19 May 2013
Venue: Mutual
Opponents: Pinelands
Time: 15h00
After our
two curtain raisers (being the 1s and 2s) we took the field – poor guys looked
all tuckered out but they played their hearts out. We didn’t start off with the
ball so there was no #UCT goal attempt this time. We enjoy most of the
possession in the first few minutes of the game.
After a lot
of pressure the breakthrough finally came. Classic Demon style only knows how
to smash, the shot was saved by the keeper but falling nicely for Demon to have
a follow up miss timed smash. The wounded rabbit finding the goals after
bouncing over the defenders stick on the line. Mutual 1 – 0 Pinelands.
We
continued to press and after a few unsuccessful short corners Tosser stepped up
to drag. Not the best I have seen…….actually far from it, luckily the second
wave was dangling his stick infront of….lets say it was definitely going on
goals, the speed is questionable. But it hit the back of his stick and we were
awarded a p-flick which Pete stepped up to convert. Mutual 2 – 0 Pinelands.
Pinelands
came back with a scrappy goal, their striker running along baseline and
Youngster anticipating he would square the ball to the striker on p-spot . But
he selfishly went alone with Youngster leaving his near post exposed. Mutual 2 –
1 Pinelands.
Demon was back at it again soon after we conceded, the
ball coming into the circle from the right. With his speed he beat the defender
to the ball and, like the airline, one-time into the bottom left corner. Mutual
3 – 1 Pinelands.
It was around this time that Tallis thought we were
having things a bit too easy. He decided to pull his Hammy…..AGAIN. He could
always just ask to go off. But decides rather to go off in style…limping. Lol.
After the quick switch around we were a little unsettled at the back, a
Pinelands striker managed to get off an average shot just inside the D. Youngster
thinking it was hit from outside left it and Pinelands were back in the game
just before the end of the first half. Mutual 3 – 2 Pinelands
With a minute left in the half Mutual with the possession decided to have one last
bolt at the goals. Tosser running….ok fine walking with the ball around the
halfway line say the heavens open and a spot light beaming on Blake. A great
ball to Blake camping on the top D, he turned and blazed one past the Pinelands
keeper to put Mutual further ahead. Mutual 4 – 2 Pinelands.
During the team talk we basically had one focus in mind.
We needed to push for the bonus point. Taking the field for the second half we
started on our quest for that one extra point, not that we had wrapped up the
game by no means but if we won, we wanted to win big. The first goal of the
half came qiute quickly when we started playing route 1 hockey instead of
passing it around trying to look fancy. Ball in from Tosser just right of top
D, Demon collecting the ball and (he says pop shot) but we all know it was a
wounded rabbit past the keeper. Brownie very nearly poached the goal off the
line. Mutual 5 – 2 Pinelands.
Ex Mutual player and current Pinelands keeper “Cannon”
was not giving up at all. Pulling of a lot of saves and doing what a keeper
should – get in the way all the time. Several chances went beckoning. Then
route 1 hockey came into play. Tosser smashing a ball into the D, a sort of hit
and hope kind of slap hoping for a deflection of anything really with the new
own goal rule. Demon reaching out and getting a glancing deflection and edging
it past the keeper. Mutual 6 – 2 Pinelands.
We now had the bonus point in reach, one more goal was
all we needed. It was now all out attack, with a goal lead of 4 we were not
worried if we conceded. We just wanted that 5th goal. Blake
receiving a ball from Ingo and making a run down the left. Finding Brownie in
the circle who had a quick snap shot which the keeper again smothered on p-spot
but Caveman quickly came to the rescue cleaning up on the reverse and forcing
the ball into the goal. Mutual 7 – 2 Pinelands.
Mutual were not done yet, we wanted a goal cushion incase
of the emanate Pinelands counter attacks. Toooooori playing for the crowd took
on at least 4 Pinelands players, with the crowd going wild the only way the
Pinelands defender could stop him was by flattening him with a “Butch James”
type spear tackle. Brownie received a long thru ball from inside our own half
and had a 1v1 with their keeper. Cooly slotting the ball past the keeper to
extend our lead. Mutual 8 – 2 Pinelands.
With the
game drawing to a close we got a shorty which after the whistle proved to be
the last play of the game. The whole Mutual side was circling around the D like
blood thirsty animals staring at the Pinelands goal box. The call was to go to
Caveman, who received the ball and while playing the ball across it hit a
Pinelands foot. Another short was awarded, from the stands you could hear the
cries for a Tosser drag flick. Being a crowd pleaser we gave the fans what they
had come here to witness. Tosser slotting the ball off the final short corner
of the game. Mutual 9 – 2 Pinelands.
It was
great to have the crowd around for our biggest win of the 2013 campaign. Darrin
was missing out due to injury and Mick who had been dropped to the 2s for the
weekend. Does that mean Doc and his GoPro’s have been dropped as well? I surely
hope not.
Final
Score: 9-2
Next up
biggest game of the season vs table topping Millies. Petie-Weeepu and Blakie
both out for the game….Not Ayoba!
Yours in
awesomeness
Tosser
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