Pitch Opening Ceremony

September 5th 2009



Great Goal Keeping

Izzy repels boarders

Wrong side of stick again!

Shot

And again!

Side of stick OK - not much else!

Father humiliates son

2 minutes in - knackered!

Dabber dabs

President dribbles

Dan dares

and wins

I remember him at 15

Strictly not dancing

Crossbar comes loose

100% cotton - proper hockey

Phil makes a save!

Martin dressed for the occasion

Helen Martin and Ben

Ben Rea National Hockey Foundation

No bus yet

Helen gives lovely speach

Jonesy taught me all I know!

Snip here

Bobs your auntie

President plans fishing story

It was this big

Thanks for the scissors

Martin gives a nice speach

about octopus?

and school days

while Helen warms the Moet

a small prayer for the future

and that's mine

Martin gets the Jonesy joke

Presidential duties

thanking our guests

my fourth point is

Still no bus

lest we forget

Stick obstruction demonstration

Premature Barratt flick

Too vertical Abba

That's better

Sam has sex for the first time

Recession?

U16 girls

Mon4 ready to hammer the U16 girls - very happy

Mon1 prepare for Players crunch

Helen1

Helen2

John gets emotional

Tony demonstrates complete lack of stick orientation

Crowd about to turn ugly

Martin and Geoff fight ribbon

Ben nods off

Point #1

3 will come along at once

Pete points out the President

No expense spared ribbon wise

Shall I ?

I name this ship ..

.. pitch

watch those fingers

at last it is open

Presidential duties - again

twist the bottle not the cork

I'll catch it

anyone got a glass?

no ... typical

GB Captain bemused

speaches over?

I hope not

It was this big really

Martin agrees