{"id":7272,"date":"2023-07-03T17:00:49","date_gmt":"2023-07-03T16:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/solihull-barons.net\/new\/?p=7272"},"modified":"2023-07-02T10:20:42","modified_gmt":"2023-07-02T09:20:42","slug":"jacob-smith-returns-to-the-barons-for-23-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solihull-barons.net\/new\/2023\/07\/03\/jacob-smith-returns-to-the-barons-for-23-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacob Smith returns to the Barons for 23\/24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>The EDG Property Solihull Barons are pleased to announce the return of a familiar name in the form of Jacob Smith who originally iced for Solihull for three seasons from 2015\/16. Having been out of the competitive game for a number of years Jacob is keen to return to the Barons and prove the faith Phil Lee has shown in him.<\/b><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7271\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7271\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-7271\" src=\"https:\/\/solihull-barons.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG-20230628-WA0003-1024x678.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/solihull-barons.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG-20230628-WA0003.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/solihull-barons.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG-20230628-WA0003-300x199.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/solihull-barons.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG-20230628-WA0003-768x509.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/solihull-barons.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG-20230628-WA0003-128x85.jpeg 128w, https:\/\/solihull-barons.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG-20230628-WA0003-32x21.jpeg 32w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7271\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacob Smith (J&amp;K Davies)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>\u201cHaving played for the Barons before, l am very excited to play again and be part of the team. After being out for 5 years due to an injury, I&#8217;m ready to get back out on the ice. I&#8217;m looking forward to working with Leepy and the team and hope we get far in the season. \u201c<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1407\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1407\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1407\" src=\"https:\/\/solihull-barons.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/DSC_3126.JACOB-SMITH-1024x678.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"411\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1407\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacob Smith (J&amp;K Davies)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Having carefully reviewed his skill set head coach Phil Lee is confident Jacob can make a strong return to competitive hockey:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cJacob approached me at the beginning of the year asking about the possibilities of signing for the Barons again to get himself back into competitive hockey. Having watched Jacob across a number of training sessions and games, I was impressed with Jacob\u2019s skating and passing ability and he moves the puck well. After chatting with Jacob, I feel that he has the right attitude and work ethic to get himself back into the competitive game and to the standard he played at prior to his injury, and I feel Jacob will fit in with the team well. Please welcome Jacob to the team.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><b>We are sure all Barons fans will be pleased to see Jacob back on Hobs Moat ice and give him a very warm welcome when we restart play in late August or early September.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The EDG Property Solihull Barons are pleased to announce the return of a familiar name in the form of Jacob Smith who originally iced for Solihull for three seasons from 2015\/16. Having been out of the competitive game for a number of years Jacob is keen to return to the Barons and prove the faith [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7267,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/solihull-barons.net\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/solihull-barons.net\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/solihull-barons.net\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solihull-barons.net\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solihull-barons.net\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7272"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/solihull-barons.net\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7277,"href":"https:\/\/solihull-barons.net\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7272\/revisions\/7277"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solihull-barons.net\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/solihull-barons.net\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solihull-barons.net\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solihull-barons.net\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}