First game of the season against Celtic, a young team of local lads. Things started brightly with an early goal from Craig, Celtic seemed new to the pitz but after they equalised our team lost composure and before we knew it, they started to dominate with flashes of individual skinnage from one or two of their team. Phil Cave was injured around the 10 minute mark leaving us with just one substitute (Ken, Rod and myself were already missing through injury/sickness). Plus, with David being hungover (usually someone with a high tempo), we looked out of shape and tired.
Overall a few key players from our team didn't really perform, although I felt Burke had his best game in a few weeks and if the rest of the lads could have shown the same spirit, we could have done better.
Game ended on a bitter note when the was a small fight between Stimo and one of their players, hey it happens, it just wasnt "ideal" when 15 other lads ran onto the pitch to provoke things.
Dissapointing start to the season after we should have won last seasons top division but we knew it would only get harder with the summer teams rejoining. Hopefully we will have our new kits by next wednesday and we can start afresh.
Goals: Craig (3)
Team From: Burke, Craig, David, Graeme, Phil, Rob, Stimo
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| # | Team | P | GD | Pts |
| 1. | Hilltop | 4 | 20 | 12 |
| 2. | Monaco | 3 | 10 | 6 |
| 3. | Farmers | 4 | 7 | 6 |
| 4. | Thatched | 3 | 2 | 6 |
| 5. | Collwell | 4 | -13 | 6 |
| 6. | PLF | 3 | 2 | 3 |
| 7. | South Liverpool | 4 | -14 | 3 |
| 8. | Diamonds | 3 | -13 | 0 |
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7 comments:
shit start shit result shit game shit end. bad game tha reckon we should get back to half way defence again keeping it strict like we used to. Also feel commitment aint there from all the squad and people need to make sure there playing twice a week at least!! theres other days apart from wednesday and sunday to play even if you play alone to get your touch sorted. thought burke and stimo where the better players last night. burke had a rusty start but for determination faultless. Graeme cant be included cos am getting bored of saying how good he is, One of his double saves last night was fucking amazing forget gordan banks mate!
Aye, half way has gone. Maybe our success has gone to some peoples head, i dont know. The whole point of the halfway is to allow us to counter attack (graemes great at through balls) and also, we can double up because.. and here's the main reason we play half way.. we are SHIT at defending. Too slow, lack intelligent movement & little communication when marking - so half way just lets us reduce the space the opponents can play through and lower the chances of somebody being caught out and their player being straight through.
Even with half way employed we still could defend better.
- Try to pass on your marker if they are running around like a headless chicken, sometimes you just gotta chase after but most of the time, they are running because they WANT you to follow them to create space. So if we can pass the man on, we can save our energy and makesure we dictate & control play.
- Taking a step forward to pressure them into a mistake and allow us to counter. We often give them too much space & time, so they can pick out a long range shot (which isnt so bad cos graeme will most likely save & do a through ball) or they pick out a through ball. If it's a quick skillful player, sure, jockey but sometimes we are like 2m's away, crazy stuff!
There's my little rant anyway ;D
Ste I Dont know if some of our team has the football intelligence to pass markers on when defending, or the communication skills (vocabulary). When i say vocab i mean only the same players talk an sum are even silent all through the game. If youre playing shite theres other ways to improve your game. For example telling someone man on, and if it prevents them losing the ball it helps the team and can even prevnent and make goals.
I Think the attendence to games is a joke and punctuality. Players getting warm ups when they first cum on and being proper shit cos rusty aint good preperation and we always get off to bad starts dya think this could be why??? when am late or make a mistake i say sorry the attitudes shit from sum people sometimes!
Am still pissed off about last weeks loss and aintree villa i lose sleep an everything no fucking blag. I dont feel some players are that arsed and its annoying when am a fucking winner.
11 seasons the improvement is dramatic but graeme is making us look good when were just average!!!!
Bet all this falls on deaf ears anyway dont think peeps are that interested anyway ste this blog just for me and you probably lad!!!!
anything out of term am sorry but truth hurts
Well if this is used, no reason why we cant use it to improve things by voicing opinions on this board.
We should keep the swearing and abuse to a minimum though.
The lack of commitment showed again last night from the team not wanting to train after getting default and still no other bloggers I predicted this shit hahaha!
HOW RUSTY WILL TEAM BE NEXT WEEK AGAINST OLD SWAN?????
The people who didnt wanna train are the people who need to practice the most, yet feel they dont or cant be arsed, and this is why they come across arrogant and in some cases simply are and theres no getting away from it (oxygen)! These people are also the people who have poor excuses for missing vital matches at the last minute and get injured all the time!!!! all the time !!! all the time!!!! and cost us the fucking title just gone!!
anyone busy on wednesday anymore pitiful excuses cant wait till will play green man again or them celtic and the fucking lame excuses come out. ste i cant play cos av got split ends av ran out of nappies too and this team are scallies!
i could go on for ever our kid but am gonna leave it there cos its not nice attacking the same people all the time!
got beat by OLD SWAN!!!!
difference last night no warm up as waiting for same people to show up!! This made us not get off to a good start. decision making and disgraceful passing cost us so many goals. Everygame people should make a mental note of how many errors personally they cost the team!! because the same people cost us matches and its making it not enjoyable playing anymore. Its frustating me so much and other members too. please try and cut out mistakes keep it simple blasting the ball towards team mates makes them miss control. brazil all through the years have made average players great by making them look better.
I predicted that fitness would show in blog few days ago and wat happened, 2nd half they ran away with it why didnt peeps wanna game last week when the game got called off. practice makes perfect how many times do you practice per week if any?????
do some members just play for fun arrh well its a game of footy its me 1 practice a week keep the ale off and that get rid of cob webs.
the rust shows!!
Your only as good as your weakest player! rob (2007)
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