U16 Girls - Refs, Rules and Speedy R.
This week we were away to Poole Town Wessex who, for the last 4 seasons, have beaten us on every occasion. Sometimes its been 1-0 but often slightly more and in the ‘season of doom’ it was worse than that.
Going into the game we knew we had some work to do and only the bare minimum of players to do it with. So after some careful calculation we made a couple of tactical repositions and the game got under way.
From the very start it was clear the new formation was going to work as they repelled a couple of attacks with relative ease. However the start of a really exciting but frustrating game was about to begin. Within the first 5 minutes we won a corner and with her usual flair ‘M’ stepped up to take it. The corner was high and dropped in the middle of the penalty area: as it did so H got into a terrific position, took the ball on her head and SCORED! It was THE perfect combination of 'corner to head' and all of us on the touchline roared our appreciation…………….unfortunately the Ref thought H had committed a foul and disallowed the goal. It was an unbelievable decision and after the game the opposition's coaches stated they thought there was nothing wrong with it…grrrr.
On we went, in came anther well time and determined attack and into their goal went the ball! All of us on the touchline roared with delight (again) until we heard the whistle go again to indicate we had been offside. How frustrating was that? Incidentally this was flagged by the same guy who, in the dying few minutes of the game, flagged for a goal kick when it was clearly a corner to us (fortunately even the ref saw his ‘error’).
Anyway, on we went and some more really thoughtful, team based play was enjoyed by all. It resulted in the opposition winning 6-4 but what a game.
Thanks to everyone who worked so hard from the start. The goals were scored by H (2), Ro and M.
Special thanks go to our MVP ‘Speedy’ for doing an outstanding job as a close marking midfielder and rose to the challenge of trying to be everywhere all the time. Not easy!
This week we were away to Poole Town Wessex who, for the last 4 seasons, have beaten us on every occasion. Sometimes its been 1-0 but often slightly more and in the ‘season of doom’ it was worse than that.
Going into the game we knew we had some work to do and only the bare minimum of players to do it with. So after some careful calculation we made a couple of tactical repositions and the game got under way.
From the very start it was clear the new formation was going to work as they repelled a couple of attacks with relative ease. However the start of a really exciting but frustrating game was about to begin. Within the first 5 minutes we won a corner and with her usual flair ‘M’ stepped up to take it. The corner was high and dropped in the middle of the penalty area: as it did so H got into a terrific position, took the ball on her head and SCORED! It was THE perfect combination of 'corner to head' and all of us on the touchline roared our appreciation…………….unfortunately the Ref thought H had committed a foul and disallowed the goal. It was an unbelievable decision and after the game the opposition's coaches stated they thought there was nothing wrong with it…grrrr.
On we went, in came anther well time and determined attack and into their goal went the ball! All of us on the touchline roared with delight (again) until we heard the whistle go again to indicate we had been offside. How frustrating was that? Incidentally this was flagged by the same guy who, in the dying few minutes of the game, flagged for a goal kick when it was clearly a corner to us (fortunately even the ref saw his ‘error’).
Anyway, on we went and some more really thoughtful, team based play was enjoyed by all. It resulted in the opposition winning 6-4 but what a game.
Thanks to everyone who worked so hard from the start. The goals were scored by H (2), Ro and M.
Special thanks go to our MVP ‘Speedy’ for doing an outstanding job as a close marking midfielder and rose to the challenge of trying to be everywhere all the time. Not easy!
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