21st April 2007 - Round 2: Scotch vs Grads Red

A1: Scotch 1 - Grads Red 1 B1: Scotch 0 - Grads Red 2 A1 Summary Well, let me start by reminding you of the Arsenal vs PSV 2nd leg Champions League match a few weeks ago, where Arsenal had total domination of the entire game and over 30 shots for no goals. Today, we were Arsenal!!! Apart from the fact at least we scored one goal, that we didn't get knocked out of the Champions League, and that we're probably got a little more depth than the Gunners anyway! The game was a Scotch home game, but due to our immaculate pitch still being unavailable, was played at Grads Red's home ground, at the Adelaide Uni parklands in the city. The game started at a great pace for a Collegiate League game and Scotch had all the running right from the first kick off. Due to a couple of late arrivals, SUPER-FIT Alasdair Rodgers and Joel Quinn had to back up a full B's game by starting in the A's also, and did very well! Quinny had an early chance go just wide from a stinging shot, with another couple of chances falling to Dane who shot narrowly wide from distance, and Danny Adams was almost on the score sheet following a great solo fun from centre back. But, as would be the rest of the day, these chances somehow just missed or were parried away by a rather lucky keeper! However, around the 25 minute mark, Scotch got on the board for a deserved goal and the first for the club in A1 competition! Following some constant forward pressure and shooting from our attacking midfield maestro Fergie Ferg, the ball fell for our new Norwegian "Super-Signing" Eirik Sandvik to calmly slot the ball past the keeper from 6yards at his near post! GOAL!! The remainder of the first half had the ball firmly planted in Scotches offensive half with attack after attack, where the posts and crossbar were both tested a couple of times each and several more shots that would have left the rather flat-footed keeper's hands stinging. It was turning into one of those days where each shot somehow either found some way of hitting the frame, narrowly missing or being put straight to the keeper. No exaggeration!! Anyway at half time it had been a one sided game and we would have been excused for thinking that we were going to put the ball into the back of the onion sack few more times. The second half was much more of the same with possession predominantly held by scotch, and several more chances going begging and being wasted. With 70 minutes gone, and the game should have been sewn up much earlier, the inevitable happened of course!! The score was levelled with one of the few decent attacking runs Grads Red put together coming on from the left flank, that was finished with a great strike from 20 yards to beat Ravo and make it 1-1. The game was again finished with Scotch doing the bulk of the attacking, but unfortunately not being able to score that elusive 2nd goal. Silky smooth Waz and Auzzie-born Englishman Geordie both had great attacking games at wide midfield, with Waz treating us to some wonderful Christiano Ronaldo like step-overs, and the super-strong central defensive duo of Chrissy Rogers and Dr Danny Adams were well organised and hardly tested all day. Our highly anticipated French summer signing Fabs had another good game at left back in only his 2nd game of outdoor football ever. Eirik and Dane were menacing and dangerous all day up front, and Fergs was his usual elusive and dangerous self at attacking mid. However, in the eyes of both myself and the umpire (who had a severe lack of understanding of the 'advantage' rule and a scary pettiness for 'shirts-in' and politeness on the pitch) gave 3 votes to Mr El Capitano John McQueen for his leadership on pitch, constructive talk, overlapping runs from right back and long raking balls cross pitch. 3 votes: John McQueen 2 votes: Warren Farrington 1 vote: Nick Ferguson Anyway, although a disappointing result for what could have been, it was a much improved display from the previous week with regards to possession, build-up play and organisation. With a couple more summer signings still to grace the club and hopefully some improved attendances at training, watch out league!!!

14th April 2007 - Round 1: Scotch vs. Pembroke

A result - Scotch 0 vs Pembroke 5 B result - Scotch 0 vs Pembroke 4 A's game summary A tough 1st match played against last year's A1 3rd place-getters meant that we were down early in the match before really finding our feet. Defensive mistakes by Scotch were punished with aplomb by the Pembroke attack, with a couple of diagonal passes splitting our last line and leaving first-time keeper Lachlan Ravescroft with some tough 1-on-1s with a particularly skilled Pembroke striker. This was compounded by our general disarray, with players neither providing options off the ball nor looking for them on the ball. It wasn't until 2/3 of the way through the 2nd half that we started holding possession and stringing passes together. Despite being down 0-4 at half time, it was a different side which fronted Pembroke for the second 45 minutes. Play was distributed more evenly and we used Mitris and Geordie much better down the wings. We still struggled to put boot to ball in the Pembroke area; Fergie being the only player to post a shot on-target for the length of the match. In the end, Pembroke did well to hold us to nil - Paps being denied from the penalty spot through an unbelievable full-stretch save by the Pembroke keeper after a late challenge inside 18 yards. In the end, it was a hard-fought game, only made harder to bear with such a one-sided scoreline. Although it was a comprehensive routing, we can take solace from a much improved performance during the course of the game, and the knowledge that 3 Pembroke goals were scored on the back of first-game jitters amongst the defence and midfield of our squad. 3 votes: Nick Ferguson 2 votes: Fabian Moison 1 votes: Warren Farrington

CSL Fixtures 2007

Week 1 (14th April) - Pembroke vs Scotch Week 2 (21st April) - Scotch v Graduates Red Week 3 (28th April) - Scotch v Bye Week 4 (5th May) - Scotch v Rostrevor Week 5 (12th May) - Mercedes v Scotch CSL Cup (19th May) - 1:00PM, Rostrevor (B) v Scotch (A) `````````````````````- 3:15PM, Scotch (B) v Mercedes (A) Week 6 (26th May) - Scotch v CBC Week 7 (2nd June) - University White v Scotch Week 8 (9th June) - Scotch v Immanuel Week 9 (16th June) - Sacred Heart v Scotch Week 10 (23rd June) - Scotch v PAOC Week 11 (30th June) - Unley v Scotch Week 12 (7th July) - Scotch v Mercedes Week 13 (14th July) - Rostrevor v Scotch Week 14 (21st July) - Scotch v Bye Week 15 (28th July) - CBC v Scotch Week 16 (4th August) - Scotch v University White Week 17 (11th August) - Scotch v Sacred Heart Week 18 (18th August) - PAOC v Scotch Week 19 (25th August) - Scotch v Unley Week 20 (1st September) - Scotch v Pembroke Week 21 (8th September) - Graduates Red v Scotch Week 22 (15th September) - Immanuel v Scotch Download a PDF of the fixture list from the links list on the left

Teams for the Collegiate League 2007

Divisions A1 & B1 Adelaide Uni Grads Red Adelaide Uni White CBC Immanuel Mercedes PAOC Pembroke Rostrevor Sacred Heart Scotch Unley CSL League Fixtures for Season 2007 should be available on Tuesday, 10 April 2007.

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