BRNESC SEASON OF WOE CONTINUED AT MELLING RD WHEN WITH ONLY TEN MEN !! THEY WENT TOE TO TOE WITH THE LEAGUE LEADERS ONLY FOR TWO LATE GOALS GIVING THE3 SCORELINE 5 2 WHICH NEVER REFLECTED THE GAME.
BRNESC STARTED WITH 10 MEN ,INJURIES AND NO SHOWS DECIMATING THE SQUAD .VETS BARRY MAC AND KENNY WARING DRAFTED IN AT THE LAST MOMENT TO BOLSTER THE UNDERMANNED TEAM WITH NEW KEEPER SEAN SMITH STARTING
AS YOU WOULD EXPECT BRNESC THEIR COFIDENCE LOW AFTER RECENT POOR RESULTS AND A MAN LIGHT WERE SOON UNDER PRESSURE FROM LEAGUE LEADERS PINEWOODS BUT RESISTEDE STOUTLY.
AFTER 8 MINS PINEWOODS TOOK THE LEAED WHEN A CROSS FROM THE RIGHT EVADED TWO DEFENDRES AND ENDED UP AT THE FEET OF A CRIMINALLY UNMARKED PINEWOODS FORWARD TO SLOT IT HOME 1 0 PINEWOODS
TO THEIR CREDIT BRNESC DIDNT WILT BUT ROLLED UP THEIR SLEEVES AND WORKED LIKE TROJANS AND PINEWOODEIF THEY EXPECTED A WALK IN THE PARK AGAINST 10 MEN NOWKNEW THEY WERE IN FOR A BATTLEA MOVE DOWN THE LEFT BETWEEN MICK O AND JOE PARLE ENDED WITH PHIL OLIVER VOLLEYING THE BALL HOME AT THE BACK POST TO MAKE IT 1 1 AFTER 15 MINS.
BRNESC EVEN WITH A MAN SHORTN WERE WELL IN THE GAME AND ATTACKED PINEWOODE WHENEVER THE OPPORTUNITY OCCURED LADY LUCK INTERVENED IN THR 40 MIN WHEN A SHOT GOING WIDE TOOKA WICKED DEFLECTION AND DROPPED AT THE FEET OF A PINEWOODS PLAYER WHO SCRAMBLED IT HOME 2 1 PINEWOODS
JOE PARLE NEARLY MADE IT 2 2 WHEN HIS VICIOUS VOLLEY FROM JAY HULME CROSSFIED RAKING PASS WAS INCHES WIDE OF THE POST
2 1 TO PINEWOODS AT THE BREAK BUT BRNESC COULD FEEL PROUD OFF THEIR EFFORTE IN THE FIRST HALF WHEN AT TIMES YOU HAD TO PINCH YOURSELF TO BELIEVE THAT BRNESC ONLY HAD TEN MEN THEY HAD SHOWN SPIRIT AND COURAGE AND HAD MATCHED THE LEAGUE LEADERS IN EVERY DEPT
THE SECOND HALF WAS A MIRROR IMAGE OF THE FIRST BRNESC DEFENDING VALIANTLY BUT STRETCHING PINEWOODS WITH THEIR PACY COUNTER ATTACKS BUT AS THE HALF DEVELOPED YOU COULD SEE BRNESC TIRING AS THR STRAIN OF PLAYING WITH A MAN SHORT WAS STARTING TO TAKE IT TOLL AND WHEN THE YOUNG DEBUTANT KEEPER WAS BEATEN BY A SPECULATIVE SHOT IN THE 68 MIN.HE SHOULD REALLY HAVE SAVED IT ,IT SEEMED ALLOVER,
TYHE VETS GAME ON THE NEXT PITCH FINISHED AND PAUL FINNAN CAME ON TO MAKE IT 11 V 11BRNESC WERE GALVANISED BY HAVING EQUALITY IN NUMBERS AND THE PATTERN OF THE GAME SHIFTED ,PNEWOODS NOW LONGER LOOKED COMFOTABLE AS BRNESC TOOK THE GAME TO THEM AND ACE SHARPSHOOTER FINN REDUCED THE ARREAERS WITH A CLEVER CHIP OVER THE KEEPER 3 2 PINEWWODS .IT WAS ALL BRNESC AS PINEWOODS WERE ROCKING BUT ONCE AGAIN LADY LUCK DESERTED BRNESC AS FINN PULLED UP WITH A HAMSTRING STRAIN AND HAD TO BE REPLACED BY VETS CENTRE HALF TONY MAC THE MOMENTUM NOW SWITCED BACK TO PINEWOODS AND TWO LATE GOALS FLATTERED THEM AT THE END 5 2 TO PINEWOODS
BRNESC HAD PLAYED FOR 70 MINS WITH 10 MEN AND HAD PERFORMED WITH CORAGE AND HEART BUT YOU DONT WIN GAMES PLAYING WITH 10 MEN FOR 75% OF THE GAME BUT AFTER THE EVENTS OF THE PREVIOUS WEEKS THIS DISPLAY WAS LIKE A BREATH OF FRESH AIR AND THERE IS A GLIMMER OF LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL MOM GOES TO THE WHLE TEAM WHO ROLLED UP THEIR SLEEVES AND GAVE 100% WHICH IS ALL THAT YOU ASK FOR
