- DATE: 14th Nov '99
- OPPOSITION: HAWKFIELD.
- GROUND: HOME
MINUTE SILENCE
- WE KNOW WE HAVE TO WIN THIS GAME AS WE WERE THE ONLY TEAM IN OUR LEAGUE
WHO HADN'T WON A GAME.
- WE HAD 14 PLAYERS SHOULD HAVE HAD AN OFFICIAL REF, BUT HE GOT INJURED ? -
SO TIM THE OWNER OF THE PITCH REFFED.
- WE HAD ALAN PLAYING IN GOAL - THIS WAS HIS FIRST TIME IN THE POSITION, WE
ALSO HAD A NEW COMER DARREN - ROB's WORK BOSS.
- NEIL UNFORTUNATELY MISSED HIS FIRST EVER LEAGUE GAME, HE WAS ONLY ONE OF
THREE WHO HAD STARTED ALL 4 GAMES, THE OTHER TWO BEING PAUL & RICHARD - WHO AS YOU CAN
SEE STARTED TODAY'S GAME.
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- ROB TOLD THE TEAM HE WASN'T HAPPY ABOUT BEING AT THE BOTTOM OF THE LEAGUE
WITH NO POINTS, AND HOW HE WANT'S THE PLAYERS TO FEEL BAD TOO, AS WE WERE BETTER THEN A
NON WINNING SIDE. - AND HOW HE WANTED TO HEAR EVERYONE TALKING IN THIS GAME, AS WE'RE
STILL ALL QUIET.
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- THE GAME STARTED AND WE JUST DOMINATED POSSESSION...AT STAGES IT LOOKED LIKE WE
WERE TAKING THE PISS, AS WE WERE SO CONFIDENT ON THE BALL, STRINGING PASSES TOGETHER AND
TRIANGULAR PASSING. AFTER ABOUT 30MIN PAUL ON A SOLO RUN FROM MIDFIELD SCORED.
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- AT HALF TIME EVERYONE WAS HAPPY, 1-0 TOTALLY OUT PLAYING HAWKFIELD, AND ROB AND
MIKE WANTED MORE,
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- AND THE TEAM GAVE MORE, I'M NOT SURE HOW LONG INTO THE 2ND HALF THIS WAS, BUT
HAWKFIELD CLEARED FROM THEIR HALF, JAMES CAME RUNNING FROM RIGHT DEFENCE - HEADED THE BALL
BACK, PAUL PICKED IT UP, TURNED RAN - HEADED DOWN THE RIGHT WING - CROSSED AND JAMES
CAUGHT IT ON THE HALF VOLLEY WITH HIS LEFT FOOT! - THIS FROM OUR RIGHT DEFENDER !
- THE TEAM WAS HAPPY AND THEY WERE PLAYING GREAT, SIMON WENT ON FOR IAN AND MARK
CAME ON FOR ROBIN - POSITION FOR POSITION REPLACEMENT. - NOT SURE WHAT ACUTELY TIME OF THE
2ND HALF THIS HAPPENED.
- THEN ROB, ABOUT 10MINS FROM THE END TOLD STU TO START WARMING UP - STU SAID IT
WOULD 'UP-SET THE WINNING BALANCE' - ANYWAY GARY CAME OFF AND STU JOINED IN.
HAWKFIELD THEN SCORED...NICE GOAL, BUT WERE NOT SURE IF IT WAS A CROSS OR A SHOT !
- THE TEAM WAS WORKING HARD TO MAKE SURE HAWKFIELD DIDN'T SCORE AGAIN, AND IN ONE
MOVE STU INJURED ONE OF THEIR GUYS...
- RUNNING WITH THE BALL STU WAS TACKLED, BUT THE BLOKE KICKED STU'S ANKLE AND NOT
THE BALL - STU CARRIED ON RUNNING AND THE BLOKE HAD TO BE HELPED OFF THE PITCH AND HAD TO
HAVE THIS ANKLE DOUSED WITH WATER AND A SPONGE.
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- THEN THE FINAL WHISTLE - WE HAD DONE IN OUT FIRST W I N.
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- FORGOT TO MENTION, WE ACTUALLY HAD CHEERING CHILDREN, WE SHARE OUR GROUND
WITH A KIDS SIDE, AND SOME OF THE KIDS WERE STILL AT THE GROUND, AND AS IT WASN'T RAINING
THEY WATCHED AND CHEERED 'COME ON ARGONAUTS' - WHICH I THINK MAY HAVE HELPED US.
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- THE GAME ENDED UP 2-1
- Goal scores: PAUL 1, JAMES 1
- MAN OF THE MATCH WHICH WAS VOTED BY THE PLAYERS: DARREN
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- STARTING LINE UP:
