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