{"id":9386,"date":"2018-10-19T13:27:31","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T13:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/northdownhc.co.uk\/?p=9386"},"modified":"2018-10-19T13:27:31","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T13:27:31","slug":"ulster-hockey-whats-happening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/2018\/10\/19\/ulster-hockey-whats-happening\/","title":{"rendered":"Ulster Hockey &#8211; what&#8217;s happening?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the scene that regularly confronts followers of our men\u2019s fourth and fifth elevens this season \u2013 NO HOCKEY.\u00a0 What is going on at Ulster clubs this season?\u00a0 Last season our fourths and fifths had a total of 3 walk over fixtures out of 53 scheduled games.\u00a0 This season so far there have been 5 from 10 with the once strong Annadale a guilty party twice!\u00a0 This results in us having keen young players simply wanting a game but being disappointed!\u00a0 The seconds even lost out this week as UCC seconds withdrew from an Irish Junior cup tie.<\/p>\n<p>Is it too much to expect that clubs could organise themselves to field the teams they have already entered into leagues or to evaluate where and why they are going wrong?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/northdownhc.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Pitch-Oct-18-003.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-9387\" src=\"http:\/\/northdownhc.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Pitch-Oct-18-003-300x173.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Pitch-Oct-18-003-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Pitch-Oct-18-003.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/northdownhc.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Pitch-Oct-18-001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9388 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/northdownhc.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Pitch-Oct-18-001-300x182.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Pitch-Oct-18-001-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Pitch-Oct-18-001.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/northdownhc.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Pitch-Oct-18-002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9389 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/northdownhc.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Pitch-Oct-18-002-300x149.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Pitch-Oct-18-002-300x149.jpg 300w, https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Pitch-Oct-18-002.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the scene that regularly confronts followers of our men\u2019s fourth and fifth elevens this season \u2013 NO HOCKEY.\u00a0 What is going on at Ulster clubs this season?\u00a0 Last season our fourths and fifths had a total of 3 walk over fixtures out of 53 scheduled games.\u00a0 This season so far there have been&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ulster Hockey - what&#039;s happening? 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