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Team 3 Archive reports - Oct 06

Sat 28th Oct - sorry for delay (webmaster been away)
Nottingham 6 Northampton Saints 1

Another week, another win and yet again another quite crap performance!

Nottingham went 1 down early doors and then decided to rally with goals from Bell (good pass from Yazza to Sells, and a nice pass to Bell who push the ball in the empty goal due to keeper pole-axing Sells just after the pass), Yazza then confidently scored a penalty flick and the first half was rounded off with a Willing’s thunderbolt from a short corner.

Both Max Oliver and a Saints player saw Yellows in the 1^st half for stick tackles

Second half saw some good passing attempted by Notts with little end product. The final ball was often poor or the forwards hung on to it for too long in their normal selfish ways.

Then pure genius ……………… not seen yet this season, a fast attacking move with 1 and 2 touch hockey (Mr Kaye will be pleased), penetration through the oppo’s midfield and defence with width and a cool finish from the top of the D from Studley.

Late goals scored by Sells from a short corner and Max Oliver’s off target shot deflected in by a diving keeper.

6-1 was a fair result; Northampton offered nothing apart from their 1 goal. 

Nottingham again had a totally new midfield for the 5^th time this season with Yazza in the middle, Bell (left) and Henry/Studley (Right) which coped well.

Other news: Keep your head up Bon, you took a job no one wanted and the good times will come soon! The club needs to get behind them!!!!!!!!

MVP: Give it to Yazza, because I can’t be bothered to think about it.

Loser of the Day: Max gained his 1^st yellow for a highlander stick tackle which cleaned the other bloke’s stick half way across the football field and this was just after Mike Allen had said next stick tackle and you’re off!

Current Scoring Totals: Willings (10), Sells (7) M Oliver (3), Ahmed(1), M Yallop(1) and Snelus (1), Yazza (1), Bell (1), Studley (1)

Previous Weekend 21^st October 06

Lichfield 2 Nottingham 3

Not a great game this won, but like the previous week Nottingham got 3pts whilst playing crap hockey!

With the spine of the team being a quick as a slug asleep (Yazza, Snelus, Jan and Justin), and wide players not helping each other and playing in each others way (Sells and Marks, Jones and Henry) good hockey was never going to be produced.

After 10 minutes Nottingham found themselves 1 down a coolly taken P-flick from Lichfield’s 12yr old hobbit forward.

Nottingham went back to what they do best the Sells Willings combination, Sells ran with the ball half the pitch crossed it and Justin poked it in the goal. 1-1

3 mins later Sells passed the ball to Marks on the wing he crossed and Jan scored! 2-1

Poor hockey then led to chances at both ends, but Nottingham won a short corner in which James dragged it at Sells knee height! Controlled just! Pass to Jan, pass Justin and yes 3-1! You would think we knew what we were doing when the ball can to Sells and not Jan!

Both teams battled through to half time.

Second half saw real fight from Lichfield. Scoring late on to make it 3-2. They pressed and pressed and some would say deserved more after losing. They did not allow Nottingham to play at all, they recycled the ball, Nottingham couldn’t and if the little hobbit hadn’t missed 2 more P-flicks they were given, the score probably would have been what they deserved.

MVP: Fogwell, good saves but still had a -8 weekend on fantasy hockey (better to have him than Joe Cole -18 he he he)

Loser of the day: any of the other players could win this award that’s how bad we played! 

14th Oct
Nottingham 4 Players 3
Nottingham find it heavy going against bottom side

Firstly, a short note about last weekends game. There should have been a report, but the Pimp found he had no free time between drinking, sleeping, and chasing student skirt round the Union, so he didn’t do it. For the record, we won 10-0. It could have been more. Justin scored five times, Sellsy and Max twice each and the Pimp had one of his own.
Man of the Match was Max Oliver. His first two goals for the team were scored with an assurance that belies his years, and his overall left wing play made up for the absence of Ben “Oww my shoulder” Heeley.

Muppet of the Match was Pooley. Although he actually played very well his fate was sealed when he had to be picked up from town, stinking of vodka, without kit and without the team drinks bottles.

But enough of last week. This Saturday Players rolled into Goosedale for their cup final. The pre-game talk was about getting early goals to crush the oppo confidence and thereby putting the game to bed. There was a warning too, that the longer the game went without us scoring the more confident they would become and the harder the match would be.
 
Unfortunately for the Skipper’s stress levels, this talk seemed to go unheeded. The defence seemed casual. New boy Jonny “Student” Simkins had left his A-game back in the bar, although he did manage a leisurely wobble through the Players defence, his hangover set in just as he was about to pull the trigger, and the chance fizzled out. Sellsy and Jonesy in midfield looked good on the ball, but didn‘t maintain the same level of endeavour when out of possession. Max came down from his MoM winning with a green card for deliberate feet and subsequent loss of confidence. The Legend was back, but in his first game of the season (and since major surgery) he was understandably lacking in fitness.

Chances came, notably from the pace of Sellsy and the Crazy Frog. Ben even scored at one point, a spectacular solo run and finish cruelly thwarted by the Umpires pre-emptive whistle. Too often, however, the final ball never reached its target, and the half ended 0-0. Andy, in goal, had touched the ball once.

