BRNESC OPENED THIER 2012/13 SEASON WITH A 6 2 HOME WIN AGAINST COLLEGIATE OBS.
BRNESC STARTED BRIGHTLY ON A WARM DRY AFTERNOON AT THEIR MELLING RD GROUND AND AFTER 3 MINS SCORED ,WHEN PADDYS BALL FROM THE RIGHT WAS FLICKED ON INTO THE BOX WHERE ROBBIE BODELL STRUCK IT WITH HIS LEFT FOOT INTO THE FAR CORNER OF THE NET 1 0 BRNESC A FINE MOVE BETWEEN FINN AND RITCHIE ENDED WITH RITCHIES BALL INTO THE BOX JUST EVADING JOE STEPHENS SURGE INTO THE BOX.
WHIT THEN MADE A GOAL SAVING TACKLE IN THE BRNESC BOX HAVING PURSUED THE COLLEGISTE PLAYER FOR 40 YDS AND DISPOSSESED HIM AS HE WAS IN THE ACT OF SHOOTING FOR GOAL.AFTER 12 MINS ANOTHER GOAL JOE STEPHENS CHASED A BALL DOWN THE RIGHT ,WENT SHOULDER TO SHOULDER WITH THE DEFENDER SHRUGGED HIM OFF SPED INTO THE BOX AND PULLED THE BALL BACK TO FINN,WHO STARTED THIS SEASON AS HE HAD FINISHED THE LAST SCORING.AND HE CALMLY STROKED THE BALL HOME 2 0 BRNESC
MATTY THEN PLUNGED AT THE FEET OF A COLLEGIATE FORWARD TO MAKE A DOUBLE BLOCK AFTER SIMMOS ATEMPTED CLEARANCE HAD BEEN CHARGED DOWN.COLLRGIATE THEN TOOK ADVANTAGE OF BRNESCS INABILITY TO CLEAR THEIR LINES AND SCRAMLED THE BALL HOME FROM CLOSE RANGE TO REDUCE THE DEFICIT.BRNESC NREARLY MADE IT 3 1 WHWN PADDYS FREEKICK FROM THE RIGHT WAS JUST FLICKED AWAY DY THE DESPAIRING DEFENDER WITH GOAL PREDATORS FINN AND RITCHIE WAITING TO POUNCE.CHRIS BELL,ALMOST BEKENBUER LIKE, SURGED FROM THE BACK CARRIED THE BALL 30 YDS PLAYED AN EXQUISITE BALL TO RELEASE WHIT WHOSE CHIP CLEARED THE BAR BY INCHES WITH THE KEEPER STRANDED,WHIT THEN WAS BUNDLED OVER ON THE EDGE OF THEBOX AFTER BEING PLAYED IN BY RITCHIE THE FREE KICK WAS WASTED.
RITCHIE THEN SCORED A TREMENDOUS VOLLEY FROM 25 YDS OUT AFTER HE LATCHED ONTO MATTYS LONG KICK,FROM HANDS,AND CRASHED THE BALL PAST THE STATUESQUE KEEPER 3 1 BRNESC,CHRIS WAS JUST A WHISKER AWAY FROM CONNECTING WITH FINNS FLICK,FROM JOE,S CROSS.MATTY THEN PULLED OF A FINE SAVE FROM 30 YDS PALMING THE BALL ROUND THE POST FOR A CORNER.AFTER 38 MINS BRNESC SCORED AGAIN ,ROBBIE PLAYED IN WHIT WHOSE SHOT WAS PARRIED AWAY BY THE KEEPER THE BALL CAME TO FINN HE CONTROLLED THE BALL AND SLID IT INTO THE PATH OF THE ONRUSHING JOE STEPHENS WHO BURIED IT INTO THE FAR CORNERB 4 1 BRNESC.JOE THEN TRIED HIS ARM FROM 30 YDS THE BALL SAILING OVER THE BARA FREEKICK FROM THE RIGHT BY PADDY WAS JUST GLANCED WIDE BT ROBBIE AS HALF TIME APPROACHED
RITCHIE THEN EMBARKED ON ONE OF HIS MAZY DRIBBLES IN THE BOX THE BALL ONLY TAKEN OF HIM BY A DESPERATE TACLE THE REBOUNDING TO FINN WHOSE GOALBOUND EFFORT WAS DEFLECTED WIDE,RITCHIE THEN BROKE INTO THE BOX BUT SHOT STRAIGHT AT THE KEEPER, 4 1 HALF TIME.
