Men's 5
Matches
Sat 05 Oct 2019  ·  6SW
Bedford 5
2
1
St. Albans HC
Men's 5
Silky Sixes slip up

Silky Sixes slip up

Cormac Connolly6 Oct 2019 - 15:16
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First loss of the season despite valiant efforts by diminished squad.

In sharp contrast to previous matches, Captain Cormac struggled to get a side together. Russ had limped off last week, Scotty had been beamed up to the 5’s, Max has gone to Uni and Maverick and Goose were missing in action.

That said we assembled 12 angry men and headed up the road to Bedford. The wisdom of packing the back line with “experience” showed a slight flaw as Cormac was soon limping with a pulled back and subbed off just before HT never to return, meanwhile Ian limped on with a strained left buttock.

Bedford had the better of the 1st half, but resolute defence and a couple of fine saves from Galoot, limited them to a solitary goal, from the follow up to a saved short corner.

We started the second half, despite being down to a bare 11, a different team and were soon bossing possession and were rewarded with the equaliser when, in a goal mouth melee amid appeals for a flick, Sandi sent a shot trickling goalwards, which was sympathetically popped home by the Bedford defence.

Blatant ‘not given’ yellow card of season occurred soon after: Jack was pretty much through, when the last defender kicked the ball and then attempted to roll over Jack, in dive worthy of an Oscar.

Eventually the lack of subs vs a full bench was beginning to tell, when Ian sent a very tired attempted pass straight to their right winger. He drew a magnificent glove save from Galoot, but Bedford buried the follow up for what turned out to be the winning goal.

Jay made a late bid for DotD by repeating the trick, passing to their centre forward, who fortunately shot wide, but by that point DotD was well and truly sealed by Ian who was serving 2 mins on the sideline for whacking the ball away after the whistle whilst feigning temporary deafness. At his age he really should know better.

Jack deservedly won the MotM vote for his relentless running, literally all over the pitch.

Other highlights include:
* Jay’s pre-match Fox shit bottling routine
* Rob’s double assault on their 13 year goal keeper, hoping to draw a stern dressing down from his Mother post match no doubt
*Galoot’s magnificent glove save (did I mention that?)
* Rob’s attempted reverse stick shot, that was more pitching wedge meets Garry Owen

Post match thought of the day: Jacket potato, beans and cheese doth not a decent tea make.

Ultimately we returned home, much like Ollie’s existence, pointless.

Match details

Match date

Sat 05 Oct 2019

Kickoff

11:30

Meet time

09:45

Instructions

09:45 meet at the club, assuming 10:00 departure, to leave time to knock up at the other end.

You know the drill - bring BOTH orange and white shirts.

We're on twelve and have feelers out to find one more...

Competition

6SW

League position

1
Bedford 5
3
St Albans 6
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