A LATE LATE JOE PARLE VOLLEY SECURED THREE POINTS AT A WINDSWEPT AND WET EDGE HILL COLLEGE AS BRNESC CLINCHED BACK TO BACK WINS FOR ONLY THE THIRD TIME THIS SEASON.
ROBBIE WHITE WENT WITH A 3 5 2 FORMATION WITH THE TEAM DECIMATED BY INJURIES AND NON AVAILABILITY WITH CHRIS BELL ,PHIL OLIVER AND THE EVERGREEN TONY McDERMOTT FORMING THE THREE CENTRE BACKS FLANKED BY LIAM ODONOVAN AND ANTON McDONNEL AS THE WING BACKS, RITCHIE CAMPBELL REPLACING THE UNAVAILABLE PAUK FINNAN UP FRONT,
BRNESC WERE ON THE BACK FRONT AS THEY STRUGGLED TO COPE WITH THE NEW FORMATION AND LIVELY OPPONENTS AND COPPERS HILL HAD THE BETTER OF THE FIRST 10 MINUTES WITH THE DEFENCE HAVING TO BE ON TOP FORM TO KEEP HILL AT ARMS LENGTH
SLOWLY BRNESC STARTED TO GET TO GRIPS WITH THEIR OPPONENTS AS THEY ADAPTED TO THE NEW TACTICAL FORMATION AND IN THE 11 THG MINUTE BRNESC HAD STRONG CLAIMS FOR A PENALTY WHEN JOE PARLE IN FUKK FLIGHT WAS BROUGHT DOWN JUST INSIDE THE BOX THE REF WAVED PLAY ON ,WRONG DECISION. LIAM DONOVAN THEN HAD A SHOT BLOCKED BY A HILL DEFENDERS ARM ANOTHER POSSIBLE PENALTY.HILL WERE NARROWLY WIDE WITH A SHOT FROM THE EDGE OF THE BOX AFTER CARELESS PLAY BY BRNESC GIFTED POSSESSION TO THIER OPPONENTS
BRNESC WERE NOW HITTING THEIR STRIDE AND A FINE RUN BY JOE PARLE CULMINATED IN A DEFENCE SPLITTING PASS TO RITCHIE CAMPBELL WHICH WAS JUST TO HEAVY AND RAN THROUGH TO THE KEEPER,MATTY NAGLE MADE A FINE BLOCK FROM A HEADER,WITH HIS LEGS TO KEEP TH SCORE LEVEL,
BRNESC THEN OPENED THE SCORING ON THE HALF HOUR MARK WHEN THE BALL SUIRTED INTO THE BOX OF RITCHIE CAMPBELLS THIGH AND WAS SLIPPED BACK TO HIM BY WHIT FOR RITCHIE TO STRROKE THE BAKLL INTO THE EMPTY NET WITH THE HILL DEFENCE WRONGFOOTED 1 0 BRNESC
BRNESC WEREINFULL FLOW ,AAS THE WEATHER CHANGED DRAMATICALLY AND STRONG WINDS AND TORRENTIAL RAIN BUFFETED THE PITCH.AND THEY WREE PLAYING GOOD FOOTBALL INSPITE OF THE APPALLING CONDITIONS AND OPENING THE HILL DEFENCE WITH EVERY ATTACK.RITCHIE CAMPBELL THEN MADE A SCINTILLATIG RUN ALONG THE BYE LINE BEFORE SLIPPING THE BALL TO ANTON WHO WAS DENIEDE A GOAL BY A WONDERFUL SAVE ,THE KEEPER FINGERTIPPING THE BALL ONTO THE POST AND AWAY TO SAFETY.
AT HALF TIME 1 0 TO BRNESC WHO DESERVED RO BE IN FRONT AFTER A STICKY 15 MINS THE TEAM ADAPTED TO THE FORMATION AND THE TRIO OF CENTRE BACKS HAD PROVED A INSURMOUNTABLE BARRIER TO THE HILL ATTACK AND THE REST OF THE TEAM TOOK THE GAME TO HILL IN INCREASINLY CONFIDENT MOOD.
JOE STEPHENS CAME ON FOR YOUNG ANTON AT THE START OF THE SECOND HALF,BRNESC TOOK THE GAME TO HILL IN MONSOON CONDITIONS AS THEY ATTACKED FROM THT OFF.JOE ASP MADE A TRMENDOUS TACKLE AND LAID THE BALL TO JOE STEPHENS WHO SPED AWAY FROM HIS MARKER BUT HIS CROSS EVADED THE ONRUSHING FORWARDS AND WENT OUT FOR A GOALKICK ,WHIT THEN CHIPPED THE KEEPER BUT THE BALL WENT NARROWLY WIDE.RITCHIE THEN PLAYED IN JOE PARLE WHO WAS JUST BEATEN TO THE BALL BY THE KEEPER SAVING AT HIS FEET.
