Good morning guys
Well it was a good start to the season
1. Completely
dominated our opponents, yet me struggled in the last quarter when finishing –
again we could have scored more in the first half.
2. I
know our umpires are shocking, but let’s keep 11 men on the park at all times.
There is no need to tell them how shit they are #ToldDemon. (Cubby this week
and Goose’s disallowed goal last week)
3. Don’t
get injured so much. When I get hurt…. I just stop being hurt and be awesome!
Write that down.
21 April 2012
Venue: Hartleyvale B
Opponents: Milnerton
Getting thru the first week of hockey unbeaten, the ‘Thoroughbred
3s’ took to the field to what would be our most physical encounter of the
season and Millies didn’t disappoint. (I hope this will be the most physical
encounter)
We had the ball and centred off, the entire Millies team
rushing at us like a scene from Braveheart shouting feeeeeeedooooom. I even
think one of the guys had his face painted. They seemed to rush at us with the
strength of 10 men, but we absorbed pressure well. After the first 5 minutes of
Millies running at us we seemed to fine the gears and switched from 1st
gear to 4th showing that we could dominate as well which we did for
the remaining 30minutes of the half. Sherman with his stats quickly pointing
out that we only dominated 45% of the half.
Milnerton being awarded the first shorty of the game,
Sherman (being an ex-Millies player) ran out first wave like his life depended
on it. Running straight down the barrel willing to take a hit anywhere, The Millies
striker (From here on referred to as Head) skied a shot going past Shermans
head and smashing Mick on the fingers. Mick taking one for the team but had to
go off to recover.
Rusty then took
control of centre link letting Pete drop back to half to replace Mick the team
continuing to dominate. Sometime during the first half the Milnerton captain
(Berti) smashed a ball into poor Spud’s foot, a nasty welcome to men’s league
hockey. PJ also got a stick to the face which was only realised at half time
when we couldn’t find our second player on the bench. He now has a ‘Harry
Potter’ looking scar on his head.
Milnerton having a hit outside the circle to be taken by
Head, who has not played hockey in 4 years. This was noted when he smashed the
ball straight in and a free hit was given to us. Till unable to score during
the first half, we carried on pushing on. Near the end of the first Berti
taking a wild swing at a ball which had popped up almost killing four players
around him, one being his own team mate. After the hit was given to Milnerton ,
Demon taking a page out of Vis’ playbook decided to be quite tactful and
started arguing with an umpire who enjoys sending people off who are playing
against Milnerton. Demon was shown green (lucky boy) and was given a rest for
the rest of the half.
As the half time whistle was blown, both captains got called
across for a quick kak out session. We were told the wild swings and chirping
had to stop. Mutual 3s gathered in the far goals to have a half time talk. I
picked these goals so that all the strikers could see them and be aware of
where they were. Team talk was very chilled since we were dominating, we just
needed to convert.
The second half started much like the first half did, but
this time Milnerton keeping up the pressure for more than 5 minutes. The
defense was absorbing pressure well again. Caveman getting stuck with the high
lying striker, thanks for taking one for the team bud.
There was a lot of back and forth during the game with both
teams trying to rely on counter attacks. We were awarded our 3rd
shorty of the match. The first one getting deflected by a Usain Bolt of a first
wave and the second one almost rolling away for a long corner it was so wide. The
push and stop were both brilliant, Tosser setting up and popping a wounded
rabbit dead centre of the goals. Normally the defending team would laugh at
this…but this drag push thing actually went in and we scored. Mutual 1 – 0 Millies
All of a sudden Millies were pushing hard for the equaliser
even thou they were a player down, with 10 minutes left in the game and 10 men
on the field (Berti having a few choice word to say to Goose and been given a
bowl of custard for his troubles). But 10 man Millies seemed to push us even
harder than 11 man Millies. Pete rolling his ankle suddenly when we were on a
quick counter meant we had to change up our formation again.
We were kinda at sixes and sevens running around chasing the
ball trying to get everyone into their positions. At this time Milnerton
decided to bring on their secret weapon. They had a sleeper cell on the field
this whole time and only when they were a man down did they decide to bring him
out. Disguised as an umpire, he immediately had an impact on the game. Giving
Millies a shorty after I swung and missed the ball the first time, apparently I
missed it the second time as well (actually knocked the ball onto the strikers
foot) – and I thought I would have gotten 3 strikes.
Well setting up to defend 3 shorties in a row, they finally
bundled past first and second wave having only the 2 left feet of Vis to beat. Flipping
it head height from close range poor Fishy didn’t stand a chance. Mutual 1 – 1 Millies.
We were hungry now, pushing all players forward wanting that
winning goal. Millies in turn did the same trying to push us. Both teams having
their share of chances, but with a great move up the right then switched across
to the right. Our steeple chaser known as Winders with his long strides and
step overs (FFS sometimes they are completely useless thou) made a break down
the left. A comple of short passes later saw Winders in enough space to get a
pass off to Blake who was clinical as always. That’s 2 for 2 from the ginger.
Mutual 2 – 1 Millies.
Milnerton started to panic, Caveman beat their striker and
as he got a meter past Head he started to hear the Highlander theme song, Head
showing no concern for the ball, Caveman or his own body. With a head of steam
throwing his entire body into a tackle that even Butch James would think would
be illegal, now lenient Goose only produced a green after the Millies ‘secret
weapon’ seemed to turn a blind eye.
In the end with some frantic defending, a burst of spead
down the middle of the field with Tosser almost clocking 5km per hour and some
fantastic time wasting we held it together until the final whistle. Getting a
deserved, yet scrappy at times, win. We are all patiently awaiting Scooter
& Spud to join the goal scoring sheet. But when they do this team is going
to F shit up!
Final Score Mutual 2 – 1 Milnerton
Having a quick look at the logs and results Mutual 2nd
on the log to Fishhoek because of goal difference. UCT coming back from a 5-2
loss to Milnerton to thump Durbanville 12-0. Looks like this league is going to
be wide open this year!
Next Game:
Saturday 5th may @ Mutual
Time: 16h30
Opponents: Fishhoek
Our benchmark of 13 wins for the season is cut down by 1.
Next up we have Fishhoek, who are looking quite strong this season and rumoured
to have had quite a few new recruits coming in for the higher sides pushing
their experienced players down.
Yours in awesomeness
Tosser
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