KEW Hockey Club

Kew Sopranos 4 def Greensborough 2
Goals: Ben Hartung 2, Richard Clancy 1, Pat Nicholls 1 
There is a saying that “Perfect Preparation Prevents Piss Poor Performance.”  Well the Sopranos certainly proved the exception to the rule this week.  After a stellar performance by all and sundry at the Final Round Harp celebrations, we were all a little surprised [...]

Metro 1 West vs TEMs lost 8 – 2
Things that might surprise you about the game:

The equation going into the match was simple- win and we would book ourselves a finals berth.
In the clubroom prior to the match, Clance advised that he would be appearing in the Millionaires Hot Seat on Monday night and he qualified for the show due to his red hair and love of Collingwood. We will [...]

OMG (4) drew Kew (4)
Round 16 presented an opportunity to the Sopranos of assuring ourselves a place in the top four with two games still to play – we just needed to win.  Without the home ground advantage we were always going to be tested.  We lost two men on the day, reducing our bench [...]

As we were told before the game at the Fortress on Saturday afternoon, this would be a six- point game. No-one actually asked what that meant, but we could tell from Lachie’s tone that it meant it was important.
The game was played hard from the start, with a couple of Kew shots narrowly missing the [...]

Significant Potential Incident on Sunday afternoon at Yarra Valley
The SPI or significant potential incident is an important safety statistic which is defined as an incident without actual consequences where the coordinates of probability and potential consequence meet in the higher or medium risk area. The SPI occurred on a sunny Sunday afternoon as 3rd placed [...]

Kew 4 def RMIT 1
Goals: S Cleave  2, C McNamara 1, B Allen 1 
Captain Lachie seems to have two goals this year.  The first is the obvious one – and that is to win a Premiership.  The second goal appears to be that we need a special guest appearance by a Kew Legend each week.  This week’s [...]

M1 West: Geelong 2 def Kew 1
Goals: S Cleave 1
Since the Sopranos switch to the Western Metro One competition the road trip to Geelong has been eagerly awaited and built up as the road trip to end all road trips, there were rumours of a team “venga” bus and Karaoke.  The bus never eventuated and [...]

Kew 7 def PEGS 1
Hypothermia in round 2 had made it difficult to recall our first game vs. PEGS this season but the team was keen to take advantage of a return to Fortress Elgar.
Bolstered by the inclusion of fresh (???) legs in Morrow and Harper and the return of Drew (you would have thought [...]

With more ’special guest star appearances’ over the last 6 weeks than Melrose Place, the question is whether we should be changing our name from the Sopranos! This week’s special guest appearances were from Steve “Whitey” White and Matt “the nice one” Cleave. Both were making their Soprano debut and did so in [...]