In a tense tight affair on a cold wet night down at the Oval. The Year 9 team just needed to get a result. With resolute defending by the again outstanding back four of Parsons,
Deakin,
Dobson and Crane we held strong and a couple of saves by Cartwright were required. We started well against a dogged St
Anselms side who fight like us for everything! But as the half developed the class of our midfield showed with again workman like performances from Edwards and
McGillaway. The finesse of Wilkinson and at times tonight Roberts created opportunities for us to score. The attacking play and movement from all of the forwards,
Gouldson,
Lamen (who had chances),
Lewin,
Burchill, Sutton and Lee helped all night with chances in the second half for
Lewin and
Corcoran. But the winning goal came from Wilkinson's excellent shot at the end of the first half from a short corner!
This tense atmosphere of the game for me, was not being shown by the lads and their effort levels and willingness to learn and improve is excellent. The 1-0 win ensured that we qualified for the Wirral County Finals on the 11th Jan at Calday Grange . This is one of the proudest moments of my teaching career, you fellas deserve this guys. We will have to work hard now so that we get the best out of ourselves and win the final against Calday. We will have to do some team training over the next few weeks to be in the best shape possible.
Happy days
AJM
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