MATCH REPORTS 2009/10
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MARCH
| Eastgate BC Rd 2 (A) | Plume of Feathers BC Rd 3 (A) |
Sunday 21 March

Plume of Feathers 1 Welsh Tavern Reserves 3
Betts Cup
Half Time 0-1
Welsh Tavern Reserves: Scamp, Ashdown, Pulman (Jones), B.Webb (Sent Off, 15 mins), Hergest, Biggs (Gale), Beattie, D.Chambers (Thomas),
J.Chambers, Longhurst, Wise.

10 man reserves win again!

The reserves continued there impressive season with another victory against supposedly higher opposition for the second week running with a 3-1 win over Plume of Feathers. We started slowly and were down to 10 men quickly after Ben"treacle"Webb was sent off for pulling down the plume striker after taking more time than a jumbo jet to turn and try and tackle him!! Luckily for us it was inside the box as well!! so we found ourselves down to 10 men( some would say we might as well of started with 10 anyway) and facing a penalty! Which was spooned over the bar fortunately for us. We then had to dig in for 15 minutes with DC slotting in at centre half and playing like a mixture of Glenn Hoddle and Gary Mabbutt! We never really looked like conceding we were also helped by the fact that the monk was in inspired form between the sticks. We took the lead just before the break through a Jay Chambers toe punt volley from a corner and saw out the half.
The second half kicked off with the Plume on top and putting us under pressure and it took some great saves from the monk to stop them equalising!! We then started to get ourselves back in to the game and doubled our lead through Lee Biggs after great work on the wing from Jack"the paki"Longhurst. We stayed solid after that and put the game to bed with our 3rd goal after a sublime 50 yard pass from DC found Wisey inside the box he picked out Michael Beattie who side footed home into the bottom corner. There was still time left in the game for the monk to make another couple of great saves and the Plume to get a consolation. But all in all it was nother great performance and we go on to the semi final full of confidence knowing that on our day we can beat anybody!! We can already say that we've had a good season but let's keep working hard and make it a great season!! The treble is still on boys!!!


Sunday 14 March
Eastgate 2 Welsh Tavern Reserves 4
Betts Cup
Half Time 1-1
Welsh Tavern Reserves: D.Chambers, Ashdown, Pulman, Hergest, B.Webb, Biggs, Beattie, Apps (D.Webb), J.Chambers,
Longhurst, Wise (Gale).

Reserves steam past Eastgate !.

The reserves got themselves back on track after the disappointment of defeat last time out with a comprehensive victory against senior division side Eastgate,
We started the game with a new 4-3-3 system which worked beautifully, with the opposition failing to cope with us we quickly stamped our authority on the game! Midway through the half we inexplicably gave Eastgate the lead after a catalogue of errors allowed a long free kick to somehow end up at the feet of an opposition player who toe poked it past Darren "Massimo Taibi" Chambers in goal!! The minor setback didn't deter us however and we pretty much went straight up the other end and equalised through a Jay Chambers header and preceded to dominate the rest of the half without capitalising, so 1-1 at half time but with us well on top all Duncan "Fabio" Finch said was to keep going and the result would come. We kicked off the 2nd half in the same vein and it wasn't long before we took the lead after great work down the left from Sam who carried the ball almost the length of the pitch before having the presence of mind to look up and find Wiseys feet who finished from close range.
The match carried on with neither side creating much until about 20mins from the end when Ben "treacle" Webb sent in a deep free kick and Appsy headed home to seemingly seal the victory! That was until Taibi in goal decided to kick the ball straight to 1 of the opposition to fire into pretty much an empty net!!! We never panicked though and did seal the victory through Biggsy with 10 mins to go. So in summary we absolutely smashed them and it took a shocking display in goal from DC to give them anything from the game!! The Treble is still on boys so let's keep working hard and hope that I don't have to go in goal again this season!!!.