By Tom Pink You can call it a lot of things at the moment, but you can’t call it boring. Eighteen goals for, 18 goals against in four league games makes for a wild, wild ride. At 3-1 up on Saturday I was thinking “we’re so back!”, but that very quickly fell away at 4-4...
By Tom Pink I was ill for most of last week, some kind of bug or virus. There’s something going round at the moment. I honestly wouldn’t wish it on anyone. By Saturday morning I was up and about, feeling much better and very much looking forward to the game. I thought this might be...
By Tom Pink I expected a closer game than we’ve maybe previously seen against Lee Valley, but I wasn’t expecting it to be that close. I certainly wasn’t expecting to see Lee Valley take the lead against us twice, but maybe that has more to do with my own naivety and my own blinkered view....
“Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time. What we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.” – Sydney J. Harris To mix a couple of metaphors, this is essentially it in a nutshell; we want to have our cake and eat it. There’s...
By Tom Pink Not everyone gets their fairy tale. There simply aren’t enough of them to go around. Some land plumb first time, some have to be worked at. Some of them are in direct conflict with others. We knew that Basingstoke Buffalo and Haringey Huskies couldn’t both have it their way. The third attempt...
By Tom Pink This isn’t the game we all wanted, but it’s the game we get. We would have loved to have had the league riding on this one, for that one last push, that do or die. As it is, that’s all been tied up beforehand and we’re left with Haringey playing for pride...
By Tom Pink Oh they had me going there. I was all in. This was it. Our first league win over Guildford Phoenix was nailed on. One period left, twenty minutes to play, 2-0 up. They were bringing it back to the Palace. Pyro on order, we’d be lining the streets, roaring them on, one...
By Tom Pink That was a hard-fought weekend. Both games, all four points, tooth and nail. We work so, so hard to get on top that we teeter on the edge and almost come tumbling down. Of all the back-to-backs this was always going to be the hardest, the most testing, the most tiring. Oxford...
By Tom Pink The cup’s gone. It was always going to be difficult. When I heard we’d taken the lead inside the first minute I did briefly allow myself to dream that it might turn out differently, that we might add another W to our record against them, but Guildford are relentless. I think changing...
By Tom Pink Where to start. The big positive is that we continue to have an incredible netminder who does a consistent job of keeping us in games, sometimes, as in this case, when we have no real right to be in them. Luke Clark is named player of the match for giving us a...
