Leeds Knights say farwell to centre Matt Haywood on emotional night at Elland Road Ice Arena

Yorkshire Post

Leeds Knights pay tribute to veteran centre Matt Haywood on an emotional evening at 'The Castle' after his final home appearance for the team ahead of his retirement at the end of the 2024-25 NIHL National season.

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00:00You

00:24Well, I mean the result wasn't the best but I mean

00:30I think it couldn't have gone any any nicer. It's nice to get the goodbye and

00:36Yeah, it was lovely, but I can't say thank you enough to everybody and

00:41I can't really put it into words.

00:43I was going to say, were some of the elements of that sort of evening surprise you?

00:48Yeah, I didn't know any of it.

00:51My wife and Ryan were in cahoots and they didn't let me know any of it.

00:55So a nice little surprise having the girls do the foot drop and the video with all the people in it.

01:00Obviously been quite influential throughout my career.

01:04It was lovely and the boys are making me too much sick for it.

01:09I mean some names from the past there, obviously from your time at Brayhead as well.

01:14And obviously Ben Bounce from your days in Sheffield, who you know very well.

01:18So it was nice surprise to see a few of them that were on the screen.

01:21Yeah, it was nice and I appreciate them taking time to make a little video for someone like me.

01:26So, yeah, I mean, like I say, I can't really put it into words.

01:31It's a really strange feeling, I don't know if I like it or not, but I'm not the one for the attention.

01:37But, yeah, it was a great send off and I'm thankful for everything they covered for.

01:41One more weekend to come of course, one more weekend of action.

01:43You can really now sort of start to think or dream about the sort of perfect ending, maybe ending with a treble.

01:50But obviously you have to get past a very strong Milton Keynes Lightning team in the semi-final.

01:55Who will no doubt be out to sort of exact or sort of even the scorers that were having missed out to you in the league.

02:00Yeah, I mean, we know we're expecting a very, very tough game against MK.

02:04They're a great team, fast, skillful and they can really hurt you if you're not ready.

02:07So, I'm sure, I'm confident that the boys will be ready to go.

02:13I know it's going to be a great game and whatever will be, will be.

02:17If we win it, amazing. If we don't, I'm just so proud of the boys already.

02:22So, I know that we're not going to be a group together again.

02:27So, I know the boys will put everything into it.

02:37They know they're not going to be a group together today, they just want to come out.

02:47Those missing people remember the boys.

02:50They know they're not going the boys actually, and they know they're lucky now.

02:56But the boys are not gonna, they're not gonna see their l In Teams right now,

03:01if they don't have enough time to play the boys.

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