Mens 4th XI Match Report


Team: Mens 4th XI
Date: Sat 24th Feb 2007
Opposition: Bromley & Beckenham 6th XI
Result: 1 - 3 Loss
Scorers: Andy Long
Man of The Match:   Steve Lipscombe
Muppet of The Match:   Brendan Jessup

Report:
A hard fought local derby. A pure development team from BromBeccs (well apart from a ringer called Brendan who irritatingly scored twice and celebrated wildly) always looked cultured but our more direct approach looked more likely to produce goals apart from the fact our shots kept hitting Neil Berry and his fellow defenders and usually were deemed dangerous or missing target.

As half time approached scoreless, disaster struck. Slater P collapsed with a torn hamstring and is out for the season. At half time we came in 2 down with the captain applying first aid in forlorn hope Pete would recover immediately.

We tried lots of things in the second half, fouling Brendan (which produced a delayed but robust reaction....he did learn something from Jeff!) seeing how much Spencer could irritate the oppo, playing with 12, but we couldn't score until a great cross from Andrew Ram was cooly converted by Andy Long. We pushed forward and with a classic counter punch Brendan scored again and BromBeccs defended without too much problem.


Report By:
Nick Ram