Today the Orange Men (Ok Ok, perhaps there are a few Catholics amongst the rank) rolled up to face Glen Eira and the 12 year old hit-man trained by Ariel Sharon. We also had the pleasure of extra goal keepers and Ariel continually crossing the de-militarized zone while ordering his troops. To top it off the manager (aka me) was almost brolly bashed for asking the Orange Men to start using their elbows. Even with all the war games the match as played in a good spirit and the boys had fun..... Look forward to the next one.
Congratulations to Jackson on his "Most Valuable Player" award for being a great goalkeeper last week.
Congratulations to Jackson on his "Most Valuable Player" award for being a great goalkeeper last week.
Coaches' Corner: A tough day on a ridiculously small pitch which was not suited to a free flowing game as all the players were usually bunched up, never the less the boys put on a good show but at times the opposition thought it was a rugby match and we struggled with some rough play, even the ref thought it was ok for Glen Eira to kick the ball out of our keepers hands to score a goal, it was that sort of game. The boys need to use any weight they may have to stand up to any physical play they encounter. At times players were not staying in position which left us exposed and we did have chances to score more than one goal but missed the shots, so the boys need to think about having more control over shots a goal.
Overall we played well, Glen Eira had a couple
of really good players that probably made the difference, one of them
looked about U12 level and also had U12 skills At the start of the
season this team would have scored at lot of goals passed us but now the
difference in the teams playing and skills is there for all to see.
Looking forward to getting back to a descent size pitch at Brown's next week.
GO STINGRAYS!
The score ended up 2-1 to Glen Eira
Scorers: Josh
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