Match report Wed 4th Nov V Victoria Gents lost 6 - 2

While it was my intention to wax lyrical about the abilities and skills displayed, and the outstanding effort and dominance that the forwards maintained last night, the reality was that we were sadly out numbered with only 3 forwards (we only fielded 9 players) and one of those included Trapper who had a surprisingly rare off day in not being able to trap anything!

Having said that Ants (Chicken legs rides again) and Scotty did play their hearts out and both managed to score, Pete, Adrian, Ross and Marx all had runs up to the front in the second half, with Pete in particular coming very close to scoring. Scotty was somewhat hampered by wearing a shirt that felt overly long to him, he actually could tuck this one in!

Trapper did manage to get back in defence and save a certain goal by a great tackle 5 metres from the line as the player was about to rocket the ball into the net.

It was going to be hard from the start, as while we had a goalie and 8 field players, they had no goalie, but 11 players, which gave them the ability to push players up, and to swamp our attacks before we got into their circle.

We did have chances, and some pressure in both halves, however it has to be said the bulk of the activity (but by no means all) was in our defensive area, with some outstanding displays of commitment from Marx who i though deserved our player of the day (they nominated someone else, not certain who (Glen i believe) and Pete as well.

One good note although it was hard for us to adjust was that we had two good umpires who let play flow and didn’t pull up every ball more than 6 inches high (was going to say 15 cm, but it is masters after all and we all think in inches).

Overall, even withstanding only having 9 players it was a good game; we gave them a good run for their money and they admitted afterwards would have been an interesting game with a full team.

Goals
1 – Scotty
1 – Ants

MVP’s
3 – Glen , player of the day, saved a near goal with a “mr gadget” left arm out save form a PC, looked good in his goalie gear and stayed for a drink afterwards
2 – Marx committed work, diving and tackling
1 – Adrian – solid game, but more importantly showed plenty of courage, wearing a shirt that nearly came down to the top of his shorts

Special mention (but let’s face it, no MVP points so probably not worth much)
Pete – solid defence and looked good on attack
Trapper – doesn’t the lighting reflecting off his head create a lovely aura?
Mel – braved the weather to support us from the sideline