British League Division 1 - 9th position

	GP	W	T	L	F	A	Pts
Oxford City Stars	22	5	0	17	150	229	10

League Scorers

	GP	G	A	Pts	Pims
Jimmy Shand	22	34	39	73	40
Urban Johansson	19	19	18	37	27
Paul Simpson	22	18	19	37	53
Mark Lewis	9	16	10	26	29
Robbie Morris	21	7	13	20	54
James Cameron	19	12	7	19	4
Tom Smith	21	9	9	18	74
Dave Newman	15	9	8	17	56
Kevan Grace	11	8	9	17	6
Scott Gough	9	8	5	13	8
Neil Fulton	22	4	8	12	4
Darryl Morvan	19	3	7	10	27

Also played: Mark Ashton, Martin Weddell, Paul Dudley, Trevor Joseph, Paul Spencer, Mike Kellond (NM), John Blanche, Dave Jones, Barry Spours (NM), John Matassa (NM), Monty Wise (NM)

Division 1 Trophy South section - 3rd position

	GP	W	T	L	F	A	Pts
Oxford City Stars	8	4	0	4	54	53	8

Trophy scorers

	GP	G	A	Pts	Pims
Jimmy Shand	8	12	15	27	24
Paul Simpson	8	11	7	18	20
Robbie Morris	6	10	3	13	2
James Cameron	6	5	7	12	4

Fosters Menswear Midland League

This competition involving Oxford, Solihull Barons, Telford Tigers and Peterborough Pirates will be covered in a separate article.

Jimmy Shand came from Southampton Vikings to run the playing side, and was always our pub guide when we visited Southampton. He disappeared after this season unless he metamorphosed into an aged folk musician.

Urban Johannson set a record that still remains for parking tickets in a season, played in glasses, married Penny a figure skating coach (no link between these last two facts) and returned to Sweden where he became a travelling salesman. He still visits Oxford every few years.

Tom Smith joined us from Cleveland Bombers. He has since returned to Canada and works for the Toronto Fire Dept.

Fixtures

September 15: Oxford 8 Solihull 9 (CM)
September 22: Bournemouth 9 Oxford 5 (CM)
September 28: Oxford 9 Bournemouth 6 (CM)
September 29: Lee Valley 11 Oxford 6 (C)
October 12: Oxford 4 Sheffield 6
October 13: Bournemouth 17 Oxford 5
October 20: Oxford 9 Richmond 2
November 3: Oxford 17 Blackpool 4
November 10: Oxford 12 Deeside 2 (CM)
November 16: Oxford 5 Solihull 14
November 17: Southampton 5 Oxford 6
November 24: Lee Valley 13 Oxford 7
November 30: Oxford 6 Telford 11
December 14: Telford 7 Oxford 5
December 15: Oxford 11 Southampton 6 (C)
December 21: Blackpool 12 Oxford 17
December 22: Glasgow 15 Oxford 4
December 29: Solihull 50 Oxford 0 (M)
January 4: Oxford 5 AC Camel 5 (CM)
January 5: Richmond 2 Oxford 6 (C)
January 12: Oxford 15 Bournemouth 17
January 19: Richmond 3 Oxford 2
January 21: Telford 8 Oxford 7 (M)
January 26: Oxford 5 Crowtree 12
February 1: Oxford 3 Richmond 4 (C)
February 2: Altrincham 9 Oxford 4
February 8: Crowtree 16 Oxford 7
February 9: Oxford 7 Lee Valley 13 (C)
February 10: Oxford 14 Oxford University 3 (TvG)
February 16: Oxford 6 Altrincham 11
February 17: Oxford 7 Peterborough 11 (M)
February 20:Peterborough 13 Oxford 4 (M)
February 23: Solihull 20 Oxford 2
February 24: Oxford 8 Toronto Eagles 9 (CM)
March 2: Oxford 2 Lee Valley 14
March 3: Oxford 5 Telford 9 (M)
March 8: Sheffield 1 Oxford 8
March 10: Oxford 15 King George 6 (CM)
March 15: Oxford 9 Glasgow 10
March 17: Oxford 4 solihull 10 (M)
March 22: Oxford 9 Bournemouth 3 (C)
March 23: Southampton 10 Oxford 2
March 30: Oxford v Southampton
April 6: Bournemouth v Oxford (C)
April 13: Oxford v Southampton

Full moon at Richmond

Oxford City Stars were plunged into a week of crisis coming up to 24th January.

Things started going wrong at the end of an extremely boring and quiet (penalty-wise) game at Richmond the previous Sunday evening. Won by Flyers 3-2 with no scoring in the final period there appeared little reason for incidents that took place at the final hooter.

Tom Smith got into a fight with Flyers' Jeff Young and both picked up match penalties. Not satisfied with this Smith then abused ref Jim Taylor and got an extra 10 minute misconduct penalty for his trouble.

Worse was to follow with fellow import Urban Johansson dropping his shorts on the ice in front of the referee and threatening him (Taylor) with physical violence over his handling of the game. For this he collected a Gross Misconduct penalty.

Stars' coach Petre Skala, already proving himself a strong disciplinarian, said: "I am disappointed, disgusted and bitterly upset." he went on to add that he would be reporting the incidents to the meeting of the club committee due that week.

The meeting on the 24th was the longest in the club's short history lasting almost 5 hours. During the latter part of the evening it became known thatb the BIHA's Disciplinaty Committee had already passed sentence on the two players, who were present and able to state their views to the Club Committee.

Johansson received a five game ban from the BIHA and a warning as to his future conduct. To this the club added a £300 fine and he was told that any future suspensions would result in his contract being cancelled. Smith was likewise warned by the club and fined £100 to go with his BIHA one game ban.

These incidents resulted in more local press coverage than some teams receive in a whole season. Unfortunately it was of the wrong kind with front page headlines quoting one City councillor saying that she was 'appalled' by the incidents and calling for the club's council funding to be stopped with the two platers sacked.

Player unrest was not confined to the imports. Several British players expressed criticism of their own treatment by the Club Committee at a players meeting on the day before the meeting on the 24th. Coach Skala, who was sympathetic to many of their points, agreed to put them to the Club Committee and as I write I understand that many of the players not unreasonable demands have been acceded to.

As the teansfer deadline date approached both Mark Lewis and Kevan Grace left the club to return to their former team Southampton Vikings, while Mark Ashton has also requested his release. This has been refused until he explains his reasons to Coach Skala.

Two new arrivals are forward Scott Gough and back-up goalie John Matassa, both from Glasgow Dynamos. I also understand that an experienced goalie may be joining the team from a Premier Division club before the deadline.

Ice Hockey News Review article from the 8th February 1986 issue