Match Info
This is the second time in a matter of weeks the slade play Medway Athletic after thrashing them 6-0 a fortnight ago. Missing through terminal illness is M.Beetlestone and P.Tille is suffering from a common ballerina type injury. Warner was on work duty and R.Wood was having it large in Geordie Land. Without new signing R.Darby in goal, the slade had to rely on gaffer Harris to step in between the sticks with a dodgy old school cap on (no, not one of his normal hats he whips out, but still better than Ricks Louis Gillingham market Vitton cap). Medway Athletic apparently have 35 players signed up and put out a different side to the one that last played the Slade, so the game could be interesting.
First Half
A common occurance with the wanderers is starting slow but after 5 minutes a free kick into the box found Armour who melted not once in front of goal, but twice, to have both his shots cleared off the line. ALmost the perfect start to the game. After this though, a disjointed performance led to not creating too many chances, with wild long range shots (Neb) letting us down. B.Lewis definitely shat himself when told to shoot from 45 yards out and duly blazed 10 miles wide, a bit like L.Ticehurst's free kick that made itall the way to the bottom pitch at Snodhurst bottom. The only other notable chance in the first half was a long range dig at goal from the screamer O'Brien who actually hit a screamer (strike?) from 25 yards that only just went over. Half Time Walderslade 0-0 Medway Athletic
Second Half
Almost immediately after the kick off the Slade got off to the perfect start with Ticehurst finding space in behind the back line to shuffle across onto his left foot and tuck one away in the bottom corner to give the keeper no chance. An impressive finish from someone who was beginning to make Emile Heskey look prolific. 1-0 Walderslade. Sadly although the boys were picking up their passing game and cutting Medway to pieces, we never really created any clear cut chances, with most of the cance falling to Armour who couldent find a way past the solid Goalkeeper. There was enough time for Stockbridge to blaze over with O'Brien not impressed one bit and Piercey to step in for L.O'Brien by falling and screaming in agony, effectively breaking his legs in half when he was tackled near the end of the game. Only, he didn't break anything, he was just being a tart who had his stupid fin on his head knocked slightly out of place. Final score 1-0 Slade
Match Analysis
It really is becoming a common theme with the Wanderers in that the back four are on top form, with special mentions to the full backs B.Lewis and S.Beetlestone who put in 110%, battling away with Beetlestone putting in some Warner like crunching tackles. Solid effort from the skipper. Congratulations to Ticehurst on his first goal this season, a well taken effort - he now has high hopes for the rest of the season - he might get 3 now... If we had of taken our chances (armour) then the result would have looked more comfortable, but with Medway not having 1 shot at goal, the slade were never in any danger. Lets get up for next weeks cup game against Division 1 Collyers. Up the Blue Boys
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As a special match report, as we all know, the Slade done Brighton...large... and here is a recap of the night...
First things first led to the DOD and MOM being voted and this led to Beetlestone getting Man of the match and Callum Rodger getting dick of the day for an outrageous attempt at a left foot clearance that caught nothing but air. Soon after, the boys were treated to some special beverages, notably super tennants, tesco's own bitter and lager etc etc in a random pick out of a bag game in which everyone had to see their drinks off as fast as they could. Ross Boss and Armour came last.... shocking considering they bought the drinks...
Key highlights from the mini bus featured 2 beer Beetle and his performance of Pass Out that flopped not once but twice..but fair play for the effort he put in practising it with his missus, poor girl. Other noticeable events found Lee O and Bruno constantly taking pictures of themselves the whole of the journey the melts and an attempt by Sammy.B in pissing in a bottle with his bare cheeks out...
A good lads night out had 5 top highlights..
1) Not exactly a highlight, but Rich Coney decided to wear his grandads long sleeve tea stained colour top. Shocking choice, he must have been taking fashion advice from Piercey
2) Rob Warner and the hand prop..getting thrown out and casually asking the bouncer if this was infact the case. The whole of the journey home featured Rob mentioning that the bird that got him thrown out deserved to be murdered (plus many more expletives)
3) The one bloke standing outside the minibus willing to take all the Slade boys on..but with 10 of us on the bus, we still didn't fancy it...and duly just quietly took the piss out of him so he couldent hear...
4) Piercey falling asleep on the dancefloor standing up with his rubber lips dangling down. Absolute wreck.
5) Finally, just having all the boys out for a night out and celebrating Stevie B's brithday. Was a quality night and should definitely be done again!
