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EAST GRINSTEAD FINALLY
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INDOOR FINALS TROPHY the best that I’ve witnessed in the last
10 years or so and therefore we knew
that we were going to have to be at our
very best over 80 minutes if we were
to regain the title. We didn’t have our
best game against Loughborough in the
league but we knew that we’d improved
enough to go through to the fi nal if we
stuck to our game plan, which we did.
Sure, we thought back to last year, and
that experience helped us want the
result all the more.
Are you ever worried about injuries
subsequently affecting your outdoor
season?
You can’t let it worry you. If you play
the game properly and wear the right
protective equipment, you’ve got to be
very unlucky to sustain an injury that
will put you out of action long enough
to effect the outdoor season. The
advantages of playing throughout the
winter months outweigh the potential
negatives. That’s certainly our take on
it! Let’s hope I’m not proved wrong next
year!
Does this indoor win mark a watershed
for East Grinstead in the bid for the
title?
Winning the indoor double and
remaining undefeated through the
indoor league season is a huge boost to
the players and the club. It’s something
that eg with its indoor pedigree prides
itself on, so we are naturally very
pleased to have accomplished that
achievement and be representing
england in europe next year. With the
friendly rivalry that exists between our
two clubs, recent results will certainly
give the players extra incentives not
that they need them.
What happens in EG when a trophy is
won?
The entire club gets together and
celebrates en mass. It’s crucial that you
good when it really counts. We’ve seen Simon Mantell scored all fi ve goals for take time out and party together which
it before, we saw it again at The NIa Reading. Would you like him on the EG gives everyone a true sense of what it
and I’m sure we’ll see it again. It’s a team? means to be a part of something really
very important component for any team- Lets be honest, who wouldn’t!? given special. This time around the clubhouse
based sport that you never give up. The the choice, I’d want Jonty Clarke too! was packed with players from every
important thing is that you can’t get too They were a fabulous combination who team across all the sections including
emotional and remain focused enough fed of each other seamlessly and at players past and present, the press, the
to do the business when it counts! times were a joy to watch if you weren’t town mayor and other specially invited
sitting on the opposing bench! guests. It was all the more better as the
You took the lead with only two ladies’ indoor squad in their fi rst year
minutes left. What were you thinking Your semi was a re-run of the 2008 managed a meteoric achievement by
at that point? fi nal. Except that year Loughborough climbing up from the south qualifi ers
We knew at that point that we had won. What were the team’s thoughts to secure a place in national division
the title within our grasp. The tide when they saw the draw? two, all in their fi rst year of playing
had changed and that we had the We knew that all of the teams that indoor. as you can imagine the club are
momentum to see out the remainder of made this year’s fi nal had a very good very proud of both the men’s and ladies’
the game. at that stage in a fi nal we are chance of going all the way. The calibre achievements.
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at our best. of indoor hockey in this year’s league Onwards and upwards! P
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