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REPORTS ON FOOTBALL,FOLKESTONE HALF MARATHON,WHEELCHAIR BASKETBALL,FOLKESTONE BOWLS OPEN DAY AND A CHAT WITH AMY FROM THE OPS HOCKEY CLUB. · The Folkestone & Hythe Sports Podcast

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  Speaker 1: This is Kevin Sports Very Daily on Radio Folkston bringing
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  Speaker 1: you the Folkstone and Hive Sports Show. On today's show,
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  Speaker 1: we have local football reports, a report on the Folkston
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  Speaker 1: a Rotary Club half Marathon, an update on Folkston Indoor
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  Speaker 1: Bowls Club open Day. We've got some Folks do and arrows,
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  Speaker 1: wheelchair basketball news and any other sporty snippets that I
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  Speaker 1: can slip in as it's going to be a busy show.
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  Speaker 1: And my special guest is a media guru from the
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  Speaker 1: Folks and Optimist Hockey Club, Amy Bumpstead, bringing us up
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  Speaker 1: to date with what goes on at this this massive club.
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  Speaker 1: It really is big, as you will find out in
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  Speaker 1: the interview. But to get us started, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: I always like to start with a belter to sit back,
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  Speaker 1: get your air guitar out of the case, and a
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  Speaker 1: duet Laila by Derek and the Dominoes. And do you
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  Speaker 1: remember who the front man was for Derek and the Dominoes, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: of course you do. It was Eric Clapton. And yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I've heard a bunch of Eric Clapton in recent times.
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  Speaker 1: He made some classic track So let's think laid Down Sally.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, the wonderful crooning song of a wonderful tonight
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  Speaker 1: tears in Heaven and one of the we talked about
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  Speaker 1: where songs take you back, I shot the sheriff. I'll
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  Speaker 1: tell you about that another day because this is a
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  Speaker 1: ballshell and we've got loads to get in. So we're
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  Speaker 1: going to start with football folks in Victor who a
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  Speaker 1: lawst Saturday traveled to Horsham in the FA Cup. That
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  Speaker 1: was the third qualifying round and at one time we're
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  Speaker 1: too kneeled down. However, the resilience of this team that
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  Speaker 1: Jay Saunders has put together as persevered and came back
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  Speaker 1: to win three to two against higher opposition. The reward
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  Speaker 1: for this victory is and a wave fixture to South
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  Speaker 1: End United in the next round. The club they are
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  Speaker 1: two divisions higher and they will definitely be up for
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  Speaker 1: it because they were dumped out of the Cup last
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  Speaker 1: year if you remember, by sitting Born United. But before
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  Speaker 1: all that happens in Victor travel to AFC Dunstable in Bedfordshire,
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  Speaker 1: which is this Saturday. They got to play a game
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  Speaker 1: in the FA Trophy third qualifying round. Well, let's face it,
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  Speaker 1: there's a more realistic chance of getting to Wembley now
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  Speaker 1: in the Scaffold Premier Division. High Town came unstuck again
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  Speaker 1: on Saturday with NATO's four one away to Phoenix Sports.
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  Speaker 1: The next game is on Sunday. Yes you heard that right,
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  Speaker 1: It's on Sunday at home in the league, with an
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  Speaker 1: eleven am kickoff against the Witstaball, who are currently tenth.
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  Speaker 1: But Whitstaball are just like unstoppable in the FA Cup
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  Speaker 1: after beating Hungerford tou Nil, a team that are two
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  Speaker 1: steps higher in the football pyramid, but they face an
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  Speaker 1: even tougher task in the next round as they've been
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  Speaker 1: drawn against the National League side Wheelstone, who are four
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  Speaker 1: steps higher. Remember that Witchaball are the lowest ranked club
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  Speaker 1: in the FA Cup, but good luck to them. We'll
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  Speaker 1: be keeping one eye on them and hopefully getting a
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  Speaker 1: reporting from Ellis the visio. Moving on to the NLG
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  Speaker 1: Kent County Premier League and New Romney. We're beaten three
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  Speaker 1: to one by Meridian VP. Now I had to look
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  Speaker 1: this up, but the VP stands for a valley park.
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  Speaker 1: They must be where they play and Hawkins lost two
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  Speaker 1: one to Stansfield. This Saturday. New Romney are away to
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  Speaker 1: Snotlantown Reserves in the Interregional Challenge Cup and Meridian VP
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  Speaker 1: who come from Greenwich have to travel south yet again
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  Speaker 1: as they visit Hawkings in a league of fixture. We
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  Speaker 1: are going to move on to ellis Beckstar and take
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  Speaker 1: me home, Sophie ellis Beekstar two thousand and one, Take
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  Speaker 1: me home. Folks in. The Victor women's team suffered their
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  Speaker 1: first feet of the season when they lost two nilaway
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  Speaker 1: to Herne Bay and the moment they've got a week
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  Speaker 1: off for their next fixture is on Sunday, the twelfth
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  Speaker 1: of October, when they traveled to the Abbey School to
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  Speaker 1: play against the Faversham Strike Force. And finally, folks in
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  Speaker 1: the Victor's disability team came unstuck against the very decent
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  Speaker 1: Chelsea Disability side in the London Inclusion League when they
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  Speaker 1: lost six nill at home on the Three Hills artificial pitch.
