Reminder: Pint and Parmie Night

DON'T forget!!!!!!........... SCOTCH BOYS PINT and PARMIE NIGHT!! Sat 4th August (After Uni White game) $15 only Front Bar of The Ed 7.30pm start Then a blinder in town afterwards!!!!! $5 will go towards the club for upcoming events

28th July 2007 - Round 14: Scotch VS CBC

A1: CBC 0 - Scotch 0 B1: CBC 5 - Scotch 1 A1 Summary In a game that we approached only thinking that we should get a win from we came away with a disappointing draw! In fact a win was no more than we deserved as we had that many scoring chances but alas CBCs unbeatable keeper kept us at bay with a string of unbelievable blocks and stops! We started the game welcoming back Goal machine Baard, a very tired and jet-lagged Eirik and a debut from our new American friend Clop. A back 3 of Eirik, John and Geordie was behind Paps, Fergie, Mitris, Max and Clop with Baard and Paul up front, and as ever the ever impressive Dietmar in goal. First things first, Dietmar had only a few things to do but what he did was impressive the flying fingertip save to put the ball over was brilliant, even if you did throw it to the CBC player! Everyone played a solid game, the back 3 never looked in trouble. Fergie had one of his thunderbolts from distance brilliantly saved. Paul was denied by the keeper again Paps had two shots turned away when a goal seemed destined. Clop had a great one-on-one blocked and Jordan hit the bar. What could we do to score???? Thanks to Eirik for his efforts after only getting back into Adelaide at 11am from Norway after spending 14hrs overnight in Melbourne Airport and to Chris for giving us 20mins even though he was ill! Paul had his best game so far for us and Maxy and Mitris ran and ran all day up and down the wings. A great all round performance from the boys, a solid defence from Geordie and Eirik playing out of positions and a great debut from a man to match Maxy's title of Mr Health Club, Clop!!! 3 Votes - Max 2 Votes - Paul 1 Vote - Eirik 1 Vote - Clop Oh yeah, did I mention that Paps missed an open goal and fell over when running on Goal???? Geordie told me to write that mate. B1 Summary I didn't see much of this game but what i did see was an ever-committed bunch of lads giving everything and getting little in the way of luck or good fortune. Great Displays from the Norwegian boys of Lars, Harald and Hoorvad and the Tractor Boy himself James. 3 Votes- JAMES 2 Votes - HARALD 1 Vote - JASSA

Scotch Vikings!

Pint and Parmie Night - Saturday 4th August

SCOTCH BOYS PINT and PARMIE NIGHT!! Sat 4th August (After Uni White game) $15 only Front Bar of The Ed 7.30pm start Then a blinder in town afterwards!!!!! $5 will go towards the club for upcoming events -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scotch Fantasy Premier League Competition The official fantasy league competition of the EPL There's been a lot of talk over the last few weeks about who going where, who's good and who's not, who's loved and who's hated, so lets see if you really know your football!!!!!!!! Go to http://fantasy.premierleague.com and choose your players for your English Premier League Fantasy team, then once it's all confirmed go to 'Join or Create League' (should be under 'Points/Rankings' in the grey column) and enter 15069-5465 as the league code. We will organise to chip in a little cash and have a prize for the winner!! Season starts August 11 so get cracking!!!! Its ON!!!!! Who's going to have the scotch bragging rights!!!???? Would be great if everyone got involved!!! Thanks to Geordie for setting this up.

