Mens 4th XI Match Report


Team: Mens 4th XI
Date: Sat 30th Sept 2006
Opposition: Old Bordenians 4th A XI
Result: 2 - 3 Loss
Scorers: Wynn Roberts (2)
Man of The Match:   Charlie Goodall

Report:
A completely new formation once again struggled to play as a cohesive team with passes going astray and very few effective triangles. That said against a team who clearly new each other's game well, we rarely looked in danger, and we looked like scoring on the very few occasions we did get into their D. We probably should have gone 1 - 0 up when a Wynn Roberts strike was given as a goal, a decision then reversed following complaints from defenders that the ball was outside the D. However, this was quickly followed by Wynn's first goal from a short corner.Although Old B's quickly equalised, we scored our second from another short corner following some nice interplay and a scuffed shot from Wynn, I guess the defenders were already taking cover!

The second half deteriorated with Old B's being rewarded between 15 and 20 short corners for any offence being committed in the 25. We held out fairly comfortably against a series of very poor routines, but finally, gave away two goals in the last few minutes, they had clearly had enough practice at short corners.

A rather disappointing result against a young but very fit and well organised opposition.


Report By:
Nick Ram