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  Speaker 1: Manager Garrett Wilson wasn't very happy with this size performance
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  Speaker 1: and was quoted as saying we can definitely play a
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  Speaker 1: lot better than today. We need to be sharper in
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  Speaker 1: a few areas and also work as a unit. But
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  Speaker 1: there was a man of the match on that day.
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  Speaker 1: Man of the Match went to Sunny Perry. Now the
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  Speaker 1: hockey season is just a couple of weeks old, so
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  Speaker 1: I thought it's a bad time. We had a chat
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  Speaker 1: with Optimist communications secretary, that's her push name. I call
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  Speaker 1: her the OPS media guru. So welcome back to radio
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  Speaker 1: folks and studio, Amy Bump said, Amy, how are you?
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  Speaker 2: I'm good, Cave, how are you?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? Good, excellent, And it's good to see you back
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  Speaker 1: in the studio. And now have you a quiet summer.
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  Speaker 2: It eases off a little bit, but there's still lots
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  Speaker 2: of stuff to do. Obviously during the summer we run
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  Speaker 2: our Friday night mix league, which keeps me quite cavesly occupied.
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  Speaker 2: And the obviously it's a lot of prep for the
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  Speaker 2: new season as well, sorting out fixtures, getting sponsors on board.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, there's always something going.
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  Speaker 1: Always something going on, right, Okay, So I think what
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  Speaker 1: we're going to do. We're going to talk about stuff
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  Speaker 1: that goes off the pitch. First. Now, it's a massive club.
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  Speaker 1: How many teams have you got running now?
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  Speaker 2: So we're at the point now we've got eight men's teams,
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  Speaker 2: six ladies teams, a couple of masters teams, and then
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  Speaker 2: we've got juniors from under eight all the way through
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  Speaker 2: to under eighteen.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, I operation if you add all those players up together,
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  Speaker 1: I mean it must come to well, I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: a couple of hundred.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think we're all pushing about four hundred members.
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  Speaker 1: Four hundreds. Oh well so yeah, so you've got to
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  Speaker 1: have a big team behind the scenes. So start from
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  Speaker 1: the top if you like. How does it work. What's
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  Speaker 1: the hierarchy of the club.
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  Speaker 2: So we obviously have antier committee that run the run
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  Speaker 2: the club on the member's behalf. We have our chair
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  Speaker 2: vice chair, and then we have everything from things like treasurer.
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  Speaker 2: We have section coordinators, we have social coordinators, we have
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  Speaker 2: myself doing all the comms and the media work. We
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  Speaker 2: have safeguarding, like everything that you could think of it.
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  Speaker 1: It's probably right right, I mean, that's an interesting one.
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  Speaker 1: A safeguard in safeguarding must be a tough old job.
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  Speaker 1: But it's every club as a safeguarding officer, now, don't
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  Speaker 1: they Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Now for England Hockey, every club has to have a
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  Speaker 2: safeguarding officer. Obviously we always hope that they're very quiet,
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  Speaker 2: but there is always stuff going on behind and it
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  Speaker 2: is really important that we have that person in place
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  Speaker 2: to deal with anything that comes up.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, right, So what else we've got. So you've got
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  Speaker 1: a busy old job with the media, and do you
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  Speaker 1: have travel prizing reports out of your eighteen six fifteen captains?
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  Speaker 2: Of some of them, some are better, some are better
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  Speaker 2: than others. Yeah, some of very good at kind of
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  Speaker 2: getting it done, just sending it's three straight away. Some
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  Speaker 2: have to be prized out, some will just kind of
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  Speaker 2: write little little paragraph. A couple of them are more
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  Speaker 2: towards the essailor there's some very good writers.
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  Speaker 1: Some of the reports. Yeah, some of the reports are
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  Speaker 1: are fantastic. And then you get other reports. Yeah, lost one, Neil,
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  Speaker 1: but yeah, I love reading them and or congratulations to
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  Speaker 1: everybody that sends them in because just lately and they've
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  Speaker 1: been on my inbox on a Sunday evening at least
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  Speaker 1: on a Monday morning, which is great. So, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: even something like the fixtures you've got all those teams.
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  Speaker 1: Do the league pick the fixtures and let you know
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  Speaker 1: and then you have to correlate with your opponents.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so essentially the league will produce a massive fixtures document.
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  Speaker 2: So if you imagine there are so for the men
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  Speaker 2: there are eleven levels of league that we play in,
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  Speaker 2: so it's a lot of fixtures to coordinate and then
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  Speaker 2: a massive document will come out and then it'll be
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  Speaker 2: down to the clubs to pick their own home times,
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  Speaker 2: sort out pitch slots and things like that and then
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  Speaker 2: communicate that to opposition.
