ROSE
HURRELL GRAINGER BLAND HOWE
DOUGLAS BIRD DONKIN K-JOHNSON TOWNLEY
BATES
HOWE WENT BACK TO LEFT BACK AND HURRELL CAME IN AT RIGHT BACK FOR MISSING SPOORS. GRAINGER CAME STRAIGHT BACK IN TO THE HEART OF DEFENCE ALONG SIDE BLAND. DONKIN KEPT HIS PLACE AT ANKER MAN , AND THE ONLY OTHER CHANGE WAS KIERON TOWNLEY MAKING HIS FISRT START TO THE SEASON FOR THE BLUES.
WITH THIS BEING AN AWAY FIXTURE WE HAD TO WEAR OUR ROMAINIA YELLOW STRIPS .THE DESTINATION WAS THORNEY CLOSE WITH THE BLUES NEEDING POINTS ON THE BOARD ALSO WANTING REVENGE BADLY THE TIME HAD TO BE NOW!. IN THE LAST FIXTURE BLUESTONE WAS ALL OVER THE SHOP AND HAD TO IMPROVE IN THIS GAME IF THEY WANT TO DO SOMETHING IN THIS DIVISON. EAGLES HAD A FULL STRENTH TEAM OUT AND MUST OF THORT THEY WERE GUNNA RUN ALL OVER US BUT THEY WERE TO BE SO WRONG..........
BSCFC KICKED OFF WITH TEN MEN WAITING ON GRAINGER TO GET READY AND DONE FINE FIRST FEW TEN MINUTES. IT WAS A DULL ENCOUNTER MOST OF THE HALF MAINLY THE BALL COMING DOWN DAVE HURRELLS SIDE . THE MAIN OUTLET WAS DOUGLAS ON THE DAY , ALOT OF THE BALLS WENT DOWN HIS WAY AS HIM AND BIRD LINKED UP GREAT PASSING AND MOVING ALL THE TIME . BATES WAS WORKING WELL HOLDING THE BALL UP AS MUCH AS HE COULD AND GETTING THE PIECES AS THE BALLS CAME IN THE BOX. BLUESTONE TOOK THE LEAD JUST AFTER 20 MINUTES WITHA GREAT A GREAT WELL WORKED FREE KICK , GRAINGER LOOKED TO OF PUMP THE BALL LONG AS THE EAGLES ALL STOOD EDGE OF THE 18 YARD BOX AND EVEN OUR MIDFILED N FORWARDS EXPECTING THE BALL TO BE DELIVERED IN WHEN HE GAVE THE BALL QUICK TO DOUGLAS ,AND DOUGLAS WAS TO OF LOST THE BALL LADS MOONING IN THE BACKGROUND HE SUPRISINGLY CAME OUT WITH THE BALL AND AGAIN LINKED WITH BIRD AS HE WENT FOR A LEATHAL LEFT FOOT STRIKE SKIMMING ACROSS THE BOX AS THE KEEPER FUMBLED THE BALL INTO BATEMAN'S PATH AS HE STRUCK IT FOR 1-0 . MINUTES LATER THE TEAM LOOKED TO OF KEPT IT TIGHT AS A FLUCKY LOB WENT OVER ALAN'S HEAD FOR 1-1 WHAT WAS DEFO MENT TO BE A CROSS. BOTH TEAMS WERE ON EDGE ALL THE REST OF THE FIRST HALF AND BOTH KEPT IT TIGHT OUR MIDFILED PUTTING A CANNY SHIFT IN MAINLY BIG BIRD WHO WAS ALL OVER THE PITCH LIKE THE WIND , CRAIG DONKIN WAS PROTECTING AND SWEAPING UP IN THE MIDFILED CLASS TOO. HALF TIME CAME AND THE NEXT GOAL WAS VITAL AS STEVE SAYS DON;'T CONCEED IN THE FIRST TEN MINUTES AND THATS WHAT WE DIDN'T DO FOR A CHANGE BUT EAGLES DID. IT CAME ABOUT WHEN SOME FLAIRY FOOTBALL IN THE MIDDLE WHEN