MENS x AUSTRALIA v ARGENTINA x TEST MATCHES LIVE ONLINE x FREE

The Australian Men’s Team will play Argentina this weekend in Perth in the lead up to the Commonwealth Games. Matches are at 3pm WST Australia at the Curtin University Stadium in Bentley. If you cannot get to the ground to support the Aussie’s you can also watch these games LIVE thanks to http://www.LMSCtv.com/

Jump online to check out Gryphon star’s Fergus Kavanagh, Rob Hammond, Joel Carroll and Trent Mitton as they prepare for their assult on the Commonwealth Games in India next month.

Photo: Daniel Carson | DCIMAGES.ORG

COMMONWEALTH GAMES 2010 x AUS SELECTION

The Australian Men’s Hockey Commonwealth Games Team has been announced today by Hockey Australia. The team see’s the inclusion of 4 Gryphon ambassadors, Rob Hammond, Fergy Kavanagh, Joel Carroll and Trent Mitton. This will be Hammond’s 2nd Commonwealth Games and while its the 1st for Carroll, Kavanagh and Mitton. Mitton will make his major tournament debut also. Gryphon’s Brent Dancer, Kiel Brown and Mark Paterson have been named as emergencies, and their experience and youth will be invaluable should they be called upon.

Notable exclusions include the tough defender Graeme Begbie (WC10, CT10, CT09) who is out for 10 months with a knee reconstruction and legendary striker Grant Schubert (CT03, OG04, CT05, CG06, CT06, WC06, CT07, CT08, OG08, CT09, WC10) who tore is groin in last weeks AHL competition.

The Australian Team has won all three previous Gold Medals at the Commonwealth Games since hockey’s inception in 1998 where they defeated Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur. In 2002 they beat New Zealand in Manchester and 2006 they won over Pakistan in Melbourne, Australia.

Master Coach and Gryphon Legend Ric Charlesworth had this to say about the team and tournament:

“We have had some great results over the past 20 months or so, however I still believe we are not solid yet and still have much to do. I have full confidence in the team we have selected as it has a good amount of experience and youth, however we will not get ahead of ourselves,” said Charlesworth.

“We have great squad depth which is obviously what we are building towards, however it means that players need to make the most of their opportunities and the Commonwealth Games will give these players a chance to do that on a very big international stage,” said Charlesworth.

“We are the number 1 ranked team in the world, but I think that can give teams a bit more incentive when they face us. England are very capable of beating us as we saw at the World Cup. India and Pakistan will be at home in the Heat of Delhi and with the reduced squad sizes makes things less predictable,” said Charlesworth.

ACGA Chief Executive Officer Perry Crosswhite said, “We have high expectations for our 2010 Commonwealth Games men’s hockey team just as we have had at all three previous Games where the sport was played.

“It will not be easy but we know that if they do their best, as they did in 1998, 2002 and 2006, the 2010 Games tournament will be their hat trick for the year.”

The Delhi 2010 hockey competition will be held at the Major Dhyan Chand National Stadium from October 4 – 14, 2010. This is the same stadium that the Aussie’s triumphed in their World Cup Victory over Germany in February earlier this year. They have also won the 2010 Champions Trophy so a win at the Commonwealth Games will make it a clean sweep of the major’s for the Aussies in 2010.

The Australian women’s hockey team will be announced in mid-September following their World Cup campaign in Argentina

The Australian men’s hockey team Delhi 2010 schedule is:

Date	Delhi time	AEDST time	Opposition
Wednesday 6 October	8:30am	2:00pm	Scotland
Thursday 7 October	4:00pm	9:30pm	India
Saturday 9 October	10:30am	4:00pm	Pakistan
Sunday 10 October	4:30pm	10:00pm	Malaysia
Tuesday 12 October	11:00am	4:30pm	Semi Final One
	5:30pm	11:00pm	Semi Final Two
Thursday 14 October	9:00am	2:30pm	Bronze Medal Match
	11:30am	5:00pm	Gold Medal Match

AHL x FINAL x VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS x GOALS GOALS GOALS

The Australian Hockey League has crowned a new Champion in the Queensland Blades. They defeated NSW Waratahs 7-1 in the final of this fast paced, exciting competition.

Gryphon stars we a plenty in the victorious Queensland outfit, with Olympic Gold Medalist’s, World Cup Champion and Australian rep Rob Hammond and ex-internationalist and Olympic Champion Troy Elder, future stars and Australian Junior WC players Jacob Whetton, Mick Bates and David Reid and local powerhouse Nick Budd. For NSW, Australian rep Mark Paterson and Matt Wark were both solid throughout the season but had a tough day out in the final

So sit back and watch this two part highlight package of this history making final. Note the experimental Penalty
Corners that were played throughout this league.

1st HALF HIGHLIGHTS

2nd HALF HIGHLIGHTS

PATO x TNL x VIDEO

Gryphon ambassador Mark “Pato” Paterson speaks to Thursday Night Live about the Australian Teams success at the recent Men’s Champions Trophy and doesn’t burn a snag nor onion in the process…Nice!

WWC10 x DAY1 x ARG v S.AF

Drums. Music. Chanting. Singing.

Hockey in Argentina is a passion. Just incase anyone doubts that, get on the next plane to Rosario (via Buenos Aries) and see for yourself.

After rousing team introductions, even the freezing wind and chill factor couldn’t take the sting out of the crowd and overall atmosphere.