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  Speaker 1: Right okay, but I mean I suppose the beauty of
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  Speaker 1: it is that you do have two pitches to play with,
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  Speaker 1: don't you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're very lucky. There's a lot of clubs that
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  Speaker 2: either have one pitch or they don't even actually have
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  Speaker 2: their own pitch. They have to rent from schools that
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  Speaker 2: rent from local councils. So we're in a really really
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  Speaker 2: lucky position. A lot of other clubs.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean the Three Hills and the Hockey of
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  Speaker 1: moved now is ten years over ten years now, but
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  Speaker 1: there must have been a massive growth in their time
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  Speaker 1: as there.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it's been huge. I mean, going from one pitch
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  Speaker 2: that we had to rent off the council to having
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  Speaker 2: two of our own sports, all our own facilities. It's
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  Speaker 2: really brought people in. And then when there was quite
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  Speaker 2: a boom during in the Olympics, it always obviously raises
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  Speaker 2: interest in the sport. Gets new people in. We do
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  Speaker 2: a lot of work going into primary schools as well,
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  Speaker 2: do outreach work, so that brings new members in as well.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that's interesting, So tell me a little bit about that.
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  Speaker 2: So we have a couple of sort of volunteer coaches
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  Speaker 2: who will go into primary schools and deliver hockey to them.
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  Speaker 2: Most schools don't have pe specialists, let alone hockey specialists
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  Speaker 2: at primary level, so we're able to go and deliver
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  Speaker 2: that to sort of our local town council schools. And
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  Speaker 2: then obviously we give the word out about what the club,
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  Speaker 2: what the club does, and bring June.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So these volunteers they kind of turn up and
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  Speaker 1: with like lots of I don't know, children's style hockey,
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  Speaker 1: yeah and pieces.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they'll go in with kind of appropriate drills and
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  Speaker 2: practices and games and things like that to try and
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  Speaker 2: get the kids interested and engaged in the sport.
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  Speaker 1: But the kids love it actually because it's something they're
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  Speaker 1: trying for the first time. I mean, certainly, when I
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  Speaker 1: was growing up many many years ago, it was football
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  Speaker 1: and cricket and that was about the end of it,
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  Speaker 1: and hockey was more of a not not an elite,
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  Speaker 1: but it was more of a university type of school,
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  Speaker 1: wasn't it, And we had more.
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  Speaker 2: Of a kind of private school universe to it. But
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  Speaker 2: over the last or probably ten to fifteen years, it
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  Speaker 2: has really developed and has played more in a general
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  Speaker 2: state schools.
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  Speaker 1: That's brilliant. I've been down there and seen the kids
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  Speaker 1: playing and they absolutely love it. Oh and one thing,
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  Speaker 1: I've been down there before and there's been because you've
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  Speaker 1: got the facilities, You've had like a junior tournament, haven't you.
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  Speaker 1: We're all the.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so we always host it's normally the under tens,
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  Speaker 2: but we have like county tournaments at the end of
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  Speaker 2: the season, so lots of different clubs across the county
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  Speaker 2: will host different age groups. Like I said, we normally
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  Speaker 2: end up with the under tens, which is somewhere between
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  Speaker 2: sort of thirty and forty boys teams. And then the
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  Speaker 2: same thing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I've been down its many It's crazy.
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  Speaker 2: Is he crazy? Yeah, it's so good seeing so many
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  Speaker 2: kids enjoying the sport that we love. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Right, and if you've got so many teams, probably for
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  Speaker 1: the more senior teams, there is an individual person that
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  Speaker 1: picks the team. But as every team got a a
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  Speaker 1: manager or do they rely on on on captains?
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  Speaker 2: So our higher level teams will normally have a coach
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  Speaker 2: manager sort of in place, but then from their leading
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  Speaker 2: down it is the captains that will be in charge
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  Speaker 2: of their selection. Quite often they will get together kind
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  Speaker 2: of have a little chat and obviously the top level
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  Speaker 2: pick first and then and then it kind of weaves
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  Speaker 2: its way down. But yeah, it is generally down to
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  Speaker 2: the captains, a little bit of input from from others
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  Speaker 2: about who this like, so.
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  Speaker 1: A little bit down the junior level. I mean, you
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  Speaker 1: have to enlighten me on this one. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: the answer to this one. Is it a rolling sub
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  Speaker 1: If someone goes off, can they come back on again?
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  Speaker 2: So all of hockey is rolling subs.
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  Speaker 1: Even in the senior even in the city as well.
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  Speaker 2: So you can have a squad of up to sixteen
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  Speaker 2: on a match day, so you've got your eleven and
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  Speaker 2: then your five subs and it is rolling constantly. There
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  Speaker 2: is no kind of once you're off, you're.
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  Speaker 1: Off, like oh that's good. Yeah, So if someone gets
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  Speaker 1: gets taken off, then you know they've kind of got
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  Speaker 1: to keep warming and note and knowing that they might
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  Speaker 1: be called back on again.
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  Speaker 2: Definitely, and especially at the top level. The idea is
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  Speaker 2: that our players work really, really hard for a short period.
