Afternoon chaps
–
I hope you haven’t really been looking forward to this because it’s
going to be patchy at best.
The Poly looked strong on paper with Keith
shifting
to left back to cover for
the
awol Rusty
and
Lloydy coming in at centre back. However, when
a sweaty
Bobby rolled up half an hour late with tales of
foot-w@nks from a
Swiss model and Busman yet to show, the spine of
the team looked a little shaky.
It was no
surprise then when a slow start was punished by HSBC
poking one passed Olly when the Poly failed to clear
– 0-1
Parity was quickly
achieved
though
when some nice
interplay in midfield saw the ball find it’s way to Dave Fraser
who,
despite his
appalling choice of boots, produced a sweet curling strike over
Ronnie Corbet’s head in
the
HSBC goal
– 1-1
This should
have settled
the Poly down but the defensive frailties persisted, helped in no
small part by some bizarre refereeing decisions, and despite Olly’s
best efforts we were behind again when a corner broke to HSBC’s
number 6 who drilled it home through a crowded box
(not sure who was marking 6 but they should have a word with
themselves)
– 1-2
It’s unclear
when
the Poly
scored
their second goal but the third was a screamer
from a good 30 yards which seemed to irritate Busman and Brown as
much as it
pleased
the rest of
the team
– 3-2
The Poly were now in cruise control with the 4th
coming from Keith at a corner where he managed to win the header,
look for someone to tackle then finally smash it in
the
net
–
4-2
Stef had another eye-catching cameo and had
a hand in
the
5th,
dribbling into
the area only for a
team mate to steal his glory
(the same team mate did not steal his trainers though)
– 5-2
Harry came on for the last 15 minutes, to partner Busman, showing
some nice touches in what was a bizarre conclusion to the game.
Olly made 2 excellent goal-line saves only for
the ref to award a goal
– a decision he stood by despite
the
Poly’s stopper charging 30 yards shouting
‘Did you not hear them ref
– they said good save’
– 5-3
A booking for
the hot-headed Laurence
and some blatant time wasting
saw the rest of
the game out and it was all back to the club house for some
undercooked food and a rigged raffle.