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22nd September 2007

Rocester Juniors Green 1-2 Rolleston White

What a good start to an early morning, Lewis took control of the ball early on in the game, passed across to Jonny who then swiftly with his right foot knocked it over to Cameron in midfield, who tried to keep the ball in our possesion. He was tackled forcefully by the opposition who proceeded with force to take it through our midfield, he took a shot for the goal, and Dilly just managed to catch it with both hands.

Jonny had some nifty footwork on the pitch today, with some going to his advantage, again a nice pass to Cameron, who passed to Josh down the wing, he managed very well to keep the opposition at bay, until one came sneaking past, and crossed it in front of our goalie, and the ball just went wide of the goal.

Callum was playing a blinder down the right mid, he was there to support the defence, and when the ball was on his feet, he dribbled sweetly down to the forwards (you're coming on a treat lad).

Substitution - Harry for Jonny

Rocester took control of the ball and had another shot of goal,Luckily our ''chopper' (Charlie) was on form yet again, he managed to get a touch on the ball and kicked it away.

Substitution - Callum for Kyle

Time for Rolleston to take charge, Jordan was solid in defence taken a swift tackle, proceeded to fly past 2 of the players,over to Charlie, who was relaxed and controlled, looked up, knew where he wanted to pass it, over to Lewis, his speed down the line, to Kyle with his wonderful left foot knocked it over to Josh. Thats what you call football lads, That looked pretty damn good, you were in control, you were relaxed and in charge, keep it up.

Rolleston proceeded to take control of the ball, with Jordan taking a beautiful kick down the middle of the pitch, which seemed to land right on the end of Dans foot, who then realised he had the opportunity to go for goal, took it, but it just knocked the left post, bad look Dan, nice try. The goalie took his kick, Charlie took the force of it, for him to bring the ball nicely down off his chest to his foot, for him to sweetly drop it in the back of the net !!!!! Nice one Chopper.

2nd Half

Rolleston took possession again, Charlie had the ball at his feet, he went to score, and it went just over the top of the goal.The goalie took his kick for it to be in Dans path, he realised he too had the chance to take a shot at goal, it hit the keeper and rebounded off him straight into Camerons path, he swung his right foot and bang, right in the back of the net!! Cameron throughout the second half along with Dan and Jack went to score for them to be saved by the keeper. But the pleasing thing is, it was good football to watch, they were working as a team, I cannot single any one player out and say they did not work well, they all thought about the game they were playing today, using space and careful thought.

Dilly had quite a busy 10 minutes during the second half, Rocester were putting the pressure on him, at one point they had a couple of opportunitys to score, but Dilly as always was there to save the day, he sprung off his spot like a jack in the box,to save the ball.

Substitution- Kyle for Lewis

The play went quiet for both teams, neither putting to much pressure on, we were trying to rally ours on, its not over till the final whistle, anything can happen in 5 minutes.

The final whistle went, we were relieved we had won the game,!! hip hip hooray, it was about time, those lads deserved it, and so did Pete and Ryan.

Scorers:

• Charlie 'chopper' Tunstall
• Cameron Hickman
  

Man of the Match: Joshua Welsh, for pure determination and and not giving up, thoroughly deserved.

08th September 2007

Rolleston White 0-2 Newhall Cougars

This was our first match of the season, and we went out with a positive attitude and a strong will. Dan Fryer made his debut with the team, along with Jonny Hunt and what a performance they both gave, well done lads you will both be assets to the team.

The whistle went, and off we go, Dan took control of the ball, passing out to Kyle down the wing, but it got kicked out by Newhall. Kyle took the throw in with Jonny playing a good header to Jack, who was tackled by a Newhall player he and put the ball out of play.

It's fair to say that there were a lot of tackles from both teams resulting in the ball going out of play. Both teams were showing a lot of determination and neither were giving up, we definately had a battle on our hands!

Jonny made a cracking tackle and passed to Charlie, that lad was the boss of the ball, no-one was getting past this defender today, we didn't give him the nickname Chopper for nothing!

In defence was Josh who was also on the ball, this lad was not letting the opposition get that ball off him, Newhall took the easy route and kicked it out.

Newhall made some cracking tackles and clearly were not giving up the fight to get the ball back. In midfield Jordan was like a brick wall, he was solid, again there was no getting past this guy, our defence was on form today, they were amazing !

There was some great passing from Jonny to Jack then over to Kyle on the wing, good control from all lads. Our passing skill from all the boys has definatley come on. Dilly also made some amazing saves in the first half, in my opinion, that kid is the best goalkeeper in all the divisions!

The 2nd half started with our kick off, but Newhall then took possession, Chopper stuck his foot in and made a good tackle, passing the ball over towards Cam, who was like a terrier trying to get the ball back into our possession, he succeeded and then took it down the middle, only for him to be tackled by Newhalls number 11. It went for a corner kick, but well done Dilly good save!

Newhall then had a long period of possession, there was no stopping them now, we couldn't get a look in and when they had the opportunity to strike again they took it, and what a save by Dilly (such a star!). Cameron, Jonny and Charlie then got to work, moving the ball over to Cal, he's another keen tackler not afraid to get stuck in and work for the team. Kyle had a couple of strikes at goal in the second half, but unfortunatley one was saved and the other just slightly wide. Newhall scored, it was a very good goal by their side, well done Newhall.

Our lads played well and deserved at least one goal, but never mind, well done.

Man of the Match: Charlie 'The chopper' Tunstall