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  Speaker 2: I see actually are forwards. We tell them to blast,
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  Speaker 2: They blast for kind of seven or eight minutes, go off,
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  Speaker 2: have a rest, and then go and do it again. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: so high intensity for short periods of time.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So it's quite tactical then, because I suppose that
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  Speaker 1: the coach can see if there's any weaknesses in the
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  Speaker 1: opposition and think, oh right, you know, we're plug on
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  Speaker 1: that one there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a big opportunity to be able to shuffle
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  Speaker 2: things around, move people around, try different tactics. Yeah, it
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  Speaker 2: works really well, and it's nice to have that little
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  Speaker 2: bit of recovery. Well, I say, have the recovery. All
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  Speaker 2: the others have the recovery. I stand.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we're going to come to that about the second
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  Speaker 1: team and very shortly. But what we're going to do now,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to take a little music break and it
• 13:38
  Speaker 1: will be back straight after this track from the nineties. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: now we're back with Amy and we were just talking
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  Speaker 1: about the second team. Goalkeeper's a bit of a dodgy position.
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  Speaker 1: I know, they're always covered up, aren't they. You just
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  Speaker 1: don't know who's in goal, But amy, where do you play?
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  Speaker 2: So I am that person that sounds in the goal
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  Speaker 2: and go on, hit me with them projectile?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, are you the person in orange on the website?
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  Speaker 1: The picture of it's like you're diving across a lot
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  Speaker 1: of Superman.
• 14:21
  Speaker 2: That is I was super lady that someone took a
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  Speaker 2: really good picture of me last year, So I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to use that.
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  Speaker 1: I bet you get the hell stick taken out the
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: hoky stick taking oiver that one. Okay. So now last
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  Speaker 1: week I popped down there and I watched some of
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  Speaker 1: the games and I had to get my head around
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  Speaker 1: it at first, because certainly the Ladies every single game
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  Speaker 1: was on the three heels pitch, and I couldn't work
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  Speaker 1: it out how they're going to crammel them games in.
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  Speaker 1: So can you explain that. I do know the answer,
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  Speaker 1: but please explain to our listeners what was going on
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  Speaker 1: last Saturday.
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  Speaker 2: So we had a bit of a weird weird one
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  Speaker 2: last Saturday in the fact that all our Ladies teams
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  Speaker 2: were at home. However, technically two teams were away. So
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: unfortunately our Ladies ones got relegated last season, which has
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: put them in the same league as our ladies twos,
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: whereas our ladies' fives got promoted and to put them
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: in the same league as the sports. So they were
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: all playing each other this weekend, which was it's been
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: a really weird week kind of. Even from the training
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  Speaker 2: we separated normally we'll train all together as the ones
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: and two squad. We were literally other end of the pitch,
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: not speaking to each other, doing our own thing. It
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  Speaker 2: was funny but weird.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I thought it was changing. And on the
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  Speaker 1: actual game, I mean, was there any sort of was
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: it better or was it was down to, like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: win this game.
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: It was probably a little bit of bad to sort
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: of during the week building up to things, just little
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: jokes here and there, but kind of when it came
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: to game, they we all knew that we were there
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  Speaker 2: for a specific Greek so we tried to be kind
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  Speaker 2: of as professional essentially about it as possible and kind
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  Speaker 2: of go out and play the best that we can,
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  Speaker 2: kind of representing the club to everybody.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, right, And unfortunately the went if you like,
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  Speaker 1: on paper ere it should have done the first one
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  Speaker 1: three Neil didn't they it did?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, realistically our first should win. They should
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  Speaker 2: be their second, our second eleven. But it was a
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  Speaker 2: really good game. The Ones went up really quickly, but
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  Speaker 2: we did kind of really hold them back. We defended
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  Speaker 2: really really well. Our coach Will was really proud of
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  Speaker 2: the team, and I know Danny was really proud of
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  Speaker 2: how the Ones played as well. They elevated themselves and
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: got the result that they needed.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, And so switching to the other two teams
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  Speaker 1: that played each other, which you weren't involved with, But
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  Speaker 1: do you know anything about that game?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Again, I saw bits of it looked like a
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  Speaker 2: really good game. Again, like I was very competitive, people
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  Speaker 2: wanting to do the best they can. I think they
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: sounded a little more controversial than ours. There was an
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: early disallowed goal fives, but then obviously the fours pulled
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  Speaker 2: away and they got the got the result that theoretically
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  Speaker 2: should have been.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Been so funny enough. It was the same score,
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  Speaker 1: wasn't it three, Neil? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Exactly the same results?
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  Speaker 1: Right? Yeah? Yeah, So in theory everything kind of Winter
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: the Winter playing, isn't it on paper? Yeah? Form form style, Yeah, in.
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: Terms of form and in terms of it kind of
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: shows actually the selection that's been made, is right, and
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: kind of the tactics have been put in place a
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: right because the higher eleven, yes, one on both sides.
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: So if someone is let's say, first against the second.
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: So if someone is signed on for the second team,
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: they can't play for the first team.
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: There is a little bit of maneuverability. Yeah, in terms
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: of obviously we have quite an open selection policy and
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: people are chosen on merit. So even next week one
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: of our girls is going up to play for the
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: once because she had a cracking game last week and
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: actually deserves that.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: Oh so that's allowed, is it?
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, yeah, it does get to a point later
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: in the season that gets very complicated that if you've
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: played a certain percentage for one team. Oh yeah, yeah,
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: it gets very tricky. There's a lot of very all
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: conversations had.
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: Okay, so I mean it still still gives the team
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: in the seconds an incentive to get into the first thing,
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: isn't it. They're not stuck in the seconds.
