Cracking win in our opening game against Lydney yesterday. We played the better hockey throughout the game and thoroughly deserved the win, even though we went 1-0 down and scored our 3 goals in the last 10 minutes.

I was particularly pleased with the way the team has shown the progression we were hoping to see. Having lost our older boys to adult hockey it was great to see our new generation of "oldies" step up and take responsibility. The new youngsters fitted in really well and I look forward to seeing them develop week on week.

Man of the match goes to Michael Hollingshead, although special mention should be made of Dan Baker, Rich Owen, Tom Mitchener and of course Alex Diesel. Alex scored 2 goals on debut for the badgers AND they had their first team keep in goal. He has already scored more goals than his older brother scored in 3 years of badgers!!!

After all the difficulty I experienced last week getting mails out I think I have just about cracked it now. I have, however, formed a Yahoo Group called "cjhcbadgers" which I will be using this year to manage the team arrangements. You should have received an invitation to join this group, so please do so. I am sure you will find the Yahoo Group solution more informative and easy to use.

-- Stuart