That's entertainment, Part 2

I’ve decided to split the blog into two parts as there has been so much to talk about in the week gone. So with no delays now I bring you the second part of it….

After an eventful match at football in the morning, it was back at the rink for the second part of the double header. We were expected to win, but considering they had won the last time they came to our barn – well, I wasn’t taking it as a formality. They’d conceded 10 at home the previous night so ripe for a good drubbing as they say? The only shock was that it took us nearly the best part of 10 and half minutes to light the lamp for the first time, and when it came it was predictably our former Romford player Mark Stewart who did it. A second quickly followed, and just before the period ended James Archer added a third. Three simple goals, and the game as good as won you’d say.

Even when Romford pulled one back, we came straight back and added a fourth thanks to Archer’s second of the night. Then a really popular goal came. Despite the broken nose and having to wear a full cage, Chris Wilcox iced and it was he who scored number five. Matt Haywood had one washed out for kicking the puck, must have thought he was wanting to try and get into Capello’s World Cup squad with that finish. Captain Slami added number six early in the third, and then young Andy Hirst scored a brilliantly taken seventh after Romford had pulled another one back when he bamboozled Kaylor with a classic toe drag manoeuvre before an expert finish into the corner.

Pliskauskas scored his second and the Raiders’ third but there was no way in this world that the Scims were going to let them off the hook. It was just a case of seeing if we could score any more, and you just knew there was more gaols in the team. After 53:06 Archer completed his hat-trick and with it an original celebration; micking his stick as a guitar. It was the first hat-trick by a Scimitars player since Matt Haywood scored a treble in the 6-5 home against Peterborough at the start of last month. James admitted in the bar post-match, it was planned and was something that he and Haywood had thought up. Hockey players and their gimmicks, eh? What entertainers they are.

With the crowd baying for more gaols, number nine flashed past Kaylor just 24 seconds later and what a finish it was. Captain Slami and “The Doctor” (Stuart Brittle) setting up Haywood to finish top shelf, yet the thing was it wasn’t Matt scoring it. It was sibling Lee joining in the goalfest. One of our most vocal fans, who so happens to be my mate, then started the chant of “We want ten!” which suddenly began to reverberate around the rest of the home supporters. Could we add the icing on the cake and score it? At 57:49 it happened, Lewis Bell (the same Lewis Bell that sold me my hockey skates) netting it. OK, it went in like if it was in slow motion but we didn’t give a hoot! Ten goals and the first time since we netted double figures since Telford away last February.

As the title of the blogs said, to use a line from a classic Jam song “That’s entertainment” and we certainly got a fair bit of this over the previous days in hockey. It’s certainly given the team a confidence boost and has stopped the loss record which was beginning to be a bit of a bugbear. Now we go into the weekend’s away double header at Manchester (which I am hoping to go to) and Guildford (which I wanted to go to but can’t because of other commitments) believing anything is possible. Of all the sides in the EPL we have recorded a win against everyone except the Phoenix so maybe it time to put that particular record straight.

Enjoy your hockey folks; I’ll be back again next week with more plus the odd off-ice incident or two…

Mark

Cardiff	v	Edinburgh
11th February 2012 19:00
Dundee	v	Hull
11th February 2012 19:00
Nottingham	v	Belfast
11th February 2012 19:00
Sheffield	v	Coventry
11th February 2012 19:00
Fife	v	Braehead
11th February 2012 19:15
Braehead	v	Fife
12th February 2012 00:00

Dundee	6-2	Fife
5th February 2012 18:30
Cardiff	4-5	Braehead
5th February 2012 18:00
Sheffield	2-4	Belfast
5th February 2012 17:00
Coventry	6-1	Fife
4th February 2012 19:30
Belfast	4-1	Cardiff
4th February 2012 19:00
Nottingham	6-2	Dundee
4th February 2012 19:00

	Club	GP	W	L	OL	GF	GA	Pts
1	Belfast Giants	41	33	8	3	167	83	69
2	Nottingham Panthers	40	30	10	2	182	87	62
3	Sheffield Steelers	35	30	5	0	133	77	60
4	Coventry Blaze	40	25	15	1	153	113	51
5	Cardiff Devils	39	20	19	10	124	112	50
6	Braehead Clan	39	22	17	2	146	127	46
7	Hull Stingrays	41	11	30	4	107	165	26
8	Edinburgh Capitals	38	11	27	3	89	170	25
9	Dundee Stars	40	7	33	5	95	163	19
10	Fife Flyers	39	7	32	5	79	178	19

Peterborough	v	Guildford
8th February 2012 19:45
Swindon	v	Basingstoke
11th February 2012 17:45
Guildford	v	Peterborough
11th February 2012 18:00
Slough	v	Sheffield
11th February 2012 18:30
Milton Keynes	v	Bracknell
11th February 2012 19:00
Manchester	v	Telford
11th February 2012 19:00

Slough	3-0	Basingstoke
5th February 2012 18:30
Guildford	4-2	Milton Keynes
5th February 2012 18:00
Manchester	6-3	Swindon
5th February 2012 17:30
Telford	6-8	Peterborough
5th February 2012 17:30
Sheffield	3-0	Peterborough
4th February 2012 19:30
Milton Keynes	1-3	Manchester
4th February 2012 19:00

	Club	GP	W	L	OL	GF	GA	Pts
1	Guildford Flames	38	26	12	3	172	111	55
2	Manchester Phoenix	39	24	15	3	145	123	51
3	Slough Jets	37	24	13	2	167	117	50
4	Sheffield Steeldogs	38	22	16	4	119	101	48
5	Milton Keynes Lightning	37	22	15	1	116	99	45
6	Basingstoke Bison	38	21	17	2	135	126	44
7	Swindon Wildcats	39	15	24	5	126	134	35
8	Bracknell Bees	37	13	24	8	107	142	34
9	Peterborough Phantoms	38	14	24	2	123	164	30
10	Telford Tigers	39	9	30	2	106	199	20

	Club	GP	W	L	OL	GF	GA	Pts

	Club	GP	W	L	OL	GF	GA	Pts

	Club	GP	W	L	OL	GF	GA	Pts

	Club	GP	W	L	OL	GF	GA	Pts

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