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: And because we try together as a ones and two squad, like,
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: we can always see where the opportunities are. We see
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: kind of who our equivalent is in that first eleven
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: and kind of whose spot we could try and pinch.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: Right. So just briefly the other two games, it looks
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: like the third team they beat Maystone three one. But
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: I just feel sorry for the six team at the moment.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: It's a brand new team, isn't it? Tell us about
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: the six team?
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so the six team have come in this year.
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: The fact that we've got a six team is incredible,
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: going from when I started, we had just about how
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: three ladies teams, so now to have six and our
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: sixes is a dedicated development side. So normally for adult hockey,
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: the kids can start to play when they're thirteen, but
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: these development sides, they're go in the bottom leagues. They
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: can't come out with the bottom leagues. But the kids
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: can play when they're twelve, so it's kind of like
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: a more gentle introduction into adult hockey. And normally it's
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: a mix of youngsters and quite experienced players that maybe
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: have played at a high level and are coming back down.
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: So it's kind of a nice introduction for them coming in.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: Yes, but unfortunately they have had a game yet, have they. No,
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: they've had two unfortunate weeks, haven't they.
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, So their first week was a bye because there's
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: an odd number of teams in the league, and then
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: unfortunately on Saturday their opposition conceded.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: All right, so that's what they call a walkover, isn't it.
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: Yes?
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, So what happens in a walkover? Do they
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: get the points? Anyway?
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: Generally they will get the points. They'll get an automatic
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: five nil win.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: Five nil, yeah, and then it goes through. Okay, so
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: they haven't played the game for everyone five. Yeah. They've
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: done very well though, Okay, So, I mean the men's
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: was a little bit more straightforward. Having said that, it
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: looks like there was two divisions that had an odd
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: number in them, isn't they. Yeah?
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: Again, I think our threes and our sixes have got
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: I think they've got eleven teams in their league instead
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: of twelve. So they both had their bi weeks this week.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: Right, Well, the men's first team, they didn't do so
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: well the first week out, did they? How did they
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: get on?
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: So they went up to Woking for their first game.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: They lost for one, but they got promoted last season,
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: so they've gone into our Southeast Premier Division, which essentially
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: is one league below national level. So it's really really high, right,
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: and there's teams that have been in that league for
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: quite a long time, very established, some very very good
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: teams and very good players in that league. So it
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: is a big jump up for them. This week they
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: did really well. They got their first points on the board,
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: which is the main, my main.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: Thing for Yeah, they drew too all at home against
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: Marden And I was speaking to Joe Tolhurst from the
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: first team after the four one win and he said, yeah,
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: that was against Woke in and he said, yeah, they
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: were very drilled. They kind of if you like, been
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: playing together for a long time, knew what they were doing,
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: but they felt that they learned a lot from it
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: and they really thought that they could cope with that
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: sort of they never love hockey.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: There's some really experienced players in our men's ones, and
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: I think they will I think they will be okay,
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: But I say they're going to come up against some
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: very drilled, very organized teams. Yeah, but they've got that
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: ability there to do that and to go and compete
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: with these teams as they showed on Saturday.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: Right. So we've got eight men's teams, like we said,
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: unfortunately the thirds and the sixth team and they've got
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: an odd number so they didn't get a game, but
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: looking at the results, I mean it wasn't about our
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: week really was it for the teams? Yeah, it was
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: a good one. Yeah. So when you said that about
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: they're playing if you like, one step down from national
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: just for arguing and saying, what happened If to folks
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: and Optimus first eleven got promoted, what would their options be?
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: So if they obviously got promoted out of the league
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: they're in now, which is the Southeast prem they would
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: go into a National South League. So hockey's very much
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: it's regionalized. So we've got a national league at the top,
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: and then the next league's down are sort of North
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: and South National, and then the country splits into eight
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: areas and then obviously that's all pyramided up and down.
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: So in kind of a football terms, if our national
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: league's premier, our men's ones are probably kind of like
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: a Division one. Yeah, so they won just one below
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: our national league level, right.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: So I mean if they did go up there, you
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: could be talking about if you've got an outstanding player,
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: could be talking about knocking on the door of the
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: England side.
