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Team Men’s 1st Team Opponent Pershore 1 Date March 2, 2024 Result Win Score 5 – 1 CoB Men’s 1stXI 5-1 Pershore Men’s 1s Goalscorers: Zach Jarvis, Noor Zaman 2, Jordan McGuigan, Jeevan Chagger Earlier in the season CoBHC edged the three points in a seven-goal thriller. It remained to be seen how this encounter would turn out, with the visitors just two places above CoB. The teams lined-up on very cold, ‘so called meteorological …

Team Men’s 2nd Team Opponent Beacon 6 Date February 24, 2024 Result Win Score 3 – 0 Beacon Men’s 6s 0-3 CoB Men’s 2ndXI Goalscorers: Robin Stanley, Ben Matthews and James L. A refreshing midday start for the visitors, who are so used to 4pm away fixtures. This combined with a week away from hockey (school break) put everyone in a positive frame of mind and were all raring to go. Even news that our …

Team Men’s 1st Team Opponent Edgbaston 3 Date February 24, 2024 Result Win Score 3 – 1 Edgbaston Men’s 3s 1-3 CoB Men’s 1stXI Goalscorers: Jeevan Chagger, Alex Makepeace and Junaid Ali An afternoon start at the University of Birmingham. The Men’s 1stXI were primed at the start of the game to make amends for their last outing. Bottom placed Edgbaston took command of early exchanges, looking to test Neal and our back line of …

Team Men’s 2nd Team Opponent Old Silhillians 5 Date February 10, 2024 Result Draw Score 2 – 2 CoB Men’s 2ndXI 2-2 Old Silhillians Men’s 5s Goalscorers: Robin Stanley, Kamran Umar This looked to be an interesting encounter. The visitors in 3rd place and the Home side in 4th. Right from the start, the Home side showed their intentions, surging forward. Their positive efforts earned a short corner. The ball came out to Stan whose …

Team Men’s 1st Team Opponent Bournville 2 Date February 10, 2024 Result Loss Score 0 – 3 CoB Men’s 1stXI 0-3 Bournville Men’s 2s Fielding the bare XI, CoB were in for a tough afternoon against their visitors. However, to their credit they did begin brightly enough with perhaps the better of the early exchanges and creating a few chances. Bournville soon found their feet and worked their way into the game. A smart move …

Team Men’s 2nd Team Opponent Hampton in Arden 5 Date February 3, 2024 Result Loss Score 1 – 2 Hampton in Arden Men’s 5s 2-1 CoB Men’s 2ndXI Goalscorer: Anthony Truelove. The visitors played brilliantly for the first ten minutes. Great passing. Break up of any home team attack was quick and decisive. Zee and Anthony both had early chances, but the Hampton keeper was in top form. Then Stan got injured shortly after this …

Team Men’s 1st Team Opponent Olton & W Warwick 4 Date February 3, 2024 Result Win Score 2 – 0 Olton & West Warks Men’s 4s 0-2 CoB Men’s 1stXI Goalscorers: Noor Zaman and Jeevan Chagger. The visitors travelled to locals Olton, placed 11th in the league. Faced with a tight relegation battle, our Men’s 1stXI needed 3 points to give some breathing space to the bottom two positions. CoB started off brightly with early …

Team Men’s 2nd Team Opponent Sutton Coldfield 8 Date January 27, 2024 Result Win Score 1 – 0 CoB Men’s 2ndXI 1-0 Sutton Coldfield Men’s 8s Goalscorer: Robin Stanley Both teams lined up with several squad players starting on the sidelines waiting for their call to rotate. After an even start, Sutton began to claim the better of the exchanges, but without any great threat in the final third. The home defence was again more …

Team Men’s 1st Team Opponent Old Silhillians 2 Date January 27, 2024 Result Loss Score 1 – 3 CoB Men’s 1stXI 1-3 Old Silhillians Men’s 2s Goalscorer: Zach Jarvis Lining up on a cold but sunny winter’s afternoon, both teams will have claimed to have differing priorities. Old Sils were hoping to maintain their challenge at the top of the league and CoB were hoping to get back to winning ways to give a boost …

Team Men’s 1st Team Opponent Stourport 3 Date January 20, 2024 Result Loss Score 1 – 2 Stourport Men’s 3s 2-1 CoB Men’s 1stXI   Goalscorer: Alex Makepeace A tough away day to kick off 2024, with CoB M1s only able to field 10, with the 2s also depleted to 9. Nonetheless, the team dug in and fought well, taking the game to Stourport. A make-shift defense of Jeevan, Sohail and Ian kept Stourport at …