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[Hockeyfan]

i love the country and would learn more about your hockey in SA.
who are the best internationals (men and women) at the moment in SA?

[gerard]

well count urself lucky.here in the pacific we want to play but lack the funds to go places.and even if we do there are australia,newzealand,argentina etc thats close by to us.we get such a hiding.but its a slow way to  improve.i think you should be happy cause you play more then most countries.

[KickTheKidS]

In my opinion the problem with sa hockey is the lack of support... Even at international level stadiums do not even half full. thus there is no money, thus the players cannot play only hockey. they have to do day jobs etc.

And also the lack of political support.

[Robert]

I think that hockey needs more exposure at developement level and to get that kind of exposure there must be facilities and coaches ready. Also, hockey should be shown on television so that there is a raised interest in the game. For all of these, there must be money.

IMO it's a pity that there is so much tampering and politics at national level about race etc. and disappointment when we lose when almost nothing is done for youngsters comming up. We will continue our current level of hockey untill school go-ers are developed.
Maybe one day we should scrap school sport and have club sport only - this would help in many sports other than hockey. Most of Europe does that.

[cr@zydude]

School sport should be kept, but hockey should get more priority at SA schools. At my school people do come to 1st team games, but it i sno where near the number of people that come to rugby games.

Also hockey should be televised. Supersport showing one magazine program a month is not enough.