DATE: 30^th Jan '2OOO

OPPOSITION:FARMHOUSE.

GROUND: HOME

 

WITH LAST WEEKS 9-2, AND WITH ROB APPARENTLY NOT SURE WHAT TO DO WITH REGARD TO HOW TO PLAY THE TEAM, WE HAD SOME GOOD NEWS JUST BEFORE THE KICK OFF, FARMHOUSE HAD  ONLY 9 PLAYERS, AND WITH ONE ON HIS WAY,  WE HAD PLAYED THEM IN A FRIENDLY PRE SEASON AND THEY WERE SHORT THEN, AND WE LENT THEM TWO PLAYERS, BUT WE COULDN'T BE SO KIND TODAY, AS WE ARE BOTTOM OF THE LEAGUE AND THEY WERE  ABOUT 3rd.

TODAY, WE ALSO HAD A 'REAL REF', WHICH IS ABOUT ONLY THE 3rd OR 4th TIME ALL SEASON. 

WITH  NEWS THAT THIS HIGHLY PLACED TEAM ONLY HAD 9 PLAYERS, WE WERE ALL UP FOR THE GAME, PAUL SCORED WITHIN 5 MINS, AND BY THE TIME THEIR 10th PLAYER ARRIVED PAUL HAD SCORED AGAIN, AND NOW IT SEAMED EVERYBODY WAS TAKING SHOTS - BUT THE WIND WAS SO STRONG THE BALL WAS JUST FLYING EVERYWHERE.  DAREN, DERRICK, GARY & DAVE ALL HAD SHOTS, OR NEAR SHOTS. 

WE HAD A FEW CORNERS IN THE FIRST HALF, ALL TO NO AVAIL, I THINK ROB WANT'S TO BLAME THE WIND FOR THAT TOO !!!

DAREN FINALLY GOT A GOAL BEFORE THE HALF ENDED.

MIKE WAS PUTTING IN HIS NORMAL HARD TACKLES.

AT HALF TIME, WE WERE WINING 3-1, THERE GOAL WAS A DUBIOUS DECISION BY THE REF, AS MARK HAD FLAGGED THEIR PLAYER OFF SIDE, BUT I THINK THE REF FELT 'SORRY' FOR FARMHOUSE, AS THEY WERE GETTING OUT PLAYED, I GUESS ONLY BECAUSE OF THE PLAYER ADVANTAGE WE HAD.

ROB WAS HAPPY, BUT SAID WE COULD HAVE MORE GOALS, AND WANTED MORE GOALS.

THE ONLY THING IS, THEY SCORED BEFORE WE DID IN THE 2ND HALF, TO MAKE IT 3-2, WHICH MEANT WE HAD A GAME ON OUR HANDS.  BUT THAT WAS OK AS DAREN HAD HIS SHOOTING BOOTS ON AND WE SOON EQUALISED.  ROB AT HALF TIME DID SAY IF WE HAD A FEW MORE GOALS HE WOULD BRING ON THE SUBS, AND JUST AFTER DAREN HAD SCORED MARK WENT ON FOR JAMES.  I THINK DAREN SCORED AGAIN.

ROB WITH ABOUT 20MINS TO GO THEN MADE A DOUBLE SUBSTITUTION, AND ROBIN AND STU CAME ON, STU REPLACED DAVE, AND GARY CAME OFF FOR ROBIN.   ROBIN SWOOPED WITH RICHARD.  SO ROBIN WAS LEFT BACK AND RICH LEFT WING.

IT WAS STILL A QUITE FAST RUNNING GAME, WITH EVERYBODY RUNNING FROM ONE END TO THE OTHER.  THEN PAUL GOT ANOTHER GOAL, OUR FIRST HAT-RIK IN A LEAGUE GAME.   THEN THE GAME  WENT BACK DOWN OUR HALF, ONE OF THEIR GUY LINED UP A SHOT FROM OUT SIDE THE BOX, BUT LUCKILY STU WAS IN OUR 18YARD BOX, AND IT HIT HIM IN THE ARM, NOT SURE IF THIS WAS GOAL BOUND, BUT IT HELPED.

AND WITHIN THE DYEING MOMENTS PAUL RAN DOWN THE RIGHT WING, CROSSES THE BALL IN, IT WENT OVER STU's HEAD, AND FELL TO DAREN'S FEET, AND GOAL, A  HAT RIK FOR HIM TOO...

THE GAME ENDED UP 6-3

Goal scores: PAUL 3, DAREN 3

MAN OF THE MATCH WHICH WAS VOTED BY THE PLAYERS: PAUL

STARTING LINE UP:

SUBS: STU, ROBIN, MARK