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely. Well, the international scene is quite different, is it.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: With hockey, a lot of it gets picked up. A
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: lot of players get picked up when they're at university
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: and then kind of put through Like the England hockey program,
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: they're picked up at a junior level and then worked
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: their way through. But then people do get picked up
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: from games from clubs. It is more the bigger known
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: clubs that are playing at national league. Yeah, they tend
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: to be the ones that get picked up.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: Okay. So okay, so we've established you've got eight men's teams,
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: six ladies teams, so they all play on Saturday, so
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: let's turn our attentions to Sundays. What happens on Sunday
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: up there, But tell us about the junior sections.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: So yeah, the junior session is massive. Now, like I said,
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: we run sides from under eights through to under eighteens,
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: but we do accept kids from basically when they start
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: primary school. So we have a session in what we
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: call our cage, which is for kind of the real
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: little ones. It's obviously it's a lot of motor skills
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: and just getting them introduced to the sport and trying
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: to get them to enjoy it.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: How old were the youngest ones breathing four or five,
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: four or five. Well, so the hockey sticks must be
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: like tiny.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they're pretty small, very small.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: Softball I think, Yeah.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, softball a bigger ball as well. Yeah, which helps
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: them out.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: Oh great, But like you say, it's if they do
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: take to it, then you've got to start somewhere exactly.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's quite a few kids in there at the
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: moment that are children of current players children. Yeah, it
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: is a big family affair that try to bring the kids.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: Through, right, So you go from five or six year olds,
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: so guide me through these sort of age groups, age
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: groups that they go up till they become seniors.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: So they will play it kind of under eight tens, twelve, right, fourteen, sixteen, eighteens.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: Obviously when they hit thirteen, they can play in adult
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: sides as well, so it might be that they're playing
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: Saturday for their adult side, Sunday for their junior side.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: So yeah, they get a lot.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: Of action, right. Well, yeah, it's funny you say that
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: because in more recent years where they were the under
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: fourteen's boys side, they were they played and got to
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: a National Cup, didn't they. And I watched quite a
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: few of the semi finals and some of the games
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: and you could see that some of them have been
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: playing with the men's mens and they played like men,
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: you know, like they picked up the skills for the men.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: So so playing on a Saturday and a Sunday is
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: just it can't be anything. But they're doing them, doing
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: them good.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: No, the more match practice they get is fantastic. And
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: obviously playing with the.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: Men, they having senior players around him.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: Kind of teaches them how to how to play the
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: game as well, rather than just the skills, which is fantastic.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: Right now, the thing that strikes me is that you've
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: got all these so you've got so many men's ladies
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: teams and so many junior teams. I know you've got
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: two pitches, but how one of you managed like giving
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: time up for training.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: It's a bit of a logistical nightment at the beginning
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: of every season. But our section coordinator, so one Men's
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: Ladies and Junior's coordinator will get together. They will kind
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: of hash out a plan of what pitch base they
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: need for all of their teams. They will then speak
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: to three Hills and get all that booked in and
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: sorted through them.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: Right, Okay, so it does all work. Then eventually it
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: does work.
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: It's like a massive jigsaw. Yeah, everything in it shaped holes.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: And would you say you've got all these teams? Would
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: you say if you like, you're mixed out at the
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: moment or would you I mean, I can't remember when
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: there was only like four ladies teams and now now
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: you're up to the fifteen. Came in a couple of
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: years ago and thought, oh wow, fifty five teams and
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: now you've got a six team. So is there room
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: to move in the club.
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: Obviously we always hope that there's room to move. We
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: always hope that we attract more play More players means
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: more teams. Yeah, yeah, good, good, that's great. There's no
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: ceiling to it, which is great right now.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: And we spoke earlier about all the people behind the scenes,
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: you know, the coaches and managers and captains. But one
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: thing that is really important because you get two in
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: every game is umpires. I mean, if someone, if you like,
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: has got a wants to try umpireing and really wants
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: to go for it, perhaps they doe hockey days are
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: overall injuries and what is the path that they can choose?
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: So England Hockey offer a lot of umpiring courses they're
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: normally done online, so you can obviously register for those courses,
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: take the course, but then you have to be assessed.
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: So different levels of hockey require different levels of qualification. Obviously,
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: the higher standard you're playing, the higher standard of qualification
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: you need. So our top men's ones, men's and ladies
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: ones and twos get what we call Paul umpires, so
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: they are given to us by buying by Southeast Hockey.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: They're organized for us, but then everyone else the home
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: club provides both umpires. So obviously we will put our
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: umpires through courses. We have sort of a lot of
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: junior umpires, so we try and get them in early.
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: They go through their courses and then they will get assessed.
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: So basically they have to umpire a game while being
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: watched by somebody to make sure that they're up to.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: The right standing right And I mean, do you ever
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: turn up at a game and they're struggling for umpires
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: and somebody els to go in. Do they still have
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: to be qualified? Yeah, one of the mums.
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: Junior level, it's a bit easy flexible. But with our
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: Saturday League games, yeah, those those top teams and most
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: of the way through I think it's only sort of
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: the men's and ladies bottom teams that can have sort
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: of an unassessed That's what I'm saying. Yeah, they've not
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: necessarily been assessed. But yeah, umpiring is always a tough
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: one for us because a lot of people are still playing,
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: so they will balance their playing and their umpiring in
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: the same days. Again, it's lots of try organized.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: So were the first, the men's first and the ladies first?
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: Do you in the club? Do you have any umpires
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: that are in that pool that go to other games?
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: We don't this year that I'm aware of. We have
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: in previous years. We've kind of put umpires into the pool,
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: but then they will never umpire us. They'll be off umpire.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: Right, yeah, yeah, yeah, Okay. Last little bit I want
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: to talk about is if you like they call it
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: master's hockey, don't they? So, I mean, people can play
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: hockey from under fives to I mean, there's a certain
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: gentleman that plays for England and how old is he?
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: So, Brian now is eighty five?
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: Eighty five? This is Brian Murrall we're talking about. So
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: you can go from five to eighty five, Yeah, exactly, that.
