Hi Guy, We played Mowbray Cubs at their ground on sunday, at their ground at Asfordby Playing fields, at Asfordby(great facilities).We had to play six vs six as one of our player was ill, so we were down to the bare bones , with no subs.The cubs started off well battling hard, unfortunately the cubs goal lead a charmed life, during the half due to an defensive error, the Mowbray cubs had a short, Ted in goal, made a great save and tipped the short onto the crossbar, unfortuately the ball rebounded off the crossbar hit the other post and the mowbray player bound the goal in , ted made great efforts to catch the ball but it just creep away from him( great effort Ted).The cubs battled on, Liam and John battled hard in defence and were helped by a midfield of Jaylen and Noah. Shays movement up front was better, and he was moving around trying to get onto the ball when he could, jaylen tried a few runs, but unfortunately got caught with the ball, Shay got onto the ball, but his first touch let him down at times, Noah battled hard and mad some good challanges, in this game which was good, is that the team did battle hard during the whole match, even with only six players in the squad.Mowbray managed to score two more goals in the first half, our goal kicks neef he head some more practice,as we seemed to struggle to get distance, we did defend corners better and managed to clear our lines.Second half was much better, this half we were kicking down hill, Mowbray did score again with a ball over the top that beat our defence( pushed up to high, left massive space at the back). The team battle on, John had a scorching second half he battle well cleared a lot of ball, and did two great defensive headed, he even had a great run from defence with the ball and got the ball forward(this was his best match MOM) Liam helped out, Noah battled had and got the ball forward.As i said Shay's movement was a lot better( his best performance up front) he was making himself available and got onto a few ball and had some good attack, again he combined well with Jaylan and Noah.In the middle of the half shay picked the ball up from the half way line, he beat one of their players, the curled a pass past annother Mowbray play into the middle of the eighteen yard box Jaylen( always gets into these positions) ran onto it and shot it past their keeper. he also had a anther good attack and short, but the Mowbray's keeper made a great double save, shay got onto a ball in the box, he short but went past the post( control, then shoot, Shay !) we battled hard and played a lot better, as i said we only had a six man squad, Mowbray had a big squad,and made at least 4 sub during half time. As i said the team played well in the first, but they were great in the second half. Fantastic effort by the cubs.Thanks to the parents for their support, and additional coaching support form Brendon and steve.Bert
