I’ll ignore the implication that the Beasts in any way incite an unfriendly atmosphere or unsportsmanlike conduct, or that our team has or creates problems with other teams (Perhaps you’re referring to the incident where our team Captain was assaulted by a teacher from an opposing team? Or perhaps you mean the manner in which some of our players have been the victims of theft? Both occurrances, I hope you will note, are criminal offences).

I feel obliged, however, to point out that the only abuse I or Jack have ever received (to the best of my knowledge) was at highschool, from students in our age group down to those who are currently in the senior section of the school, and last night. In fact, come to think of it, I personally have seen more personal abuse from students of McGlashan than any other group of that age. Go figure. I’m not talking crap here, because I really would know, having been a student at McGlashan for seven years. Don’t be surprised that now that we’re out of uniform we’re no longer cowed into holding our peace. I’m not sure, John, that you’d be entirely pleased with the opinion that many former students of other dunedin schools have about particular groups of former, and current, McGlashan pupils.

On that basis I think “they are not perfect” might be something of an understatement. A number of other people who are, perhaps, more objective than any of us who have commented here, have intimated to me that Jack’s views are not at all “one eyed”.

However, as I have said before, we should all let sleeping dogs lie. McGlashan has had an excellent season, and as I have said on a number of occaisions, are an excellent team and deserve congratulations.

In addition, I have the utmost respect and admiration for you John, both personally and as one of the best teachers I’ve encountered. The speed and fitness of your players was impressive, their teamwork was spot on, and their individual skills with stick and puck were obvious to everyone there. Your team won, and that’s the final word.

I’m sure it will look [i:k37gzhjc]great[/i:k37gzhjc] in the newsletter.

Sounds like you’re all taking this too seriously.
How ’bout we end this.

Ryan,

PS: welcome to the forum Hanffy

Alright i haven’t been around the ice hockey scene lately but got wind of what happened on wednesday and the fallout, so when i here that johnies, the boys and the school, and my mate (george) being badmouthed it got to me enough to jump in. First of all there is no way you can complain about fair play jack, i didn’t see the game so wil not make a judgement on the referees but the amount of penalties that were dished out shows that the rules did their job and kept the game fair. That is what rules are for, to punish offendors thus with capable refs there can be no unfair play.
Secondly don’t talk about school changing, remember i was there and by the sounds of thing nothin has changed and i was beaming when told how the boys took it out in a real dog fight. i was a part of building ice hockey at johnies and thats the way we tried to play, not fancy but tough. I know you do alot of good work for ice hockey now but at school you were not apart of it so leave that out, if you were you would be plying for them like i did in winter. By bringing up the fair play aspect of johnies it kills an attitude i was part of getting rid of, we went from perrenial losers in most sports to top dogs in all bar rugby and i am proud to say i was a part of these teams who got away from ‘fair’ play (in other words showing up and trying) to demanding victories and succes, it is a testament to the school these boys and especially Mr Bradfield that they carry it on. How about as an important figure in Dunedin Ice Hockey you encourage the schools rather than stickin to a tight nit crew which encourages teams like johnies to have a crack at ya. Now that i’ve vented i just wanna say congrats boys, havin them moan makes victory all the sweeter and hopefully i might beable to play with some of ya’s in autumn.

Cheers Dwayne Cleugh

haha from what ive heard sounds like jack and chris gota bit of shit when they were at johnies. gutted, obviously few old high school memories came back to haunt them on wed night.
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Actually we just didn’t want to hurt you guys with a proper check, didn’t think u wee kids can take it but oh well, we know better now.

you didnt want to hurt us with real checking? thats the stupidest thing iv ever heardcoming from someone that was about 3 or 4 forms above me at school! any normal old boys would have taken us “little kids” out after we put the first check in! its people like jack and chris that give our school a bad rep, not abuse and “unfair play”. Dwaynes got it right, an attitude “demanding victories and succes”. Im glad this will be over, look forward to playing you in the future and getting a “proper check” from you jack! Not that it was me playing unfairly, just standing up for my team mates in which majority played a good game to lead us to victory.
cheers,
Rob

I’d just like to jump in here and say that the views of both Jack and Chris don’t reflect those of the entire Beasts team. True it was a rough game, but it was also a fast well played game, and we lost due to playing with the puck in our own end and not putting the shots on johnies net.

Would like to say great job to Phil too, you called a good game, sure there were lots of things you missed, on both sides, but if you called over 30 mins of penalties through the game nobody can say you weren’t doing your job. You got to remember that the refs can only call what they see and they can’t see everything. Thanks for your work through the season Phil, and I’ll be happy to help ref next year if you need the people.

Johnies played a good fast game, and deserved the win. Congrats

Jason