Apologies for not writing this report earlier, I knew our beleaguered leader cancelled a stint of heli-skiing in Queenstown so he could sit by the blog awaiting score updates and match reports and the management committee decided to make him sweat a little longer. Apologies also to M13 who just wanted to know the score and found himself in the middle of our childish pranks.
Now this game was all about the coaching, this was a game dominated by a complete masterclass session of tactical strategies and genius and thought provoking substitutions of the highest order. For the record, I was good!
What happened? Well the coach made some great moves, like putting GP into defense, then deciding to pull a rabbit out of his hat by playing Dave C wide on the left (who would have thought such a move would come off?) Then there was the move to not only switch Paul and Shakey from left middle to right middle but also to let Fergus toss the coin so we’d lose the toss and let Fernhill make us go the other way to what Fergus wanted.
Great start, all because of the coach …. 1 nil up thanks to Fergus (as directed by the coaching staff) after about 90 seconds. Then to be honest I can’t remember much about what happened (a coaches job is difficult you know!) Well a couple of moves did come off – Dave C was put up front and then scored a ripper, left foot on the volley top left corner, and what about the celebration for his first goal of the year – shirt off and all – lets just hope that either a) he doesn’t score any more goals this season or b) he keeps the shirt on …. please! Another move that sort of worked was having Shane up front with Dave McC – worked really well when Fernhill had a corner when Shane covered the near post (and this wasn’t because of superior fitness or speed that got him down that end in a couple of strides) Oh yeah and TH10 you’ll be happy we put Tom up front for 7 minutes, he never got closer than about 15 yards to the ball and then I threw him back to left back where he stayed for the rest of the game – should keep him quiet for a couple of weeks at least
A real good quality game by our guys, Dave McC ended up grabbing 2, and then Paul chipped in for 1 at the end. Plenty of chances and some great goal keeping by the Fernhill keeper meant that a hat-trick went begging for not only Dave McC and Fergus but probably also Jon and Paul. Middle of the park was dominated by us and the back was solid as usual with Graeme P saving the day a number of times. They got 1 late but really were never in it. 5-1 is how it finished.
Injuries hit us again with Fergus doing a hammy (then I re3ceived a message saying his hammy gone, his ankle had blown up and for some reason his neck was stuffed … but he’d be right for tomorrow) and after getting a dead leg 5 minutes in, Jon came off for the last 20 to rest for tomorrow’s challenge.
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