Man of the Match
Ant Appleyard
Scorers
Dan Williams, Gordo
A new tip and a reminder this week - Tip no 4 for young, aspiring hockey professionals – don’t be cheeky to your mother and get yourself grounded so you can’t play hockey. I have been guilty of the first 3 but have never fallen foul of no.4 being a confirmed mummy’s boy.
I did however fall foul of Tip no 1 – don’t eat a curry the night before a game – especially not a Chicken Vindaloo! I knew at the time I shouldn’t be doing it but couldn’t help myself. Come Saturday and 5 no 2’s and I was feeling a bit light-headed – in fact a bit lighter generally – anyway with the thought of one of Rosemary’s teas later, I clenched everything together and curry-ed on with the game.
Aylesbury are a decent passing team and that is always a good way to play against us! Fortunately they were a little wasteful up front and Ant had his best game of the season for us and so we were only 1 down at halftime, which - again – became 2 soon after the restart.
As usual we then got our act together and started to have some possession and force the oppo back a bit – they also only had 11, which may have been a factor in the last 20.
We got one back midway through the half when a cross from a nameless person on the right found Fat Dan in time and space 6 or 7 yards out. All expected him to lift the ball over the bar as per usual but he didn’t get it quite right and flicked it into the roof of the net! OK Dan finished well! We gained confidence from this and could have had a couple from shorts and time was running out when Dicky Chessman picked up a clearance and cracked it behind their defensive line where Gordo was lurking out of position to do the Gordo deflection (copyright pending) from 4 feet out – cue the manly roar.
So our first draw, a great point and with 4 games to go, a strategic win i.e. in 2 weeks should see us stay up
