Players and Partners Night

Players and Partners Night This Weekend!!!!! Saturday June 2nd Three course Dinner 7pm start The Edinburgh Hotel $25 for three courses Geordie shouting everyone for beers! Please everyone come along for a great dinner and for plenty of drinks so we can all hang out together and have an awesome night. Should be 40-50 of us there! The Ed has put on a great deal for us, so please bring girlfriends/wives/escorts if you have one along aswell so we can all meet each other and get the social side to our team going also!!! No excuses not to be there!!!

26th May 2007 - Round 6: Scotch vs CBC

A1: Scotch 3 - 2 CBC B1: Scotch 0 - 3 CBC A1 SUMMARY Our first league win!! Well done boys!! Its about time, and very much deserved! Here we come now!..... Into the side today came Dustie McGregor to play up front, an ex Adelaide City player, so it was great to have him out! Thanks mate! And of course he was going to be influential later on in the game! The game started well on a beautiful sunny day (maybe even a little too hot for the poor little poms Geordie and Johnny!). We took the lead a short way into the first half after Johnny put a great ball over the top to Paps who crossed first time from wide left (a great ball by me I might add if I don't say so myself!!! haha) to find Dustie inside the 6 yard box who cooly chested (yes chested, not headed!) the ball past the keeper. 1-0, great start! We had most of the play for the next 20 minutes, with Fergie and Eirik controlling the middle of the park with much improving possession between the midfield, and our back-four looking very strong. Geordie and Mitris were both in the game out wide and looking dangerous, with Dustie using his causing trouble up front. The score then suddenly went 1-1 when after Dietmar had just made a couple very strong saves, was beaten by a tame header from a cross that took a big deflection on the bounce just before him. For the remainder of the half the game was quite even, until Fergie unleashed one of his trademark left foot crackers from about 25 yards, with the ball taking a deflection off the back of one of the CBC defenders to wrong foot the keeper, who watched the ball sail past his left shoulder into the back of the net. 2-1!! (are you sure you arn't a leftie Fergie!!??). It was a great way to go into half time. CBC came from behing again to level the score early in the second half following a good passage of play down the right and a clinical finish past Dietmar. The rest of the half was quite even in posession, but with Scotch having the bulk of the chances. We had several free kicks in danerous areas but iunfortunately couldn't make the most of them, and there was plenty of strong tackles being dished out from both teams, especially in the nidfield. Good to see us get a bit more fight into our game, especially considering we are a smaller team than most!! (I'll teach you the head-butt during the week!! haha) Dietmar kept us in the game as usual with a couple top saves, and coming off his line exceptionally quickly. Dan, Joel and Paul came off of the bench throughout the 2nd half and all added a lot of extra run and pace to our game. The last 20 minutes was very open with both teams pushing hard for the winner. With only a couple of minutes to go, Dustie pulled one out of his top drawer with a right foot curler (I thought left footers could only use their right foot for standing on!! :o) ) into the top right corner from about 25 yards. Cracker!! 3-2 and the first league win under our belt!!! Great way to do it! Overall it was good game for us, as we are improving heaps every week with our team work and organisation and being able to keep possession for longer, which is very pleasing. We still have so much potential left in us when we get more games under our belt together and are more comfortble with each others games. I think we definitely have the potential to be a top 5 side this year. Thanks again to family members and friends that come out to watch!! It's very appreciated considering the game can get pretty scrappy at times!! Thanks :o) 3 votes: Chris Rogers 2 votes: Dustie McGregor 1 vote: Dietmar Keovec B1 SUMMARY Unfortunately it was again a dissapointing day for the B's, who had one of their strongest line-ups for the year. The opening 30 minutes of the game was all Scotch, with several very good chances falling to us but we were unable to take them which proved to be the difference in the match. With basically their 1st proper attack of the match, CBC got their first goal from a poorly cleared ball that was punished with a great shot from the top of the box. For the majority of the game it was very even, with the Scotch holding much more posession than previous games. Two more goals were scored in the 2nd half as we tired. Again, our game is definitely improving week by week as we get some games under us and a little experience to a lot of the youg guys. All we need is a win to get our confidence up!!! It will definitely come, and boy will we all celebrate it when it does!! Look forward to it! 3 votes: Paul Cadman 2 votes: Will Rogers 1 vote: James Catton

