The story of our Weymouth woes.
It’s hard to pick out the positive highlights of a game like the one we endured against Weymouth but, looking back, there were some.
Unfortunately Lydi’s Mum’s tractor broke down on the way to the match so Dayze stepped into the goalkeeper’s role for the first half and played out of her skin! From the first whistle Weymouth set up camp in our half and despite some determined efforts to stem the tide it was just a question of time until they scored.
It was in fact just over 7 mins until the first one went in but even in that time the team had squashed a number of other dangerous attacks and Dayze had worked so hard to save a number of well aimed shots. Still at least we had 7 minutes at nil-nil!
After that the rest of the first half was just like replaying a bad video. We got the ball, we gave it away, Weymouth attacked, shot and on another 5 occasions scored. Depressing to watch.
However, another couple of positives were observed in that Cookie started putting in some of the most forceful challenges ever resulting in her robbing the Weymouth girls on a number of occasions. Great stuff.
The final positive came about 37 mins into the first half where we won the ball and slotted it through to ‘golden boots’ Hannah who did what she does best and took ‘route 1’ to goal and blasted it past the keeper! Great work! The whistle blew, it was 6-1.
I’d never seen a goalkeeper break a sweat during a match before. I’m not sure if it was the warm sunny evening (until the fog rolled in) or the effort of saving numerous shots, or the physical demands of pulling the ball out of the net but Dayze was glowing nicely!!
My half time rant may have helped a little in that we had a well constructed attack in the early stage of the second half but after that our game deteriorated into a sad display of ‘punt and hope’ football. Everything we’d done in training went out the window and nearly every time we got the ball we gave it away just as quickly.
During the whole of the match I lost count of the number of times our players ducked the ball, made pretend headers , made some appaling passes or just got out the way and let the ball roll off to Weymouth. No heart, no soul, no courage and no determination. Underpinned by a lack of communication and teamwork it was a recipe for disaster and sure enough disaster struck.
As the cold fog rolled in and the game became even more fragmented the final nail in the coffin came in the form of an own goal.
Still, there were a couple more positives to come out of the second half. The first being it was only 40 minutes long (or at least it should have been but for some reason the ref squeezed a couple more minutes of pain into it) and the second was that we only lost 14-1, it could have been a lot worse.
Its fair to say Weymouth are a County class side and it was unlikely that we were going to beat them BUT I think we could have put on a better display that this.
MVP, not surprisingly was Dayze but a mention has to be made also to Cookie for her determined work – keep it up.
Next match (and the third to last) is away to the Queen Bees………..
It’s hard to pick out the positive highlights of a game like the one we endured against Weymouth but, looking back, there were some.
Unfortunately Lydi’s Mum’s tractor broke down on the way to the match so Dayze stepped into the goalkeeper’s role for the first half and played out of her skin! From the first whistle Weymouth set up camp in our half and despite some determined efforts to stem the tide it was just a question of time until they scored.
It was in fact just over 7 mins until the first one went in but even in that time the team had squashed a number of other dangerous attacks and Dayze had worked so hard to save a number of well aimed shots. Still at least we had 7 minutes at nil-nil!
After that the rest of the first half was just like replaying a bad video. We got the ball, we gave it away, Weymouth attacked, shot and on another 5 occasions scored. Depressing to watch.
However, another couple of positives were observed in that Cookie started putting in some of the most forceful challenges ever resulting in her robbing the Weymouth girls on a number of occasions. Great stuff.
The final positive came about 37 mins into the first half where we won the ball and slotted it through to ‘golden boots’ Hannah who did what she does best and took ‘route 1’ to goal and blasted it past the keeper! Great work! The whistle blew, it was 6-1.
I’d never seen a goalkeeper break a sweat during a match before. I’m not sure if it was the warm sunny evening (until the fog rolled in) or the effort of saving numerous shots, or the physical demands of pulling the ball out of the net but Dayze was glowing nicely!!
My half time rant may have helped a little in that we had a well constructed attack in the early stage of the second half but after that our game deteriorated into a sad display of ‘punt and hope’ football. Everything we’d done in training went out the window and nearly every time we got the ball we gave it away just as quickly.
During the whole of the match I lost count of the number of times our players ducked the ball, made pretend headers , made some appaling passes or just got out the way and let the ball roll off to Weymouth. No heart, no soul, no courage and no determination. Underpinned by a lack of communication and teamwork it was a recipe for disaster and sure enough disaster struck.
As the cold fog rolled in and the game became even more fragmented the final nail in the coffin came in the form of an own goal.
Still, there were a couple more positives to come out of the second half. The first being it was only 40 minutes long (or at least it should have been but for some reason the ref squeezed a couple more minutes of pain into it) and the second was that we only lost 14-1, it could have been a lot worse.
Its fair to say Weymouth are a County class side and it was unlikely that we were going to beat them BUT I think we could have put on a better display that this.
MVP, not surprisingly was Dayze but a mention has to be made also to Cookie for her determined work – keep it up.
Next match (and the third to last) is away to the Queen Bees………..
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