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