The hosts and clear tournament favourites went about their business with pace and intensity akin to a final. It actually was an early domination from the forwards with Garcia, Russo and Rebechi all taking multiple shots on goal. Indeed it was Argentina that took the lead early showing the South Africans who was boss.

South Africa didn’t agree with that rule and wanted to take the boss away from the pyramid of control. A quick penalty conversion Gryphon specialist Pietie Coetzee drawn the game level. From that point both teams were looking evenly poised. At the break the crowd really didn’t know what to do with their team level.

Crowd pressure on the restart worked early wonders with a quick goal and then a third for the game by Carla Rebechi (obviously having broken in her new Las Leonas Ltd Edition stick) making the game look out of reach for the girls in green.

Late in the game, Gryphon forward Vida Ryan scored a great field goal strike to the top right of the net to add something more to the game. But once again an Argentinean had something to prove for their vocal crowd and Marine Russo scored in the last minute to shut the game out completely.

The score sit final at 5 goals to 2, in a game where South Africa looked very respectable and threatening.

Photos: Daniel Carson | www.dcimages.org

LAS LEONAS x GARCIA + REBECHI

We’ve shown in a previous post the fantastic shoot of the players that are Gryphon’s ambassadors in Argentina and Las Leonas.

Soledad Garcia and Carla Rebechi are featured here in their poster designs with the new exclusive Las Leonas Gryphon hockey sticks. Keep and eye out for Garcia’s strong play up front and the pure striking power of Rebechi during the World Cup.

LAS LEONAS x GULLA + RUSSO

Gryphon’s sponsorship as the official stick sponsor of the 2010 BDO Womens World Cup can only be born through players. As with the team that has won the last two Champions Trophies (Sydney and Nottingham) there are four mainstay Gryphon ambassadors who’ll be representing the brand new sticks on the pitch.

In Argentina we’ve got all four together for a photo shoot. These will be turned into large banners during the event.

For those who can’t get on a plane to Argentina here we’ll preview these posters on Gryphon-Life starting with Alejandra Gulla and Marine Russo.

For those that can get to Rosario make sure you come along to the Gryphon and the Las Leonas stalls. For the rest of the world, stick on Gryphon-Life for the latest content and media from this massive event.

WC10 x LAS LEONAS x OFFICIAL SPONSOR x GRYPHON

We here at Gryphon HQ are very proud to announce that for the upcoming Women’s World Cup in Rosario, Argentina, Gryphon Hockey is the official stick sponsor.

We’ve released a Special Edition set of sticks for this event. These sticks have been designed with the blessing of both Las Leonas and the CAH (Argentina Hockey Federation) and embody the Argentinean national identity.  The logos of Las Leonas and CAH are featured as well as the past achievements of Las Leonas in delicate details.

There are two sticks in the range using the identifiable blue colours of Argentina’s flag. Each stick fits into a new place within the Gryphon range only for this event.

Hockey-Equipment.com.ar are the official reseller of Gryphon products in Argentina and will be selling these limited items during the World Cup. They will also be running the Las Leonas Stick stall at the event, so if you are around come on in and get yourself a very Special Edition stick.

Look out for the Gryphon girls in the Argentinean squad using their national stick, made by Gryphon Hockey.

TABOO DEKODA x CT10 SIGNATURE EDITION x ON SALE NOW

To commemorate the amazing success of the Australian Mens Hockey team, winning three straight Champions Trophies, Gryphon and Premium retail partner F-H-E have joined for a special stick offer indeed. We’ve got the Gryphon Guns that were a part of that third Gold Medal team to come to Gryphon HQ and sign a limited stock of 25 Taboo Dekoda sticks. And now thanks to F-H-E, they are available for sale right now.

This deal is great value in three amazing ways:

1/ You get a stick signed in gold pen by Fergus Kavanagh (Australian Captain during this last campaign), Mark Paterson, Joel Carroll and Graeme Begbie.

2/ A massive $175 discount on the price!

FHE are taking $175 off the price of the normal Dekoda making this Taboo only $250 which includes the signatures!

3/ Limited to 25 sticks only

To buy simply go to www.f-h-e.com.au  or  click here for the direct product link.

Go through the usual process of the online shopping system, to get the special price at STEP 2 of 3 during the CHECKOUT process enter the COUPON CODE: 3xChampions

This offer is only valid for a limited time so hurry to secure your piece of history!

From all of us at Gryphon we would like to congratulate the guys for their amazing achievement and we hope that now you can be a part of that with this limited edition stick.

KNOWN FAKE STICK RETAILERS

In our attempt to keep you informed and out of trouble with spending money on what you think you really want to buy, we are going to keep a list of retailers that you should be weary of. The stores are all online and we have very strong information that these sell sticks that are not real Gryphons. We strongly urge you to take note of these stores and we will be updating this list as we find confirmation of more places that are not authorised retailers of Gryphon Products.

The sticks sold here are fakes. Mostly they are factory seconds (not Gryphons) that have been resprayed poorly to look like a Gryphon. These sticks will not perform well, will have a tendency to break or feel bad in the hand. They will look wrong as they will have spelling mistakes and graphics that are incorrect. All together it’s not a great package and you certainly don’t want to be handing over money for these products.

For more information on identifying a fake Gryphon you can refer to this post.

Stay clear of:

www.justhockeystick.com

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