Our journey towards the mid point of the league table took a dramatic U turn as we went down 7-5 to the Queen Bees. What should have been an enjoyable but reasonably relaxed game became a game of ‘catch up’ as the Bees put on a display of gritty determination, combined with some good shooting skills.
Was it complacency that did us in, was it attitude, was it laziness, was it that the ‘will to win’ rollercoaster had left without the team on it? Maybe it was a mixture of all of these things with a few more besides but whatever it was it cost us dearly. I find it hard to believe that in one week can beat a team who is several places above us in the league and the following week crash and burn against one that is below us.
Now, instead of us knocking on the door of Parkstone Heights the Bees are knocking on ours. Instead of us improving our goal difference its got worse and instead of us chalking up another mark in the ‘wins’ column we have another in the ‘lost’.
There were a few positive points to pull out of an otherwise disastrous event and in particular congratulations are due to Hannah for scoring a hatrick, Kat for some wonderful footwork and scoring 2 more goals, Clarissa for the most amazing defensive run I have seen that prevented the Bees scoring into an otherwise open goal, Jaggi for some very intelligent input to the structure of the team and to Cookie who earned this week’s MVP for her tireless work-rate and dogged determination that nearly resulted in her first goal for the team.
If ever there was a demonstration of how to make a difficult job even harder I think this was it and now we need to regroup, reorganise and go into the next few games with the sort of passion and tenacity that has been displayed on a number of other occasions.
Was it complacency that did us in, was it attitude, was it laziness, was it that the ‘will to win’ rollercoaster had left without the team on it? Maybe it was a mixture of all of these things with a few more besides but whatever it was it cost us dearly. I find it hard to believe that in one week can beat a team who is several places above us in the league and the following week crash and burn against one that is below us.
Now, instead of us knocking on the door of Parkstone Heights the Bees are knocking on ours. Instead of us improving our goal difference its got worse and instead of us chalking up another mark in the ‘wins’ column we have another in the ‘lost’.
There were a few positive points to pull out of an otherwise disastrous event and in particular congratulations are due to Hannah for scoring a hatrick, Kat for some wonderful footwork and scoring 2 more goals, Clarissa for the most amazing defensive run I have seen that prevented the Bees scoring into an otherwise open goal, Jaggi for some very intelligent input to the structure of the team and to Cookie who earned this week’s MVP for her tireless work-rate and dogged determination that nearly resulted in her first goal for the team.
If ever there was a demonstration of how to make a difficult job even harder I think this was it and now we need to regroup, reorganise and go into the next few games with the sort of passion and tenacity that has been displayed on a number of other occasions.
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