SWA & Sarah - Screen Stars!

Enjoy the Field Music video for House is not a Home staring the H-ton Hawks very own SWA and the lovely Sarah

Pro Evo 8-2 H-ton Hawks

In a well battled game the Hawks were made to pay for simple mistakes
Despite an impressive first period, the Hawks were punished in the second half, leaving them still in the hunt for their first points of the season.

With the game goalless after 7 minutes, the Hawks played some excellent, if defensive, football. Closing down the opposition and chasing down every ball. Unfortunately the deadlock was broke by Pro Evo. Shortly after the first goal, a second was added. This was a controversial goal. A skyward bound shot from Pro Evo hit Lawrence in the face and deflected into the Hawks net. Despite protests that this shouldn't count as it was over head height, the referee said it would stand. The Hawks were soon to respond to this with a Lawrence strike to cancel out the previous goal.

At half time the Hawks trailed 3-1. The first half performance was solid and could have been their best performance in the league to date. The second half started well for the Hawks with Houghton crossing to Wilson from the right to make the score 3-2. However, just as things were looking promising, the Hawks threw it away with a catalogue of rookie mistakes. Lack of movement from the throw-outs and bad keeper throw-outs gifted the ball to the opposition allowing them to score. All 5 goals in the second half probably could have been prevented. That said, Pro Evo did play well.

The next game will be after the Christmas break against Three Counties, 7.00pm 5th January 2007 on Court 2. Let’s hope the New Year brings a change of fortunes to the Hawks before they disrupted by the many first quarter holidays planned by most of the members.

H-ton Hawks MANY-FEW Whitfield's United (friendly)

In a friendly game played on Wednesday, the Hawks showed they could play as an efficent, goal scoring team, as the put in an excellent, well rounded team performance and trounced Whitfield's United.

This fixture had to be moved from Hetton Sports Complex to Houghton Sport Cente due to dangerously high winds. This also caused the game to be pushed back an hour to 9pm. Despite the late kick-off, the Hawks were far from asleep. In a blinding opening 10 minutes, the Hawks dominated with slick passing and solid defending. This saw them take a comprensive early lead. This continue for the rest of the game, even though some goals were conceded.

The Hawks hopefully can use this match as a springboard for Friday's game against Pro Evo in the league.

Aparell Master 14-1 H-ton Hawks

A Hawks team with temporary members suffered a compressive defeat to the hands of Aparell Master.
With only three original members of team H-ton available to play, two replacements had to be drafted in to cover. The combined effects of the new players plus the gulf in footballing ability between the Hawks and Aparell Master proved too much and the Hawks found themselves out of the game from the start.

The two new players, Day and Garrity, did not come with the Hawks ethic - don't forget the club motto "Hawks Fly Together". They played for themselves. Garity played like he was the only member on the team and had the inability to pass. He was interested in the glory of scoring and not the team. The two newest members were also defence shy, so Lawrence and Houghton found themselves playing from the back for the majority of the game. Houghton also might as well have been invisible going forward as the Garity non-passing meant that every run into space was met with nothing.

Silly goals were also given away as the newbies were not playing to the whistle. A penalty from a backpass and a pass of the ball to the opposition standing on the edge of the box, letting them score, after just stopping when an appeal for handball was lodged were among some of the lowlights of this dreadful and unenjoyable game.

The new members were not the sole cause of the defeat. Aparell Master were actually very good with some excellent individual players.

So the next match is against Prov Evo, 7.30pm 15th December on Court 1. Sorry Day and Garrity.... don't call us... we'll call you.

Make the Hawks a Household Name

The following has appeared on the bbc web site. Get your thinking caps on for what we can write. Help make the H-ton Hawks famous by coming up with something that will get us chosen by the BBC. Just imagine the progress we can make if we have a team of professional coaches to help us..... and also the revenue we can get from advertising, this blog site and sales of official H-ton Hawks club strips and other memorabilia (I somehow don't think so - this is a joke if anyone from the BBC reads this). So get you thinking caps on and we'll try to win it for the Hawks (well it would be the first time the Hawks have won anything)

"Football team wanted

Is your team ready to line up?
Do you play football for a team in dire need of a helping hand?

Your defence has more holes than Swiss cheese, your club shower is piped in from the Arctic and your boss is a clown.

Our amazing competition can change all of that, fire you up the league table and make you stars on the BBC.

We want to take a team under our wing and follow them for the rest of the season, documenting every high and low along the way.

The story of your season will appear on BBC Sport Academy and 606 each week showing your results, match reports and who the crazy characters are in your team. Plus we'd love to feature you on BBC radio and TV.

Our aim is to improve your team and we are willing to recruit a full range of sporting experts to help out.

Whether it's a top manager, player, psychologist, or even a nutritionist, we'll send them to your club if you think it will help.

We want to show your team to the world and prove why the blood, sweat and tears at amateur level is the real deal.

All you have to do is tell us in no more than 250 words why we should pick YOUR team.

Please email your entries to us using the form below by Friday 22 December.

A shortlist will be drawn up before choosing the winning team. Please note that we can only accept entries from teams with players aged 16 and over.

Make sure you have read our competition rules before submitting your entry.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/get_involved/6191552.stm "

Mr Sprout - Blogger Upgrade

Apologies to all.
Blogger has been upgraded to a new version (out of my control).
While this offers access to some brand new features, some of the old stuff will need adapting... which will take time that I don't have at the moment. The posts will still be coming but may look a bit naff. Please stick with me over the coming weeks and I'll sort it all out.
Mr Sprout should be back better than ever
(disclaimer: May not be better than before)

Lucombe 5-1 H-ton Hawks

The Hawks suffered a awful defeat against Lucombe in the league
As I wasn't there again, I cannot comment on the Hawks performance, but I'm told it was shocking.

The Hawks goal came from SWA.

However, it looks like the Hawks have registered their first win of the season due to an admin error. According to the league table they have won 1, lost 2. We'll see how long this lasts.

This week's game in against Aparell Master, 7.30pm 8th Dec on Court 1.
This fixture may end in disaster as at point of writing this entry, the Hawks have only 3 players available for the game. If you are able to kick a ball, please contact us via the contact link at the side of the page or by clicking HERE and let us know if you can play in this Friday's match.