Dan gets 50 points

Congratulations to Dan, his 2 assists against Romford takes him to 50 points, James has 25 games under his belt with a very impressive 80 points, well done!

John hits 25 - James 75

John netted his 25th goal on Sat against the Aardvarx and James has reached 75 points. Congrats.

Madchester

Sat saw the Statesmen travel to Manchester to play the Altrincham Aardvarx for their first meeting. It only took 1 min 40 to get on the scoresheet and then the Statesmen with 2 rolling lines never looked back (the Aardarx having 22 players) coming out eventual 22-1 winners.
Despite the scoreline the Aardvarx battled hard till the end earning the respect of the team and if it werent for their goalie it may have been a bigger scoreline. A very enjoyable game all round and the play was good with the scoring spread around the team. James led the way with 4+6, Ty next with 7+2, Mark and Stig getting hat tricks and Ritchie with a brace and John, Paul and Jean getting one each.
Then a very enjoyable evening out in Manchester (5th Avenue) with a few of the Aardvarx joining us as well, look forward to next year and them coming to London.

Strange but true

On a side note the game on Sunday gives Paddy 11G 22A 33pts 44PIM, thought it might be worthy of a milestone.

v Slough Satans

The Statesmen rounded off there home games at a reasonable time @Ally Pally with an emphatic win, despite the final score of 26-6 it was a very well mannered game so respect to Slough for that. The Statesmen took an 11-0 lead in the first and continued to score at that pace in the next 2 periods, with some well worked goals. Juraj lead the way with 6 and Milan getting 4, James, Mark and Ty getting a hat trick and Ritchie and Nigel getting 2 and Paul, Paddy and finally... John getting one in front of a partisan home crowd. MOTM James

v Medway Madness

The Statesmen played the other rec team at Invicta, the Madness, the following week. this time around it was the Statesmen to take control of the game and with a 7-0 first period win the game was in the bag and came out 15-2 winners. Scoring coming from James and Ty (5 apiece) and Milan getting a hat trick, with Paddy and Juraj chipping in 1 each. MOTM James

Loss v Invicta

The Statesmen entertained the Invicta Knights @Ally Pally on the Bank Holiday weekend. The Statesmen started off very slow and Invicta went into a 3-0 lead and had much of the better play. With a 5-1 loss in the 2nd the only moral victory was 2-0 3rd period win with goals from Yuri and James but the game was well over and an 8-3 final score to Invicta. Some handbags at the end marred a fairly decent game. MOTM cant remember but I doubt it was Ritchie