National league goalkeepers for this season: profiling the depth and talent

Just as you would get with other mainstream sports with goalies, I want to do a rundown of all the national league goalies and some analytical insight and predictions for their upcoming season's performances (I think a rundown of the league's teams' goalkeeping options - from starters to reserves - would be cool at some stage for the Hoofdklasse or India pro league for instance). You get this with the pro sports, and I want to bring my writing and technical breakdowns up to par with that of this standard, so I'll be giving some insights into the goalkeepers at the national league level in England and take it from there. I'll focus on the men's league first as I know more than that of the ladies' league, and will try to offer some pointers and reflection on the quality of goalkeepers around. I'm not sure I'll know enough about the North conference sadly, but will do my best to give insight!

The plan is to do a write up of the goalkeepers for each team and any notable thoughts or information, and then analyse performances for each goalkeeper (or team), as made possible by Youtube channel highlights (i.e. Galvanised Hockey) as footage becomes available, or from footage I have managed to get from games.

This is the kind of thing I want to set up: http://ministryofglove.wordpress.com/. And if this is what fans expect from football, why not hockey?!

Guildford HC adding to goalie ranks

It looks like Guildford are doing more to shore up their goalie ranks with the registering of goalie option Edward Burton-Brown, adding to their options of Simon Mason and Greg Lewis. Lewis, the older option ahead of Mason (age wise, Mason being the obivous incumbent!) by a year, rejoined the club after an absence and is available if needed; he was used as an option from the bench, in terms of playing on Mason's behalf in his absence, like at the first game of the season against Havant last season. Mason has obviously been the clear cut start since Jennings brought him over from Reading after Nick Brothers took over back in the day, but has seen other commitments cause headaches. Ed has experience of playing in regional leagues whilst away at university and was at Woking before his degree stint (as far as I know), and could be seen as the future for Guildford given it can't be too long before Mason hangs up the pads for good, although it would have been good to see a Dino Zoff scenario! Ed has switched from Gryphon foam to Obo, favouring ice hockey elbow pads for more movement (the Reebok 5k's), and has been involved in pre-season fixtures, giving him the opportunity to gain more game experience for this level of representative hockey.

http://www.englandhockey.co.uk//fl/ehl/current_teams_reg_players.asp?t=24&l=1&section=