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Rules of Hockey. Ball deliberately played into the feet or legs of an opponent.        Misdirection of umpires. This topic thread on a hockey related web-site has again thrown up some weird and wonderful invention and what can only be described as misdirection. I find thiis misdirection depressing because, in this thread, it has […] ...

World Cup Warm-Up Tour Bremen Four Nations Match 2 of 3 HOCKEYROOS 6 (4) Georgie Parker 3 (F) Jodie Kenny 5, 59 (PC, PS) Emily Smith 13 (F) Anna Flanagan 17 (PC) Edwina Bone 54 (F) JAPAN 1 (1) Ayaka Nishimura 35 (F) A clinical first half display helped the Hockeyroos to a comprehensive 6-1 win over World Cup pool A rivals Japan in the second of the Australian women’s warm-up matches in Bremen on Saturday....

SuperSport are to sponsor of the South African men’s hockey team at he hockey World Cup, starting in Holland later this month. The company's logo will feature across the front of the team shirts. The broadcaster had already announced it would cover all  76 matches live from the Hague. Acting CEO of SuperSport, Brandon Foot, ​said: ​“Corporate South Africa is often blamed for not coming to the party...

The International Hockey Federation (FIH) has come away from a three-day visit to Rio reassured that progress is being made with preparations for the 2016 Olympic Games.  The FIH delegation, which included CEO Kelly Fairweather, director of sport David Luckes and executive board member Alberto Budeisky, visited the site of the 2016 Olympic Games hockey venue in Deodoro and met with members of Rio...

Tickets for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games will go back on sale on Wednesday May 21 after a one-week suspension to sort out problems with the sales system. Some 100,000 tickets went on sale on Monday May 12 but the website and phone operations were dogged by long queues and errors, and the website and lines were closed on Tuesday evening. More than 50,000 tickets remain unsold, but these will...

Hockey fans in Australia are in for a treat over the coming weeks with the ABC confirming it will broadcast almost 29 hours of coverage during the Rabobank Hockey World Cup. In total, 1735 minutes of action will be beamed into Australian households with a combination of live matches, matches on delay, extended and edited highlights, and a half hour nightly studio show hosted by Stephanie Brantz and...

Skipper Barry Middleton played his 200th game for England in Dusseldorf on Thursday, but his side fell 3-1 to the hockey World League champions the Netherlands. The Dutch scored two first half goals – a Mink van der Weerden corner and an open-play strike from Billy Bakker. Simon Mantell contributed an open-play goal for England in the 39th minute before Van der Weerden hit another corner in the 51st....

  Rules of Hockey. Stick Obstruction and other obstructions . This topic thread on a hockey related web-site has thrown up some weird and wonderful Rule invention. Stick Obstruction Where does the idea that a stick obstruction has to be intentional to be an offence come from? What is a ‘natural’ dribbling action? Is it over […] ...

Two penalty corner strikes from Anna Flanagan helped the world number four Hockeyroos come from behind to beat world number three England 4-2 in their World Cup warm-up match in Bremen. South Australian Georgie Parker and Queenslander Jodie Kenny added to Canberra-born Flanagan’s brace with England grabbing a late goal just prior to Kenny’s penalty corner goal in the final minute. The match saw two-time...

Australia's Hockeyroos got the better of England in Bremen on Thursday afternoon, winning 4-2. Kate Richardson-Walsh sustained a slight ankle injury last week and as a precaution she will not take part in this tournament. Surbiton’s Giselle Ansley has been brought in as a replacement. England coach Jason Lee said: “It was a hard fought game today and I thought we played some really good hockey across...

The Hockeyroos’ final World Cup preparations get underway tonight as they take on England in the opening match of the Four Nations tournament in Bremen, Germany. Over the next four days Madonna Blyth and her teammates will face England, Japan and the hosts as they look to get up to pace for the World Cup, which begins on Saturday 31 May live on the ABC. The team left Perth in the early hours of Monday...

Rules of Hockey. Stick Specifications. Stick Length. Stick Diagam A goalkeeper does it again! It’s extraordinary how many changes to hockey stick specifications have been initiated by the inventiveness of goalkeepers, particularly when one of them was because some goalkeepers would rather play without a stick at all. It was a goalkeeper who came up […] ...

Hockey Australia has completed the re-signing of two official suppliers ahead of the Rabobank Hockey World Cup with Kookaburra Sport and Body Science International extending their commitments with Australian hockey. Kookaburra Sport, the world renowned Australian sports equipment company, extends its long term relationship as it continues as the exclusive Official Hockey Ball Supplier to Hockey Australia...

Glasgow 2014 closed their ticket sales website and phone lines until further notice on Tuesday night after two days of errors and delays for users trying to buy Commonwealth Games tickets. Just over half of the 100,000 tickets that went on sale on Monday morning have been purchased. A statement from chief executive of Glasgow 2014, David Grevemberg, said:“At 5pm today we instructed our Official Ticketing...

Eleven of England's squad will be playing in their first hockey World Cup when they take to the field in the Hague later this month. The side named by coach Bobby Crutchley includes just six survivors from the team which finished fourth four years ago in New Delhi. George Pinner, James Bailey, Henry Weir, Harry Martin, Michael Hoare, Dan Shingles, Tim Whiteman, David Condon, Tom Carson, Iain Lewers...

Added stick length regulation to be used at Rabobank Hockey World Cup • Additional regulation around stick length to begin immediately • Length of allowed hockey stick to be limited to 105cm The International Hockey Federation (FIH) has announced the addition of a regulation around player stick length that is to be implemented immediately, beginning with the Rabobank Hockey World Cup 31st May to 15th...

Glasgow 2014 closed their website for an hour last night investigate why thousands of people were unable to get through to purchase more than 100,000 tickets for the Commonwealth Games released on Monday morning. The situation improved on Tuesday with some users reporting successful purchases, although there were also complaints on Twitter of website failures, particularly in the checkout process....

Hockey sticks will be limited to a maximum length of 105cm (41.3inches) at the 2014 World Cup. The International Hockey Federation (FIH) has moved to clamp down on the 'broom' stick used by Racing Club de Bruxelles and Belgian international Jeremy Gucassoff at Easter's Euro Hockey League.  Gucassoff switched to the long stick for shootouts where the extended reach was used to sweep the ball away from...

Photo credit: Dan Carson/DC Images National team captains Madonna Blyth and Mark Knowles (above with Ric Charlesworth) scooped the top prizes at a World Cup send-off event in Perth on Friday as they were respectively named Hockeyroos and Kookaburras Player of the Year for 2013. The event, which was attended by athletes, coaches and staff, friends and family, guests, sponsors and the media, officially...

South Africa coach Fabian Gregory has named his squad for the hockey World Cup after a week-long selection camp in Pretoria. Drag-flicker Justin Reid-Ross returns to the side for the first time since representing South Africa in their 11th-place finish at the London 2012 Olympic Games.The defender had a strong second half of the season at his Dutch  Hoofdklasse  club, Pinoke, and has just signed for...