Sunbury 1’s 4 Ashford 2’s 0

Ashford 3’s 3 (Bert (2), Freddie) Eastcote 4’s 3

Ashford 4’s (Mandip)1 Eastcote 6’s 3

There was a definite theme to the games for the 1’s, 3’s and 4’s – performances of effort, belief and no little quality but none of them getting the reward they deserved.

The 2’s were doomed from the moment the team sheet appeared and had 4 Smiths in it – the high point of the game apart from a spirited goalless second half was the return of the Neil Smith ‘Gretsky’ slap which the kids were wowed by. Stand by for some very poor attempts at it in colt’s games this weekend!

OMG the 3’s didn’t lose! And we are now Not Bottom!!!!!!!!! Ultimately disappointing because we were 3-2 up with 5 mins to go but it was a terrific game against Eastcote 4’s and a perfect fillip to our pummelling the previous week. We played some terrific team hockey and really got stuck in, came back from 1 down and 2-1 down to lead before the final equaliser, Bert getting 2 and Freddie the other. We defended well and gave the Croxster a bit of respite, the midfield competed all game and one of the goals featuring DM, Fred, a great dummy run by the Bellster and finished off by Bert was fantastic and belied our lowly position. We did completely disobey the half time instructions, which were to ‘keep it tight for the first 10 minutes.’ Shaggy went off on one of his headless runs and did his batty-boy hit with his hands apart which never works except it bounced through to Bert who equalised – after about 30 seconds!! No we played really well and if we’d converted one of our chances at 3-2, we would have definitely won but overall a fair result.

A very young 4’s played a very canny Eastcote 6’s and worked their socks off, little Stef and Blake tormented them in the first half and they were unfortunate on the play to be 2-down at half time. Which soon became 3 but they kept plugging away and got one when old boy Mandip deflected a cross in – looked like he mis-controlled it but he was adamant he meant it!

The 5’s were pummelled I’m afraid but at least it’s all over, we did score a goal through Weapon X, and they have a Staines game to look forward to this week.