Southside 5, Effra 2

Great result Lads! Just got a text from Danny White  at Full time. Sorry i couldn't be there.
Goal Scorers; Scott 2, Fabio 1, Paul 1, Tariq 1.
Big thanks to  Danny and Fab for taking over in my absence tonight. Congratulations  to everyone - sounds like a really good performance.

Apparently there's some video footage so i'll try to get that up on the blog next week.

Anyone want to write a match report?

Summer football

Palace  are re-seeding the Stadium pitch  from Mid May - mid June.  The stadium pitch will  also be out of action in late July/early Aug for the Athletics Grand Prix.

Palace have confirmed that we can play on the Stadium pitch on Mon 9th May, Mon 20th June and Mon 11th July.
We'll probably also play two or three games at Dulwich College on the Astro - possibly May 24th and a fixture in early August.
From Mid/late August we'll go back to regular fixtures on the grass pitch.

From Mid May  we'll  we'll train on  Tuesdays on Clapham Common instead of in the Dome  and then return to our weekly Dome sessions in September.

I'm lining up a match against Metropolitan Housing Partnership, probably for May or June - If you know of any  other teams who'd like to play us, let me know now before i book teams in for the summer fixtures.

Dome, 29th March

Well attended, nice relaxed session - 18 people  so 9 a side.
Looking forward to the match v Effra on Thursday.

Dome, 22nd April.

Top marks to Big Paul and Geoff who attended training the day after the big game. It was a good session with 5 of Geoff's workers coming down to  make up the numbers.
I'll pick the team for next Thurs after training at the Dome on Tues.

Southside V Grafton Film

I filmed a couple of mins of the game on Monday - got 3 goals  - Can't believe i switched the camera off before Malek scored his  goal.  I don't think the Grafton Keeper and defenders would enjoy watching this clip.

Southside 8, Grafton 3.

Hard to believe that we went into the break 2-3 down. At half time everyone agreed that we needed to work harder and keep things simple but we were all confident that we would win. Our confidence was not misplaced. Within 20 mins of the restart Grafton were out for the count , 6-3 down , before briefly rallying. A fantastic point blank double save from Geoff  snuffed out the Grafton fight-back  and the Mighty Reds cruised  to their biggest ever victory. Excellent debuts from Billy and Alex P, a good shift up front from  Bilal and a dominant performance in Midfield from Big Paul were highlights of an exciting evening - Goal of the night went to Malek  with a beautiful second half strike  but  surely man of the match was the irrepressible Scott  whose four goals were no more than he deserved. Scott went home with the match ball - fair enough, it is his ball!  All great stuff  but we'll need to  improve our defending as a team and become more compact if we want to win against Effra next Thursday. Well done everyone, see you tomorrow.

Team. Geoff, Dan K,Chet, Billy, Alex Howard, Luis S, Alex P,Malek,Tariq, Big Paul, Perre, Bilal, Scott.

15thMarch Dome session

A record number of people attended this session. Great stuff. Really good to see lots of people arriving early. We hit the maximum number - 27- and then had to turn latecomers away. Just as well we had an extra set of shirts. We split into three teams - Red Team, Green team and White Team.  Everyone played each other twice. I think the Greens shaded it but  i wasn't really keeping score. Can anyone remember the score?
I'm picking a squad of 14  for the match v Grafton next Mon. I've booked the Dome next Tues as well so that everyone can get plenty of football next week.
Remember to text or e-mail confirmation in advance and bring your cash to guarantee a place at each Dome session