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Australia: Hockeyroos beat Canada 5-0  x14
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June 16, 2005
Sydney Morning Herald
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The Hockeyroos converted four second-half penalty corners to beat Canada 5-0 and take a 2-0 lead in the four-Test women's hockey series in Vancouver.
Coach Frank Murray said it was his team's best performance of their two-week North American tour, with the Hockeyroos finally putting some of their on-field domination onto the scoreboard.
All of Australia's five goals came from penalty corners, with Angie Skirving bagging a hat-trick and Teneal Attard scoring two.
The Hockeyroos led 1-0 at halftime before scoring four goals in a confidence-boosting second half.
"You can go very close to scoring, but in a low scoring game like hockey, sometimes you just need to score some goals to realise that you're actually doing alright," Murray said.
Australia won the first Test 1-0 against the world's 20th ranked team on Thursday, after drawing twice with world No.11 the United States in four matches last week.
"We did a few more things with (our penalty corners) for the first time on tour," Murray said.
"In the second half we called them from the bench, which is something that we'd normally do, but we've been leaving it to people on the field until now. Today we changed it to try and boost their confidence."
The tour is the Hockeyroos' first outing for 2005 and features several players also part of Australia's under-21 Junior World Cup squad.
Murray said youngsters Kate Hollywood, 19, and Fiona Johnson, 22, performed well, with Athens Olympians Melanie Twitt and Emily Halliday again amongst the standouts in an all-round strong team effort.
While Australia played well in patches during its two wins against the US last week, Murray said the game was a more complete performance.
"We're a long way off being in the top group, but we've certainly been pleased with the performance from some of the younger players, and with the way they've been able to fit in with the senior players this tour," Murray said.
The coach said he would continue to trial players in different positions for the final two games against Canada on Sunday and Monday (AEST).
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Hot
06-17-2005 12:10 pm
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The aussies outclassed Canada in this test by getting 20 penalty corners. Canada has much work to do yet to compete at that level.
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ztar
06-17-2005 12:50 pm
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I was most impressed by Faulkner of Australia.
Forbes of Canada did a superb job in goal.
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Can Fan
06-17-2005 2:00 pm
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Any photos ? Team or Action?
It would be nice to have the Senior National Team Photos updated on FHC
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anon
06-17-2005 2:51 pm
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First, I want to say congrats to Amanda, for her first appearence at the international level. Tough luck going in then 2mins later being scored on. Don't worry Amanda, that was a hard shot to save. Congrats to the Juniors and others on getting your first caps.
Agreed, Canada does have much work ahead of them. I think Canada's defence is doing a good job. I think they just need to smash it out into the other end to give themselves a breather. But keep up the good work.
As forwards, they need someone who is going to be a threat to the Aussie backfield. I'm not saying that the forwards we have now aren't very good players, they are, but we need a forward who is going to put pressure on them. Their defence really hasn't been tested yet.
Right now the girls are having trouble connecting 2-3 passes together. There are a few good plays here and there, but there needs to be more of that. This Aussie Team is definetly beatable. The girls can do it, they just need to step it up to the next level and put the Aussie's back on their heels.
Wishing you ladies luck
GO CANADA GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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ztar
06-17-2005 5:14 pm
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anon
Anon, which game were you watching?! This Aussie team may be beatable, but not likley by the Canadian squad.
Hey, I'm cheering for Canada too, but it helps to be realistic. The Aussie girls were just that much quicker, faster, slicker, (fitter?). The net result: they controlled the bulk of the play.
GO CANADA!
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P Diddy
06-17-2005 9:55 pm
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That Hollywood is lights out. Definitely bringing her A-movie game. No B-movie game in her. Conclusion, Hollywood is no Bollywood player. YAOOWWW
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Question
06-21-2005 3:35 am
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Where's Jameson?
Just wondering why Steph Jameson wasn't playing in this series. Is she out injured?
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06-21-2005 9:44 am
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steph j
She has a stress fracture. Man they could have used her.
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Vancouver Observer
06-22-2005 11:55 am
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Where has it gone
Where has the Canadian Team gone...it has gone to a point where we can't score a goal in 4 straight matches....it has gone to a point where we are still giving up an average of 3 goals per game...it has gone to a place where we are being completely dominated - we are no further ahead since sacking Marshall, her results were virtually the same. In the final game the Aussies converted three of 12 penalty corner attempts while taking 25 shots at goal from 55 circle penetrations. 55 times into our circle in 70 minutes - it was like they played the whole game in our cirlce.
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The Bear
06-23-2005 1:45 am
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Its a bit of a shame really.. If history serves me correctly Canada 20 years ago was ranked #2 in the world. They even defeated #1 England at Wembley stadium infront of a sizeable crowd. How the times have changed...
I can't even remember Canada even having one field shot on goal in the 4 games... i know they had a few corner attempts. But was there a field shot in any of the games for Canada???
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Whalley
06-25-2005 11:55 am
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Shots
While i thought the Canadian girls played decent defense and had a better structure to their game then 2 years ago, they were under constant pressure from Aussie,who were just quicker and faster + more solid ball control skills.
When Canada did attack,they always seemed a player short, in the D. So many right wing crosses went begging on the left post, it was sad to see. Our forwards, while skillful and full of tenacity,in the end were too slow. They were frequently caught from behind,after getting odd numbered breaks.
Also, Aussie forced our girls into making silly errors. Like in the last game, giving up a corner by hitting the ball away,when Aus. had a free hit at the top of the circle. Aussie scored on the corner.
In the 2nd game, on the only goal of the game, the Can goalie, Forbes batted a corner drag flick right back to the Aussie forward, who took the gift and volleyed it into the top of the net. Spectacular shot, but really a bad move by our goalie.
We just have to get players at the top level with more speed.
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Spaceman Spiff
06-26-2005 6:57 am
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Whalley
Whalley said:
"We just have to get players at the top level with more speed."
Can't really teach speed so where do we find these players?
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canuckle mama
06-27-2005 10:16 am
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whalley
Finally someone with constructive comments about the games...actually feel like he/she saw the same games that I was at. The perpetual whining about being ranked #2 twenty years ago isn't exactly useful information at this point. Even in the 6-0 loss, there were some bright points in the game, but more avoidable errors. I sometimes wonder about our selection process in the early stages (regional and provincial levels) of development where we are turning away less skilled natural goal scorers that maybe have that speed that has been commented on. We discourage some of these players that can put the ball in the net because their methods are less orthodox or their ball handling is not as good as the average...can that not be taught? I thought the series gave some hope to the program in that in our 1-0 games it showed that we can be competetive, and also showed that in a very short time, the coaching staff has made some strides towards improvement.
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k
06-28-2005 2:07 am
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I remember reading Ric Charlseworth's book about his time coaching the Hockeyroo's, and one factor that he regarded as very important was speed. If there were a couple of players in contention for a spot, and one had better pace and the other had slightly better skills, he'd take the speedy player.
But thats not to say we should simply have a team full of 100m sprinters. You'll always need skill, but you've got to have speed to really take advantage of situations.
And you can develop speed through a program weight training and diet, but you aren't going to change a plodder to a sprinter overnight, if at all.
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