As we recover from 2023’s final weekend of hockey, we reflect upon the fantastic first half of the M6 season. We have collected some key highlights, stats and quotes from the team, as well as some favourite photos.
We hope you enjoy; have a merry Christmas and see you in the new year!
With the restructure of the lower mens teams over the summer, the secret recipe for an incredible 6s squad was deemed to be precisely: 26% heritage-M4, 31% heritage-M6 and 43% newbie. The new-look M6 were baptised in the fires of a 35 degree Barnes friendly, before being hardened in two tough early games, where subs were few due to extreme pitch locations, still outstanding red card suspensions and even some resurgent Covid.
With some secretive late-night poaching of players from the website, we bounced back with a 4-1 victory vs the league leaders at the time, the widely-feared Tulse Hill and Dulwich HC M5s. This enabled us to aim high and target further victories throughout the season, with a special weight placed upon the big scalps.
We followed this up with some gritty 1 goal victories and valiant efforts to throw away victories at the last minute, before we decided to place our sights even higher. Could we fight our way to become the highest team in our division with the smallest goal difference? Having landed in 6th place at Christmas with a -1GD, the game is well and truly afoot.
Our motivational hero Richard has kindly written in to provide an inspiring quote for us to reflect on other the winter break before attacking the second half of the season with this lofty target in our minds:
“The most difficult thing is the decision to act; the rest is merely tenacity”.
Richard, aged 27
Other on-field highlights so far have been a 1-1 draw at BP against leaders King’s and Alleyn’s M2 and a 1-0 win in the late afternoon rain away against East London M4. Off-field, we’ve managed a near-full match tea sweep, a successful curry and some great chocolate bar costumes last weekend.
| Player | Goals Scored |
|---|---|
| Lee Moir | 6 |
| Gareth Brinn | 3 |
| Floris Dobber | 3 |
| Richard Shelly | 2 |
| Gabriel Barnett | 2 |
| Oscar Newlove | 2 |
| Max Lowther | 1 |
| Milo Walker | 1 |
| Mitchell Vieira | 1 |
| Jacob Harvey | 1 |
| Mattie Price | 1 |
| Max Stevensen | 1 |
| Players on track for Tipper’s Grundy Run (Apr-2024)* |
|---|
| Garth |
| Sam |
| James |
| Derek |
| Tony |
| Charlie |
| Ben |
| Sanjay |
| Alex |
| Henry |
| Chris |
| Jake |
| Duncan |
| Will |
11 Games
5 wins, 3 draws, 3 losses.
11 rounds of names.
Goal Difference of -1.
50 Short Corners Won
0 Goals Scored
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Never-before-seen Richard socials that we’re still waiting for