Second half, and a disastrous start for the 3rds. As the emboldened Players surged forward sloppy defending let them through and within ten minutes the 3rds found themselves 2-0 down.

Inspiration was needed and it soon arrived in the unlikely form of Skipper Snelus. From a Nottingham short corner Justin fired at the keepers pads, the rebound went straight to the lurking captain who instinctively poked it past the covering defence into the goal.

This stirred Nottingham into life and within a minute we had equalised, strong play from Justin and an instinctive Sellsy deflection getting the ball past the keeper. Celebrations appeared short lived as Players were awarded a penalty flick, but Andy in goal came up big with the save to keep the scores level. Nottingham were now flying, and the hockey that he been so lacklustre before was now polished and assured. It was no surprise that a third goal came, good work from Sellsy and the Frog and Justin finished powerfully.

The game seemed over now. It wasn’t. Another Players short corner, this time a cruel deflection of Jonny’s boot and the ball slid slowly under the Captain’s stick and into the goal. Fortunately the 3rds had the measure of their opponents and Justin was on hand to score his second of the game, leaving the final score 4-3 in Nottingham’s favour. A hard fought victory, that should never have been so close.

Man of the Match: Ben “Crazy Frog” Heeley, fantastic performance in right wing/right mid.
Muppet of the Match: Max Oliver, have been Man of the Match last week, Max felt the strong arm of the law with his first green card, and nearly decapitated the Legend when his stick went flying from a particularly ambitious reverse stick shot.
 

Sat 30th Sept 06
Game 1: Burton 1 Nottingham 3
The league is here! Finally all those 2^nd rate games against local useless talent over with! Although Nottingham did use those games to have an impressive 3 and 0 record and realize that James cannot hack centre mid even against North Notts.

With Crazy Frog (against doctors orders) and Warrior seconded to the battlefield of the 4’s, Fogwell and Sissons on special operations with the 2nds it was time to welcome back some of famous names on the 3^rd team roster; Studley (player of the year 2005/2006) Pooley (back from teaching those yanks how to turn on a computer) and the Pimp!

10 arrived at the Priory meet, for the short trip to Burton with Jan going straight there, so the team looked forward to playing with 10 as Jan couldn’t even find his way to Mansfield from the Goose so how would he ever make to Burton? But the cheeky little man proved us all wrong!

At the beginning of the game a moments silence was paid to a fallen hero of previous campaigns – Noel Bexon

With James opting for the attacking right hand side tactic again of putting a right winger at right back, a confident pimp at right mid and Sellsie fronting the line it was no surprise to anybody that they saw a lot of the ball. Early chances came with Sellsie missing twice once on the reverse from being put through by Willings and the other blading one past the post from an impossible angle.

For 10 minutes the ball bounced its way from 25 to 25 with both teams not being able to find that final ball that could open up either defence. This time the Notts right side gave the left a shot with the ball, Studley and Oliver used some nice short passing to create some space and drill the ball across the D. Sellsie left unmark on the P spot controlled the ball and lifted over a beached whale of a keeper, 1-0. A few minutes later the same thing again - ball down the left, hammered across and Sells couldn’t believe his luck and again lifted the ball into the net. 2-0. The captain shouted,

‘So this is why you’ve not been scoring in pre-season’,

Sells replied, ‘This is where it counts, one way ticket to that golden mars bar’.

The next 10 minutes saw more of the 25 to 25 play, but Nottingham just looked the more dangerous side with Willings and Sellsie going close again from good work from Marksie, Pimp and Abbott.

Half Time 2-0

Nottingham players seemed pleased with performance and James and Jan talked about now putting the game out of sight.

Nottingham started the 2^nd half by playing more keep ball, short passes to free players and with good movement off the ball. This eventually led to a Nottingham short corner (good work from Studley, Oliver and Willings). Out it came from the captain, Martin stopped, Willings looked to shoot, gave a little pass to Sells who just pushed it into the goal, 3-0.

Nottingham then took the foot off the pedal and went back to the hockey from the first half (25 to 25 hockey). In a 5 minute moment of madness, Nottingham failed to get rid of any ball from their own 25 hits and a through ball saw the Burton striker hit the ball across the Nottingham keeper and into the corner of the goal, a clinical finish,   3-1.

Nottingham continued to press and create chances, Willings going close from a short corner, Sells putting a ball through for Studley who could not believe how much space and time he had so very gentlemanly let the ball go. Jan went close with a great lifted strike which was stopped by a defender’s shoulder, and Marksie decided to miss from 1 yard with an open goal.

Full Time 3-1

Nottingham has to be pleased with the winning start but should also realise that 3-1 flattered Burton and that they should have put the game to bed a lot earlier than it was.

MVP: Sellsie, opening league game saw the man score a hat trick; watch out Rodgers for that golden stick.

Complete loser of the day: Marksie, aka Rambo, best beach shorts with huge cannabis leaves on them you have ever seen, beautiful bandana, great blue stocks (having been told white for away) and a miss that puts Warrior’s 6 inch catastrophe from last season close to the miss of all time. 

Next week

The cross dressing boys from Northampton who call themselves Lions (who did beat our friendly tenants one nil)!

Meet and change for 1.30 at the Goose (captain’s orders).