On a cold Thursday evening the Year 9 team ventured down to Calday to play them for the 2nd time this season. This was the fellas first game for about a month and considering that they are not all playing hockey each week as they have done a rotation to football they played very well.
We started tactically very well with Wilkinson holding the middle of the pitch with McGillaway and Parsons either side ensuring that the Calday team could not attack down the middle. We started the better with good passing and control with Corcoran making his debut at right back and Jardine at left back we started to look solid! We battled hard and were able to create a few chances through the inventiveness of Roberts, Edwards and Gouldson linking well up front. This lead to our first short corner hat was rifled home by Wilkinson and we were ahead. We were able to withstand lots of Calday pressure with good defensive play from Deakin and diving stops from Dobson. We were to lead 1-0 at half time, signal the pictures.
The second half saw us perform well again but tiredness and little mistakes caused us to give away short corners. This lead to Calday scoring 2 close range goals and lead 2-1. This was not over as we pushed forward often on the break, but to no avail. I was very pleased with the application of the players, the attitude and approach showed.
We are defiantly heading in the right direction, well done boys!
AJM
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