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Home Nations Hockey round-up »

The placings in the Home Nations hockey tournament were decided on a sunny Thursday at Peffermill. The Northern Irish Universities team made it three wins out of three with a sublime 9-0 thrashing over the Welsh side. A goal up inside three minutes, Ph...

Fri 16 Apr 2010 by Jonny Brick | Read more »

Women's Hockey: Scotland v Northern Ireland »

Emma Stewart and Philippine Berly both shared the match both as the Northern Irish team strolled to a win against Scotland, who were outplayed in midfield and stopped by a resolute Irish defence who, despite giving away possession under often no pressu...

Fri 16 Apr 2010 by Jonny Brick | Read more »

Women's Hockey: England v Wales »

Two goals in five minutes sunk a Welsh team who didn’t help themselves by conceding turnovers too often. English attackers were quick to pounce on those frailties, which Wales should not blame on the overcast conditions and light winds. Welsh kee...

Fri 16 Apr 2010 by Jonny Brick | Read more »

Men's Hockey: Northern Ireland v England »

Jake Beaumont was the hero for the English side in a match where they were pegged back twice before his late tap-in secured a famous win which boosts their chances of winning the hockey tournament. At one stage Northern Ireland had nine men on the pitc...

Fri 16 Apr 2010 by Jonny Brick | Read more »

Men's Hockey: Scotland v Wales »

Glasgow Caledonian University and Scotland’s Gordon Munro was scripted to take a sixty-seventh minute penalty flick to give the Scots an equaliser. He was the most vocal and skilful of the Scottish players, and helped peg them back from three goa...

Fri 16 Apr 2010 by Jonny Brick | Read more »

Women's Hockey: Scotland v Wales »

Moments of both magic and tragedy permeated a stunning no-score draw in a game dogged also by whistles by the officials for niggling fouls. These broke up play considerably as players frequently sprinted into contact and hoped the officials would be ki...

Tue 13 Apr 2010 by Jonny Brick | Read more »

Women's Hockey: England v Northern Ireland »

The sun seemed to strengthen the best hockey players from Northern Ireland’s universities, most of whom play for Queen’s Belfast or Ulster University, familiar with each other’s tricks and treats. Together the players united to put fo...

Tue 13 Apr 2010 by Jonny Brick | Read more »

Men's Hockey: Wales v England »

An exciting final fifteen minutes were an apt close for a very evenly-matched contest in which the silkiest players from Welsh universities held onto their lead despite Alex Simpson’s well-taken brace. Had the English captain Josh Gunnell not bee...

Tue 13 Apr 2010 by Jonny Brick | Read more »

Men's Hockey: Northern Ireland v Scotland »

It could have easily been twelve, such was the Northern Irish dominance. David Forrester and Duncan Birse, who had good seasons for Edinburgh Uni respectively in goal and centre-half with many matches on the same Peffermill turf on which they lost this...

Tue 13 Apr 2010 by Jonny Brick | Read more »

Varsity 2010: Hockey »

As the clouds drew ominously overhead, both first teams of Edinburgh University were untroubled by their opponents, aggregating eleven balls in the net though, with more clinical finishing, it could well have ended up as thirty. The women were sharper...

Thu 18 Mar 2010 by Jonny Brick | Read more »

Hockey: Not in the same league »

UoE Hockey Women 3rd

A brisk but cloudless March day brought frustration to the Edinburgh hockey side. Team captain Will Butler, starting on the bench, wore glove and jersey again after a few months bellowing from the side in a suit, but he was mute after five minutes of t...

Wed 17 Mar 2010 by Jonny Brick | Read more »

Hockey: Five for the Final »

The shadow that crept across the Peffermill pitch did not darken the attacking prowess of the home side in an entertaining derby in this Scottish Universities’ Confederated Cup semi-final which was dominated and won with style by Edinburgh's thir...

Wed 10 Mar 2010 by Jonny Brick | Read more »

University of Edinburgh 4-1 Watsonians  »

Three goals in a University first-team fixture stands as an eternal anecdote which grows in its telling as time passes. With two excellently-flicked penalties and the easiest of two-yard finishes, Neil Fulton’s cool head saw Edinburgh through on a fros...

Mon 01 Mar 2010 by Jonny Brick | Read more »

Edinburgh in buoyant mood after four-goal win  »

Three goals from penalty corners and two more marked with the touch of individual class and finesse won Edinburgh this fixture in an eventually one-sided affair. The clouds came out to look upon the sides, and nearly saw a goal in the first half-minut...

Sat 13 Feb 2010 by Jonny Brick | Read more »

Spitting hairs »

Edinburgh have scored two goals (both against Manchester Uni) in their five league losses this season, last month thumped seven-nil by Durham at home and losing last week by a single goal to Birmingham. The same result came in the first fixture between...

Wed 18 Nov 2009 by Jonny Brick | Read more »

A pyrrhic draw »

The last time these local rivals met, Edinburgh won 3-1, Fraser McCurdy scoring two of them. Today spoils were shared in a hard fought contest that ended in a draw. Watt’s midfield snuffed many of Edinburgh’s attacks, which were rebutted t...

Wed 18 Nov 2009 by Jonny Brick | Read more »

Watt secure big win »

A women’s conference match between these two sides would better be shown in binary system, so comprehensive was the victory by the home side. Glasgow Caley’s first match of the conference was a drubbing at the hands of a side which didn&rsq...

Thu 05 Nov 2009 by Jonny Brick | Read more »

Ghouls and Goals »

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On the day when Arsenal crushed Tottenham in the Premiership, a different derby was happening at Peffermill, as Watsonians brought their first two teams to jostle with Edinburgh’s two top teams, fresh from high-scoring contests midweek, on Club D...

Sat 31 Oct 2009 by Jonny Brick | Read more »

Physical Wanderers leave with a point »

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Crammed into a hectic hockey schedule at Peffermill, Edinburgh’s men’s 1st XI provided the main spectacle of the day and the team did not disappoint an on-looking crowd. In a fast and frenetic game on the Astroturf, Edinburgh withstood Dund...

Sat 17 Oct 2009 by Tom Hills | Read more »

Edinburgh's 2nds glide to victory over Strathclyde »

Edinburgh's hockey 2nds won comfortably against Strathclyde’s first team with Joe Gray scoring twice to separate the teams in a high-tempo match. The home side began the game well with only acrobatics from the visiting keeper denying them the le...

Mon 23 Mar 2009 by Lewis Mallen | Read more »

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