19th May 2007 - CSL Cup Round 1: Scotch vs Rostrevor

Scotch A1 3 : 2 Rostrevor B1 Scotch B1 0 : 16 Mercedes A1 A1 SUMMARY Well isn't it about time!! :o) Well done boys!! we got our first win for the season.... its on now! The first round of the 2007 CSL Cup had us drawn against the B1's top side, Rostrevor. From a couple of weeks ago when we played Rostrevor we knew we would have to be on top of our game as their B side is a strong combination. Absentees from our line-up today included Eirik (who had El Presidente of the Norwegian Day Organising Committee duties... soft!) and Dietmar (work and sore legs from so many goal kicks last week!!). We welcomed back into the side the dynamic Norwegian duo of Stig and Baard, who would later have great impact on the game. We again lined up with a 4-5-1 formation, that I think will now suit us much better, with Baard at striker, Mitris wide left, Geordie wide right, Fergie, Patty and Paps in the middle, and Fabs, Chris, Johnny and Stig holding a strong back four. It worked very well. It was an eventful 1st half, with midfield maestro Patty pulling his hamstring within the first 1 second (maybe 3 minutes), and his replacement Dayne then copping a vicious ball the the face and being concussed and sore-nosed! Oh yeah... and we scored two ripper goals!! The first was following great play down the left from the Frenchman Fabs, who after a storming run put a ball into the box towards our super-striker (who puts fear into defenders!!!) Baard, who miraculously took one touch off his chest then 1st time bicycle-volleyed it into the top left corner from 12 yards! If only we had a video camera! Certainly one to remember!!! 1-0. The second goal again came from the left with a great '1-2' played between Mitris and Baard, with Mitris then finishing with a thunderous shot from a tight angle just inside the box across the keeper. 2-0 and two fine strikes! For the 1st half we had most of the possession and control of the game with Geordie and Mitris controlling the flanks and putting in dangerous balls, Baard running very hard and creating havoc up front with his great ball skills and pace, our midfield taking the line share of possession in the middle of the park, and our back four looking controlled and untroubled. Our third goal came midway into the second half when the game had opened up quite a bit, with Johnny and Fergie playing a couple of good return passes between each other, with Johnny then slotting through a "world-class"!! clinical diagonal ball through to split the defence and find Baard who hammered it past the keeper to give himself a well-deserved double. There were plenty more chances for us to get some more goals of we could finish a little better. Rostrevor's two goals came from a sloppy header from a corner that was poorly defended in the first place, and from an unfortunate hand ball in our defensive area to give them a penalty. Over-all it was a good win to get and hopefully gets the ball rolling with regards to the next few weeks of fixtures with the "must-win" games. There are plenty of positives from the game that we will definitely take out. Great to snag our first win!! Oh yeah... and HAPPY NORWEGIAN DAY to half of our team!!! 3 votes: Baard Kristiansen 2 votes: Chris Rogers 1 vote: Brendan Connelly (Geordie!!) B1 SUMMARY It was easily the worst team to draw in the 1st round of the cup, Mercedes A1, who are no doubt the stand out team thus far in the entire competition. In a one sided game, Scotchies B1 did very well to have as much posession as they did, and were unlucky not to snag a goal or two! Thank you to everyone for trying so hard and keeping their heads up, it is a testament to our player group and we showed great fight for a very young and extremely inexperienced team. Chin up boys!!! Things will turn! 3 votes: James Catton 2 votes: Andy Dean 1 vote: Jassa Amir-Lang

FA Cup Night

FA Cup Night Saturday 18th May Don't forget, anyone who's interested is welcome to come along to the Cooper's Ale House for dinner at 7:30PM. Match coverage starts at 11:30PM. Should be a good night, and we hope to see you all there!

