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Coach’s Viewpoints!
1st Weekend - 11th / 12th September - Sheffield
V Cheltenham 12 - 10 : Surprisingly, we started pretty well and were 5- 4 up halftime; we carried on to 8-5 end of 3rd and quite frankly we were beginning to turn them over. They folded to let us go 12 - 6 up and some strange player combo choices by the coach! let them back to 12 - 10. We did our usual wave at them as we passed their Mway junction.
V Sutton 24 - 5 : Sutton have got a long hard season ahead of them. Without 4 of their best players this year it doesn’t look good. We got to 11 - 0 and eased off. We then really tried to get all players to score. The likes of Ed, Rich & Stu got their name on scoresheet. Except Dr Dan....
V Invicta 10 - 8 : After going 6 - 0 up we forgot how to mark , pass, score & play as a team. They got back to within 2 goals and after probably 10 1 on 1 chances we ran out fortunate winners. It was a shocker but still a win. Comedy discussion with M Jukes by Invicta’s Callum Bailey was probably the highlight.
So joint top of the league! - Actually we were 2nd on G Difference.
2nd Weekend - 25th / 26th September - Sheffield
I wasn’t so confident as we didn’t have Hutch, the Doctor and I thought that superhero Craig was off to ”mention the war” in Duisburg. Craig turned out not to like the Duisburgers and came back to play for us ! With the walking disaster known as Lewis playing on 1 leg & Special chop Stuey moving closer to his girlfriend it could have gone haywire.
V Manchester 7 - 7 : We started like we were on the M1 still. 6 - 2 down midway through the 2nd. Then we played like a team and they offered zilch in attack other than a slowing counter attack. We gained confidence and went into a 7 - 6 lead in the 4th and missed some man up chances for us to close it out. They equalised late on. We probably should have won it but I was pretty pleased with our comeback.
V Lancaster 8 - 13 : Lanx had swindled Lefty’s registration so he could still play this weekend but I wasn’t all that impressed with them. BL & Damo lost their bottle at crucial times and gave 4 multiple kickouts which were a joke ( not my words but most of the other players who were watching it ) We were 11 - 5 going into the last and dug deep to keep it at 13- 8 and actually played very well without Craig on 3 and Mesh wrapped and sat on the poolside. My prediction this season ? The league is between us Lancaster - BELIEVE !
V Portobello 14 - 11 : a Sunday lunchtime game usually spells trouble, but a 7 - 0 1st period goal fest put everyone in shock! So much so that we let them get back into it and be only 8 - 6 up at halftime. Comedy defending by all on their, , yes! Their counter attacks kept them in the game but they knew it wasn’t going to be a win for the sweaty socks and we ran out uneasy winners.
Our 3rd weekend is at Cardiff V WL Penguin - another team full of Londoners - actually that’s not true, it’s full of FOREIGNERS! on Saturday Lunchtime. Sunday we play Rotherham Continental - they’ve got a very chubby Cuban who’s tasty with the ball - not keen on swimming at all but still in the top scorers chart and then last game of weekend we play some Hungars - sorry, I mean Welsh Wanderers who are getting stronger and have every chance of making the top 5.
We need 2 points to definitely secure our top 5 place but the reality is we’re much better than that and I’m serious when I say we could win the league.
Enjoy the viewpoint & supporters are very willing to come to the games at CARDIFF on Saturday 9th & Sunday 10th October
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