The Pottery tour party rolled into a incestuous corner of Dorset to play a friendly against Morons, sorry Morden. The journey to the game had me in a frame of mind that was toying from Ajax complete football and Wimbledon long ball. When I saw the pitch I knew our tactics would almost certainly revert to the latter.
A good turnout was predicted by many quarters of the press and that is exactly what happened with Pottery able to call upon five substitutes. As a result of so many subs the game did not particularly flow, however it did give the management team of Steve and Moi a good chance to see certain players in other positions.
We started brightly enough and attempted to knock the ball about, however the fear of failure to pass the ball five yards set in and players started to revert to panic mode. Gef started well in midfield, he gives us the simple things in the middle something we have been lacking for quite some time. Crapper also did well in there and if he can stay fit can be a key player in more than one position for us this season.
The untried centre back partnership of Les and Richy looked.untried as they struggled to handle the two quick front players. The fall backs of Mikey and Shane looked solid if unspectacular and both along with centre backs did NOT want the ball from the goalkeeper. Something we can all improve on.
We conceded a goal on the break when our back four failed to deal with the pace on offer and their Striker gave Jock no hope in goal. We rallied quite well and responded with an equaliser when Barry's tireless running paid of when he closed their full back down and go to the bye line to provide a perfect cross for Chrispy to fire us level.
The rain started to fall on the shit hole that is Morden and playing conditions provided a stern test to peoples first touches and as a result the game became scrappy. This coupled by a whole raft of changes gave the game a very disjointed feeling. Half time.
Richy did not come out for the second half due to a frantic wanking session in which popped his back out, so he was replaced. The second half was ruined by some quite late challenges and constant bickering. The referee could not get a hold of the game and it spiralled out of control. To be fair to most of our players we stayed above the kicking and petty squabbling. However with minds to concentrated on doing other players harm or avoiding it, which resulted in us conceding two very sloppy goals.
Man Of The Match - Chris Roberts, although he did not play the whole game, he still showed commitment and a good engine that allowed Chris to do the simple things in midfield. Good pe
