 Season: Doing the right thing I was about to turn off the radio, and make a very late evening meal when some breaking news came through: Championship side Bangor had parted company with Lee Feeney after almost four and a half years in the r...
2024-2025 Season: Time for a break… The strains of AC/DC's Back in Black sounded as I pulled into the car park after the Queens University thriller at The Dub. A few minutes later, I was walking into the apartment and opening the balcony doors which...
2024-2025 Season: Whatever will be, will be…. As we relaxed in the bar at The Dub, the talk was whether either Miss Coughlan and/or Miss Vorderman would show their collective personalities as well. So did either? Answer actually was affirmative as th...
2024-2025 Season: Drama at The Dub Our first of two possible League games in October was around the corner, and what a game it was. The first meeting of the season between ourselves and Queens on The Dub pitch which we share. For this encounter, we g...
2024-2025 Season: Build Up to Derby Day We came off that pitch at Glen Road, feeling mightly relieved indeed. It could have been an exit and the end of our Steel and Sons Cup defence but the much changed side, managed to get us over the line in and i...
2024-2025 Season: No banana skins in Belfast So the calendar ticked over into a new month, October 2024, and the advent of a new month's games. We were at Glen Road on the first Tuesday evening, playing our delayed Steel and Sons Cup Fourth Round tie...
Look forward to this, screenshots bring stories to life in my eyes. Should be an interesting challenge ahead.
2024-2025 Season: Wake Me Up When September Ends, oh it has…. The Newington fixture in Larne saw the conclusion of September which has seen the league programme now showing at almost 25 per cent, as well as progression in the Steel and Sons Cup which...
2024-2025 Season: A Tale Of Two Penalties With sincere apologies to Charles Dickens' family circle…. So you can imagine that the atmosphere in that home dressing room on Wednesday night at The Dub was rather happy, in fact delirious would be a b...
2024-2025 Season: Knockbreda knocked off the top After losing that first game of the season on Saturday, the immediate response in the away dressing room and on the team coach bound back for Belfast was: we're going to put this right, and we're gonna...
That's some hammer blow of a game that mate, never known anything like it. Hopefully, the mid-season break will allow bodies to start to heal and you come back stronger. You are not out of this, just keep believing and destiny will take its hand. Per...
2024-2025 Season: First League loss of Season Two So after the Nicola Coughlan appearance at our last game, and no I didn't get her number to ask her out on date, we started to prepare in earnest for the trip out to Rathfriland on the Saturday. The t...
2024-2025 Season: Getting Ready for Rathfriland Our next task was to go to Rathfriland Rangers, one of the league's two maximum point holders after three matchdays. It's a team that we have had some good success against since I was appointed in July...
2024-2025 Season: Shaking hands on a draw So that's what it had all been about, then? As the Lads finished getting ready for the referee's bell to sound and time to take the field in our third League game of the season, I wandered over to Johnny Wils...
2024-2025 Season: Big Mood revealed on Rivalry Day So waking up on Saturday morning was a bit of an excitement, just like a child on Christmas Day waiting to see what presents Santa had brought. Yet the excitement was that of picking up my first ever...
Some challenge that especially that massive debt burdening you, but giving it a go is a real test. Good luck with it.
2024-2025 Season: Midweek Musings Malachians had given us a game, that was the general consensus in the dressing room after Andrew Ferguson's late penalty saw them off in the Third Round of this season's Steel and Sons Cup at Shore Road Playing Field...
2024-2025 Season: Fergie time penalty sees us progress into the Fourth Round After seeing our League Cup journey end in the Second Round once more, we had the chance to pick ourselves off the floor and continue with our defence of the Steel and Sons...
2024-2025 Season: A loss under the lights of Larne Losing two pieces of the puzzle is bound to hurt, but what can you do. To be fair, losing Sousa has stung more than the loss of McKeown and why is that so: well I thought he would be responsible and...
2024-2025 Season: Good news and Bad news… We didn't add the squad on the final day of the transfer window, a decision that didn't go down well with one particular member of the squad. Teenage midfielder Ethan Sousa, who arrived this summer on a...
2024-2025 Season: Distillery left punch drunk as superb first half has them in handcuffs That end of the first month would see us head on our travels to Lisburn to face foes Distillery. Whilst we had defeated them in the Steel and Sons Cup semi-final...
She might make a re-appearance at some point, watch this space.
No worries, looks a good challenge ahead. I'm trying my own underdog story out in the semi=pro leagues of Northern Ireland where 9% per cent of the squad are on amateur contracts so can leave at any time. Toughest managerial career I've played so far I te...
Crashing fall there, need to put it behind you and bounce straight back. Can't let one result define your season already.
2024-2025 Season: Portstewart put in their place Playing midweek saw the Lads ready for the start of the bread and the butter that is the league. With so many options now available in every position, it might be a case of rotation to try and keep eve...
2024-2025 Season: Preparing for the midweek It was a really good feeling to start the new season with a win, and a comprehensive one at that. No disrespect to Seagoe, who gave a good account for themselves, but we could have easily hit double figures...
2024-2025 Season: Six of the best on the opening day The wait is over, we are into season two with Northern Irish semi-professional (as they are at present) side PSNI FC. After a decent 2023-2024 campaign where we finished a creditable 6th out of 14,...
2024-2025 Season: Six of the best on the opening day The wait is over, we are into season two with Northern Irish semi-professional (as they are at present) side PSNI FC. After a decent 2023-2024 campaign where we finished a creditable 6th out of 14,...
Is this story still active please?
Is this your active story at the moment? Please could you maintain this story if so; thanks.