A BARE BONES BRNESC TEAM WERE BEATEN 2 1 IN THE ROY WADE QUARTER FINALS AT MAIDEN LANE IN A DISSAPOINTING PERFORMANCE
A BARE 11 BRNESC TEAM ,DUE TO INJURIES AND WITHDRAWLS,THIS WAS OUR MOST IMPORTANT GAME A GOOD CHANCE TO PDOGRESS TO THE LAST 4 AND WE WERE DOWN TO THE BARE BONES UNBELIEVABLE!!!
BOTH TEAMS TOOK TIME TO SETTLE ON A BUMBY PITCH AND THE FIRST GOALMOUTH ACTION WAS IN THE 10 MINWHEN A HEADER FROM A CORNER TO STONEYCROFT WENT WIDE,PARKO THEN MADE A GOOD SAVE TURNING A SHOT AROUND TGHE POST FOR A CORNER TO STONEYCFOFT
DANNY KEARNEY NEARLY SCORED WHEN HE REACHED A DEFENDERS HEADER BACK TO HIS KEEPER AND WAS NARRIOWLY WIDE WITH HIS ATTEMPT WITH THE KEEPER STRANDED STONEYCROFT THEN HIT THE TOP OF THE BAR FROM A CORNER AS THE BRNESC DEFENCE MADE A HASH OF CLEARING THE BALL
DANNY THEN FED JOE PARLE WHO CROSSED INTO THE BOX BUT BEFORE FINN COULD LATCH ONTO THE BALL IT WAS CLEARED TO THE HALF WAY PARKO MADE ANOTHER FINE SAVE LOW TO HIS RIGHT TO KEEP IT 0 0 DANNY THEN NADE A FINE RUN DOWN THE RIGHTAND HIS PULL BACK WAS CLEARED FROM THE 6 YARD BOX PARKO PRODUCED ANOTHER FINE SAVE TIPPING OVER THE BAR
BRNESC REPLIED WITH A FINE MOVE BETWEEN FINN ,DANNY AND JOE BUT THE SHOT WAS BLOCKED AT THE EDGE OF THE BOX.PHIL OLIVER THEN PRODUCED A GOALSAVING BLOCK JUST BEFORE THE BREAK TO KEEP IT 0 0 AT THE BREAK BRNESC HAD WORKED HARD BUT THEY WERE STRUGGLING TO DISPLAT THEIR USUAL ATTACKING PLAY ,TO MANY ERRORS AND BELOWPAR PERFOMANCES WERE TELLING.AND THEY LOOKED OUT OF SORTS .
WITHIN 3 MINS OF TGHE RESTART BRNESC STRUCK, JOE PARLE CROSSFIELD BALL WAS GATHERED BY JOE STEPHENS WHO LAID THE BALL TO JAY HULME WHOSE CROSS WAS HEADED DOWN BY FINN TO DANNY WHO VOLLEYD PAST THE KEEPER 1 0 A MOVE FAR REMOVED FROM WHAT HAD OCCURED IN THE FIRST HALF A LIITLE BIT OF QUALITY,FINN THEN SCUFFED A SHOT WIDE AS BRNESC PRESSED
IN THE 55 MIN INDECISION AT THE EDGE OF THE BOX ENABLED A STONETCROFT FORWARD TO RACE INTO THE BOX AND HIS SHOT WAS BLOCKED BY PARKO BUT IT SPUN AWAY FROM HIM AND THE BALL WAS SCRAMBLED HOME TO MAKE IT 1 1,
IT WAS A MAYJOR BLOW TO BRNESC THAT THEY COULDNT PROTECT THEIR LEAD,THE PLAY WAS NOW END TO END AS BOTH TEAMS WENT FOR THE WINNER
BRNESC WERE FINDING IT HARD AS THEY HAD 3 PLAYERS WITH INJURIES AND WERE GETTING OVERRUN AT TIMES AND WITH 20 TO GO TOMMY QUIRK PEPLACED THE HOBBLING CHRIS BELL .ANDY WALSH AND DANNY KEARNEY WRE ALSO STRUGGLING BUT HAD TO STAY ON THE PITCH AS BRNESC ONLY HAD THE ONE SUB
BRNESC WERE DEFENDING VALIANTLY AS STONEYCROFT WWERE PRACTICALLY PLAYIN 9 MEN WITH THE AFORE MENTIONED INJURED PLAYERS STRUGGLING WITH THE PACE OF THE GAME
IN THE 80 TH MIN FROM A BRNESC THROW DEEP IN STONEYCROFT HALF THE BALL WAS THROWN STRAIGHT TO A STONEYCROFT PLAYER THE BALL WAS PLAYED INTO BRNESCS HALF THE REF AWARDED A FREE KICK EDGE OF BRNESCS BOX ,IT LOOKED A GOOD TACKLE TO EVERYONE ELSE THE RESULTING FREE KICK WAS TOUCHED ONTO THR BAR BY PARKO BUT FROM THE RESULTING REBOUND AND SCRAMBLE THE BALL WAS FORCED OVER THE LINE 2 1 STONEYCROFT
IT WAS DISAPPOINTING TO SAY THE LEAST TO CONCEDE FROM OUR THROW IN IN STONEYCROFTS HALF AS THIS HAD BEEN SPOKEN ABOUT PRIOR TO THE GAME .MAKE SURE OUR THROWS GO TO OUR PLAYER DONT GIVE THE BALL AWAY CHEAPLY
THE LAST 8 MINS BRNESC WE RUNNING ON EMPTY AND PARKO PRODUCED 2 MORE GOOD SAVES BEFORE THR REF BLEW THE WHISLE TO END THE GAME
THIS WAS A GAME WE WERE WELL CAPABLE OF WINNING BUT WE PRODUCED A PERFORMANCE STREWN WITH BASIC ERRORS WHICH GIFTED STONEYCROFT 2 GOALS .IN THE LAST MINUTE IT WAS SUMMED UP BY A FREE KICK TO BRNESC ON THE HALFWAY LINE ALL HANDS WENT INTO THE BOX LAST CHANCE SALOON.PUT THE BALL ON THE PENALTY SPOT AND WERE IN WITH A CHANCE AND WHAT HAPPENED ,THE BALL ENDED UP GOING OUT FOR A GOALKICK SMEWHERE NEAR TO THE CORNER FLAG!!!
