Gordon hopes buzz for hockey remains strong President keen to keep members engaged
who won the Scottish indoor and outdoor cups last year. It is pretty much the same squad this year but they haven’t had the chance to defend it.”
When the time does come to return to a sense of normality and the club can meet on the pitch once again, Gordon has stressed the importance of the initial sessions being centred purely around enjoyment.
“What we have agreed is that, first and foremost, it will be to get people back on the hockey pitch with a stick in their hand and ball on the ground to just enjoy it,” he said.
“When we have everyone enjoying it again, then we’ll start to develop into the more intense part of the game. The worst thing we could do would be getting back to intense situations straight away.”
There is much to be positive about at the club moving forward and certainly when you look at the promising batch of youth players.
A long list are involved in Scottish Hockey’s under-18 and under-16 academy programme, delivered on a regional basis.
Pre-Christmas squad sessions took place in Galashiels and Dundee but the programme has now been adapted due to COVID.
Gordon hopes the club can play their part in producing more internationalists.