Indian Hockey

[Gollum]

Late goal against Arg sinks us. Third straight narrow loss. Hope Fulton is just experimenting here, with eyes on the WC next year. 

[Gollum]

On 6/11/2025 at 1:34 PM, deathmonger said:

Yeah. He was a wall.

 

Let's see how the rest of the matches go.

Not good, 4th straight defeat this leg, again lost to Argentina. Jugraj missed a penalty stroke at the end, and horrible keeping display once again, these guys used to do much better under the shadow of Sreejesh, when the spotlight wasn't on them. 

 

Generally we dominate Arg. 

Edited June 13, 2025 by Gollum

[deathmonger]

2 hours ago, Gollum said:

Not good, 4th straight defeat this leg, again lost to Argentina. Jugraj missed a penalty stroke at the end, and horrible keeping display once again, these guys used to do much better under the shadow of Sreejesh, when the spotlight wasn't on them. 

 

Generally we dominate Arg. 

Yeah, Netherlands is okay. Argentina isn't. Shouldn't be losing to them.

[Gollum]

6 straight losses, all close ones where we even held lead for large portions of the games. Losing is a habit, just like winning. Now awaits the Belgian test. Don't understand why we go into a shell every time we take a lead. 

[Gollum]

7th straight defeat. Go down 3-6 to Belgium. Need big overhaul, 5-6 players deserve to be permanently axed. Though 37, Sreejesh may need to take back retirement for next year's WC.  

 

Our longest losing streak now, we had lost 6 straight games in 2012 London Olympics. All eyes on Fulton, he is being too stubborn with his 'defend to win' tactics and team selection. 

[Gollum]

No place to hide in FIH Pro League. 

 

8 consecutive games in a fortnight against Netherlands, Argentina, Australia, Belgium is hell. Harmanpreet also with his injury woes. 

[Gollum]

 

[Gollum]

Lalit Kumar Upadhyay announces retirement. Good career, but he wouldn't have been picked for the WC. Thank you for your services. 

[deathmonger]

On 6/22/2025 at 9:53 PM, Gollum said:

 

Finally won

[deathmonger]

Realized one thing. We hold all of the Asian trophies now. @Gollum

 

Last it happened was 2017-2018.

 

Our hold should be perpetual.

[Gollum]

9 minutes ago, deathmonger said:

Realized one thing. We hold all of the Asian trophies now. @Gollum

 

Last it happened was 2017-2018.

 

Our hold should be perpetual.

Yes man. We should have held it before also but treated previous Asia Cup as a selection trial for rookies, we played so many debutantes against Pak and still held them to a draw....we could do that because being 23 WC hosts,we got automatic qualification.

 

If we take these events even a little bit seriously, no one is touching us. Just check the victory margins we have over these other Asian sides the last 6-7 years.