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Greenbank...
Posted Apr 20, 2004
Well time for anothr match report.
On sunday we had Mainstone SSC, a pretty high flying team up near the top of the table on 40 pts who we have never got a result against. So a tough game was in the offering. However in our favour was that Mainstone were on a loosing run.
Things were not helped by the terribl injury suffered by Rik last week in our 0-0 draw with Devonport Dreams, damaged his knee ligaments and is out for the season and the summer. Also Jason Carr is away in America and thus we were missing our recent talisman.
Things got off to a terrible start as in the first min we gifted them a goal, defence thought it was offside (it wasn't) and just stoped. Chris tried to clear the ball but it hit Ian and their player had a tap in.
Things did not look good as the boys started bickering and we really didn't look like gtting back into the game. However with about 3 or 4 mins of the first half remaining Chris launched the ball up forward; Adam skillfully took it down, beat his man and lashed it in from 20 yards... 1-1.
Then with our next attack Richard Channing was brought down in the box and converted the penalty. 2-1 at half time for what seemed then to be an admitidly unlikely lead for Greenbank!
Th second half started shakily and after about 5 mins shock horror Mainstone equalised from a well worked short corner routine. However we are made of some pretty stern tuff these days and our resolve did not crumble, ten mins later John "The Boy" Tremblitt got his first ever goal for Greenbank 3-2.
After that it was one way traffic; Richard got his second of the game to make it 4-2 and could have had a hat-trick later on. This was definitely our best ever result. The local paper even saying that they though we would could "Threaten next year".
Our record since that Devonport debacle is w3 d5 l2; both the losses against teams in the top three so we are definitely moving in the right direction.
"Go Greenbank, Go Greenbank, Go Greenbank, Go Greenbank!"
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Haircut 100
Posted Apr 7, 2004
Well after years (about five to be precise) of shaving my head as short as I could get it I today visited a hairdressers for the first time in ages (bout seven years; i was growing it long before I started shaving it); and had a proper hair cut and style.
I must confess I am quite;gosh darn it; pleased with the outcome. I actually look allright astonishingly enough. It was a strange thing going into superdrug to buy some hair wax and I kept expecting someone to notice that I was a phoney... not a proper hair person. But no it was just like a normal activity! Hoorah!
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Greenbank WIN!
Posted Apr 6, 2004
Well a little belated... it has taken me a couple of days to recover form sundays hangover; so here is my Greenbank update.
Tough game was in the offing against Western Kings for the second time in three weeks; the lads were all very up for it feeling robbed in our 1-1 draw with them.
The night before the match I agreed to lt Recardo off the £10 he owed me* if he scored; the rotter did just that after about 15 mins and we were cooking with gas! Chance after chance came our way and it looked for a bit like we might blow them away. The other teams manager (who was for the record the most biased linesman we have EVER had; not once in 90 mins did he flag our way at all; imagine that a whole game where not once do they kick the ball out or we are on side...) was getting moody and ended up kicking me really hard. My response... a really mature "...just becuase your loosing!"
However those of you who have read my prev blogs here will know that with Greenbank it is never that simple. The ref gave what can only be described as a "Dubious penalty" you know they type where the other team are not even appealing; and when the ref blows everyone stands around cause they are not sure what the ref has given. 1-1.
However since our devastaing loss to Devonport back in november we have been made of pretty stern stuff; and we did not dissapoint. For about 10 mins at the start of the second half Western Kings came back at us strong but with our defence Jason, Ian and Mark standing firm they never really threatened.
Cometh the hour cometh the man and Adam once again delivered the good for us with a great winning goal, set up by one of many awsome long throws from Jason "Wayne" Carr. All in all a great result for us and we are starting to climb the table; since that Devonport defeat we have played eight, won 2, drawn 4 and lost 2; both the defats coming to teams in the top three. Given that the devonport defeat was our 22 in a row we have done well of late.
Big game on sunday though Devonport Dreams; if we win we are pretty much guarenteed to not finish bottom may even get mid table respectability but a loss and we are in a dogfight...
* Rik foolishly bet at the close ofplay on day two that the windies would draw the series 2-2 in the criket. He lost that bet 24 hours later!
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Greenbank again...
Posted Mar 30, 2004
Well a tough match on sunday... not helped by me thinking we were away and not bringing our stuff.
On top of that the ref didn't turn up so I had to do the whole game... nightmare. I got so much grief of both teams and ended up threatening to send of two players from both teams!
The marmaid took an early lead and were pretty dominant really through much of the match. Things were not helped by me not being able to manage; In the interests of impartiality I had to leave my goalkeeper in charge.
However he made an inspired substitution and put of midfielder Dan "The Golden Mullet" Billings up front; and he obliged with what to be fair seemed like quite an unlikely equaliser. The two teams seemed quite evenly matched thereafter and the game ended 1-1.
So once again we draw; unbeaten in the league in 2004 but we really need to start winning games if we are to clime away from the bottom of the table... I am still quite worried about finishing bottom.
Anyone interested in seeing the league table goto www.yellowjersey.co.uk look for the "axa alarms plymouth and west devon sunday league division three" in the "Devon" section.
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Greenbank continued...
Posted Mar 21, 2004
Well another battling performance in our recent run. Had Western Kings Wanderers today.
Despite being short of players we mnaged to start with 11 eleven (it was touch and go for a bit) and we managed to win the toss and play with the wind at our backs in the first half.
Things went well and thanks to the courtesy of one of their defenders (own goal) we went 1-0 up; and enjoyed quite a lot of dominance.
However unfortunately they came back at us in the second half as the wind picked up and managed to get an equaliser; they put us under the cosh for a bit but we stood trong and got a draw. Quite a good result really; but a bit disappointed not to win.
Despite this we are still unbeaten in the league in 2004 and things are looking up... if we were a bit more clinical in front of goal we could mayby think about climbing the table.
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