Training Monday 22/10 at St Jo's as normal
No matches or training over half term.
Training resumes Monday 5/11 at St
Jo's
Next match is Sunday 11/11 at HOME 10 for 10.30 kick off.
Monday, 22 October 2012
Shaw 6 - 2 Wasps
A disappointing first half today. We didn't
really turn up for the first 20 minutes. To give Shaw credit -
they played well and took advantage of generally weak marking and
defending from Wanborough.
We showed some spirit to get a couple of goals - Sam played an excellent dummy (!) allowing James to score and shortly afterwards Charlie scored from distance (with a bit of help from the goalie).
The second half was a big improvement - other than a dodgy penalty, we held Shaw and threatened ourselves a few times. But the margin was always going to be too great to recover.
MoM - Harry - for being the most aggressive player and some daring runs from defence.
Please see separate post about training and next match
We showed some spirit to get a couple of goals - Sam played an excellent dummy (!) allowing James to score and shortly afterwards Charlie scored from distance (with a bit of help from the goalie).
The second half was a big improvement - other than a dodgy penalty, we held Shaw and threatened ourselves a few times. But the margin was always going to be too great to recover.
MoM - Harry - for being the most aggressive player and some daring runs from defence.
Please see separate post about training and next match
Sunday, 14 October 2012
Wasps 7 - 3 Sevenfields
Well done to all the boys today - a great game, some excellent football
and a superb 3 points.
On a very soft pitch, we let in an early goal on the break, but quickly recovered with Arthur scoring from an impossible angle.
Tye scored 2 from close range. One of these was the goal of the match - starting with a pass from Lucas to Arthur to Johan who laid off to Tye to slot in. From the half-way line to the back of the net in a few simple passes. Excellent football!
In the second half, Johan played superbly to score three and covered a variety of other positions as we shuffled round to cover for injury and tiredness. The goal tally was completed by Harry who collected wide on the right before putting an unstoppable shot over the keeper.
It was really good to see us dig in and defend our lead. Sevenfields challenged hard to get back into the game, snatching a couple of goals (including putting Jonny in the back of the net at one point!). We do need to be careful of leaving holes at the back - even when winning.
Coaches' MoM - Johan for his hat-trick and all-round play.
In all the excitement I forgot to hand out biscuits! We will have celebratory sweets at training.
On a very soft pitch, we let in an early goal on the break, but quickly recovered with Arthur scoring from an impossible angle.
Tye scored 2 from close range. One of these was the goal of the match - starting with a pass from Lucas to Arthur to Johan who laid off to Tye to slot in. From the half-way line to the back of the net in a few simple passes. Excellent football!
In the second half, Johan played superbly to score three and covered a variety of other positions as we shuffled round to cover for injury and tiredness. The goal tally was completed by Harry who collected wide on the right before putting an unstoppable shot over the keeper.
It was really good to see us dig in and defend our lead. Sevenfields challenged hard to get back into the game, snatching a couple of goals (including putting Jonny in the back of the net at one point!). We do need to be careful of leaving holes at the back - even when winning.
Coaches' MoM - Johan for his hat-trick and all-round play.
In all the excitement I forgot to hand out biscuits! We will have celebratory sweets at training.
Sunday, 7 October 2012
Concentrating on the league
A really tough game today against the top team
in division 1.
With the squad a bit depleted - Jonny was out with a bad back (thanks to Arthur for stepping in), Miles has a broken foot, Sam is struggling with injury - it was always going to be hard. Jack from the U13s helped us out again making the team up to 11.
We worked incredibly hard in the first half to contain Purton and held them to just two goals. Unfortunately a big difference in fitness and squad depth meant they took hold in the second half and scored a few more, particularly near the end.
The scoreline is not important. The key thing is to learn from the match:
- we played well in the first half - defending and marking well
- Purton's passing and movement was highly impressive - we need to play more like this
- we were rarely first to the ball from clearances/goal kicks - we must challenge harder for the ball
- when we tired our marking became sloppy and we left big holes for them to score too easily
Please encourage the boys to think about the lessons we learnt today and think how to improve their own game, rather than dwell on the scoreline. If we can take the lessons from today into the league it will really help us.
Well done to the defence who had to work hardest today. Jack had a great game and was determined to play good football. Will received man of the match for some excellent defending against some quality players.
Training tomorrow from 7.15 at the St Jo's.
Next Sunday we are due to be at home to Sevenfields 10am for 10.30 kick off
With the squad a bit depleted - Jonny was out with a bad back (thanks to Arthur for stepping in), Miles has a broken foot, Sam is struggling with injury - it was always going to be hard. Jack from the U13s helped us out again making the team up to 11.
We worked incredibly hard in the first half to contain Purton and held them to just two goals. Unfortunately a big difference in fitness and squad depth meant they took hold in the second half and scored a few more, particularly near the end.
The scoreline is not important. The key thing is to learn from the match:
- we played well in the first half - defending and marking well
- Purton's passing and movement was highly impressive - we need to play more like this
- we were rarely first to the ball from clearances/goal kicks - we must challenge harder for the ball
- when we tired our marking became sloppy and we left big holes for them to score too easily
Please encourage the boys to think about the lessons we learnt today and think how to improve their own game, rather than dwell on the scoreline. If we can take the lessons from today into the league it will really help us.
Well done to the defence who had to work hardest today. Jack had a great game and was determined to play good football. Will received man of the match for some excellent defending against some quality players.
Training tomorrow from 7.15 at the St Jo's.
Next Sunday we are due to be at home to Sevenfields 10am for 10.30 kick off
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