The Rocks Smash the Pottery
With the rain crashing down the Pottery took the long drive out to Rockbourne with a much smaller squad than usual as some members of the team are now in love and cant bare being apart from their other halfs (Shane) and some injuries to Chrispy and Richie.
Right from the off you could see it was not going to be our day as straight from kick off their strikers weaved in and out of both the midfeild and defence and forced Jock to make a good save.
For the first 10 minutes Rockbourne kept coming at us and most of the play was down their right hand side then from a pretty shoddy ball over the top their stiker got on to it and hit it into the corner Jock did just get a hand to it but just not enough to stop it going in.
Then we finally seem to wake up we had an excellent spell for 15 minutes and we put more and more pressure on the rockbourne defence without actually threatening the goal thanks to Les and Liam's good work in the middle, then came a killer blow against the run of play Rockbourne scored 2 in quick succession and that really took the wind out of us heads dropped and we struggled to get back into the game.
Rockbourne now took control and our heads just were not in the game anymore jock pulled off a string or good saves but Rockbourne's forth came from yet another ball over the top catching out the defence leaving Jock no chance of saving from the 1 on 1.
The second half was much better the rain had stopped and our injured cheer leaders in Richie and Chrispy we vocal but yet again against the run of play we conceeded we were now 5-0 down, subs were made and Geff and Nicky six meals were taken off Geff then threw all of his toys and all the toys in the pram next to him on the floor sprinted back to the changing room grabbed his stuff and drove off. It looked bad for us but we dug in and got one back with some great work from Les who put a defence splitting pass to Barry who then shocked us all as when he was 1 on 1 with the keeper squared the ball over to meggsy for a simple tap in.
The game started to decend into chaos as the ref could not keep the game under control letting too much go at times but Rockbourne then got a penalty from a rash challenge from Army but Jock once again saved with a great save their players got quite upset by this and after another penalty shout from their number 9 which the ref did not give he then went and sythed Army down and got a straight red.
We got one one more from an excellent through ball to Meggsy on the right who dispatched the goal with ease.
They got one more to end the game 6-2 and cause our 3rd defeat in 6 games we are now showing the form of Liverpool so we need to watch out and buck our ideas up this was a game that we could of won as they didnt play that much better than us we just didnt seem to put our usual effort in.
Man of the match was easily Jock but mug of the match was a tough one with Les's slide tackle that missed everything so much so that he even got up and started laughing , Murray's attemp at a header which he almost had to get on the floor to do or Geffs slide tackle which resulted in the ball bouncing over his head but Mug went to Liam after falling over the ball twice and then loosing the ball about 15 yards into our half and then just standing their looking around (not what you need from the gaffer).
Cup game next week that if we win takes us into the semi's fo lets give it everything and get back to winning ways.
