Lee Valley Lions 2011/12 News

Plans to close Romford Ice Rink
January 21 2012 at 10:06 AM

I've received the following message from the English Ice Hockey Association (edited to make more sense):

Havering Council plans to sell Romford Ice Rink to a retail firm and use the money they get from the sale to build a new leisure centre which will have a new ice rink as part of it, but this will not open until 2014. There is a link to an e-petition on the home page of the Romford Raiders' website which is asking Havering Council to set up a temporary rink for the Raiders and everyone else who uses Rom Valley Way in the period between the closing of the current rink and the opening of the new leisure centre. I would like to ask as many of you as possible to sign the petition to help keep Romford Raiders and all of the junior hockey teams that currently play at RVW on the ice - thank you. PS The petition closes on 12-02-2012.

Result after Swindon game this Saturday
December 16 2011 at 09:44 PM

If you're keen to know our result against Swindon Wildcats this Saturday (17 December), please head straight to the Results page because I won't be able to get to my PC to change the home page until the early part of next week.

Match programmes to download
September 26 2011 at 10:33 PM

For anyone who wasn't able to get hold of a programme on Saturday, I've uploaded a PDF version onto the Results page. Match programmes and match reports are shown under the fixtures table on that page and will be added to after each home game.

Apologies...
September 18 2011 at 09:47 AM

...to anyone who arrived late for the start of yesterday's game against Invicta (myself included). The face-off time came from the Fixtures Live plugin which, when I posted the time on the home page, said 5.45pm. Someone I spoke to yesterday said the plug-in had actually been showing a variety of times for our home games this season, but it's now saying 5.15pm consistently and this time has been verified as correct.

Full team list!
August 18 2011 at 06:15 PM

I've been given the full team list and they are as follows (in no particular order!):

Blair Dubyk, James Scott-Joseph, Romanas Fedotovas, George Alley, Ruth Cattell, Jack Ball, Scott Beeson, Joe Berry, Shane Bojenko, Phil Carson, Gary Dodds, James Gosling, Steve Grout, James Hatfull, Calum Heath, Richard Hodge, Joshua Irish, Adam Peach, Glenn Roper, Philippe Mueller and Janus Hutcheon.

It's great to see so many of last year's players returning and the squad being strengthened by a couple of talented ex-Lions. Let's hope we have a great season ahead of us.

2011/12 fixtures announced
August 11 2011 at 07:32 PM

Eddie has just sent me the fixtures list for 2011/12, which I've put on the site via the Fixtures live plugin. The plugin means that any changes to dates, times etc will be automatically updated.

Our first league game is away to Gosport on 11 September, then we are at home against Invicta on 17 September. Remember that to kick things off we also have a friendly away game against Streatham Redskins on 21 August.

2011/12 fixtures

Dave Tottman
August 04 2011 at 11:37 PM

Many of you will have already heard this news, but popular linesman, Dave Tottman, recently passed away. He was on the ice for many of the Lions' games and was a friendly chap who seemed to get on with everyone. His contribution to the game will be sorely missed and sincere condolences go out to his family and friends. A Facebook group has been set up in his memory at .