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Coaches thoughts.....

Coach Cliff gives his thoughts on another winning weekend

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• 11 December 2024

Hi Chieftains Fans,

As we rapidly approach Christmas it seems like everything is going in fast forward at the moment, it’ll soon be time for us to all have a break from the rink, work, school or whatever it is we do, but before that a few more bits of business to take care of.

On Sunday we played Swindon at home, the 2 occasions we have played them previously have been polar opposites, a heavy win and a very narrow win, so we knew we would have to be on our game as the Wildcats so far this season are definitely the most improved team.

The Wildcats set out their stall pretty early and had a good game plan that worked for them, they took away the house and gave us no room in the high danger areas, it was only really on the PP we got time and space to work and when we did we executed. The game stayed 1-0 for a long time and I was encouraged by the way we played, we didn’t panic in search of the second goal, we just went about our business and played a mature game. Going into the 3rd at 1-0 there was a couple of tweaks we had to make, and we scored an early one, then another on the PP and finished off with the 4th towards the end.  We had strong debuts from John Connolly and Matt Lawday, and again the line of Eden, Sam and Ben gave us great energy and jump every time they got out on the ice.

We now move onto our penultimate weekend of hockey before Christmas, facing Oxford at home on Saturday followed by the trip to Streatham on Sunday, it seems strange that we will have completed our league games against Oxford by the end of the calendar year but to date have only played Streatham once, the one defeat they have against their name was against us, they will be keen to overturn that whilst we will be going there aiming to bring the points home with us, it should be a great game whatever happens.

Look forward to seeing you all at the rink.

Cheers,

Cliff.