Mens 1st XI Match Report

Team:	Mens 1st XI
Date:	Sat 22nd Jan 2005
Opposition:	Marden Russets 2nd XI
Result:	4 - 0 Win
Scorers:	Mark Pottage (3), Toby Willis
Man of The Match:	Mike Birch

Report: Well this was somewhat better!! We won by a canter!! However it was still not a game without controversy!! 4 goals, 2 yellow cards and 2 greens!! We played really well today and believe that we would have taken 3 points from anybody in the league today!!  We had 2 new players (Kieran and Jack) come in and they both played really well!! Jack has some impressive stats already: 1 game- 1 yellow card!! The overall age of the team is beginning to drop, with only Elvis and Mr Patrinos being able to be placed in the 'experienced' category!! This was a team performance and really couldn't pick out 1 particular person for man of the match!! That is not to take anything away from my choice's performance!! Another hat trick from the goal machine Pottage and a growing understanding upfront with Willis starting to bear fruit! The match stats would probably read that we had 4 goals, 1 disallowed (shame as it shouldn't have been and on top it was a great team goal with a good finish on the end,) 2 or 3 very near misses, 4 or 5 chances that should have gone in and again 5 that were saved by the keeper!! We could have won this game by a cricket score but still we showed great aptitude to recover form last week!! We have now got a win under our belts in 2005 and lets push on from here!! Cheers all and a great performance!!

Report By: Toby Willis