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: There is no stop. So yeah. So so master's hockey
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: starts at over thirty fives and it goes up in
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: five year brackets. We had four players go to European
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: Championships last year, two gents, so Brian with the over
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: eight sees, Nick who was the over fifties for England,
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: and then we had Steph who was representing Scotland for
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: the over thirty fives and Claire who was representing the
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: Alliance for over thirty fives, which is essentially kind of
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: the Barbarians of hot It's a bit of a michmash
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: of lots of different nations coming together. So they all
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: went out to Valenciays playing in European Championships.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: It's great that there's not many sports that go on
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: to that age. Not really at all. I can't think
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: of well at all. Of course. The other thing you do,
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: big pat on the back to all those that represented
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: the countries from folks and optimists is, of course the
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: summer league, if you like, is a mixed game, isn't it.
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, So we're one of the only sports as well
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: that plays mixed So we run a mixed league over
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: the summer, which essentially is you play with five men,
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: five ladies and a goalkeeper so it's a nice a
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: nice even split and then the game. The game gets
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: played as normal, but it is a men's ladies mixed
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: mixed side and our Friday night one. It's very sociable.
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: It's it's a very high standard now as well. It's
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: really developed over the last few years and we get
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: teams over from sort of Canterbury Deal, Herne Baylcom even
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: the team from far down as Hastings all come up
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: on a Friday night and we have a great time.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: Right. That's another tick on the box really for the facilities,
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: because you can do it, caren't you. Two pitches a
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: couple of games.
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: We put four games through and through an evening. Yeah,
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: and obviously having those two pitches.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: Really well do that well. I mean amy for somebody
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: that plays hockey and they must just absolutely love the
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: buzz that goes on down at the Optimists. You've got
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: so much going on considering I remember over ten years
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: ago when we used to play from the other pavilion,
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: the cricket pavilion, and the pitches were all grass and
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: you never saw them looking so good as they did
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: at East.
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: They're perfect back then.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: Oh, I remember the hockey pictures. There were a lot
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: of bowling greens at Easter because of the Easter tournament.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: But now Amy, it's been really really good just getting
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: up to day. I love having you come in and
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: telling me and everybody out there about the Optimists. So
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: is there anything else you want to add? Let's wind
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: it up with I don't know any contact details, an
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: if someone wants to get back to hockey, how do
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: they get in touch with you?
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: So the best way to get in contact with us
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: is either through our website all through our social media pages.
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: We're on Facebook, we're on Instagram, so you can find
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: a lot of information on there and obviously all our
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: contact details as well.
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: Amy, thank you so much for coming in. It's a
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: bit of pleasure to speak to you. And sorry about
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: the three goals you let in the weekend. Thanks, but
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: I'm sure you'll be knocking on the door of the
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: first team any day soon, especially with that flying or
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: Orange is Flying Orange? Amy, Thanks so much and I'll
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: probably see you one Saturday out the three Heels.
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: No problem cap of Thanks rock Oh coach is love.
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: No?
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: I cannot tell you.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: Same From nineteen ninety the shoop shoops are and we share.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: And before that we listened to Amy Bumstead telling us
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: just about everything that goes on at the Folks and
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: Optimiy's Hockey Club. She's such a knowledgeable lady, you know,
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: it's great having her in. And the interview did go
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: on a bit, I must admit, but there was so
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: much to talk about. So yeah, I hope you enjoyed that.
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: So we're going to crack on and see if we
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: can squeeze the rest of the sport in now. Sunday,
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: I was on the mic at the Folks and Rotary
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: Half Marathon where six hundred and fifty eight runners successfully
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: crossed the finishing light. It was a glorious sunny day
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: with the slight berries which out loads of spectators. This
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: was the twentieth anniversary of the race, the brainchild of
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: race director Ray Johnson, and I'm not sure, but there
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: must have been about fifty children who took part in
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  Speaker 1: the junior race at nine point thirty before the main
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  Speaker 1: race set off at ten. The senior race was the
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  Speaker 1: first little bit was spectator friendly, as the runners passed
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  Speaker 1: the finish line a couple of times along the lees
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  Speaker 1: before heading off down to down the Sandgate hill down
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  Speaker 1: to Hive. Two runners at an early fast paced were
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  Speaker 1: Guitar Zerum from ashvid A c was just the yard
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  Speaker 1: ahead of Toby Smith from Deal tri Club, but they
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  Speaker 1: were both a good way ahead of any other runners,
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  Speaker 1: and this had seemed from the feedback I was getting
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  Speaker 1: from out on the course. Now the crowd eagerly awaited
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  Speaker 1: to see which runner would appear first. At the top
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  Speaker 1: of the lees we saw the lights of the leed
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  Speaker 1: cyclists and it was the yellow vest of Ashvid's Wegaitar
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  Speaker 1: in the lead, having made a break put in a
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  Speaker 1: gap of about a minute between himself and second place Toby,
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  Speaker 1: with local athlete Rakash Guroon coming in third. The first
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  Speaker 1: lady home was unattached to a club. Actually her name
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  Speaker 1: was Alice Tiswell, so not quite sure where she came from.