AT THE RESTART JAMIE ASPINWALL REPLACED PADDY WHO HAD A NECK INJURY,WITHIN 2 MINS MATTY HAD TO BE SHARPISH OFF HIS LINE TO PLUNGE AND GATHER A THROUGH BALL AT TH FEET OF THE FORWARD,BRNESC REPLIED WITH A FINE BALL FROM JAY SENDING RITCHIE CLEAR HIS STRIKE ON GOAL PARRIED BY THE KEEPER.
WHIT THE SPED DOWN THE ROGHT AND INTO THE BOX LEAVING DEFENDERS TRAILING IN HIS WAKE AND FROM HIS SHOT CUM CROSS FINN BUNLED THE BALL OVER THE LINE TO MAKE IT 5 1.IN FAIRNESS EVEN THOUGH IT WAS 5 1 IT WASNT A GREAT PERFORMANCE ,TO MANY PASSES GOING ASTRAY,RUSTINESS SHOWING AND IT WAS ONLY THE FINISHING THAT REALLY STOOD OUTIN BRNESC S PERFORMANCE WHICH SWUNG FROM THE SUBLIME TO THE RIDICULOUS.ON THE HOUR PHIL WAS ADJUDGED TO HAVE BROUGHT DOWN THE FORWARD AND A PEN WAS AWARDED ,A TRIFLE HARSH IN MY OPINION, AND IT WAS CONVERTED 5 2 BRNESC
AS OFTEN HAPPENS,THE OLD ADAGE GOALS CHANGE GAMES CAME TRUE AND THE GOAL REVITALISED COLLEGIATE AND THE STARTED TO CONTROL THE GAME AS BRNESC STARTED TO LOOK TIRED THE NEXT 20 MINS IT WAS A BATTLE AS BRNESC DEFENDED THEIR 3 GOAL LEAD AND COLLEGIATE SEARCHED FOR THEIR 3 GOAL.THEY HAD HALF CHANCES BUT BRNESC WORKING LIKE TROJANS SLAMMED THR DOOR SHUT IN THEIR FACES TIME AFTER TIMEBRNESC BROKE AND NEARLT SCORED WHEN JAYS CROSS FROM THE RIGHT WAS PLAPPED WAY BY THE KEEPER AND RITCHIE FIRST TIME EFFORT WAS OVER THE BAR.
BRNESC HAD SURVIVED A HAIRY 15 MINS BUT WERE NOW STARTING TO GET BACK INTO THE GAME A WREST CONTROL FROM COLLEGIATE AND WITH 10 MINS TO GO WHIT SEARING BURST INTO THE BOX ENDED WHEN THE DEFENDER BROUGHT HIM DOWN ,PENALTY!HE PICKED HIMSELF UP AND STROKED THE BALL WITH NONCHALANCE EASE INTO THE BOTTOM RIGHT THE KEEPER GOING LEFT 6 2 BRNESC.FINN WENT CLOSEWITH A HEADER FROM SIMMOS CROSS AS BRNESC PLAYED OUT THE GAME AT THE END 6 2 BRNESC
ALTHOUGH NOT PLAYING BRILLIANTLY BRNESC WORKED HARD AND FINISHED BRILLIANTLY TO SCORE SIX WITHOUT REACHINF THE HEIGHTS BODES WLL FOR THE REST OF THE CAMPAIGN, M O M WAS DIFFICULT THERE WERE CANDIDATES EVERYWHERE ,CHRIS AND PHIL STEADFAST AND ASSURED AGAIN AT THE BACK,JOE JAY AND WHIT IN MIDFIELD ,FINN AND RITCHIE ,THE TWO AMIGOS UP FRONT BUT BY A FLARED NOSTRIL BESCAUSE OF HIS 2 GOALS AND 2 ASSISTD IT S FINN!!
