Pear Shaped Organisation                Thursday 7^th April 2005 ____________________________________________________________________

With Tuesday’s organisation going the way of the pear, we feared the worst.  Unfortunately, we were right.  He had one team coming later but could have got two if the local contact had told him!  It was decided to split into three teams.  Greens v Yellows followed by the third team playing against Weymouth .  The Juniors on tour joined us for this game so we had a really big turnout, and went 8 v 8.

 

Game 1 - The line up was:

 

Greens

 

Sam B

 

James B     Oscar     Jack B

 

Luke G     Haydn S     Matt L

 

Spike

 

Yellows

 

Josef

 

James M     Corey M

 

Aaron     Luke A     Jordan

 

Dan     Charlie G

 

It was a bit of a melee match, but everyone got involved in the game.  Charlie attacked, but was stopped by Oscar and James B combining well.  Then Luke A attacked but was stopped by Jack B.  Jack cleared the ball down the line for Matt to chase, but Aaron slid in and the ball went for a throw.  Jordan won the ball and passed to Charlie, and he was brought down 20 yards out.  Charlie took a long run up and thundered it past Sam B in goal 0-1.  Spike kicked off with Haydn, and they attacked through the team, only being stopped by a combination of Corey & James M, with a ball rolling to Josef.  He kicked long for Aaron to chase, but Oscar stopped him.  Oscar hit it forward for Luke G, but he was tackled by Luke A who played Dan in, but Dan’s shot went wide.  Matt then hit a high stinger which Josef saved, but Matt wasn’t to be denied and a few minutes later drove in an unstoppable shot 1-1.  Spike then had a go, but Josef saved again.

 

HALF-TIME : GREENS   1     YELLOWS   1

 

The second half became more a war of attrition, but Sam B denied Luke A very well.  He was then out to clear as Aaron was through. 

 

FULL-TIME : GREENS   1     YELLOWS   1

 

 

Tim C was on the Mic!

 

Game 2 - The line up was:

 

Jamie G

 

Mark     Jack Y

 

Josh     Tom     Sam B

  

Joe C     Sam K

 

Joe passed the ball to Josh, and he played it back to Sam K, whose shot flew just past the right post.  We played some good possession football, but were weren’t really able to turn that dominance in to goals.  It started to rain, much to the annoyance of Josh as the silver in his hair started to run down his face.  Joe pushed their defenders back towards their goal, earning us a corner.  Sam B played it to Tom, and he teed it up for Joe to shoot just wide.  We were dominating play at this point, but we did not have a shot.  After 10 minutes, Jamie made his first save as they broke quickly, with our team committed forward.  It went out for a corner, and we just didn’t seem to mark players, and as the ball came in, a Weymouth player put it in the back of the net 1-0.  Tom got the ball and played in Joe, but his shot was just past the post.

 

HALF-TIME : WEYMOUTH    1     FRYS   0

 

In the second half, we went into battle, challenging for every ball, harrying their players and looking to win it back.  Mark and Jack were defending halfway into their half, that’s how much pressure we were putting them under.  One ball came out to Jack and he hit it hard, but wide.  Mark then got it and played it wide to Josh.  He shot, but it was deflected out for a corner.  Joe then won the ball in midfield and ran forward before hitting a shot, which knocked the ‘keeper backwards, but he managed to hold onto it.  Sam B put Sam K through, but his shot hit the outside of the post.

 

FULL-TIME : WEYMOUTH    1     FRYS   0

 

 

Afterthoughts………………………………………………………………

It was a real shame about the mix up, as we had had two good games against Weymouth last year.  The Yellows v Greens was in all senses a training game, but they tried their best, and it was nice to see Charlie on the score sheet again for us.

 

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