12th May 2007 - Round 5: Scotch vs Mercedes

A1: Scotch 0 - Mercedes 6 B1: Scotch 1 - Mercedes 7 A1 SUMMARY I guess we all knew that the game was going to be extremely tough and that we'd be up against it all day before the whistle had even blew. Mercedes were top of the table, had not conceded a goal yet in their 2007 campaign and are by far the banchmark in the Collegiate League A1's. We changed formation for the game from a 4-4-2 to a 4-5-1 in the hope it would help us absorb pressure better then counter attack when able. Due to asevere lack of numbers of players in both squads for the game, Andy Dean and Dayne played the 2nd half of the B's then had to start in the A's, with Dayne carrying an unstable ankle anyway. Well done boys, you did really well and we all appreciate it!!! Two new recruits to the club in the last couple of weeks had their 1st start in the A's today. One is very talented midfielder (although played up front for the game!!) Patty McConville (unfortunately he is an avid Celtic supported though), and new goal keeper Dietmar who has a very good football resume with time spent with Adelaide City in the old NSL, and highest level south australian federation. We appreciate him coming out to help boulster the squad in his so called 'year off'...he just couldnt resist playing with us!! :) And what a baptism of fire it was for him to begin with! Another new recruit that came off of the bench after playing a full game of B's and testing his fitness after three years of not playing, is Paul Cadman, formally of Birkella in the SASF, and who will no doubt be very important to the A's throughout the year if he decides to stay!! The game had been changed midweek from Mercedes to Scotch due to their pitch being unsuitable. Everyone was OK with this and managed to handle the change of location.... apart from the Ref's though who didn't show for either game!!! Always knew you can't trust them!! The game began OK for us, absorbing pressure and having our own share of confident possession. Throughout the 1st half however they struck home two lucky goals from defensive errors and we were our own worst enemies again as in previous weeks. Throughout the course of the game we spent a lot of time behind the ball, chasing and defending against a team that didn't seem to have a player ubder 6 foot, under 85kg, or that wouldn't be able to hold their spot in any federation team in the state!! We were basically outplayed throughout the entire 90 minutes, with the most dissapointing aspect of the day being our inability to stay disciplined and hold shape, and the lack of physical fight we showed. I understant being so undermanned didn't help the situation at all! As we tired throughout the course of the second half they put another four goals past us. Of very positive note however were several performances. Chris Rogers played a wonderful game in the heart of defence where we need him for both his skill and physical presence, although being up against it all day. Dietmar pulled out a number of very tough saves and stopped us from being embarrased any further!! Thanks mate! Our midfield tired throughout the match, but we did have some positives with the play between Johnny and Eirik, and they did get some extra fitness!! Keep running boys!!! :) Patty played very well in a tough lone role up front against a very tough opposition defence adn had an immense work ethic all day. Well done mate! We have now played the top three teams in our opening rounds, so the next month or so of football is going to be very important as we need to pick up all available points againts teams of similar standard to ours, starting this week in the 1st round of the Collegiate Cup. It is vital that we work even harder now on our game as a team, that we stick together and support each other both on the pitch and socially, otherwise we will not improve and grow in the competition. With everyone available we have a fantastic team and results will come!!! 3 votes: Chris Rogers 2 votes: Dietmar Keovec 1 vote: Patrick McConville B1 SUMMARY Scotchies B's should again hold their heads up very high! Playing with a very makeshift, undermanned and inexperienced line-up, it was always going to be very tough to get anything out of the game. Into the team today came new recruit Paul Cadman who had his first taste of football in three years and ran his guts out, playing very well in the middle of the park. We also had Quentin Crouch, one of the origional Scotch boys returning to the club after two years away overseas. He brought with him from his travels one of our best mates Matty Luker (normally an AFL maestro!!) out to help with numbers and to get his first game of ''real football''!!! Both had very good games considering their lack of sport in the last couple of years, and Matty could have even scored a ripper in his 1st match if the football Gods had been smiling on us a little more, with the keeper pulling out a great save. He left the GLORY!!! of the 1st B's player to score this year to our number 10 mean machine Chien-wen Liew, who hammered the ball into the back of the onion bag half way through the second half for our 1st goal of the season! GGGGOOOOAAAAALLLLLL!!!!!! Plenty more to come now boys! Again a dissaponting result of course, but with the elements against us there we need to take out the positives like we have!! Did I mention we scored our 1st goal??!! Yeheeeeeeeeeeeew!!!!!!!! 3 votes: Paul Cadman 2 votes: Will Rogers 1 vote: Andy Mudie

