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August 2008	The Oxford Development Group (Rover, City & Hawks) will be running a Leadership Course 10.00-16.00 on 26th, 27th and 28th August at Banbury Road North with Greg Wade, our community coach leading. Please see attached for details. More details are here: http://www.englandhockey.co.uk/page.asp?section=90&sectionTitle=Leadership+Award The course is nationally recognised and is aimed at young people 13 to 16 years old to give you a taste of umpiring, managing and coaching hockey. The cost is £30 but this will be paid by the club for those who volunteer to help with a younger age group most weeks next season. PLACES ARE VERY LIMITED - First come first served. Please respond to me by 14th July if you would like to attend. nickm@maldens.net
July 2008	Summer Newsletter Following an independent Nominated Officer visit and subsequent verification of our club assessment file, we have been re-awarded the England Hockey ClubsFirst and Sport England's Clubmark accreditation. Clubmark is the generic award for 32 sports and is a nationally awarded accreditation.
March 2008	Our Clubs First assessment took place on the last day of the season for our re-accreditation and I'm pleased to report it went well. The folder will now be submitted to England Hockey and we expect to be re-accredited later this year.
July 2007	Summer Newsletter (pdf)
December 2006	Rover host U8, U10 and U12 mini tournament
May 2006	U9's Represent Japan in Nottingham
April 2006	Festival Report
March 2006	Stix Awards Results
February 2006	Sunday 26th February 2006 U11's Runners up in County Minis For those who weren’t there, we lost in the final on penalty strokes to St. Hughes – another really good afternoon for the team. It started off badly with a 1-0 loss to St. Hughes (own goal, very cold Tilsey park, things looked grim!), and then we went on to beat City 1-0, Banbury 5-1, and Wallingford 2-0, to make the semi-finals where we met our old friends Hawks. In our best display of the day we shut them out 1-0 to make it to the final against St. Hughes. The final was mostly even although we did have the best chances, and ended 0-0. The strokes went narrowly against us. However, in very cold windy conditions, we again showed what a good attacking side we are – we were almost good enough to represent the County! It is a real joy watching our u11’s at the moment, (especially when we beat City and Hawks) (enough of that..Ed.) Cheers, Andy and Dave Sunday 12th February 2006 Banbury 4, Rover Oxford 5 The match between Banbury and Rover U16 boys proved to be a very close affair with 10 men Rover just edging it. Rover dominated the first 10 minutes only to see Banbury score on their first attack but Rover equalised immediately through Matt McKeown , the remainder of the half being closely fought but 2 goals from John Cambell giving Rover a deserved halftime lead of 3 - 1. The second half proved to be as exciting as the first with Banbury pressure bringing the game back to 3 - 2 and then against the run of play Matt McKeown scoring an unstoppable shot from a short corner. Banbury continued to press and with 5 minutes left equalised at 4 -4 only for John Campbell to score a superb individual goal. Rover held on to win 5 - 4 despite intense pressure from Banbury in the last 5 minutes. A game full of great individual skills but also a superb team performance from Rover.
January 2006	Sunday 29 January 2006 U12 Runners-up in Wallingford Tournament We got into the final with 4 wins out of 5 in the round robin and with 12 goals for and 1 against, including a 3-0 win against the eventual winners! Sadly our final against Marlow ended in a 0-0 draw in which we again had the majority of the play and chances but didn’t take them. This led to a penalty competition ( shooting into an open goal from the half way line) and unfortunately 4 of our players couldn’t locate the goal. However, due to similar loss of memory on their side the shoot out went right down to the last shot. For the record, we beat Tilsey 4-0, beat Wallingford 2-0, beat Maidenhead 3-0, lost to Hawks 1-0, beat Marlow 3-0, and then drew with Marlow 0-0. Overall I would say we were the best team on show in terms of chances created and maturity of our play – we are becoming a really good team with lots of players making chances and goals for each other. Sunday 8 Jan U11 Win Witney Tournament Rover Oxford beat Hawks 2-0 to win Witney u11 Mixed team Tournament Now that is what I call a decent way to start the new year. On the way to the final we also beat West Witney 1-0, Bicester 3-0, drew with City 0-0, and beat Banbury 1-0 in the semi-final. No one got a proper shot on goal at us and we spent most of the time peppering the opposition goal. And this was with 5 u10 players and 2 u12 players, so we have some good players on the way up. Congratulations to Maika Chappell, Annabelle Lawton Smith, Max Lake Thomas, Joe Brownill, Kieren Williams, Noah and Harry Stephenson.