Inbjudan till cup i Skottland

Här kommer ett mail som jag fick från skottarnas lagledare Ian som var här och spelade med oss i Big Ice Cup. I brevet bjuder han in oss till Sam Wallace Memorial Tournament i juni nästa år. Ni föräldrar kan ta en funderare på om detta skulle vara något vi vill göra med barnen i vårt lag.

I hope you have all recovered from the "invasion of the Scots" !!!!

All the boys all thoroughly enjoyed the tournament. There were many "Tall Tales" told amongst their fellow team mates when they got back resulting in a lot of envy amongst those who could not make it to Sweden.

However, you will recall that, over dinner, we talked about the possibility of you guys coming over here to compete in our annual big event ... which is called the "Sam Wallace Memorial Tournament". I felt I should write now to acquaint you with the basic information regarding this.

- It is normally held over the first two full weekends in June of each year. The 2015 dates are 6 / 7 and 13 / 14 June.
- The U10, U12 and U14's play over the first weekend while the U16, U18/20 and SNL are on over the following weekend.
- Due to restrictions in Changing Room availability we can only invite a maximum of 4 visiting teams per age group.
- We ourselves enter 1 team per age group so there are 5 teams competing at every level.
- At U10,U12 and U14 ages - all teams play each other once. The bottom team in each group drops out after which the top team plays the 4th highest then the second top plays the third top. The winners of these two games then play to decide the winning team and runner up.

We generally have a fully booked event with teams from both Scotland and England. It's a great weekend of hockey with two very full days of competition. There are one or two teams who book for the following year at the end of every event ...... so it would be a very attractive proposition to have the scale of the Tournament go International !!!!

It would be our pleasure to return some of the generous hospitality extended to us during our visit with you !!!!

Sincerely

Ian.