Squad
Liam Angell
Mike Jarolin
Tomasz (Mikes mate)
Jon East
Pete Snell
Nick Boid
Karl Bolton
Stu Mackenzie
Jordan Mills
Mark Davis
Ben Newman
Nhamo
Another defeat that can be summed up by a few short words, outplayed, out battled & outfought, all of these sum up Saturdays performance from the 4's. This game meant so much but ended up providing so little for the mighty Ibis, it truly was a relegation six pointer & a local derby all in one but it wasn't as keenly contested as I was expecting. It was a lovely day for playing football, warm & sunny but the ground was solid as anything & a couple of us were carrying injuries going into the match. Putting that preamble aside, the first 15 minutes or so were riddled with both sides poor passing but there was a questionable penalty given by the ref which put us on the back foot early on. Boidy was trying to stand hiss ground and the civil service player bounced off him and Boidy was in my view unfairly penalised. The resulting penalty was converted into my top left hand corner after I tried to put their striker off. Their 2nd goal came after a ball over the top and 'Slovak' Mike was unlucky as he missed a header and their striker was clean through and beat me to my right hand side, 2-0 down and the heads had already dropped and 3-0 came from a cross from the right was steered in from about 6 yards out first time giving me little chance of stopping it. Our best opportunities in the 1st half came from a Boidy free kick from about 25 yards out that hit the crossbar & Pete Snell hit the side netting from the left hand side (after he'd been switched from right to left midfield after good linkup play down the left with Jon East.
Half time rolled around and we needed a boost, which our captain Boidy tried to give after we went through what we were & weren't doing. The bottom line was playing for pride more than anything and even I tried to get the guys in for a huddle/hands in the middle and say some inspirational words but it was in vain in the end, but i'll get onto that.
Goals 4, 5, 6 & 7 came in the 2nd half after heads had dropped and we also had Pete Snell & 'Slovak' Mike Jarolin come off with injuries so we did end up dropping to 10 men as we started with only 1 sub. I thought i'd get worked on set pieces more & 1 of their goals did come that way, but conceding 7 hurts anyway you slice it and as much as I hate to say it, there were no real positives to be taken from the game for us. Civil Service did what we should have done, pressing the ball, stringing passes together and generally fighting for the ball and pressing as a team but it's onwards and upwards, with only a couple of games left we've got to do what we didn't do against Civil Service...play for pride and enjoy ourselves now as we're pretty much down barring a shedload of miracles, but in all honesty, if we can't do ourselves a favour, we can't rely on others to do it for us. It's painful to go down, but when you don't go down fighting it's a bit harder to swallow...if you'll pardon the pun, it's time to look forward to next season & enjoy the games we have left.
I'm Straight Shootin' LJA & that's my take on the match.
Liam Angell
Mike Jarolin
Tomasz (Mikes mate)
Jon East
Pete Snell
Nick Boid
Karl Bolton
Stu Mackenzie
Jordan Mills
Mark Davis
Ben Newman
Nhamo
Another defeat that can be summed up by a few short words, outplayed, out battled & outfought, all of these sum up Saturdays performance from the 4's. This game meant so much but ended up providing so little for the mighty Ibis, it truly was a relegation six pointer & a local derby all in one but it wasn't as keenly contested as I was expecting. It was a lovely day for playing football, warm & sunny but the ground was solid as anything & a couple of us were carrying injuries going into the match. Putting that preamble aside, the first 15 minutes or so were riddled with both sides poor passing but there was a questionable penalty given by the ref which put us on the back foot early on. Boidy was trying to stand hiss ground and the civil service player bounced off him and Boidy was in my view unfairly penalised. The resulting penalty was converted into my top left hand corner after I tried to put their striker off. Their 2nd goal came after a ball over the top and 'Slovak' Mike was unlucky as he missed a header and their striker was clean through and beat me to my right hand side, 2-0 down and the heads had already dropped and 3-0 came from a cross from the right was steered in from about 6 yards out first time giving me little chance of stopping it. Our best opportunities in the 1st half came from a Boidy free kick from about 25 yards out that hit the crossbar & Pete Snell hit the side netting from the left hand side (after he'd been switched from right to left midfield after good linkup play down the left with Jon East.
Half time rolled around and we needed a boost, which our captain Boidy tried to give after we went through what we were & weren't doing. The bottom line was playing for pride more than anything and even I tried to get the guys in for a huddle/hands in the middle and say some inspirational words but it was in vain in the end, but i'll get onto that.
Goals 4, 5, 6 & 7 came in the 2nd half after heads had dropped and we also had Pete Snell & 'Slovak' Mike Jarolin come off with injuries so we did end up dropping to 10 men as we started with only 1 sub. I thought i'd get worked on set pieces more & 1 of their goals did come that way, but conceding 7 hurts anyway you slice it and as much as I hate to say it, there were no real positives to be taken from the game for us. Civil Service did what we should have done, pressing the ball, stringing passes together and generally fighting for the ball and pressing as a team but it's onwards and upwards, with only a couple of games left we've got to do what we didn't do against Civil Service...play for pride and enjoy ourselves now as we're pretty much down barring a shedload of miracles, but in all honesty, if we can't do ourselves a favour, we can't rely on others to do it for us. It's painful to go down, but when you don't go down fighting it's a bit harder to swallow...if you'll pardon the pun, it's time to look forward to next season & enjoy the games we have left.
I'm Straight Shootin' LJA & that's my take on the match.
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