Words by David Knapp Chris Tissainayagam – “Tissy” 1972 – 2024 Life prepares everyone for life and all that, in a normal world, it throws at us. As each year goes by, we should become more immune to the arrival of curveballs by deflecting and catching them as needed. On the oddest of odd occasions, […]
The Annual Presidents Lunch will take place on Saturday 24th February at 2pm Each year, the Presidents Lunch brings together anyone who had or continues to have links with OCHC. The lunch includes a 3 course meal which can be ordered via this link HERE . There will be plenty of time to catch up on OCHC developments […]
Men’s 1st XI 3 – 3 Team Bath Buccaneers It was a crisp Sunday morning as the fresh-faced students from University of Bath arrived at the home of hockey. But despite looking akin to a school trip the team was hungry for redemption after a topsy-turvy game in the initial fixture saw them fall to […]
Ladies 2s 4 – 1 Wimbledon 6s OCHC Ladies 2s started off the match with high hopes as we played the bottom of the league but we still knew we would have to play our best to win. The last few weeks had seen the team drop points in frustrating winnable games. The first half […]
Men’s 1st XI 3 – 3 Sevenoaks 1st XI After a long winter break, the good lads returned to the fortress to play against Sevenoaks who had finally decided that they wanted to play the previously cancelled fixture. Reviewing the strong team sheet set out by the masterful duo of Matthews and Meers, it appeared […]
Ladies 1s 4 – 2 Hampstead & Westminster 3s Despite a midweek frozen pitch the dream team Ladies 1s managed to walk away with three points. It started with a chilly but keen team talk and an overpowering waft of deep heat. Having narrowly lost to Hampstead & Westminster 3-2 already we had to give […]
There were plenty of fantastic matches this weekend, with 7 out of 10 teams winning. Read some of the match reports below. Men’s 2s 6 – 0 London Edwardians 3s “Hello my names David and I’m an addict…. There’s a beautiful moment when time stands still, you feel at one with the pitch, all your […]
A round-up of the action which saw good wins for the Men’s 1st and 2nd XIs but dropped points for the top two Ladies sides […]
Old Cranleighan Hockey Club will be raising money for Prostate Cancer UK for the month of November […]
Men’s 1st XI 3 – 1 Old Loughtonians 1st XI This week the lads had a trip to Old Loughtonians, a place the 1st XI had a point to prove, having lost 6-1 at the same fixture last season. The game started how Old Cranleighans had planned it to. A neat press into their outlet […]