Game 6 20/5/07
A difficult assignment today which would confirm our season aspirations. The lads started with a lazy defending pattern, often giving their physically commanding opponents too much room in our back third area. We were fortunate not to pay the price a few times, having to scramble on more than one occasion. We were starting to dominate though, with some good runs on the right from Joel, Paul making a nuisance of himself up front and Gavin and Josh trying a few speculators from a long way out. Kurt came on the left and soon cut inside a defender and let fly with a left foot shot, hitting the underside of the bar and Jimmy failing to head in the deflected shot. But on the stroke of halftime, Carl did some good lead up work onto Doz who laid a beauty in for Toby to clean up the ball and keeper. 1-0. A half time razz up got the lads attention with three or so offside calls from our defenders moving up well, more determined marking up, and soon it began to show. Doz and Josh were having a tough time in the centre getting on top, Shaun, Cangi and Adam holding firm at the rear, and soon the pressure started to crack them. First Paul went just wide after a great run, then Toby latched onto a Doz pass to make it 2-0. We then probably played out best football of the year with some superb one touch leaving our opponents chasing shadows and frustrated. Overall, a performance which should see us finish close to the top this year.

Greg Smith