What’s new for the 2015/16 season

New Clubhouse is now fully open:

The clubhouse at Moulton College (Gate 3) is now open for business. So all post-match teas will be held here. It’s a great venue which will be serving hot food and drinks. Also it has free Wi-Fi, perfect for posting results on Facebook in the signal black hole that is Moulton!

We are still working with the college to improve this space further, for example getting a license to serve alcohol and increasing the size of the room. In encourage Moulton College to invest more in the Clubhouse we need to show them how much we use it, so please make sure you make every effort to attend post match fees and have a drink.

New Menu:

We’ve listened to your feedback and have worked with Moulton College to offer you a bit of variety for Post-match teas. So teas will now work on a 3 week rota:

Pasta

Chilli

Curry

New Men’s Section Coaches:

As previously announced Tom Hewitt is taken over coaching our Men’s 1st XI this season, whilst Christian Howard (Paddy) takes over as 2nd IX coach, and continues his role as club coach. Ladies coaches remain the same as last season.

https://www.saintshockey.org.uk/news/coaching_update

New Men’s 1st XI Captain:

Congratulations to Ashley Smith who has picked up the captain’s armband for the Men’s 1st XI. Ash has been a part of our current 1st XI for the past 2 season and previously played for Northampton Lions before 3 season with Portmouth University. He is a great asset to the club – Congratulations Ash & good luck for the season.

New Committee Members:

Men’s Club player and stalwart, Ian McIllwaine (Macca) takes over as the club treasurer, allowing James Miller to move over and become Membership Secretary.

Hannah Brady joins the executive committee as Club Marketing Officer.

Jamie Cochrane takes on the Men’s Section Club Captain/Representative position. 

https://www.saintshockey.org.uk/committee 

Improved Club shop:

The club shop is having a full re-vamp and will have evening opening times from next week. Massive savings on top brands are available and this year Evovate have taken over kit manufacture from Akuma to overcome the supply issues, they will be holding good stocks of all playing and training kit. Early season kit bundles are available, see other communications for details of these or head to the club website and follow the link to the club shop to get in early. The club shop will be at junior training on Saturdays once per month (dates TBC). Please contact the club shop directly on [email protected] if you need anything, have queries about outstanding Akuma kit orders or would like them to find the ideal item of clothing or equipment for the season ahead.

New opening hours coming soon

New satellite club: Daventry Saints

This year we are working with ex Daventry Men’s Hockey Club members who are interested in playing regular hockey again in Daventry, a new team has been formed and will play as Northampton Hockey Club 7th team in the Central League alongside our current sixth team. Daventry players will be part of NHC as members but will predominantly play their home fixtures in Daventry. They will run under its own budget.

This new satellite club is part of the club’s long term plan to allow talented junior members to progress to the Academy and play in England Hockey Development leagues and ensure that both Moulton and Daventry based Saints prosper and grow. We need to do all we can to support local clubs to ensure that the hockey family grows so that our sport is sustainable.

We are helping to source fixtures, supplying coaches and umpires to them as well as helping them set up another junior section to grow hockey in the Daventry area. They will follow the same coaching programme and should filter seamlessly into whichever side based on playing performance, talent and location.

Daventry Saints members are excited about the new venture and looking forward to being part of a bigger club and hope to attend the Black Tie Dinner, enter teams in the Beer and Grass tournament and have already attended the end of season Golf Day held at Northampton Golf Club.

We are all looking forward to the new season and hope you are too!

From all of the committee & coaches

P.S. Remember to register or re-register your details on the club website.

https://www.saintshockey.org.uk/join