| FULL NAME: | Greg Allen |
| NICKNAMES: | None (apart from those that the Under 14 parents call me!) |
| DATE OF BIRTH: | 18 August 1975 |
| HEIGHT: | 5ft 10ins |
| WEIGHT: | 11 ½ stone |
| OCCUPATION: | Media artworker |
| SHOOTS: | Right |
SUPERSTITIONS:
To be the FIRST in the changing room for practice and games.
WHEN DID YOU START PLAYING HOCKEY:
In Aviemore around 1987 ish
BEST HOCKEY MEMORIES:
The last 16 Years!
All under 16 Hockey, especially the last game versus Billingham, being 6 v
2 down with 2 minutes left and tying the game 6 v 6…Aviemore hockey schools…hiding
under cars and in trees…Sunday walks in the hills…Camping…Si
falling off his bike and losing a finger…Woody…Winning the cup away
at Whitley…
WORST HOCKEY MEMORIES:
Watching the Zamboni drive over, chew up and spit out my brand new hockey gloves…"Stolen" eyebrows in Czechoslovakia…Getting a six game ban for headbutting…Still sat on the bench whilst the Mets were losing by 10…Getting beat by Blackburn…Skating headfirst into the boards at Bradford…When the rink gets demolished and hockey as we know it, is no more!
BIGGEST INFLUENCE WITHIN ICE HOCKEY:
Nipper
for quietly letting me know when I do things wrong.
Mum and dad for the long drive to Altrincham, then sitting in the freezing
cold until the early hours for years on end…..and also for letting me
know when I do things wrong!
PEOPLE YOU ADMIRE WITHIN ICE HOCKEY:
Any player that plays for the TEAM, not just for themselves!
DREAM HOCKEY LINE (BRITS):
Woody, Flashing Blade,
Shaun 'Gretzky' Lee, and Me.
Sorry lads but I might have looked half decent on a line with you 3…
One more….oh yes, Russ in the box!
DREAM LINE (FOREIGNERS):
Those that stay at home in Canada.
THOUGHTS ON BRITISH HOCKEY:
Make it British!
ADVICE FOR YOUNG PLAYERS:
Don't give grief or backchat
to your Coach, and do exactly what he tells you.
Jay, Worrall, Luke, Elliot, Daley. All perfect examples of this when I coached
them!!!!
FAVOURITES:
| FOOD: | Special K for Brekky and Paula's Sandwiches for lunch |
| DRINK: | Paula's cans of coke |
| WORST MUSIC: | The music when we played at Durham and they scored! |
| BEST MUSIC : | The music when I played for Durham and we scored! |
| PLACE: | Anywhere quiet and hilly, just me and my pushbike! |
| ANIMAL: | Fish |
| COLOUR: | Bitter Blue |
| NUMBER: | 4 |
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