Gators pooped on by gulls!
The Ayton Alligators came away from Carr Lane wondering quite how they failed to pick up a point, never mind all 3! A lethal concoction fit to kill of poor finishing, bad decision making when near the pokey and some costly mistakes left the Gators trudging home empty handed.
A quite astonishing amount of Gators, 12 in fact fell away from Wednesday nights 2-1 success vs the vicious and devious Falsgrave Pirates. Some Gators were ill (Toppers), Some had jabs (not Lovell) and others had more pressing matters too attend (Mawer).
Mawer had indeed ventured North to the X Factor auditions, looking to turn heads and take a staring role at the Newcastle auditions with his own version of Scatman’s 90’s hit; Scatmans World. The dent in the Alligators engine room had to be filled from somewhere, and in came first team stalwart Phil Wignall to make his debut, much to the excitement of the Gatorade@Wilsons Lane clubs travelling support.
In came Ellis, Frederikson, Bywater, Smart and of course Wignall as sweeping changes were made to the victorious champions of the as before mentioned Wednesday night.
Bywater joins the Alligators after a long drawn out transfer saga that eclipsed the greatest coup Ayton ever made during the 97/98 season when they picked up Phil Pickard after a will he or won’t he summer involving Northway Rangers and the Gators hierarchy. Bywater will be sure to hope his career takes a similar Alligator style path, rich in success, full of glory, maybe a few less Cornish pasties with a side of chips!
An expected sluggish start by the Gator’s saw them fall behind after 20 minutes failing to cope under a fair deal of pressure as they looked like a bunch of strangers dancing around the lush turf. They just couldn’t get to grips with the whipper snapper Scalby Seagulls.
A high ball swirled left and right in the not so blustery at all conditions. In from the left it swang, hurtling to the far right of the Gator’s penno area. Plumpton found him self in two minds, pull out the famed world touch control? Unleash the beast and put it in row z? Sadly the jet-heeled right back did neither as the ball bounced, before being smashed with venom likened to a poisonous Chilean snake, it flew past Monk in the Gator’s net. It was 1-0, Plumpton looked visibly troubled by his boo boo. Could the Gators recover from such a setback?
Minutes later the Gators produced their best move of the match, carving apart the Seagulls and an almost replica incident of the ‘Gulls goal saw Jacob Smart take sight and hammer one into a nearby field, wounding a poor innocent cow grazing near by.
The improved Gator’s were showing far more promise as left sided forward Danny Bywater found himself baring down on goal after some great pressure play. He hounded the Gulls right back like Madonna for the last africano baby at Mozambique orphanage and he finished Like a Prayer into the far right corner to bring the scores back to the level zone.
Sadly the lead lasted like Temple between the sheets; takes longer getting the kit off, as the Gulls regained the lead after a weavy run and finish through the heart of the Ayton back line.
In truth it was a poor first half showing with Frederikson pulling off another trademark foul throw, and Wallace missing from all of 3 yards on the stretch!
(Above Frederikson in Training)
Half Time
Scalby Seagulls 2 v 1 Ayton Alligators
On came ‘Jon’ Bateman to replace throwing tekkers Frederikson at half time, as well as Dave the Save Lovell replacing Monk in the sticks. A tactical adjustment was made by Pluminho as he looked and asked for better from the Ayton Alligators he knows and loves so well.
It was an instant improvement by the Gold men from Ayton as they whipped the soccer like Rooneys back side during a sesh with his local vice girl.
A quite astonishing amount of chances came the Gators way as they repeatedly carved open the Scalby back 4 with a combo of slick passing, tremendous skill and damn right hard work.
Ward went close bringing an unbelievable stop from the Scalby stopper, a wonder save followed up by Ward who skied the rebound.
Smart fluffed when clear 1 on 1, Bywater had a penno appeal turned down and Wallace missed a guilt edge chance with the game in the twightlight minutes after some dancing feet by Plumpton on the left.
Pickard found time to pirouette 14 times in the centre circle and draw woo’s from the crowd, only to have them turned to boo’s as the whistle went to signal the Gator’s first defeat of the league campaign.
The man of the match award was distributed by local Scalby window consultants “Seethru Windows” gave the award to Phil Wignall for showing that age doesn’t matter when the tekkers are involved.