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  Speaker 1: And we had Guyslingsby was the first boy in the
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  Speaker 1: junior race and Madison Hart was the first girl. Thirty
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  Speaker 1: six folks and running and Athletic Club members entered the
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  Speaker 1: race and the club had a good day. Besides Pracash
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  Speaker 1: coming third, he was first vet forty five and his
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  Speaker 1: wife Amanda was second lady overall and first female Vet
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  Speaker 1: forty with former guests of the show Louisa I claiming
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  Speaker 1: first VET fifty prize. Nineteen South Kent Harriers also ran first.
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  Speaker 1: One home for the club was Andy Gallaher and a
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  Speaker 1: special mention must go to Marie Watson for picking up
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  Speaker 1: the first female Vet fifty five category. It was an
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  Speaker 1: excellent day for the following South Kent Harriers. They all
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: picked up personal best times. That's John Clayson, Camilla Keller,
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  Speaker 1: Jenny Spillane, Louise Hall, John Sweeney and Sarah Jane Geordan.
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  Speaker 1: And if you're a runner, spare thought for William Miller. Now,
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: some runners like to aim for a time. Say you
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  Speaker 1: know they want to get put in any particular race,
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  Speaker 1: they might say, oh, I've got to get under one
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  Speaker 1: thirty possibly one forty five, or a nice round figure
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  Speaker 1: of under two hours exactly. Were two South Kent Harriers
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  Speaker 1: were just four seconds apart. John Lennon, yes that's his name.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's Jonathan actually, but I love calling him
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  Speaker 1: in as John Lennon and he loves it too. He
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  Speaker 1: finished the race in one hour fifty nine fifty eight seconds,
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  Speaker 1: but his teammate will Miller was just It was four
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  Speaker 1: seconds behind, so Will was two seconds outside the two
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  Speaker 1: hour barrier two hours and two seconds. I mean, how
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  Speaker 1: frustrating that must be when he thought I could have
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  Speaker 1: picked up two seconds along the race, you know, somewhere
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  Speaker 1: along the course. Race director Ray Johnson seemed very pleased
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  Speaker 1: with the way that they went and a big thank
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  Speaker 1: you to the nice work team for registration and timing.
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  Speaker 1: The police can de's we're once again helping at drink
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  Speaker 1: stations and also on the medal line finishing point. They
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  Speaker 1: had Rotary Club marshals out on the course, but with
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  Speaker 1: two runners being so fast, spare thought for the lead
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  Speaker 1: bikes who had their work cut out staying ahead of
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  Speaker 1: Wegata and Toby and a certain lead cyclist that mister
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  Speaker 1: Dave Daniel has said to me at the end of
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: the ace, he said, right, that's it, I'm going to
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: the electric bike for next year's race. He did look
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  Speaker 1: a bit tired. All in all, a great day with
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  Speaker 1: thousands being raised for local charities, and we must just
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: mention the South Kent Mind team under the guidance of
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: Joe Tolhurst. That was Juli Gibbs, Maria Felichetti, Trudy Kurd,
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  Speaker 1: Tom Aspinall and Rowan Ellott, who all run a raising
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  Speaker 1: money for the charity. Okay, we're going to turn straight
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: onto wheelchair basketball now. Saturday, the eleventh of October at
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: nine point thirty down at the Marsh Academy sees the
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: start of the season for the folks that Arrow's wheelchair
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: basketball team. They welcomed the Aces from Aylesbury for their
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: first fixture. The Arrows now play in the National League
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: Division two South AFT Division two South and have some
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: massive away journeys. They've got some mileage to put in.
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you They've got the opposite fixture where they
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: travel away to Aylesbury. Then they've got the Southern Sharks
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  Speaker 1: at Portsmouth, the Bears at Birmingham, Storm at Swansea and
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: the met Archers in Cardiff. So if there's anybody out
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: there that can help the Arrows in any way, perhaps
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: a bit of sponsorship, please check out their Facebook page.
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: And whilst I was doing my research this morning, in fact,
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: this looks like they might have started a second team
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: in the National League Division three South. So I'm waiting
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: to for some more information on this subject from Ben
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: and Becky Potter. Now last Sunday was an open day
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: at the Folks and Indoor Bowls Club, which was a
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: successful event. Linda Hardy from the club told me they
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: had over forty people come along, of which thirteen had
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: signed up to be members, with the possibility of even
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: more potent percentage wise, that's a good day's work. Now,
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: the outdoor clubs from around the area will soon be
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: zooming in on the indoor club, which is a marvelous
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: facility for this town and it attracts young and old.
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  Speaker 1: So if you miss the open day, I'm interested in
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: taking up the sport of bowls. Please just put Folks
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: to an Indoor Bowls Club in your search box, or
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: better still, pop into the Bowls Club. It's just you
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: know where it is, just in between Morrison's and the
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: Folks in the Victor Brown. Well, that is about it
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: from me now, and what we're going to do. We're
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: going to play a little bit of Kylie Minogue and
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: I'm going to say goodbye and so let's have a
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: little listen to Kylie. But that's it for me this week.
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: No Saturday Sports show this week is Ali and myself
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: have other commitments which have been planned for ages. However,
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: join me next Thursday, and if you want to come
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: into the studio and tell me about your club or
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: sporting event, just get in touch. Bye for now, online
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