2 POINTS DROPPED AS BLUESTONE CONCEED LATE ON!!
FARRELL
STODDS SPOORS MCDONOUGH HAYES
JOHNSON
PERCY STOTT(C)
GRAINGER TABOUN
BIRD
MISSING - DOUGLAS , MCDONALD AND DONKIN~
WE SET OFF FOR THE LONG TRIP TO GATESHEAD MEETING AT THE BOARD INN EARLY , WE GOT THEIR WITH A DECENT SQUAD WITH ONLY A FEW MISSING. WE KNEW WE REALLY HAD TO TAKE POINTS OF GATESHEAD AS THEY ARE ONE OF THE NOT SO STRONG TEAMS IN THE LEAGUE AND OUR RECORD AGAINST THEM SPOKE FOR ITS SELF AS WE HAD NEVER BEEN BEAT OF THEM .FAZZO WAS BACK IN THE STICKS FOR MISSING DUFFY AND PAUL HAD DECIDED TO LEAVE SHAUN BURNS OUT OF THIS ONE AND THE BACKLINE STAYED THE SAME WITH HAYES COMING IN AT LFET BACK , THE MIDFILED LOOKED STRONG ENOUGH WITH THE SAME MIDFIELD AS AGAINST WALDRIDGE WITH JOHNSON TAKING MCDONALD'S PLACE IN THE HOLDING MIDFIELD ROLL. BIRD STAYED AS THE LONE STRIKER. SO AS THE GAME KICK OFF THE SUN BEAMING IN OUR FACES AS WE KICKED OFF WE LOOKED GOOD FROM THE START WITH EARLY CHANCES FROM BIRD AND TABOUN . THE MIDDLE THREE WERE PLACING SOME LOVERLY FOOTBALL PLAYING IN TRIANGLES AND GETTING THE WINGERS INTO THE GAME. BIRD KEPT COMING BACK TO GET THE BALL AS HE NORMALY DOES AND WORKED HARD ALL GAME , AND ON THE DAY WAS UNLUCKY TO NOT BE ON THE SCORE SHEET. OUR GOAL CAME JUST UNDER THE 20 MIN MARK WHEN PERSIE PLAYED BALL WIDE TO HAYES AND HE DRIFTED THE BALL INTO TABOUN'S PATH TO SLIP THE BALL PAST THE ON COMING KEEPER AS BIRD GUARDED THE BALL IN ,WHICH IN ALL TRUTH IF THAT WAS ME I'D OF TAPPED THAT IN LOL. GATEHEAD DIDN'T HALF DO US ON THE COUNTER AS WE ALL PILED UP FOR A 2ND AS THEIR LADS SPRINTED OUT WITH THE BALL WHICH I THINK WE NEED TO BREAK THE PLAY UP IN SITUATIONS LIKE THAT AND GIVE AWAY FREEKICK SO THAT WE CAN GET LADS BACK AS THIER DEFENDER PLAYED A BALL THROUGH TO THE FORWARD WHO WAS WELL OFFSIDE AS HE TAPPED THE BALL IN THE BOTTOM RIGHT CORNER AND TRYED TO SAY THAT I PLAYED HIM ON WHEN I WAS RUNNING BACK FROM THE ATTACKING BOX TOTAL BULLSHIT. 1-1 WE KEPT PLUGGING AWAY EVEN FROM THE DISAPOINTMENT OF THEIR GOAL AND IT PAYED IN KIND WITH A LONG THROW FROM PERSIE AND JOHNSON FLICKED THE BALL ONTO GRAINGER'S HEADER AT THE BACK STICK TO SCORE A SCRAPPY HEADER PAST THE KEEPER . 2-1 MORE CHANCES CAME FROM US EVEN WHEN THEIR SIDELINE STARTED HOTTING UP AND SHOUTING LOADS OF ABUSE AS WE MISSED MORE CHANCES TO PUT THE GAME TO BED. GATEHEAD DIDNT GO DOWN THE OTHER END AND NEARLY GET THEIR EQUILIZER BUT THIER FORWARD WAS CLEARLY OFFSIDE . OUR 3RD CAME WITH A DRIFTED FREEKICK IN OUR OWN HALF FROM MCDONOUGH AS HE PUT IT STRAIGHT ONTO CAPTAIN STOTTS HEAD FOR 3-1. 5 TO 10 MINUTES LATER ON LAD WERE DROPPING LIKE FLIES AS PERSIE AND SPOORS HAD TO GO OFF WITH INJURIES AND THE WHOLE SHAPE WENT ALL PAIRED BUT AGAIN FITNESS AND SITTING DEEP TO TRY PROTECT THE LEAD COST US AS WE GAVE AWAY DAFT FREEKICKS AS THEY KEPT FLOWTING IN SOME NICE BALL WITH US DEFENDING AND MARKING POORLY THEY GOT A GOAL BACK WHICH AGAIN WAS QUESTIONED FOR AN OFFSIDE AS THE REFEREE TURNED HIS NOSE UP AT IT -3-2 AND THE PRESSURE FROM GATEHEAD MADE US CAVE IN AS AGAIN WE GAVE AWAY A FREE KICK IN NEAR THE HALF WAY LINE AS THEIR LAD SWUNG A GOOD BALL IN AS THE THE ON RUSHING FARRELL TRYED TO PUNCH THE BALL AS IT FELL INTO A GATESHEADS PLAYER TO SMASH IT IN ON THE LINE AS ALL OUR HEADS HAD DROPPED WITH DISAPOINTMENT AS WE FLUNG AWAY THE GAME AND A GREAT PERFORMANCE AS WE HAD TO SETTLE FOR A POINT WITH THE THREE POINTS WAS A WHISKER AWAY. LATE GOALS PUNISHED US AGAIN AS WE HAVE TO IN FUTURE DON'T SIT BACK AND DEFEND LEADS AND KEEP PLAYING THE FOOTBALL IN STEED OF WACKING THE BALL COS YOU KNOW ITS ONLY GUNNA COME BACK AT US -(WES BURGIN I CAN REMEMBER WHAT YOU WERE SAYING ON THE PITCH!!) - HANDBAGS WERE FLUNG ABOUT AS KARL AND JONNA TRYED TO FIGHT THE WHOLE OF THE GATEHEAD TEAM BUT HANDS WERE SHAKEN BETWEEN PLAYERS. THE DRESSING ROOMS SAID IT ALL , AS WE SEEMED LIKE WE LOSED THE GAME AND THEY WERE DELIGHTED WITH A POINT.
PLAYING THE NEW INN ,A NEW TEAM ALL THE EX -EASINGTON LANE BOYS NEXT WEEK. LETS HOPE WE CAN KEEP EVERYONE FIT AND GET A FULL STRENTH SQUAD THERE UP THE BLUES!!!
GAME POINTERS - NO LUCK WITH REFEREES AS AT LEAST 2 OFFSIDES FOR THIER GOALS WASN'T GIVEN , WE TOTALLY OUTPLAYED GATEHEAD , THE TWO INJURIES CHANGED THE GAME (SPOORS N PERSIE) , BIRDMANS GRAFT AWSOME AGAIN, ATTACKING SETPLAYS BRILLIANT! BUT CONCEEDING SETPLAYS WAS SHITPOOR AS WE GAVE AWAY DAFT FREEKICKS AND IT COST US.
(COMFORT OF THE DAY) - THE GAFFER FOLKED OUT FOR NEW BLUE SOCKS FOR THE AWAY STRIP AND MADE OUR NOT SO NICE YELLOW STRIP LOOK OK! - SOCK COMFORT 10/10 HA.
