Hockey last night was great. Shame on everybody who wasn't there 🙂
The original plan was to play multiball hockey, but it was raining quite
a bit so we just played as normal. There were only seven of us there so,
I guess we get to call ourselves "hardcore". The rain carried on
throughout the game, reasonably heavy and completely unrelenting.
I've always thought of the pitch as being pretty flat, but was proved
wrong - we ended up with pretty deep puddles in a corner of the pitch,
in front of my goal and roughly in the middle of the pitch. It caused a
lot of miss-passes as the ball just stopped dead when going through
these puddles. The other drawback was the amount of spray - take a swing
at the ball and a lot of water gets thrown up as your stick pushes
through the puddle. Us all being who we are, there were quite a lot of
times when people were swinging at the puddles when the ball was nowhere
to be seen. I suppose we were all pretty wet anyway, so it hardly mattered.
We've certainly not played in quite such wet conditions before, but it
was good fun once we'd warmed up. Suprisingly there were less falls than
usual, even considering that I know I'm not the only one whose wheel
skidded sideways one the sharper turns.
All good fun.
Roger