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