Pumas 3 Whites 2

The Whites deserved at least a point from this, especially after leading 2-1 with 20 minutes to go. Credit to Port, they are a class team riddled with ex-premier league players and when you create as many chances as they do you wont lose many.
After enduring 15 minutes of puma attack at the start the Whites drew first blood with a nice turn and chip from AB to open the scoring. The pumas then had a penalty awarded when the ball hits Al on the elbow in a box skirmish. After consulting the touchie, whos answer was " yeah hand ball, clear as mud" while wearing his Port Kembla cap, Dennis pulls off the save of the year. Shame the touchie wasnt so clear on the offside rule. Weight of possession told and the pumas returned to parity just before the break.
The second half saw the Whites midfield start to dominate and the goal of the match from Steve Higson soon followed. With Jono winning the ball and pushing it left, nice lead up from Kirky lead to big Steve breaking down the wing and his cross met emphatically by SteveH who buries it. 2-1 up, can we hold on?
No we cant. The fastest puma striker scores in bizarre fashion with the ref decides that deliberately leaving the ball to shoulder charge the defender is fine and played the advantage to Port! One of many baffling decisions. Our blokes had practically stopped when the ball is slotted past Dennis. 2-2.
I didnt see the 3rd pumas goal because I was off getting a drink. To their credit Coledale attacked to the end, and went close on several occasions, SteveH's corner hit the post in the dying minutes the most agonising. Shame not to get anything out of this game, but it was a huge improvement from the Jamberoo debacle the week before.
To any non Coledale players reading this, of course there is a huge home blog bias in this match report.