5th May 2007 - Round 4: Scotch vs Rostrevor

A1: Scotch 2 - Rostrevor 5 B1: Scotch 0 - Rostrevor 5 A1 SUMMARY The opening home game for the year on a perfect surface started at a good pace and Scotch had most of the play and all of the shots in the opening 20 minutes. We welcomed into the A's toady another Norwegian superstriker, Baard Kristiansen, and Dave Lonardo had his first start in goal. defence with a great ground pass to Eirik and Dayne were looking menacing from the outset and stretching the Rostrevor defence, with good lead up play through central midfield. It was excellent to see how effective our possession game plan can be when we all work hard towards it. Our possession paid off at the 15 minute mark when Dayne sent a rocket into the top left corner of the onion bag following a good ball from Geordie on the right who found Eirik, who's one touch pass into Dayne's path created the opportunity. 1-0! It was just deserves. Five minutes later Fergie Ferg sliced the RostrevorEirik who was then clumsily brought down 22yards from goal by Rostrevor's last man when it was a 1-on-1 with the keeper. A red card was shown and Rostrevor were now down to 10 men. Eirik then stepped up and classily converted the resulting free kick with a thunderous shot to the keepers right, with thanks also going to Geordie for his bullying work on the end of the Rostrevor wall!! 2-0!! Things were looking good and we had complete control of the game. But oh how quick things can change! Another 5 minutes later, and quickly bringing them back into the game, Rostrevor scored following a poorly cleared corner that fell invitingly at the top of the box for a shot that somehow crept inside the far post. 2-1. The rest of the first half was quite even, with Rostrevor slowly taking assendency on the midfield. The game was marred by several sloppy challenges by the ROCSC boys and as many yellow cards. The score at half time was 2-1. Overall the 2nd half was a very poor midfield and defensive display by Scotch, who let in another 4 goals all through open play!! We were unable to keep meaningful possession and control the game with the extra man and lacked defensive and deep midfield shape. It was a disappointing way to finish a promising match, but we will work hard on our formation and game play. But chins-up!! There's much better to come!! 3 votes: Brendan Connelly 2 votes: Eirik Sandvik 1 vote: John McQueen B1 SUMMARY and What more do we need to do to score!!?? Today Scotchies B's came up against one of the strongest teams in the competition, and should hold their heads very high! Things may have been very different if one of a couple of early chances were taken by scotch, but again goals were very hard to score!! In an excellent overall effort, the very inexperienced and newly formed Scotch had much of the first half play, and had vast improvements from the previous game, especially defensively. New recruits to the days team included the dynamic Norwegian duo StigHavar, and Canadian Ruy. We really are multi-cultural now!!! The game was only killed off in the final 20 minutes when Scotch tired considerably due to some inexperience and weight of defensive duties throughout the day. Big improvers continue to be Josh and Jassa, and Andy Dean marshaled the troops at the back very well. Stig and Havar tired as expected but played very well, and we expect big things from them now!! Again overall the result was disappointing, but if we continue to improve the way we are and get a stable line-up, the goals and results will slowly come!! 3 votes: Andy Dean 2 votes: Havar Hauger 1 vote: Stigan Dersk

28th April 2007- Round 3 (Scratchie): Scotch As vs Scotch Bs

Despite appalling weather, we had 2 full squads come out for some fitness and a scratch match pitting the As against the Bs.