Southside 2, Dynamo Kebab 7.

Spanked 7-2 by the mighty Dynamo Kebab. What can I say? First of all apologies for my inept performance in goal – 90 minutes of falling over , waving at footballs as they sailed into the back of our net isn’t what I had in mind when I planned for the match. Unfortunately Geoff, Alex H, Junior and Neill R were all unavailable. I think we need a new 5th choice keeper.

It wasn’t all bad……although it was almost all bad.

6 players dropped out at short notice and it was good that we could find 5 replacement players on the day. Everyone did their best and there were some good performances. Dane was excellent all game playing at full back and fully deserved his goal. Scott got on the scoresheet too, reacting quickest when the kebab keeper parried a second half penalty
On another day we could have scored half a dozen goals - in the last 15mins of each half we created bundles of clear cut chances but it just wasn’t our day.
Kebab were everything we weren’t – well organized and patient, they simply waited until we committed too many players forward and lost our shape, and then hit us on the counter attack.
Too often when we had possession, all of our players ran away from the player with the ball instead of making themselves available for an easy pass.
Never mind. It was just a friendly and so long as we learn from our mistakes it’s no problem.
No Dome tonight. Next session is next Tuesday. Next matches are on 5th, 9th and 24th of May.
See you all next week.

Effra 3, Southside 2.

Thanks to everyone for  coming down to play at such short notice last night. It was a bit chaotic to  say the least and we didn't hit top form but still it was a good close game. We  took the lead against the run of play but struggled against the pace of Effra's attack. Promising debut's from Mo, Ade and Junior and good performances from squad players like Reece, James and Dane bode well for the future.
We were really unlucky not to get something out of the game. The Effra winner should have been disallowed and Danny White was unlucky not to grab a second goal when his  brilliant long range strike crashed off the bar with the Effra keeper beaten.
  The Effra lads have bet me that Scott won't score against them next match. Scott, you know what to do.
I'm really looking forward to the match on Monday against Dynamo Kebab. Let's relax and  show them what we can do.

Goal!!!

Here's Scott's ninth Goal in 4 games. Captured on film by Danny White in the 5-2 victory over Effra Effra Academicals