…with AshFactor report…

Not the best result for the 1′s but very exciting to see the future of the club coming through in the game against 4th-placed Chichester- 2 of our 16-year-olds netted high-quality goals in the 7-3 defeat. We were on fire from the start and were 2-up with barely 5 mins gone!! First young Shane – a veteran at 19 – lifted the ball 40 yards to Rhino and he took it down expertly before rounding the keeper for 1-0 – 2 minutes later, Dunc robbed their midfielder, played a 1-2 with Rhino before slotting home…yes, the crowd were actually going wild. I think everyone was a bit shocked and the team didn’t know quite what to do with a start like this and maybe froze a bit and allowed Chichester to get back into the game and get one back fairly quickly. By half-time, it was 2-all and a brief 10-minute spell apart at the start of the second half, the visitors bossed the game. Alex Betts scored his first goal for the 1′s – well done Dame Bettsy! – after a fabulous run by Dunc no doubt relieved that he wasn’t required to sing later on at AshFactor!

The 2′s and 3′s were always going to struggle against top team Wycombe who have already won their leagues and are preternaturally good – if our games had been a horse race, we would have been pulled up at halftime – anyway aggregate loss of 16-0, I believe, the 2′s weren’t too sure of the score, we lost 7-0.

The 4′s lost 6-0 to MK 4′s which was an improvement on 11-0 while the 5′s were the stars on the playing pitch disposing of Aylesbury 4′s 4-1, Weapon Alpha getting his second hat-trick and Sandeep Ubi the other – well done, boys, the glory of mid-table obscurity beckons!!

Having got the unimportant hockey stuff out of the way, it was time to concentrate on the biggest night of the year (ok of this weekend) – where were the tv camera’s? Anyway, highlights/lowlights of the evening – and feel free to post your view of events by the way – we had the traditional wait for Deep to get it working (once he’d plugged it in and turned it on and off again, we were away). First up was Joe Siman new to the club and very brave doing Whitney – long song too as he found out – in fact changing his name to Joe Simian as he is one hairy mother. Gordo did the most energetic performance and the stage was coming apart, apparently disowned by Podge now. Emma got marked down for being too good and had the ropiest backing singers. Fred had had too many E”s during the day and was jitterbugging (whatever that is, it’s a good word). The young boys were getting very excited during Abba/Ladies 2′s while Hannah and her Egyptian serving girls were rather good and had been practicing – I would have preferred to see them do it in a milk bath – but I’m blaming the Broadside for that. Who have I missed? Ah yes the 4′s and Peggy Sue – Bubbles was very polished considering they pitched to the do with no act, very interesting to note the speed at which Guy Taylor volunteered to dash home and get his missus’ dress on and be Peggy Sue – not a bad pair of legs actually!!

Anyway, great night and well done to Hayley and Deep and everyone else who mucked in and helped a great night happen and show what a fantastic club we are part of!!!!