14th July 2007 - Round 13: Scotch vs Rostrevor

A1: Scotch 3 - 2 Rostrevor B1: Scotch 0 - 11 Rostrevor A1 Summary Yeeeehoooooooooooooo!!! Well done fellas!!!! Thoroughly deserved win with our recent form! The game was played at Rostrevor's ground who probably have the best pitch in the league at the moment. It was always going to be a very tough game and in all fairness a game we were not expected to get points from. However, we have been continuing to improve rapidly and we got some rewards for this today. We changed our line-up to a 5-4-1, because although we have been beginning to score more goals we have conceded far too many, so we brought Johnny in from right back to play as a sweeper, and it worked very well. The game started quite evenly with both teams having equal share of the ball, with Scotch having the first few chances with Paps and Fergie having a couple of shots from distance that didn't worry the keeper. Surprisingly Rostrevor for the bulk of the half looked quite slow and poor in possession. Due to playing only Fergie and Paps in the middle, most of our play came out of defence from the full backs to the wide midfielders which is a little different for us, but something we have been working towards. A lot of this was started by good awareness and throwing from Dietmar in goals. We had several excellent passages of play like this, with some exceptional touches between Geordie or Max out wide, with Jordan up front. Some great one-two's from Jordan had both Max and Geordie open down the wings looking very dangerous in the first half, both having a couple of shots and some great crosses we should have made more from. Jordan's work rate up front as the lone striker for the entire game was exceptional, offering every time we needed him too and working his diagonal runs much better. All you need is a couple more goals now!! The breakthrough came about 25 minutes into the first half when Fergie (yes again!!!) had one of his trademark runs and shot from about 30 yards (maybe 50 yards even!!?? :o) on his right. He hit the shot very sweetly and the ball flew into the back of the onion bag over the top of the keeper with some trademark Fergie Ferg swerve and dip. Another blinder mate!! Within 10 minutes after this, we got a big stroke of luck (that I feel we deserved because we have been under the pump so much this year and were controlling the game at this point). Our re-incarnated strapping centre-back (to his annoyance still :o) Chrissy Rogers stepped up to try and beat Fergie with a audaciously strike (otherwise known as a clearance) from inside his own half, that took a slight deflection (passed back to the keeper by a defender!!!) that wrong-footed the keeper who watched the ball bounce over his head once again!!! Nice work Chrissa!!!! I'll put that one down as a goal for you! :o) So 2-0 at half time. The majority of the second half was dominated by Rostrevor who were pushing for a result and playing the way we expected them to in the first half. They were putting lots of pressure on us from out wide especially and had several very good chances on top of the two goals they pulled back on around the 60 and 75 minute mark from two crosses to make it 2-2. We struggled for most of the 2nd half to hold meaningful possession, but did however have several effective breaks and counter attacks as the game opened up considerably with Rostrevor throwing lots of numbers forward, that we could have done more with. Paul was changed for Mitris at left back to add a little more pace to our defence to counter a couple of changes Rostrevor made at half time, and Dayne came on into the centre of the park and replaced Fergie who was suffering still from illness. Our third goal came in the last couple minutes of the game from a quick counter attack out of defence with a ball that found Dayne just forward of the centre circle, who fought very hard to fend off a couple of challenges and somehow get a ball out square to Paps who did everything he could to stumble over the ball and leave it behind him, before taking it forward and slotting it along the ground with the outside of his foot around the keeper who was rushing out off of his line. GOOOOOOAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 3-2!!!!!!!!!!!! A great effort all round boys, a result well deserved as we continue to improve week by week. Very pleasing aspects of the game were the way we stayed disciplined defensively, with a line-up that again has boys playing out of position. Several notable mentions need to be made: Firstly to Dietmar who kept us in the game yet again with a myriad of awesome saves and body blocks, especially in the 2nd half when we were under the pump. Thanks mate!! Chris and Quent in the centre of defence did their job all day very effectively by stopping most dangerous turns by the Rostrevor big-men up front. Thanks guys, its a very unselfish position and I know you don't like it Chris!! :o) All of our full backs throughout the day Patty, Paul and Mitris were great defensively with much improved zonal work (that finally is beginning to work a little better!!) and setting up of the plays. Johnny, I thought you had a fantastic game at sweeper, not just with distributing the ball from the back, but mainly with your defensive cover and "one percenters" covering behind the back four all game and with your instructional talk that is very important. Geordie and Max both has brilliant attacking games in the first half and tough defensive games in the 2nd half. We can see the difference when we play wide like we did in the 1st half and get the ball to these two guys as soon as possible. Geordie I reckon it was your best game this year for the club. Well done boys!!! Got a bye this week, then some must win games to continue moving up the table!!! ......... The Scotchie boys are jumping!!!!!......... I struggled to narrow the votes down to 3 people, so following is what I thought fairest: 3 votes: Brendan "Geordie" Connelly 2 votes: John McQueen 2 votes: Dietmar Keovec 1 vote: Jordan Byron B1 Summary Bad luck boys!! Unfortunately we were never in the game today and were outplayed by a better and far more experienced opposition. Try to all learn something from the game, especially the need for midfielders to drop back quicker to help the defence, and how the defence need to close players a LOT quicker to nullify shots!! Again, continue to keep our heads up, we are definitely playing HEAPS better than early in the season, and we have several games after the bye against teams that we should get a lot closer to now we have improved. Thankyou for all the enthusiasm and mateship that continues considering we have been hammered a few times! 3 votes: Will Rogers 2 votes: Josh Millard 1 vote: Alastair Rodgers

