Wombles 3 Hartwell Rangers 4
January 20, 2009 by Nasal
Filed under Match Report, Reserve Team
- Sunbed – Goal poacher
- Nase – Ditto
- Winners – Master of slice
- Flaser – Very angry young man
- Jase – Ditto
- Ronnie – Second half syndrome in reverse
- Truss – Went to a wedding or something, we let 3 more goals in
- Lewy – Raising hands in a slap / push motion
- Rob – Andy Cole
- Eason – Towards the end will have been happy to not be old enough to be his strike partners Dad
- Ali – Vocal tactician
- Nath – Proving a point
- Drapes (for Jase) – Excellent lino, continuity passer
- Bobster – One third of the three amigos
Goals : Lewy (pen), Nath, Nase
MOM : Nath
The Wombles welcomed Hartwell to Dally Park with the squad stretched due to injury and marquee inspecting, but a strong side saw no place in the starting line up for last weeks goal scorer Nath.
The Wombles started pretty well and Rob went close on two or three occassions when he will probably feel he could have done better. As the half wore on though Hartwell got a grip on the game and a combination of poor passing from the home side and infighting contributed to the away side taking the lead.
Half time and club talisman Truss had to slope off but this gave Nath the chance to stake his claim for a starting spot. He grasped this with both immaculately manicured hands when he went on a run from the half way line and was (sort of) upended by a Hartwell defender – a penalty and yellow card were given to the surprise of many in the ground.
After a bit of mind games from Slinky , Lewy eventually stepped up and calmly dispatched the kick past the keeper who did well to get a hand on it. The Wombles were back!!!!!!! for 10 seconds…
From the kick off Nasal gave away an honest and experienced free kick around fourty yards from goal after being turned. The resultant free kick was floated up toward the goal where Linesy had it covered, until it bounced down off the bar and onto his shiny bonce! 2 – 1 Hartwell.
This seemed to knock the stuffing out of the Wombles and they conceeded another after half the team stopped expecting Hartwell to kick the ball out as one of their players was down, their striker had a look round and continued through the static defence to rifle home. Naive defending from a side with an average age of 34!
The skipper was then booked for a one sided grappling match on the floor and Lewy took on the oppositions weakest player in a scene reminiscent of the time he protected Nasal by starting a fight in the time and envy toilet!!
The Wombles managed to get a goal back through Nath when he powered home a corner from a perfectly executed Slinky corner. Hartwell then added a fourth (I think that was the order of the goals?!) before the gaffa finally changed the formation to put Nase up top alongside Bob and Eason.
The three combined to create a good chance for Eason as he grazed the bar, then moments later the trio combined to create a chance for Nasal who poked in at the far post.
The fans were treated to a 4 -3 thriller, that was anything but.