Another beautiful day for football (enjoying this while it lasts), this time up at Forrester Park for the first time, and also the first time in Tangerine Dream change strip.
Our first game controlling the whistle, and the first game with all but 1 of the full squad, so there were 18 of us there, this is a nightmare. But the boys handled all of the subs changes a treat, even if Pierre was accidentally subbed off in the second half having been on the field for only 3 mins.
Rodney (why are we surprised) again got on the score sheet after only 10mins, and to tell the truth, that was the closest they came all day. There was a moment in the first half where Nick Roach disallowed a goal stating that it didn’t cross the line, we were furious but if Nick didn’t see it, he can’t call it and Rosslyn’s good luck. They had a pretty predictable attack, but we weren’t at our best, we have a long way to go yet, not that there weren’t opportunities this game, that is pleasing.
Nick Roach got a somewhat contentious second goal 76mins into the game. The ball looked like it was crawling over the line for a goal kick and their defender made a poor effort to shield it, Conrad did a stunning job stealing the ball off the line and passing it to an OPEN (like my team speech before the game) Nick Roach who only had to tap it forcefully in past the keeper. They were furious claiming the ball was out etc, but to tell the truth you would have to be thick to think it was out.
Leon who was previously a Badger was awesome in their defence, but it was very nice to have Darren back for us, gives the rest of the boys the confidence to play their games. Nice also to have Coxy back for us, I hope some of you get ski passes soon though, 18 on the scene again this week coming.
All in all a deserved good win, should have had more goals, but 3 points in the bag.
