Uni 4, Maroons 3

It's probably a fair sign that our season isn't going to plan when we spend the last 20 minutes desperately seeking an equaliser against Uni. To be honest, we have often struggled against them away and they unveiled a new forward yesterday who caused us all sorts of trouble. He scored a hattrick through sheer pace and was about to tap in a fourth before Graeme P turned it into his own net. Last year we won this game 5-4, only thanks to John B's late wonder strike.
We went a head on four minutes when Dave Mac charged through and slotted the opening goal. Uni were level almost immediately as an uneven playing surface, the speedy forward and the absence of our leading defender Dave D combined to hurt us.
Soon we were 2-1 up as Jon's first time lob beat their keeper. Uni went up our half twice more in the half and scored both times. Dave Mac hit the post on another runaway and we felt we had enough to score again in the second term.
As we threw people forward and blazed over the bar a few times too many, we were again carved at the back, Pete having to make two good saves, and Kev recovering brilliantly once to keep the margin one.
At 3-2 we should have had a penalty, as Jon played in a cross  and the very annoying defender called Monty reached his arm out and batted it away with his bicep. No joy however, and on their next breakaway Uni went 4-2 ahead.
Shakey scored our third with 12 minutes to go and Ian, Fergus and TH10 all put attempts over the bar as time ran out, two minutes before it should have by our watch. The ref jogged off to get his cigarette, as our season went up in smoke.