SUN 29 JAN 06
FRY CLUB COLTS 3
THORNBURY 2
Our first home game for 2006 having had a two week
break. An improvement was needed
from our last game.
Despite
the absence of both James Hurrell Smith and Nathan Dawson, we had a strong 13
man squad strengthened by the transfer of James ‘pitball’
Parsons from Broadwalk. Although we had a strong
opening, controlled passing and good movement, we found ourselves 2 – 0 down
after 20 minutes through our own mistakes. Our patience and concentration
though proved far better in this game and our continued pressure and dominance
soon paid off with Craig Andrews pulling a goal back just before half time.
This followed several good chances that both Craig and Brad Monelle
created only stopped by good goal keeping and the posts!
The
second half started with continued pressure and from a great long ball from
James Boulton through Mo Bouaziz in Midfield, Brad Monelle found himself one on one with the Thornbury goal keeper and this time he made no mistake to
level the scores at 2 – 2 just 5 minutes into the second half. By now both Mo
and Oli Randall were proving very strong in the
centre of Midfield, bringing Jordan Knight and Dean Lapham
into the game out on the wings. However, the next 20 minutes were to be
frustrating as the Thornbury keeper time and again
held and stopped every shot put to him. 7 minutes from time though gave us a
great opportunity. The ball was played out wide left to substitute James
Parsons and from his great run his shot rebounded off the inside of the near
post into the path of Brad Monelle who slotted in the
well deserved winner.
This really was a show of great character from the whole squad to come back from 2 down to deservedly earn all 3 points. Another great performance which gives us a great foundation for the tough games that are still to be played.
Once
again, how do we choose Man of the Match from a great team performance? Several notable performances from Danny McCarthy,
SQUAD: Craig Francis, Danny McCarthy, Michael
Payne, Jordan Knight, Mo Bouaziz, Dean Lapham, Kyle
Curtis, James Boulton, Oli
Randall (Capt), Bradley Monelle, Craig Andrews, James Parsons, Jason Oliver