The Griffs

Wayfarers (friendly):
18.09.04
Wayfarers 2 Griffs 1
This was the dress rehearsal, next week it starts for real, and as dress rehearsals go this wasn’t bad. The team almost had a keeper, Rory almost turned up on time & the Griffins almost won a game. Next week, Moni Monash makes his return, Rory will be given his own unique meet time an hour earlier than everyone else, and with any luck the boys will have three points in the bag.

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Lewes (friendly & Roon stag):
11.09.04
Lewes 6 Griffs 0

And so begins another season for the Mighty Griffins, and the time has come for Raggy Omar to dust down his notebook and chronicle the highs & lows on & off the hockey pitch.

In what has become a traditional opening fixture, they travelled down to Lewes, though this year the hockey was (thankfully) not the main event. A celebration of Rooney’s forthcoming away fixture to SA was to be the focus for the day, and proceedings began with the Stella Express from Clapham Junction.

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