TEH BALL CAME TOWARDS DONKIN AS HE WAS CHOPPED 25 YARDS OUT THERE WAS ONLY ONE PERSON TAKING THIS HMMM , DOUGLAS KNEW HE HAD TO DO BETTER AS HE HIT THE WALL WITH A FREE KICK NEAR THE START OF THE 2ND HALF. THE DOUGMIESTER STEPPED UP AND THUNDER BOLTED BLUESTONE INTO THE LEAD AS IT FLEW PAST THE KEEPER WHO DIDNT STAND A CHANCE. ON THE HOUR MARK JOHNSON CAME OF WITH HIS AGITATED BACK AND SUPERSUB BRENT MCKENNA STEPPED ONTO THE PODIUM . THE MANAGERS KNOW WHEN ITS TIME TO KILL OFF A GAME BRING ON MCKENNA COS THERES ALWAYS A GOAL IN HIS LOCKER. SO MCKENNA DONE WHAT WAS TO BE EXPECTED OF HIM AND MADE IT 3 IN 3 BY SCORING A DIVING HEADER WITH A GREAT CROSS FROM DOUGLAS 3-1. WITH THE SHINEY ROW GAME STILL IN THE BACK OF OUR MINDS WE HAD TO KEEP SWITCHED ON . THE BALL WAS IN OUR COURT NOW WE HAD TO KEEP GOING AND KEEP THIS LEAD BUT AS WE SAID ABOUT SWITCHING ON WE SWITCHED OFF! . A BIT OF PRESSURE COMING FROM GLENEAGLES CAUSED US TO GIVE AWAY A FREEKICK WHICH WASN'T A FREEKICK ITWAS A GOOD CHALLENGE FROM BLAND. WE HAD ALL THE WALL SORTED BUT DIDN'T WATCH THE RUNNERS EDGE OF THE BOX AS THEY TOOK IT QUICK AND GRAINGER COULDN'T GET BACK IN TIME AS YOUNG COLLY TAPPED IT PAST ROSE IN THE BOTTOM RIGHT HAND CORNER FOR 3-2 THE GOAL WAS ALOT LIKE ARGENTINA'S QUICK FREEKICK IN THE 98' WORLD CUP AGAINST ENGLAND. EAGLES DIDN'T PILE ON AS MUCH PRESSURE AS WHAT WAS TO BE EXPECTED LIKE SHINEY ROW DID A FORTNIGHT AGO AND EITHER TEAM COULD OF GETTING THE NEXT GOAL . EAGLES GOT A CORNER AND PILED ALOT OF MEN FORWARD AS WE BROKE UP THE PITCH AND GOT A CORNER OF OUR OWN AS VOICES FROM THE SIDELINE SHOUTING "KEEP IT IN THE CORNER" , DOUGLAS TOOK IT SHORT TO BIRD BUT DIDN'T DECIDE TO KEEP IT IN THE CORNER AS THEY PLAYED THE BALL OUT , DOUGLAS STRUCK FROM AN ACCUTE ANGLE AS IT WENT INTO THE BOTTOM LEFT CORNER AND SEALED THE POINTS 4-2 A TREMENDOUS VICTORY ON A FINE WEDNESDAY NIGHT.
GAMEPOINTERS - BIRD AND DOUGLAS LINKUP , BATES TRACKING BACK , DONKIN SWEAPING UP THE BITS IN THE MIDFIELD , GOOD TO HAVE THE TEAM SPIRIT BACK , MCKENNA 3-3 AND GREAT ATTITUDE NOT TO SIT BACK AND INVITE PRESSURE AT 3-2 AND GO AND KILL THE GAME OFF WELL DONE BLUESTONE..
MAN IN BLACK - THE BEST REFEREE WE GET ALL SEASON BY FAR HAD THE GAME IN HAND ALL GAME AND KEPT UP WITH PLAY WELL.
SAYING OF THE WEEK - (EAGLES MANAGER FROM THE SIDELINE AFTER ABOUT 60 MINUTES)
"THIS AINT THE BLUESTONE OFF THE OTHER WEEK DEFINETLY NOT" - AS WE WERE DOMINATING!
