NZ vs Australia Test series was cancelled before the first match due to unfortunate circumstances.

We look forward to the Trans Tasman Cup on the 5th and 6th of August 2011.

Papatoetoe smash Wellington in the final of the Australasian Championships Yesterday, 13 - 6.

Yesterday we saw many skillful goals and determination from the Papatoetoe team to take the title, the team were wanting this as the champs were held in their home stadium. Papatoetoe lost to Wellington in the earlier stages and was looking forward to the Final to make up for the loss.

Third Place went to Stafford after a hard game with Melbourne. Stafford taking third place was well deserved with the team really finding their stride later in the tournament. Melbourne one of the favorites for the tournament settling for fourth place. North Sports took 5th and New Plymouth finishing 6th.

To all those who travelled Thank you very much, it was a great event and I am sure everyone enjoyed the week.

Now its time for the National Team Battle!!! NZ vs AUS

Tonight 7pm

Friday 6 pm

Saturday 6pm

  To look at the draw for the up and coming games between NZ and Australia, please go to the Roller Hockey NZ site on the links page.

Rest in Peace Bob

We wish all the family and friends comfort over this tough time.

Bob Dufty was a huge part of Roller Hockey NZ over the past 40+ years as he had played, coached, represented and was a local and international referee. Bob also had three sons Wayne (deceased), Ross and Kevin who all represented NZ in Roller Hockey over the years. He was a huge inspiration to his sons and many of the other players within NZ including myself.

I personally was emotionally touched to see Bob and Kay at the Trans Tasman Cup in August knowing  the difficulty they both faced getting there. RIP

A service for Bob will be held at Seddon Park Funeral Home Chapel, Cnr Seddon Road & Somerset Street, Hamilton, on Monday, 24 January 2011 at 10:30am followed by private cremation.

2011 is looking to be a great year.

Firstly with Australia sending there clubs over for the Australian Champs and also for the first Australasion champs for a number of years.

Trans Tasman Cup will be held for the second year in Auckland.

Possible Super League

NZ std tournaments are as per schedule released by RHNZ.

All Dates are confirmed on the Calendar page

Please reply if there are any questions....

Papatoetoe on their 50th Year take out the Club overall points Championships.

Congratulations to all the teams and delegates from the Papatoetoe Club.

We look forward to an action packed 2011.

New Zealand

National Training Weekend & New Rules Seminar

New Plymouth 4/5 December 2011 has changed

The Executive Committee Members of Roller Hockey New Zealand hereby confirms that the scheduled National Training Weekend & New Rules Seminar 4/5 December at New Plymouth is now being deferred until the new year 4/5/6 Papatoetoe Auckland.

1. USA                      

2. South Africa

3. Holland

4. Austria

5. Macao

6. Uruguay

7. Egypt

8. Australia

9. New Zealand

10. Israel

11. Japan

12. India

The World Champs have finished with two exciting games to finish it off.

Epic Battle Austria vs Holland for 3rd place and the important spot to go into A group World Champs.

The game started with incredible pace with Austria looking the dominators, scoring first and keeping the control of the game. Holland had many oportunaties but were not able to score before half time, and Austria scored 3 leaving the half time score 3 - 0. The stadium was a full house and the noise was incredible, with horns, drums, shouting, singing and other instruments. Austria needed this win to make group A and this was the best oportunity as having the home crowd advantage.

The second half started with the same intense pace as the first, with Austria dominating. After 10 minutes into the second half Holland finaly scoring though a penalty shot. This then sparked up Holland and gave them that edge the were looking for, and creating another goal 5 minutes later. The game then was an all out battle, Austria to keep the lead and Holland to level the score. The crowd and the stadium erupted when Holland scored the third goal they were looking for with 58 seconds remaining, this then ment the game would go into extra time.

The extra time went for 5 minutes each way with no team scoring creating the game to go into penalty shots. This was a fantastic display of goal keeping at its best as the goalies from both teams saved over 9 shots. Holland Won after all this and kept the important 3rd spot to go into the A group.

NZ wins again making it four wins in a row

NZ perform the Haka for Japan

NZ played against a in form Japan team this morning needing this to win the group to finish 9th. The Team once again showed some passion to break the line and score the goals that were needed. Mark Turner was at his best scoring 5 goals with Rob Vazey scoring 2, John Bardo 1 and Dean Fitness 1. The greatest acheivements go to the goalies as we had the referees awarding 5 direct penalties against our team. This creates a hard game when you are unfortunately playing hard and then being dealt poor decisions, but only 2 out of the five were scored.. Well Done both Goalies. Also Mark Turner and Rob Vazey both got sent off with Blue cards, and Alley Langridge, John Bardo getting yellow cards. This made it very hard on the coach Russell Clark's heart...

The team now are reflecting as a team and as always it was only a lapse of 6 minutes in one game that cost the team the chance to be playing in the semi's. This is dissapointing and alittle heart wrenching when we knew we can beat that team and were goals up. The top NZ goal Scorers are as follows: Mark Turner 16, Rob Vazey 6, Alley Langridge 5, Tony Deller 5, John Bardo 4, Dean Fitness 4, Rohan Singh 3, Isaac Fraser 1.

The team Stats were:

Placed 9th

8 games played, 4 Wins, 4 Loses

44 goals for

48 goals against.

Thanks to all you that have followed our progress, it is great knowing we have supporters, along with our Management team Russell Clark Coach, Roger Bedford Travelling Manager and Vicki Bardo Team Manager.

Thanks again to you all for a very enjoyable trip.