It’s amazing how quickly things can change in hockey. Defence to offence. Winning to losing. Highs to lows. We’d made a good start to the season, with three from four in September. Some good performances and plenty of goals from this refreshed Haringey side. But we now find ourselves with two losses on the bounce,...
A fortnight ago, I was wondering what Slough Spitfires would bring on their first game in South 2. I certainly didn’t expect that. They were fast, they were organised, and they played like they had a point to prove. I thought Slough were great. But for a few loose passes in the first five minutes,...
“We decide who we are… the fierce, the fast, the calm, the storm. We are Haringey.” The promo video the club put out for 2025/26 is fantastic, if you haven’t seen it already. Really high quality, and it speaks to the new player-led setup and a fresh start all round. New season, new faces, new...
Welcome back. I hope you enjoyed summer, because the serious stuff starts now. Are you ready to get your heart broken all over again? Me neither. I don’t know about you, but I’m looking to keep heartbreak to an absolute minimum this year, and I think there’s plenty of reasons to be hopeful when it...
By Tom Pink Got, got, got, need, got, need, need, got, got… There’s a generation of people (generations now, probably) for which the words Panini, Merlin, or Topps evoke memories of the bike sheds, of the playground, of the deals done and bartered for. My first dalliance was with the 1995 rugby world cup sticker...
By Tom Pink We’ve got to savour these. There’s now only so many opportunities left this season that we get to watch these Haringey Huskies. The games are simply running out. I thought Saturday was good though. The result is closer than it should be. Far closer. Haringey should be well out of sight, and...
By Tom Pink This fixture rarely fails to deliver. Saturday was a stone-cold classic of the genre, and if you ever wanted an advert for South 2 hockey, you could do worse than picking any match-up between the Huskies and Mustangs over the last few years. It was brilliant, and in terms of pure spectacle...
By Tom Pink Whatever your opinion, you can’t say that they aren’t willing to act. You can’t say that they aren’t actively trying to find solutions. With Joe Tearall and Scott Anda leaving, the club have gone out and replaced them with two forwards in Courtney Grant and Matt Ganas who have proven NIHL South...
By Tom Pink AAGGGHHHHH!!!! A small insight into my internal monologue from Saturday night there. That covers all bases as well; the good times and the bad, the giddy highs, the soul-crushing lows. I had to give my head a wobble on Sunday morning because I left the Palace on Saturday seeing red. If I’m...
By Tom Pink I can’t stress enough just how good that was. If you wanted a performance for the last home game of the year, then you were in all sorts of luck on Saturday. My word. I couldn’t agree more with Pete Taylor’s analysis in his Coach’s Corner this week and I’ll reiterate some...
