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Instonians	v	Fingal
All-Ireland League playoffs
3rd May 2008
Comber Road, Hillsborough
14:00
COACHING
The Youth Hockey Clinic
Wed 13th - Friday 15th Aug 2008
10:30 - 15:00
Shaw's Bridge
Cost £50
LOCATION DETAILS

Top Scorers

Player

Cup

Lge

Tot

C. Barnes	20	15	35
B. Foy		33	33
M. Gleghorne	9	16	25
P. Dickson		18	18
G. Carson		16	16
N. Louden	6	10	16
G. Frizelle	3	12	15
C. Kirk	2	8	10
A. Kennedy		7	7
J. O'Callaghan		7	7
C. Sturgess		7	7

as of 06/05/2008

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Latest News

Player Registration

For 2008/09 season all players are required to be registered on the IHA Link and we would like all other members to be registered also. More information can be found on the left hand side of the Irish Hockey website or you can register here.

Please help the club administrators and register as soon as possible. It is a simple process and will only take a couple of minutes. When it states that all players are required to be registered it does mean all. If you are not registered then you will not be eligible to play.

Club Training

Training has now started for all club members on Tuesday and Thursday evenings from 7 - 9 pm. All will be welcome on either night until the season starts and then Junior Club will be the Tuesday night.

Fantasy Football

The new season is nearly upon us. New league code is 147757-136278 for this year's action. Join by Saturday 16th at 11 am to get points for the first week. Don't worry if you miss this though as you will have another 37 games to catch up!

http://fantasy.premierleague.com

Youth Hockey Clinic

The Youth Hockey Clinic will be taking place at Shaw's Bridge from Wednesday 13th to Friday 15th August 2008. Times will be from 10.30am to 3.00pm.

This forthcoming hockey clinic will teach the essential skills as well as giving all present the opportunity to play informal matches at their own age group level The Hockey Clinic is essentially a doctor’s surgery for hockey, whereby if a player is having problems with a particular skill they can come to the clinic to consult one of our coaches.

The cost for the 3 day course is £50 (or £35 for second/third child).

This includes coaching from members of Instonians 1st XI coaching staff and players, and an Instonians branded t-shirt.

To register, please complete this form and return to Tom Reid by Friday 1st August 2008.

Irish Hockey League

The All-Ireland League has been re-branded the Irish Hockey League. Instonians will play 5 of the top sides in Ireland over the course of next season on the following dates.

Date	Opponent	Time	Location
18/10/2008	Cookstown	17:30	Shaw's Bridge
29/11/2008	Pembroke Wanderers	18:00	Shaw's Bridge
31/01/2009	Glenanne	15:00 (Sun)	Glenanne
07/03/2009	Annadale	14:00 (Sun)	Annadale
04/04/2009	Cork Harlequins	15:00	Cork Harlequins

With our first 2 games at home it will be vital that we have as much support as possible on these occasions. The game times have been structured so that all club members can attend so you will have no excuse! Put these dates in your diary now.

Inchmarlo - The Instonians Shield

Details of the Inchmarlo annual inter house hockey competition can be found here.

End of Season Awards Dinner

The Hockey Club had a great night on Saturday 10th May when 70 players and friends attended the above event.

Present to present the awards was Club Senior Vice President Ken Woods.

1stXI Player of the Year	Stephen Symington

Junior Player of the Year	Brian Foy

Young Player of the Year	Matthew Martin

Club Person of the Year	David Larmour

Leading Goal Scorer	Chris Barnes

2ndXI Player of the Year	Graeme Carson

3rdXI Player of the Year	Johnny Wales

4thXI Player of the Year	Graham Russell

5thXI Player of the Year	Craig Scott

Instonians Win Place in All Ireland League

Following decisive victories at the weekend over Fingal 5-0 and Bandon 6-0 Instonians won a wild card place in next season All Ireland League.

The league will be split into two Sections and Instonians will play in the same Section as ;

Cookstown, Pembroke Wanderers, Glennane, Annadale and Cork Harlequins.

The other Section will be Three Rock Rovers, Lisnagarvey, Banbridge, Monkstown, Cork C of I and Fingal.

Instonians are likely to have three away games and two home games. This is an exciting time for the Club and one which will require considerable ongoing commitment from the 1stXI squad of players.

Results update

Competition

Home

Score

Away

Result

All Ireland League playoffs

Instonians

M. Gleghorne (2)

A. Cousins (2)

C. Barnes