EUROHOCKEY INDOORS NATIONS CHALLENGE Sheffield

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[Martindk]

Match Schedule:
12.00   M   Croatia   v   Turkey
13.00   M   England   v   Sweden
14.00   M   Finland   v   Bulgaria
            
16.00   W   Sweden   v   Denmark
17.00   M   Finland   v   Turkey
18.00   M   Sweden   v   Bulgaria
19.00   W   England   v   Turkey
20.00   M   England   v   Croatia
Saturday 19 January 2008   
09.00   M   Sweden   v   Turkey
10.00   M   Croatia   v   Finland
11.00   M   England   v   Bulgaria
12.00   W   Turkey   v   Sweden
13.00   W   England   v   Denmark
14.00   M   Finland   v   Sweden
15.00   M   Croatia   v   Bulgaria
16.00   M   England   v   Turkey
17.00   W   Turkey   v   Denmark
18.00   W   England   v   Sweden
Sunday 20 January 2008   
10.00   M   Bulgaria   v   Turkey
11.00   M   Croatia   v   Sweden
12.00   W   3rd   v   4th
13.15   M   England   v   Finland
14.30   W   1st   v   2nd

[gk09]

I'm going up on the sunday, anyone else on here going? I can't wait, never watched indoor before.

[redumpire]

Yep I'll be there.  I'm one of the Officials at the event.

gk09, you might find this post that I put up earlier today useful if you've never seen indoor before.  It sets out the major differences between indoor and outdoor.  It's from an umpiring perspective, but should still be helpful.

Red

[NicfromSweden]

i will be there all days 

[The.Rampage.Rado]

Me too... 

It's nice that it's gonna be 1 group and will be able to play against England... It's gonna be great experience....

[redumpire]

Guys - be sure to say hello!  (Perhaps I should ask them to put "Redumpire" on my ID badge for the event!?)

[braxer001]

you could always get a T-shirt printed with 'redumpire' on the back 

[gk09]

To they guys who are playing, how do you think your going to get on and what do you expect England to be like for there return to indoor?

[NicfromSweden]

gk09 i know england is good because their clubteams are good but they play another kind of indoor than we do from what i have seen there are 3 different styles of indoor 1 the UK style 2 the german style 3 eastern europe style

anyway i think the thoughest oponents will be england and croatia

[Jerome_LOU_HOCKEY]

gk09 i know england is good because their clubteams are good but they play another kind of indoor than we do from what i have seen there are 3 different styles of indoor 1 the UK style 2 the german style 3 eastern europe style

anyway i think the thoughest oponents will be england and croatia

And which kind of indoor hockey do you play viking friends?

[NicfromSweden]

very german inspired
the UK game is othen very outdoorish and the scottish champions plays man to man defence or a strange zone defence while most eastern teams plays  a weird form of xone defence but sometimes swithes to man to man defence but their game dont remind so much of outdoor as the UK teams does

[Jerome_LOU_HOCKEY]

I see.

[redumpire]

the UK game is othen very outdoorish

From an English perspective, I think that may well be because we play so little indoor hockey.

[NicfromSweden]

yeah red thats what i suspect as well BUT there is nothing wrong with that just look at the scottish champions they play in the A division

[gk09]

What interests me is that the England squad for this tournament is very different to the outdoor squad.  Is playing it that much different that the best outdoor players aren't necessarily good enough to play indoors? Nic do you have a very different team indoor to when you play outdoors or is this just England's choice, in the same way there's a big debate in cricket over do you play your best cricketers or do you play specialists depending on the form of the game?