POOLE BAY CHALLENGE CUP
SATURDAY 27TH SEPTEMBER 2008
REDLYNCH AND WOODFALLS 4 VERWOOD TOWN 2

Team

1. Chris Willis
2. Jon Homer
3. Will Cobley
4. Ben Giles
5. Chris Lynch
6. Tristan Dorey
7. Martin Newbury
8. Tom Hasluck
9. Adam Richmond
10. Matt Newbury
11. Steve Reeves
12. Josh Gonzales (for Adam Richmond 55 mins)
13. Andy Munson (for Steve Reeves 65 mins)
14. Pete Eyre (for Ben Giles 80 mins)

Report

I had high hopes for a result today; however things started going wrong right from the start. An accident on the Salisbury road meant it was closed and all routes through the Forest were at a standstill, so we arrived at the ground 3 minutes before kick off!

As all our Goalkeepers were unavailable we had taken Chris Willis from the 1st team and we also had Lynchy for a bit of match practice. However, as much as I keep stressing the need for players to communicate with each other, they don't listen and we allow ourselves to be put under pressure due to uncertainty and hesitation. Our ability to defend corners was woeful and it came as no surprise that after half an hour we had conceded from a corner, where our players seemed to stand still. Saying that within a couple of minutes we were level with Steve Reeves intelligent run that sprang their offside trap winning the ball and squaring it to Matt Newbury to slot home.

Just before half time though another sloppy bit of defending saw us go into the interval 2~1 down.

We were caught on the break 20 minutes into the 2nd half to concede again although up until then we had caused them problems with both Matt and Tom missing golden opportunities. I'd decided to give them another 15 minutes as we were as likely as Redlynch to score the next goal, but with 10 minutes to go brought on Pete Eyre with the instructions to play 3 at the back and push Lynchy up as an additional forward. Chris had the ten minutes to bag a hat-trick and within ninety seconds scored his first!

3~2 down with 7 mins to go, we threw everything at them but unfortunately to no avail and we were caught out again in the minute to concede our fourth.

Overall performance wasn't one of our better ones, but on a hot day the team's effort couldn't be questioned.



Report submitted by Neville Munson