Hilltop 5 - Farmers 19 (TBC)

Hammerings, walkovers, pastings, some of the initial terms I thought we could have as labels on this blog (so you can put selected match reports into category containing similar write ups). However, as it wasn't really clear if it was for or against, I just went with "Big Defeats" & "Big Victories".

It don't take much thought deciding where to stick this report....

Farmers beat us the first time we met in the initial 4 game intro when we joined Thursday League. Then we had Graeme in goal and a team with more confidence. Thursday gone we had Davids mate John in goal (he's helped us out a few times before and done well, although always gets injured!), he pulled off some good saves but no disrespect to him, we missed Graeme. 

If I'm being honest, Graeme would have brought the goals against down considerably but the outfield team still sucked. It was frustrating to witness the lack of effort and general balls to chase back, not shirk responsibility and provide cover off the ball. Time and time again the team defended high, invited through balls but didn't track back. In hindsight I should have dragged everyone back to half-way defending but when your chasing the game, it's easy to get lost in the action.

Going forward we had little composure and our first touch wasn't always the best. They had a solid keeper in goal although a lot of our strikes did go down the middle.

Hopefully we will have things a little more back to normal next game, maybe we needed a big defeat to draw a line at the silly mistakes and selfish, lazy defending. It's good we aren't going to walk this league anyhow.

Goals: Craig (3), Burke (1)

Team: Burke, Craig, David, Graeme, Gary, Ken, Ste H, Stimo