Monique's Euoro Champs Chat!
26th February 2008

Mavericks Monique Wood shared some of her thoughts of the matches at the Open European Championships as England took the title. Squad (Top left: Lindsay Keable, Kirsty Delves, Eboni Beckford-Chambers, Naida Hutchinson, Stacey Francis, Monique Wood, Sara Bayman, Jo Harten, bottom left: Serena Guthrie, Alex Kirk, Sasha Corbin and Captain Jo Binns).

England Vs Northern Ireland
I started at Goal Attack and played there for the first three quarters, really enjoyed the game but, it was goal for goal to start with then we started to edge away and gradually got better as the game went on. Stacey broke her little finger within the first 5 minutes, so we changed Eboni to Goal Defence with Naida in the back. I played well with Jo and everyone was connecting well especially in the second half but, it was one of our weaker performances of the weekend.

England Vs Wales
I started at Goal Attack and stayed there for first half of the game. Acheived good statistic and put up quite a few long shots. All the shooters did really well along with defence turning lots of
ball over. Naida especially. All enjoyed game...

Eng vs Scotland
A more physical match. The audience were a lot louder and up for it which made us really enthusiastic. I started at Goal Attack for first quarter, 11-3 at end of quarter got taken off and Jo moved to Goal Attack with Kirsty on at Shooter. Alex Kirk went on with Jo on last quarter she did well. Naida rolled her ankle in third quarter so they bought Lindsay Keable on which was her 1st quarter of the week end but then they took her off again cause Naida was ok.

We won all the games convincingly and Serena fell over a few times throughout the championships as usual. This was a great event for England.

Monique Wood
Mavericks & England Europe Open Squad