C2 TEAM MATCH REPORT

ROUND 13
PONTIAN EAGLES vs DADS ARMY
RIDLEY GROVE
SUNDAY, JULY 22nd, 2007

Sunday 22 July 2007 was supposed to be a nice bright sunny day but the Socceroos losing the night before and overcast conditions it turned out to be very bleak,and that's the way the dads army game went - bleak .

With a few changes in personnel, the team lineup changed again this week. JUMPIN JASON in goal looked as good as anyone this year.

Vinnie gets the team structure organized and off we go and the old boys are under a bit of pressure at the back but they hold back the Pontian attack.. its a see saw battle with the Pontian boys looking the better.

Then a thru ball to a Pontian forward who scores -blatantly offside- and the calls for offside are waved away by  the official who doesn't see the linesman flag up.1-0.

Vinnie fires up understandably so and abit of abuse flies between him and the official and he gets sent to the sidelines.. WHY? Back on he goes and this incident also fires up the Farm.. who go on the attack some fine moves up front see steve Rowdy lay ball cross the box 6 yards out Vinnie shoots and puts it over the bar dads army are coming back and as the whistle goes are unlucky not to have equalized.

Half time, and had we had some oranges I'm sure they would've been consumed. Leggy gives a half time rev up then Vinnie follows, back onto the park.

Kick off and its pretty even game with long shots from both teams going high or wide. Farm are on top now, then a thru ball sees a tussle for the ball racing into goal the Pontian forward getting there first and slots it past jumpin jason.2-0.

Pontian start to get on top now and a defensive error sees a turnover on the edge of the Farm box and the Pontian forward puts the ball in the back of the net.3-0.

Dads Army turn the ball over yet again, which sees the ball whipped across the box Pontian player unmarked puts the ball away.  4-0.

The Pontian coach and supporters are screaming for more goals but Farm hold out till full time.

Dads Army's biggest defeat this season sees them drop to third.

PS - We forgot a few basics this week boys are passing game was spasmodic and we were second to the ball, lets get back to form next week against Modbury Vista.

PSS - Where's Towner?

PSSS - Drogba got some game time this week and impressed on the right wing putting some great pressure on their back four well done.

Gritty effort award - Johnny Miller, Vinnie , Greg ,also Kingy for risking life and knee to come on in the second half. Disclaimer - You can agree with me or be wrong.

see you next week dazza.  

by Darren Bancroft

Then I got another email from Powney.. this is as follows...

DADS ARMY travelled west to play fellow title challengers PONTIAN EAGLES

Players slowly tricked in as it looked like we may start with only 10. Dazza out with an injured back, as a result of watching Australia crash out of the Asian Cup, Towner was working on his tan in QLD, and no Barnsey... Special guest appearance by Neil Newman and Peter King who turned up in time for the 2nd half.

So we had the bare 12 and no keeper. Jason "I look great in Orange" volunteered (or was pushed) into going in goals, and that will be the only mention of Orange's for the rest of the report.

But I was back and so was Lee Perkins, after his 2 week stint with Nerds FC. The Eagles looked very fit and big as they warmed up like a reserve team, probably was 1/2 a reserve team.

As the sun shone over head, the Eagles kicked off, passing the ball around like they owned it, with flare and skill on the tiny soccer pitch.

Took 10 minutes before anyone realised we had no linesman, and as our travelling crowd consisted of 2, one of which was Dazza walking like he needed a "gopher" to get around in, we had no option but to give the flag to Darren "Bean" Brus...

So the game continued, hard tackles were the order of the day, until the Eagles scored around the 25 min mark, via an offside player, but as our lines man seemed to be putting his flag up and down as if he was waving an F18 onto an aircraft carrier, the ref said, get f@#$ed, goal stands.

We settled down and played some good soccer, but failed to put any shots on target, and probably had more of the ball until half time, especially with Danny running down the left wing, except for the times he was hacked down.

Getting the ball to Super Stevo's feet was our problem. So 0-1 at half time and not out of it by a long shot.

Half time chat and fags for those who needed them and off we went for round 2.

The Eagles hit us hard full of running and soon smashed one into the cross bar, but Jason said he had it covered.

On came Kingy and Neil to add some much needed height and speed into the midfield, as we started to look good, passing the ball around, until that final ball.

Then a breakaway and the Eagles forward beat the defender and tucked it past the approaching keeper 0-2.

Five minutes later it was 0-3 as a slip in defence left the keeper stranded one on one.

Heads down, but still we continued and played some good soccer, but just couldn't get any result.

One Steve Pat header was well saved and a few other shots blocked in the box, the Eagles defence were all over us.

Then 0-4 as a long ball was beaten to by the Eagles forward who then rounded the keeper. Game over as we trudged off.

We had a lot of the ball but failed in front of goals and gave away 2 of the 4 goals, and the ref gave them 1. 4-0 was not a fair result and hurts our goal difference, something to learn on for next week.

Solid games by Leggy, Danny, Greg and Lee, with an honorable mention for poor Jason Ogdon in goals who still did what he needed to when called upon.

The Eagles keeper hardly touched the ball, and he was a giant of a man, something Jason wishes to aspire to, McDonalds here he comes.

Special mention to young Liam who came out to watch his day today, lucky he had no idea what was going on out there.