Thursday, 31 May 2012

Winter League Game Week #6 - vs Pinelands A (Mens 2s)


Opponents: Pinelands A
Venue: Mutual
Date: 26 May 2012
Time: 13h30

Another tough fixture against what we knew to be some quality opposition in the form of Pinelands A. We had worked on our weaknesses (Raff, which is why he started bench) during the week and had confidence that we could produce a result. This confidence was clear as we completely dominated the opening 5 to 10 minutes of the game. The first few chances we had I think we couldn’t believe our luck at how easily we got into the D so we buggered that up royally. Vis finally added the opener with a simple finish.

Pinelands got a huge wake up call from this and immediately upped their game and our chances dried up quickly. We were soon regretting acting like deer in headlights in front of goal as Pinelands won a shorty. They proceeded to bury an absolute blinder of a drag!! Boogs, standing at post man, didn’t even have time to cover his nose as the ball flew into the top right corner. It was clear that by later displays NONE of Mutuals top “dragflickers” ,Bob, Raff, Import, Tosser #tellThem, were taking notes (Tosser - In my defence - and yes my team has a defence - you are trying to compare GC and TC dragflickers with a M4 flicker #JustSaying. Would be the same as me telling you that Bruce Jacobs is a much better player than you. But yes i have scored one, check the score cards). Although I think the ladies 2s may have scored one???

Pinelands continued to dominate play although they didn’t have much in terms of open play chances due to a slightly improved man marking performance issue by Mutuals defence. However, they won shorties easily and made us pay for our inability/stupidity to tackle outside the D!

At this point I should bring up the point of our wonderfully untalented Raffs for this game….wow….I eventually stopped complaining because they were KAK but amazingly not bias. Amongst several dodgy calls Pinelands added 2 more short corner goals which should be noted to as how they were rewarded. The first: A Pinelands brown person made a run along the baseline where he proceeded to dribble out, then pull the ball onto his own foot and then on the Raffs foot…16 right?? Not a chance, shorty!! The second: Pinelands player is making a baseline run, Boogs channels him, I step into to make a clean tackle and put the ball out…long corner right?? Shorty is the call again!! To make this worse, the ref was about 2 meters away from both incidents. We received a lil justice when Curly lunged with his foot, stick nowhere to be seen, to stop a goal bound bal…P flick right?? Na, shorty again!!

Okay Ref Rant over…Pinelands had control of the game although we still created a chance or two which we couldn’t stick away. Then we had a marathon of shorties, 5 in row!! We proceeded to screw them all up and eventually were running outta ideas and decided on letting Bob have a drag, which was a horrendous idea as he put it WAY wide. Pinelands added a fourth field goal to round up their scoring for the day and left the score at 4 – 1.

It was a disappointing loss that left us 10th (Tosser - Out of 10?, my strikers are not for sale) on the log and in desperate need of points, but Pinelands A is a quality side who deserved to win on the day. It pointed out more flaws in our defensive game that needs work.(Tosser - Your defence , like you, have no game. #ToldYou, #DodoKnows, #TooSoon?) We have a double header this coming weekend with Central and a trip to Stellies. And on the side, at least we didn’t get fucked 7 – 0 like the 1s!

Result: Mutual 2s 1 – Pinelands A 4

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