7th July 2007 - Round 12: Scotch vs Mercedes

Sorry again boys for the very late and very short match reports.....still having computer troubles at home so this is another rush job from work!!! A1: Scotch 1 - 6 Mercedes B1: Scotch 0 - 9 Mercedes A1 Summary Well, let me start by saying that I don't think the score line is not a totally accurate indication of the game!! Mercedes definitely outplayed us and deserved a win, but the 6-1 score line was certainly flattering to them! We welcomed back into the A's side week Mr Scotch Old Scholar himself Quentino Croucho to play at centre-half with Chris. It was a bit of a baptism of fire for you sorry mate!! :o) We started the game very poorly by conceding 3 goals in the opening 15 minutes, two from very poor defending as a team and the other from an unnecessary penalty. From this point on however, once we had finally woken-up, the game was a lot more even. Mercedes had the bulk of the attacking chances throughout the game with Dietmar getting another good work-out in goals, with midfield possession quite evenly shared throughout the match with Scotch definitely holding their own and looking dangerous throughout. Things may have been a little different if we had made the most of a couple of good chances, one in the opening minute when Jordan had a 1-on-1 with their keeper who pulled off a great save, a couple of other poorly-timed shots from Paps and Fergie from inside the box that should have been better, and a footy tackle on Paps that surely MUST!!!??? :o) have been inside the box that was given as a free kick to be taken actually on the 18 yard line!!! and the player went unpunished somehow!! Anyway the free kick was very poor in the end anyway!!! :o) The highlight of the day came halfway into the 2nd half when out of the sleeting rain and hurricane winds, Mr Nick Ferguson (yes... Fergie himself, not his butler!!!!) ran onto a bouncing ball from about 25 yards and sent a stunning strike off of the right hand post, onto the keeper then into the net!!!! Very nice goal mate, sweetly struck!! We have been continuing to improve weekly (except for this week!!) but we are our own worst enemy due to having such an unsettled line-up due to such regularly changing personnel. we have Rostrevor this week who we can definitely take points from with the team we have, then a run of teams following our bye we definitely need to take 3 points from if we are to look as respectable in the league by the end of the season as we should be. Keep working hard and keep our social side going as strong as it has been also!!!! 3 votes: Jordan Byron 2 votes: Max Adams 1 vote: Nick Ferguson B1 Summary We welcomed back our B's coach and player Mr Al "I'm a hamstring calamity"Rodgers, following weeks out with.... you guessed it.... hamstring problems!! :o) Was a tough game to come back to!! We were unfortunately outplayed throughout the whole match today by a very talented and experienced Mercedes B's side. We also weren't helped by several key players missing, another two being forced off with injury at half time and others carrying injuries for the majority of the game!! But it was very pleasing how much fight we continued to show for our team-mates playing next to us and were always looking to create more scoring chances, and had a couple that we should have taken!! 3 votes: Dayne McClure-Thomas 2 votes: James Catton 1 vote: Andy Dean

30th June 2007 - Round 11: Scotch vs Unley

Apologies for not getting the write-up done sooner!! My hard drive crashed on my computer last week and I havn't got it back yet, so I'm doing this from work and it will unfortunately be very quick!! A thankyou needs to go to Mr Dannyboy Adams for his help this year with both his on field performances and his setting up of the website. He has now left us all as we cry, as he is and his lovely girlfriend are jet setting around the world!! Cheers buddy!!! We also forgot to welcome back his younger (and less handsome!!) bro Maxie who returned back from Norway last week prior to the PAC game. Welcome back mate! A1: Scotch 0 - 2 Unley B1: Scotch 2 - 3 Unley A1 Summary After a very promising first 30 minutes where we easily could have grabbed a goal from one of a couple decent chances, we went 1-0 down following some poor zonal positional play down our left that ended up in a shot being rifled past Dietmar from about 12 yards out. The game stayed at 1-0 for its majority, with Scotch probably having the majority of control of the 1st half, and Unley controlling the 2nd half. It was a tough day in the midfield with probably the boggiest pitch so far this year underfoot in the middle third. Unley's second goal came late in the 2nd half following a rude bounce just in front of Dietmar that caused the ball to bounce off of him into the path of an Unley striker to tap home from a few yards. Unfortunate!! 2-0. We had a couple of half chances and free kicks in the second half we couldn't make the most of that could have made things interesting. Overall a pleasing effort, considering we had 12 boys out all together for the day and several guys had to play 2 games, with many boys playing out of preferred positions. Our match play is continuing to improve weekly and it is the first game we havn't scored in for a while. Watch out Mercedes this week! 3 votes: Nick Mitris 2 votes: Paul Cadman 1 vote: Chris Rogers B1 Summary What could have been hey!!?? After leading 2-0 at half time against the top team in the league unfortunately we went down 3-2 after 3 late goals from Unley in the final 20 minutes of the game. Our first goal came from a Unley keeper blunder from a pass back as he swung wildly and missed the ball that rolled into the back of the net. The next goal come 40minutes into the first half following a good move down the right that had the ball played into the box where a foul occurred and where new super-signing from AFL footy Matty "Macho Man" Luker finished off well into the bottom left corner. The ref however had blown for a foul and played no advantage so a penalty kick had to be taken. Big Bad Busslin Benny Norman steped up and scored to make it 2-0. We were unfortunately over-run in the final minutes due to fatigue from lack of numbers and also due to inexperience and unfortunately went down. Keep our chins up though lads, we are improving rapidly each week! Look at how we are playing compared to the beginning of Round 1 with a team that hasn't been settled more than 1 week in a row. Well done 3 votes: Quentin Crouch 2 votes: Joel Quinn 1 vote: Toby Rogers