In the second game of the day, the players of the future and many of our Year 11 side played against a side who had earlier in the season beaten them 12-0. We started the brighter and from the first corner had a couple of shots and then the final rebound fell to Wright, who on debut scored from close range, 1-0. We had further chances falling to Spink and Evans who could not finish. This lead as the half progressed a major mix up between Elias, Crawford and Byrne that left the Merchant's centre forward to finish smartly past a helpless Burgess, 1-1. This remained the score till half time with good performances from Plimley, Oldham and at times when not hacking Elias and Dennis.
The key to this side is confidence, shape and just playing hockey together, we went behind a the start of the second half following a basic mistake made in the dee, 2-1. And as tiredness crept into our game mistakes happened especially around our dee, teo became three, until the excellent Wright attacked down the right skipping past three players before the ball was crossed towards Denis who took his time and finished in the bottom left corner.
The last 7 seven minutes saw us make silly errors around our circle and leave poor Burgess exposed to close range shots. The score flattered Merchants, but left our boys knowing that a good shape and structure followed up with confidence and real determination is all this team needs!! The final score as 6-2, but a man of the match debut from Wright showed me this side have some real promise!
AJM
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