Good morning guys
I never seem to get tired of saying this, the “Thorough bred
3s” are still unbeaten!
Besides letting in the one goal near the end of the game,
(the keeper will blame the post man & everyone else in the side will blame
the keeper) we had quite a solid performance. After a thrashing of Pinelands we
seemed to take a step back and lacked a little composure up front. But still
ended up getting the win which is what counts at the end of the day!
Date: 26 May 2012
Time: 18h00
Venue: Mutual
Opponents: Somerset West
After cementing ourselves on the top of the log last week,
we wanted to go into the game with one mind set. Stay at the top where we
belong! After playing all the sides at the top of the log it is that time of
the season when we play the sides lower down.
Somerset West were rock bottom and a lot of the guys saw
this as another whitewash. But as we noticed in this league no team is a walk
over, it is all about what happens on the day. Unfortunately we had 6-Pack,
Pete and Sparky out for this game week. Pete being in JHB, 6-Pack’s shift on
Sea Point main road only ending at 8 am and Sparky not having his morning cup
of ‘Man the F*#k up’.
Winders proved his consistency throughout the whole season
and this game was no different, the whistle to signal the start of the game
goes and there is no Winders to be seen. Could we please receive all our
fixtures in “Africa Time” from now on? The first half was relatively slow,
again only starting to dominate 5 or 10 minutes into the first half.
But as always once we get going, we seem to take our tents
and chairs and set up camp in the opponents half. Mick and Sherman pushing up
the right and left side of the field respectively creating over laps with
Shooter doing well in his roaming position. (Yes we have given him the roaming
position, only because it was easier than explaining to his how to mark)
After a lot of back and forth we finally ended up on the
score sheet, our ginger on target again. Soon to be known as the tap in king
with goal #10 for the season. Mutual 1 – 0 Somerset West.
The remainder of the half was all out attack but with no
conversion. Our forward showing their class but lacking composure in the D.
Half time chat was pretty simple, ‘Score’. With that we took the field to start
the second half. I pretty much was a boring game of hockey from a defensive
point. They would counter attack and we would stop them and flat out attack
them again.
We won a couple of shorties in the second half after not
having a single one in the first half. Tosser beating everyone with his drag…….except
the post and our whole team watched the ball bounce along the goal line and out
of the circle. Despondent, they urged Tosser to try again chanting ‘give him
another chance, give him another chance. Not wanting to make the same mistake
twice he aimed a little further inside the post this time. An all of a sudden
they have a post man who can pick up a drag flick on the reverse, no worries
though, Blake savouring the missed opportunity and following up on the rebound
to make it Mutual 2 – 0 Somerset West.
After that it was all about missed opportunities, with our
strikers sending the ball wide and skying it over the cross bar. It was one of
those matches where things just didn’t go right. Another shorty we decided to
go back to Blake to give the guy his hatrick, BOOOOM, they have another post
man who somehow saved a lifted slap at goals from close range (Blakes
speciality) off the goal line. No idea where these guys were during the match.
Tosser decided to take the last shorty for himself. And this proved to be his
last drag flick in M4….Hanging up his stick after the post man again swiped at
a drag chest height, off the cross bar. As Tosser was about to drop into the
fetal position and cry himself to sleep Blake sensing the opportunity pounced
like the poacher he is and got the ball into the back of the net. Another
hatrick for the clubs leading goal scorer. Mutual 3 – 0 Somerset West.
Pushing desperately for the last 2 goals which would secure
a bonus point, Somerset West had a counter and got their second shorty of the
game. It was so bad to see a wounded rabbit of a shot take a nasty deflection
off Vis’ pad that not even the heroics of our fearless captain could stop. Giving
Somerset West a consolation goal. Mutual 3 – 1 Somerset West.
So far this season the clean sheet has eluded Vis. However
we got the win. Not the goal difference we were looking at, but still the 4
points we needed.
Final Score Mutual 3 – 1 Somerset West
Next Game:
Saturday 2nd June @ Mutual
Time: 18h00
Opponents: Durbanville
Taking us to 5 wins for the season.
Blake on 12 goals out of 6 games looks to break the record
for most goals in a season. If there isn’t a record….I am sure he will be
setting it.
Yours in awesomeness
Tosser
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