BRNESC WERE PLAYING SOME SCINTILLATING STUFF AND WERE SWEEPING DOWN ON THE HILL GOALWITH INCREASING CONFIDENCE ,IN THE OPENING 15 MINS OF THE SECOND HALF IT WAS ONLY SOME LOOSE FINAL BALLS AND A WHISTLE HAPPY RREF THAT PREVENTED BRNESC FROM PUTTING THE GAME TO BED,SOME OF THE OFFSIDES WERE FRANKLY MYSTIFYINGAND COMPLETELY WRONG,DFAVE WHIT WHO HAD TRUOBLED HILL ALL EVENING WITH HIS STRONG RUNNING THEN PLAYED A BALL ACROOSS THE BOX TO THE EQUALLY IMPRESSIVE RITCHIE CAMPBELL BUT JUST A TAD INFRONT OF HIM OR IT WOULD HAVE BEEN ANOTHER GOAL.JAY HULME THEN SPEARED A BALL THROUGH THE HEART OF THE HILL DEFENCE TO JOE PARLE BUT KEEPER JUST BEAT HIM TO THE BALL.
HILL WERE HAVING THEIR MOMENTS GRATEFUL THAT IT WAS STILL ONLY ONE NIL AND THE CENTRE BACKS ABLY SUPPORTED BY LIAM ODONOVAN AND JOE STEPHENS WERE STRONG AND RESOLUTE IN REPULSING THEIR ATTACKS AND PHIL OLIVER NADE A STRONG AND VITAL TACKLE IN THE BOX TO STOP A HILL ATTACK IN ITS TRACKS,
ALL OVER THE PARK BRNESC WERE WORKING HARD AND SUPPORTING EACH OTHER IN THE PURSUIT OF VICTORY FROM THE COMPOSED AND ALERT DEFENCE THROUGH TO THE HARD WORKING AND SKILFUL MIDFIELD TOPPEDE OFF WITH THE MOBLE AND SKILFUL STRIKE FORCE BRNESC WERE TOP NOTCH AND FULLY DESERVED THEIR LESD WHICH IN REALITY SHOULD HAVE BEEN MORE THAN ONE,
FINE INTERPLAY BETWEEN JAY AND RITCHIE SLIT THE HILL DEFENCE ONCE AGAIN AND IT TOOK A FINE SAVE FROM THE KEEPER TO DENY JAY A GOAL.RITCHIE THEN SPED DOWN THE RIGHT FROM WHITS PASS BUT OVERHIT HIS CROSS.
THE ONLY CRITICISM YOU COULD LAY AT BRNESC DOOR WAS THE FINAL BALL AT TIMES WAS CARELESS AND ON MANY OCCASSIONS THIS SEASON WE HAVE FAILED TO BE CLINICAL ENOUGH IN FRONT OG GOAL AND TEAMS WE HAVE LET OF THE HOOK HAVE RISEN LIKE THE PHOENIX FROM THE ASHES AND BEAT US.
WITH 4 MINS TO GO IT LOOKED LIKE DE JA VU AS FROM A DECIDELY OFFSIDE PSITION AFTER A FREE KICK HAD BEEN CLEARED THE HILL CENTRE BACK PRODDEDIN AT THE BACK STICK TO MAKE IT 1 1
IT WAS SOMEWHAT IRONICAL THET THE REF WHO HAD BLOWN FOR NUMEROUS GHOST OFFSIDES AGAINT BRNESC ALL EVENING SHOULD NOT PENALISE THE MOST CLEAR CUT OFFSIDE OF THE GAME!!BRNESC SHRUGGED OFF THAT SETBACK AND CARRIED THE GAME TO HILL AND FORCED THEM BACK INTO THEIR HALF,THE RAIN WAS BEATING DOWN FEROCIOUSLY HAS BRNESC LAUNCHED THEIR LAST ATTACL THE FINAL THROW OF THE DICE ,
IT CULMINATED IN A FREE KICK 30 YDS OUT ON THE RIGHT WING ALL HANDS PILED INTO THE BOX AND WHEN THE CROSS CAME IN ON THE BACK POS PHIL OLIVER SOARED ABOVE EVERYONE AND HEADED THE BALL BACK ACROSS GOAL INTO THE SIX YARD BOX THE BALL BOUNCED OFF THE RAIN SAKED SURFACE AND WHILST EVERYONE .DEFENDERS AND ATTACKERS SEEMED TO FREEZE AND WATCH JOE PARLE IN A BLUR LAUNCHED HIMSELF HORIZONTALLY AND SEEMED TO BE SUSPENDED IN MID AIR AS HE VOLLEYED A UNSTOPPABLE FEROCIOUS HOWITZER OFF A SHOT PAST THE STUNNED KEEPER, 2 1 BRNESC
30 SECONDS LATER THE REF BLUE AND IT WAS PARTY TIME FOR THE SOAKING WET PLAYERS AND MANAGEMENT A WELL DESERVED THREE POINTS ,AS FOR MOM ,I VE GIVEN IT TO THE TEAM AS A WHOLE FOR A PERFORMANCE ,IN ATROCIOUS CONDITIONS,OF SKILL ,GRIT ,ENDEVOUR AND TEAM SPIRIT INFUSED WITH THE WILL TO WIN WHICH SPEAKS VOLUMES FOR THE CHARACTER OF ALL THE PLAYERS WELL DONE
