Tuesday, May 22, 2007
Match Report Round 5
U6 Greystanes BLUE 12 def. U6 Ermington United CAHILL 0
On the eve of Mother's Day the team decided to honour their mothers by listening to all of the advice they had been given by them. They played nicely with others, as they always do, and they shared their toys with others. In this case the "toy" was the ball and the "others" were the Greystanes players. More than half of the goals scored were done with some sort of assist from our players. This is not to say our guys did the wrong thing; they passed the ball better than ever before, they attacked and defended with vigour and they went after the ball wherever it was. Despite all of this Greystanes ended up on the receiving end of all our hard work and converted their opportunities regularly.
Greystanes played an excellent match and deserved their win. Their players backed each other up brilliantly so that whenever we stopped their advances or got the ball away from them there was another player or two to collect the ball and beat us in the overlap. It is to our credit that we forced them to play this way. Our reds staged a very good show and put into play everything we practiced at training. We learnt a lot of lessons about defence from last week's game, now we need to learn how to back each other up.
The player of the match award went to AJ for his excellent work in goals in the first half and for his wonderful big kicks in the second. AJ kept a lot of shots from hitting the net and wasn't afraid to go to the ball. Well done! James worked hard in the goals in the second half after some great work in the field in the first. Lachlan continues to improve while Lexie put in a solid effort all over the field. Fraser managed to turn the ball around several times and Joel was once again always at the ball. Geordie and Seb are becoming a formidable combination and had several great field length runs which, with the right support, could have been goals. Jack swept the field picking up everything that came through in what is becoming his favourite role.
The Greystanes manager commented that our team was beaten mainly because the Greystanes players had been playing together for a season already. I often forget that we have a very young team, some of them haven't even turned 5 yet, and before this year almost none of them had played soccer before. Week by week we are putting the pieces together as a team in the hopes of making our mums proud of us and entertaining you on winter Saturdays for the next 12 years (until they get their drivers licenses). Happy Mother's Day.
On the eve of Mother's Day the team decided to honour their mothers by listening to all of the advice they had been given by them. They played nicely with others, as they always do, and they shared their toys with others. In this case the "toy" was the ball and the "others" were the Greystanes players. More than half of the goals scored were done with some sort of assist from our players. This is not to say our guys did the wrong thing; they passed the ball better than ever before, they attacked and defended with vigour and they went after the ball wherever it was. Despite all of this Greystanes ended up on the receiving end of all our hard work and converted their opportunities regularly.
Greystanes played an excellent match and deserved their win. Their players backed each other up brilliantly so that whenever we stopped their advances or got the ball away from them there was another player or two to collect the ball and beat us in the overlap. It is to our credit that we forced them to play this way. Our reds staged a very good show and put into play everything we practiced at training. We learnt a lot of lessons about defence from last week's game, now we need to learn how to back each other up.
The player of the match award went to AJ for his excellent work in goals in the first half and for his wonderful big kicks in the second. AJ kept a lot of shots from hitting the net and wasn't afraid to go to the ball. Well done! James worked hard in the goals in the second half after some great work in the field in the first. Lachlan continues to improve while Lexie put in a solid effort all over the field. Fraser managed to turn the ball around several times and Joel was once again always at the ball. Geordie and Seb are becoming a formidable combination and had several great field length runs which, with the right support, could have been goals. Jack swept the field picking up everything that came through in what is becoming his favourite role.
The Greystanes manager commented that our team was beaten mainly because the Greystanes players had been playing together for a season already. I often forget that we have a very young team, some of them haven't even turned 5 yet, and before this year almost none of them had played soccer before. Week by week we are putting the pieces together as a team in the hopes of making our mums proud of us and entertaining you on winter Saturdays for the next 12 years (until they get their drivers licenses). Happy Mother's Day.
# posted by David and Melissa @ 16:36 
