SUPER KEV'S WINNER PUTS BLUESTONE THROUGH TO THE SEMIS!!
FARRELL
MCDONOUGH STOTT DOUGLAS HOWE(c)
MCDONALD
GRAINGER K-JOHNSON BENNETT TABOUN
MELDRUM
THE MANAGERS OPTITED WITH A FOUR FIVE ONE TO PACK THE MIDFIELD UP. ALOT OF CHANGES IN THIS GAME WITH STOTT MOVING BACK TO CENTRE HALF , HOWE BACK TO LEFT BACK ,GRAINGER CAME BACK IN ON THE RIGHT AND MELDRUM STARTED FIRST GAME OF THE SEASON.
DUE TO DAMAGED PITCHES UP SILKSWORTH WE HAD TO MOVE PITCHES TO THE NORTH MOOR FIELD . IT WAS A LONG WAIT AS BOTH TEAMS WERE HANGING ABOUT UP SILKSWORTH WAITING ON REFEREE DAVE ALLAN AND ONCE TURNED UP WAS CONFIRMED THAT SILKSWORTH WAS FLOODED . GOT DOWN TO NORTH MOOR AND ONE SIDE OF THE PITCH HAD A FEW PUDDLES BUT THE GAME WENT AHEAD. BLUESTONE HAD TO GO INTO THIS FIXTURE WITH A NEVER SAY DIE ATTITUDE AND NOT TO GET BULLIED OFF NEW INN. THE BLUES HAS NEVER BEATEN NEW INN SINCE THEY JOINED THE LEAGUE AND SO ODDS WASN'T TO BE ON OUR SIDE . A LIVELY START WHEN IT SEEMED THERE WAS A GOOD BUZZ ABOUT THE BLUESTIONE TEAM WHEN WE WERE GETTING THE BALL DOWN AND PLAYING THE FOOTBALL WE KNOW WE CAN DO AND GETTING IN ON THE 50/50 TACKLES , HOWE AND TABOUN WERE LINKING UP GREAT EARLY ON AS TABOUN WAS GHOSTING THE FULL BACK EVERYTIME HE GOT THE BALL AND WAS TREMENDOUS TO WATCH . THE TWO OUTLETS IN TABOUN AND MELDRUM WAS CAUSING ALL KIND OF PROBLEMS AS THEY DIDNT KNOW HOW TO HANDLE THE PAIR AS THEY NEVER STOPPED RUNNING. THE BATTLE OF DAY CAME FROM MCDONALD AND ARCHIE WHICH WAS A FEISTY ENCOUNTER WITH MCDONALD COMING OUT ON TOP IT BLEW UP A BIT WHEN THEY CAME TO BLOWS BUT LATER SETTLED DOWN. 20 MINUTES ON THE CLOCK AS BENNETT TRYED ONE FROM RANGE ONLY TO GO STRAIGHT INTO THE KEEPERS HANDS , BLUESTONE THEN DID TAKE THE LEAD WHEN MCDONOUGH WON A THROUGH ON THE RIGHT AS THE CROWD RAWED JOHNSON TO LAUNCH THE BALL IN THE BOX AND THAT WAS EXACTLY WHAT HE DONE , THE BALL CAME INTO THE 8 YARD BOX WITH SOME POWER ONTO MCDONALD'S HEAD AS HE HEADED IT BACKWARDS GETTING IN FRONT OF THE FLAPPING KEEPER 1-0 . THE HOME SIDES SIDELINE WERE LOVIN IT AFTER THAT AND WERE LIKE THE 12TH MAN AS THEY DROVE THE TEAM ON . A HALF CHANCE BREAK FROM NOTHING GAVE NEW INN A SCAPPY EQUILIZER FIVE MINUTES AFTER THAT AS THE WINGER CROSSED AS DOUGLAS WAS CAUGHT NAPPING AND THE FORWARD HAD A FREE HEADER ONTO THE POST AND IN PAST FARRELL 1-1. BLUESTONE WANTED IT MORE AS THEY TOOK THE LEAD AGAIN JUST BEFORE HALF TIME WHEN A CORNER CAME IN FROM TABOUN A IT WAS LIKE A PINBALL MACHINE IN THE NEW INN BOX AS K-JOHNSON RIFFLED THE BALL THROUGH THE CROWD FOR 2-1. HALF TIME CAME AND THE MANGER'S REMINDED THE LADS WHAT HAPPENED AGAINST WALDRIDGE WEEKS BEFORE AND HAD TO BE TIGHTER GOING INTO THE 2ND HALF AND KEEP OUR HEADS WITH THE NEW INN BOYS TRYING TO HURT LADS .2ND HALF THE RAIN CAME PELTING DOWN AND PUT A DAMPNER ON THE PITCH AS LADS LEGS WERE GETTING HEAVIER BUT THIS DIDN'T STOP BOTH TEAMS BATTLEING AS A FEW CORNERS ON THE TROTT CAME IN FOR THE AWAY SIDE MISSING BY A MARGIN , THE DEFENDING WAS GREAT FROM BOTH TEAMS BUT MAINLY AT THE END THE HARD WORK PAYED OFF FOR BLUESTONE AS THEY DEALT WITH EVERYTHING THREW AT THEM AS THE WHISTLE WENT IT SENT THE BLUES INTO THE SEMI FINALS AGAINT WILLOW POND. LATER ON A FAN COMMENTED SAYING "IT WAS A GREAT DAY FOR THE CLUB AND THE SOUNDS OF THE CAR HORNS ON THE BANK AND WES'S VEVUZELA I RECON COULD OF BEEN HEARD FROM MORPETH" .
GAMEPOINTERS - THE NEVER SAY DIE ATTITUDE , FIRST GOAL WAS VITAL , TABOUN TORTURING THE FULL BACK , MCDONALD VS ARCHIE BATTLE AS MCDONALD CAME OUT ON TOP , DODGY GOAL TO CONCEDE FOR THE EQUILIZER , THE 2ND HALF NAIL BITER AND MAINLY THE BLUESTONE SIDELINE YOU WERE AWSOME!!!
BRAVEHEART OF THE WEEK - ALEX MCDONALD LOOKED LIKE BEEN IN THE TRENCHES WHEN THE GAME WAS OVER AND BATTLED ALL GAME , UNLUCKY NOT TO GET MOTM , MAGNIFICENT DISPLAY SON!!
- SEMI FINALS AGAINST WILLOW POND -
