Sooooo it's Sunday and Thrum Hall go again and after feeling disappointed in the draw last week against Woodhouse and they knew they had to get a result today against a very strong and youthful King Cross side, who were also looking to get there first three points on the board after a humbling loss to Cock and Bottle.
Manager Williams made a couple of changes, especially in the back line by bringing in Cannon and Sex Pest Needham. Niall also stepping in to make his Hall debut in the middle of the park alongside Stefan and pocket rocket Regan, and after getting his work permit Jan (also known as John) starting in a front 3 with the Gibson and the leading snake of the team Casey.
Early pressure came in with a corner to King cross punched out by Aaron shot just wide
15 mins kc free kick headed out by coates shot in at keeper
17mins kick from kc keeper good work and pass from kc midfielder pass too hard for attacker
19 mins Gibby cross to Regan who volleyed just wide
20 mins good work casey to Gibby ball broke free casey chased down and shot to far past deflected out for corner
Resulting corner from Niall out for another corner Next corner straight through came out to Regan who fired shot high and wide
23 mins Regan cross to Gibby beat defender shot hit post Balika rebound out for corner Niall corner out for another corner
Casey corner out to Regan back to casey offside
25 mins kc cross, kc player lobs Aaron canon missed clearance Aaron recovered to punch out
29 mins Stefan through ball to gibby one two with jan Gibby cross casey poor first touch lost possession
33 mins good work from jan and rick, rick cross keeper saved and fumbled - cleared
37 mins shot from kc straight at keeper
40 mins Niall through ball to jan jan passes to Gibby, Gibby brought down edge of area
41 mins Gibby goal free kick over wall right foot 20 yards, great finish by Gibson to make it 1-0 to Hall
43 mins break from kc bearing Needham and some smart passing between the hall players, got one on one with Aaron and he could nothing to prevent the finish, 1-1 scores level heading towards the halfway stage of the game.
Halftime and manager Williams knows Hall can win this game, makes one change bringing on smeth for Needham, and dropping casey in to right back and having smeth in the centre of, the back to give Hall some more bite in the middle of the park.
48 mins kc shot from 30 yards wide of far post
50 mins corner from Niall, which is a low cross to Regan at the edge of area and he hits it first time, top effort, right footed into roof of net 20 yards, just the start Hall needed to the half, 2-1 up!
54 mins good work from jan crossed behind Gibby out for a throw
58 Stefan throw defensive mistake left Regan a free cross keeper beat jan to ball
68 mins Aaron throw to Regan Regan cross curled in keeper missed it wide
71 mins Stefan ball out wide to Gibby, Gibby cross jan couldn’t reach header
73 mins coates clearance deflected off defender left Gibby through on goal lobbed keeper just dropped wide
77 mins after soaking up plenty of attacks from King cross Hall were hanging on, and a kc cross was punched out by the Hall shot stopper but just to be swung back and I moment to forget from Coates, with a diving header only go looping over the Hall short stopper, 2-2
78 mins Stefan free kick 25 yards wide
79 mins cross from kc player dale missed header shot just wide far post
80mins Aaron kick defender headed in for corner - corner headed clear Casey cross back in behind for gk
81 mins jan cross out for corner, Niall corner strait over for a throw Sub jack on for niall
84 mins kc corner punched by Aaron and cleared
88 mins Smeth with clearance up field, something that looked easy for the cross kepper, but after a mix up between keeper and defender, which then was leaving an empty net for the man of the moment Regan to score in an open net. 3-2 Hall!
89mins coates foul edge of area near dead Ball line kc free kick Aaron fumbled ball bouncing round Aaron gathered
90mins booking for Stefan slide tackle
The game finished 3-2 to Thrum Hall, a scrappy game that could of gone either way, but Hall dug deep to grind out the result which puts Hall 2nd in the league, still unbeaten in the season and we move on to next week to play Triangle at the snake pit looking for another 3 points.
