QE B Football Vs Macmillan Academy

Sorry for such a late match report boys, we had a bit of a technical difficulty.

The weather wasn't ideal, it was a bitter British afternoon up here in the North East, but the boys were still fired up, we weren't going to let the cold put us off putting our rather "heavy defeat" right, due to the fact those points didn't count due to the fact Gateshead moved up a league was a delight, but still we wanted to put our never ending list of mistakes right, we had something to prove.

So with the wind blowing, rain pouring and the temperature giving me a rather large nipple on, Connor Smith who was today's official got the game under way, the game seemed very tight in the opening minutes, Macmillan had the ball a lot more than I liked and they seemed to be passing it about, they had this clear image in their minds that they were Arsenal or something. But with great hassling from the boys we managed to force mistakes out of them, with a new Central Midfield Partnership of Ross and Nathan they were hassling, and Kane was putting pressure on the first touch a long with Hamish who was getting right in to the action. A few nervous opening minutes as they tried to keep threading the ball through, but Jake's new position at Centre Back seemed a prosperous one, lining up next to Jack who seemed as equally solid. Our two wing backs seemed to be enjoying their piece of the action as Ian and Hamish had a lot of the ball, the game was getting feisty as it always seems to do, and tackles were going in hard, and it was shown that the defeat, can I even use the word defeat? okay, the battering to Gateshead was wanted to be wiped clear from our minds, everyone seemed fired up and willing to get a little bit muddy. But when a shot from one of the Macmillan Academys seemed to skid nicely across the surface Ben could only manage to get his knees in the way and parry it out, and the follow up was netted to break the dead lock. That seemed to put some life in to us and wake us up, with good little interchanges down the flanks from Ian and Mackis and on the other side Hamish and Kane, linking up well with Nathan and Ross and trying to create chances for our new look strike force of Lewis or "curly" as Dave named him and Fenny, there were many chances and we got a few corners, none which we really profited from. Our best chance of the half was when a nice ball from Kane found fenny on the side of the box and his cross managed to find Lewis but wheeling backwards he was only able to send his header just wide of the post, agonisingly close! so we came in at half time, not deserving to be a goal down, they hadn't exactly passed us off the park, we were the better team. Dave gave us his words of wisdom and the lads got back out, this time with the aim to carry on their good end to the first period. Now, nothing seem to come and the start of the second half was rather slow and nothing was created as much, so Dave introduced two new faces, Myself and our newest signing Jake Timothy who signed on a free transfer just this week. I was in CM and Jake CB, we started to pass the ball around nicely with Doug now coming on me and him tried to create things by using our wide men of Kane and Mackis and they were creating clever runs that nearly created goals but resulted in corners. Then, as I got the ball flicked it over this lads head, he thought it would be a good idea to boot me, so in my anger I booted a random guy, bit harsh, but we were both shown a yellow, stupid decision, but there you go. The game from then was fired up and both teams pushed to get goals, our goal came from a corner, that wasn't our corner, a good ball in from Mackis and Timmo some how managed to fumble over the line, and his celebration was something else, screaming and jumping for joy as he tried to rip his new beautiful purple top off and slid on his belly in the mud, Ey, Timmo, love that son. But then we tried to push for a winner, I tried a long shot that wasn't brilliant, and we had some more chances that didn't trouble the keeper. Then when they managed to some how wriggle a ball through their striker who looked a cross of a British Bull-Dog and Thomas Rosicky slotted under Ben, then another poor ball was snapped up by them and a low cross found their striker who made it 3-1, we pushed for some kind of goal but nothing game, and in the end the best team lost, they had 3 chances, and scored them all, typical, but not a bad performance, did not deserve a loss.

Man of the Match : It has to go to Hamish, he played very well, getting stuck in, surging forward, passing when needed to.

Squad: Squad :

B.Edkins
H.Cambell

J.McAleer 

J.Fullerton

I.Atherton (MOM)

K.Bourne (C)
R.Mcguigan

N.Hurley

M.Vakhos
L.Malcom

J.Fenny

Subs:

K.Kirtley

A.Brown

R.Elliot

D.Birks

C.Aither
J.Timothy
A.Davidson