The founding father
In early 1998, Adam Baida started ringing around Pulteney Hockey players from the previous few years in hoping that they would be keen on putting a team together in the Senior Men's competition of Hockey SA's winter season. Now, 8 years later - with four Grand Final appearances and one premiership, the club is going forward at an amazing pace.

Riding tough times
The club came close to folding early in 1999 and again in 2000 due to problems with consistent numbers. Many games were played with 8 or 9 players on the field and on many occasions without a goalie. Even through these tough times, we never finished bottom in our Division - something that the club prides itself on.

Enjoying good times
Since then, the club has thrived and was very competitive for 5 years in division 6. In 2003, the club has been promoted to Division 5, a challenge that the whole club is took on with an amazing amount of energy. This energy paid off the same year as the club won their first Premiership. In fact, the club made a Grand Final in 4 consecutive years up to and including 2004.

Club Goals
It has always been the club's main goal to have fun while playing Hockey and to do the best we can both on and off the field. We pride ourselves on taking in players fresh out of school, turning them into reliable, thirsty people. Then, if they decide to try-out with another club in a higher position, we release them and wish them all the best. If it doesn't work out, we welcome them back. We also welcome non Pulteney players to join us.

Off the field
The club has dinner each week, after trainings at The Astor. Most players come back and have dinner and a few games of 'Big Buck Hunter!'. During the year, we hold Poker Nights, Pre and Post Season trips and an end-of-season dinner. All players who have email receive a match report each week, which causes many a discussion on Monday mornings!

Website History
The Hockey Club has had a website for over 9 years. The first version of the site had contact information about the club - and that was about it. The second version had a weekly update of the latest match and match report. The third version also weekly match reports, up-to-date information on the club and is used by the Secretary to communicate information to its members without the need of printing a newsletter off every few weeks. Now, with most players having regular access to email, the website has evolved into more of an "Internet Presence" only for the club.