Southside 4, TPS 2.

Southside completely dominated  75 minutes of an exciting match last night. Well taken goals from Tariq and Danny White and brace from Scott were no more than we deserved. The 4-2 soreline did not flatter us - we could have won by an even bigger margin.
That said , for the first 15 minutes we were a shambles. When we took the lead on 10 minutes it was completely against the run of play. Geoff was out celebrating his wife's birthday and so it fell to Alex Hill to keep goal for the night.We offered Alex no protection and  he did well to keep the score down in the opening minutes. Two quick goals from TPS turned the match on it's head. The less said about both goals the better. The  most important thing is that everyone stayed positive and everyone kept working hard.
Soon the air shots and long balls gave way to simple, crisp, short passing. The team regained  a bit of shape  and soon we wrestled control of the game from TPS. From this point the match was joy to watch. 2-2 at half time, but we were all confident that we would prevail in the second half. It's impossible to pick a man of the match. Perre was unplayable on the wing, Daniel Knowles was a revelation at right back,Owen and Cet were rocks in defence  and Paul and James  both made assured debuts. Scott capped the evening with a great  strike from open play and then put the game to bed with a coolly taken penalty after Marcel was brought down in the box. It was a night when everyone played their part, on and off the pitch. The best thing for me was that all of the subs  cheered and supported their teammates all night - Kelvin, quiet as a mouse on the pitch, roared like a lion off it. Great stuff.
Back to the dome for the next 2 Tuesdays , then we've got 2 games in 10 days towards the end of the month.