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quite a good deal (especially if you wanna watch hockey! it should only be about 8 quid on the gate) and nice to see more cooperation between the local sports teams.  :)

Ice hockey can go fuck right off

STFC Dave can go fuck right off

Football > Ice hockey

In your opinion samdy, in your opinion :-P

No that one actually is a fact.

:nod:

Pretty good deal. I'd much rather watch STFC the way the two teams have been playing though.

Would agree with Sam.. But Ice Hockey is still awesome.

The Wildcats aren't though, 8 out of 10 teams make the playoffs and they don't even look good for that.

I've been to the ice hockey a few times and really enjoyed it!

Because it's awesome :D

Does the proverbial "Went to watch a fight then some ice hockey broke out" stuff apply at Wildcats? Or is that just the US/Canadian version?

It certainly used to happen at Swindon. One game a few years back they had to stop the period earrly to re-do the ice because there was too much blood on it!  :soapy tit wank:

Not so much, maybe one if you're lucky.

That's because Aldridge is a shit coach. Yet depsite all of that we have a few decent players. Quite annoying.

I haven't been for ages actually. Do you know how the ex NHL guy is doing? And do we still get as many penalties as you can shake a stick at?

Shame but true. I've been a couple of times this year since the Darcey Cahill years by comparison and they were woeful. I guess its a money thing.

I think that's the difference for me between Ice Hockey and football. I will suffer a bad game of football and on some level enjoy it. With the Wildcats I'll just give it a miss.

I'm sure the Wildcats diehards feel the same way about their sport.

The ex-nhl guy? Courtnay? His reading of the game is miles ahead of 95% of the other players in this league (as expected) and he's putting up regular points, but recently the Manchester Phoenix (the team he plays for) have been dropping points left, right and centre, and playing badly by the sounds of it too.

I'm undecided on Aldy. From what I've been told he got let down by 4 or 5 decent brits (better than the 3rd line brits that make up our team) and a couple of imports. One import went elsewhere, the other played for us but was fucking woeful, a Canadian defenceman we had for the first few weeks of the season. He was shit, and must've lied on his CV, as he struggled to skate backwards at speed (kinda what a D man has to do. A lot)

Still, there's something not right, as you don't have two players walk out mid-season, and sack your netminder after he headbutts an oposition agitator after our players didn't protect him...

We don't have any 'goons' this year (goons are the scrappers, enforcer type players) unlike previous years, so fights have been thin on the ground this year.

Well that was fucking ace, 8-0 winners, clear and deserved. a happy Cats fan here (and an unhappy Town fan too)

i used to go regular to the ice hockey,and as a member of the link posse we used to fight the visiting youth teams players.
went to a game last year and trust me it used to be better.when lipsey,land and co played they had a proper good team