Year: 2015

Congratulations are also due to Alex Wilson, who had his debut for Scotland U16s against Ulster at the Glasgow National Hockey Centre last weekend. There’s an action shot here.  

Congratulations are due to Struan Hepburn, ex-Kobra and current midfield dynamo for the men’s 2nds, who will be head boy at Kinross High next year. Hope it’s not going to interfere with your hockey Struan!

From Vicki Miller, social secretary We are in the process of arranging a pre-season club day.  This is going to take place on Saturday 22nd August at Kinross Hockey Club. Please put this date in your diary! The idea is to get as many old and new faces of all different ages and stages along … Read more

The Kinross branch of the Young Farmers have made a wonderful donation to the pitch fund, pledging £1000, which makes it our largest contribution to date. Our sincere thanks to everyone in Kinross & District JAC for their support.

With weary inevitability, the weather turned cold again for the Kobras trip to Peffermill for the Inverleith Tournament and parents endured several more hours of freezing cold touchlines. That said the hockey more than compensated. Inverleith is a huge event, with games running on two pitches simultaneously and brining the chance to play old foes … Read more

The goods ordered with our Sainsbury’s Active Kids vouchers arrived today. We have four bags of balls, a wheelie bag and a whistle. The smooth balls were not quite as advertised, so if your heart was set on the wacky colour scheme you are going to be disappointed. No doubt some will be pleased though. … Read more

With a bit of luck, everybody has had a look around the new website by now, and in particular I hope you’ve had a chance to read the news item about the Pitch In campaign, which we hope will raise us enough money for a new pitch at KGV. There are lots of ways that … Read more

The last day of May and the weather was wet, cold and miserable ahead of the Perthshire tournament. But three Kobras teams – two at under 12 and a hardy bunch of U10s – ventured forth to do battle. Here are the tournament reports. U12 Team A, Coached by Kirsty Dunn Someone had put something … Read more

For anyone who is interested in what is going on behind the scenes at the club, the minutes of the inaugural meeting and the first management committee meeting of the new Kinross Hockey Club can be found on the governance page.

From Gail Nelson, Club President As everyone probably knows we are going to need to get ourselves a new pitch in the fairly near future. This is going to cost around £180,000 and we think we are going to need to raise about 20%, or £36,000 ourselves. That equates to something like £180 for each … Read more