WORKRATE , MISSED CHANCES AND THE IVAN SHOW!!!
'DUFFY'
BURGIN MCDONOUGH(C) SPOORS BURNS
MCDONALD
VAN PERSIE GRAINGER
DONKIN TABOUN
DOUGLAS
~MISSING - BIRD , STOTT AND JOHNSON
ON THIS LOVERLY WEDNESDAY NIGHT KICK OFF , WE TRYED OUT OUR HOME PITCH FOR THE FIRST TIME THIS SEASON. PAUL AND STEVE HAD A HARD TASK OF PICKING A TEAM FROM A BIG SQUAD THAT HAD TURNED UP , THE MORAL IN THE CHANGING ROOMS WAS HIGH AND WE WERE WELL UP FOR THIS MATCH. WE HAD NEVER PLAYED OR SEEN WALDRIDE PARK AND AS THEY CAME ONTO THE PITCH THERE OLDEST LAD WASN'T EVEN NEAR 24 A VERY YOUNG TEAM AND I KNEW WE WERE IN FOR A HARD TIME FITNESS WISE AND IT DIDN'T MAKE THINGS EASIER AS OUR REFEREE WAS IVANHOE AND HE HAD A MARE THE LAST TIME HE REFFED US AGAINST GLENEAGLES AND I KNOW HE DOSN'T LIKE US. MCDONOUGH WAS CPATIAN FOR THE MISSING STOTT AND WE KEPT THE 4-5-1 SYSTEM . THE GAME WAS ALL 50/50 IN FIRST 25 MINUTES WITH BOTH TEAMS LOOKING GOOD ON THE COUNTER ,DOUGLAS AND TABOUN CAUSING PROBLEMS AT THEIR END. SO THE IVAN SHOW STARTED WHEN THEIR WAS AN ELEDGED HANDBALL RUMOURS GO ABOUT THAT MCDONALD HANDLED BUT NOT FULLY SURE LOL , AS THE LAD WHO WENT ON TO BE MOTM SENT DUFFY THE WRONG WAY , AND AGAIN BOTH TEAMS CAME CLOSE AGAIN BUT NO CIGAR , WALDRINGE GOT ANOTHER PEN NEAR 40 MIN MARK WHEN THEIR PLAYER DIVED AND WE ALL LOOKED AT EACH OTHER FLABBERGASTED THAT IVAN HAD GIVE A 2ND PEN . THE SAME LAD WENT THE SAME WAY FOR 2-0 . MORAL WAS LOW AS WE HAD BEEN CHEATED. HALF TIME CAME AND THE MANAGER THORT SOMTHING HAD TO BE CHANGED AS DONKIN WAS SACRIFISED FOR LITTLE DAVY STEVEN TO TRY 4-4-2 AND DITCH THE 4-5-1 . THE LADS ATTITUDES WAS GREAT AT THE START OF THE 2ND HALF AS WE DIDN'T LAY DOWN AND KEPT ATTACKING THEM , BUT WE KEPT GETTING CAUGHT OUT ON THE BREAK AS A FEW OF US WENT MISSING . WE GOT A GOAL BACK FROM A CORNER AS PERSIE WIPPED THE BALL IN AND MCDONOUGH FLICKED IT AS ALEX CHALLENGED THEIR CENTRE HALF AS THE BALL WENT IN THE AIR TO FALL TO DANGER GRAINGER AS HE LEFT FOOT BLASTED THE BALL HOME PAST THE KEEPER WHO WAS ROOTED AS WE ALL GOT A LIFT 2-1. WE KEPT ATTACKING AS DOUGLAS HELD THE BALL WELL AND THE TEAM LOOKING FOR THE OUTLET TABOUN NEARLY CAME BACK AS SOME GREAT ONE-TWO FOOTBALL AS DOUGLAS STRUCK LEFT FOOTED AS HE HIT THE BAR AND AS THE KEEPER WAS STILL FLAWED TABOUNS HEADER HIT THE TOP OF THE BAR TO. STILL AT 2-1 WE COULDN'T GET THAT GOAL BACK AS WE LOST SHAPE AND THE STEAM RAN OUT THEY SHOWED US HOW TO PUT CHANCES AWAY AS THEIR FORWARD BROKE THE OFFSIDE TRAP AND SLIPPED THE BALL PAST DUFFY , AND THE NAIL IN THE COFFIN CAME AS THE YOUNG CENTRE MIDFILDER GOT HIS HAT-TRICK TO GET WALDRIDGE THEIR FIRST POINTS OF THE SEASON. FINAL SCORE 4-1
GAMEPOINTERS - THE IVANSHOW , THE 2 PENALTIES , DIDN'T TAKE OUR CHANCES , PLAYED SOME NICE FOOTBALL AND FITNESS SHOWED AT THE END AS THE YOUNG BOYS RAN ALLDAY LONG.
(JOKER OF THE DAY) - THE REFEREE - GIVE A DAFT PENALTY TO THAT LAD WHO DIVED , GIVING GOALKICKS AND CORNERS AS HE WAS STANDING ON THE HALFWAY LINE ,COUN'T KEEPUP WITH THE OFFSIDES AND THORT HE WAS RIGHT ABOUT EVERY DECISION. HMMM!!!
