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!