Well, my coaching debt was a partial bust. A much older team Victoria smacked around our boys. Checking the rosters our average age was 16 and theirs was close to 19. That’s a pretty big difference, especially to some of the 15 and 16 year olds that played. They (Victoria) also played all 3 of their allowable “over aged” players. Twats. Two of which score 3 cracker goals. The first half if anyone is still reading, was all Victoria, they threaten every time they counter attacked. Which was ever other time we touched the bloody ball. The first came off a shoc-king turn over and an even more shoc-king defensive miscue. The old, I’ve got him, no I’ve got him presto no one has him, breakaway goal. Their second came form their 22 year old and a solid free kick at the top of our box. 2-0. 500 turn overs later, it's Half time. Thank God.
I remained calm cool and collect learning the art of Zen and mind control by studding the legendary Ballbaby after a night of sub par training by his young troop. I made 3 midfield changes fumbled my way through a Captain Shamrock quote or two and we were off. A very sold defensive second from our boys we even managed to break into their half once or twice. Their third came off a wicked first time volley 30+ yards out. (22 year old again.) The damn ball was still on it’s was up when it hit the top corner. No chance for our keeper, who BTW, played quite well. The 4th if I remember correctly came off a miss kicked corner and landed on the foot of the luckiest kid in Victoria for a 4-yard tap in.
Not the way I wanted to start really, but after our first half debacle I will take our solid second and build on it. We really did play quite well despite the goals in the second. We ran most of the play a tackled every thing that moved. I was pleased.
Captain, I'll need a few quotes for this weekend when we travel to Kamloops where I’m hoping to have most if not all of my first team squad back. 4 of which were playing for the men’s side as mentioned earlier.
I remained calm cool and collect learning the art of Zen and mind control by studding the legendary Ballbaby after a night of sub par training by his young troop. I made 3 midfield changes fumbled my way through a Captain Shamrock quote or two and we were off. A very sold defensive second from our boys we even managed to break into their half once or twice. Their third came off a wicked first time volley 30+ yards out. (22 year old again.) The damn ball was still on it’s was up when it hit the top corner. No chance for our keeper, who BTW, played quite well. The 4th if I remember correctly came off a miss kicked corner and landed on the foot of the luckiest kid in Victoria for a 4-yard tap in.
Not the way I wanted to start really, but after our first half debacle I will take our solid second and build on it. We really did play quite well despite the goals in the second. We ran most of the play a tackled every thing that moved. I was pleased.
Captain, I'll need a few quotes for this weekend when we travel to Kamloops where I’m hoping to have most if not all of my first team squad back. 4 of which were playing for the men’s side as mentioned earlier.