A spring team meeting has been arranged for Friday 4th April starting at 6pm in The Red Lion public house in Woolmer Green (SG3 6JP). As previously the meeting will take the form of a pub crawl and will most likely move on to ale houses in Old Welwyn.
Meeting agenda items so far are:
1. The season so far
2. The dirtiest player in the team
Cheers and hope to see you there.
Goodbye Sir Ronald
Quack quack
Wednesday 19 March 2008
Monday 17 March 2008
Knobs 2 Goldcheats 0
The match, despite continuous overnight rain, was never in doubt, nor was the result when the true Vets got down to playing and gettin stuck in.
A hard first half, uphill into the teeth of wind and rain was hard,on a waterlogged treacherous surface yet we still made chances and ultimately took one from Mike to go in 1-0 up. We defended stoutly sometimes a little robustly and they were reduced to a few long range efforts all handled faultlessly by Trevor. A particularly stinging drive was brilliantly saved by their keeper from Mike and Nick rounded the keeper only to see his shot just cleared from the line.
I didn't think I was the dirtiest player on the pitch in the first half, I stand in thrall of Roy for that honour. Certainly I don't think I've been the dirtiest player for two years or so all part of the half time time tete a tete betwixt the referee and myself. Certainly I tripped their marauding ostrich and the mud I popped at his face was only a little piece but did he have to nut me? We shook hands and got on with it. It's aal part of the game which can be as much psychological as owt- puttin people off it's a great leveller. Their number seven had to be reined in, e was only about 25, and so he went from influential midfielder to outside left of Stevenage Road in very short order.
The second half saw them rarely threaten, two off target shots. With Gavin exhiliratingly at full stretch we could have won by more. One of his runs took him skimming over the mud into the area from where he slotted home the second. A third was in from Matty but at the last second the referee blew up for an injury to Dave in our six yard box. My fault. Dave had taken one in the nuts and I'd thought it was something serious!
Well despite being without our midfield strength, in the middle, we won the points. I'm content, time to retire now.
Everyone played really well but special mentions to a flawless performance from Steve Hammond when he came on- sorry you waited so long but you know the on-off sub tactic is not a winning one and Gavin for his mudsprinting with a ball under control!
Thank you to Alistair for reffing- it's a mug's game.
Napoleon.
A hard first half, uphill into the teeth of wind and rain was hard,on a waterlogged treacherous surface yet we still made chances and ultimately took one from Mike to go in 1-0 up. We defended stoutly sometimes a little robustly and they were reduced to a few long range efforts all handled faultlessly by Trevor. A particularly stinging drive was brilliantly saved by their keeper from Mike and Nick rounded the keeper only to see his shot just cleared from the line.
I didn't think I was the dirtiest player on the pitch in the first half, I stand in thrall of Roy for that honour. Certainly I don't think I've been the dirtiest player for two years or so all part of the half time time tete a tete betwixt the referee and myself. Certainly I tripped their marauding ostrich and the mud I popped at his face was only a little piece but did he have to nut me? We shook hands and got on with it. It's aal part of the game which can be as much psychological as owt- puttin people off it's a great leveller. Their number seven had to be reined in, e was only about 25, and so he went from influential midfielder to outside left of Stevenage Road in very short order.
The second half saw them rarely threaten, two off target shots. With Gavin exhiliratingly at full stretch we could have won by more. One of his runs took him skimming over the mud into the area from where he slotted home the second. A third was in from Matty but at the last second the referee blew up for an injury to Dave in our six yard box. My fault. Dave had taken one in the nuts and I'd thought it was something serious!
Well despite being without our midfield strength, in the middle, we won the points. I'm content, time to retire now.
Everyone played really well but special mentions to a flawless performance from Steve Hammond when he came on- sorry you waited so long but you know the on-off sub tactic is not a winning one and Gavin for his mudsprinting with a ball under control!
Thank you to Alistair for reffing- it's a mug's game.
Napoleon.
Monday 10 March 2008
Knobs 1.75 Welwyn Pegasus 0
An excellent performance and a deserved win.
A match punctuated by lengthy stoppages as they slowly and boringly rang the changes on and off, but mainly off, of their 15 man squad. An early free kick from 32.67 yards was beautifully rifled into the top corner by M. Bull ( eat your old heart out Mr. Mills). This lead lasted until the final nanoseconds when a Knobs break of 6 against 2 led to to a John Twigg tap in. Their linesman who never moved from the half way line, so engrossed was he in conversation with his mates, had belatedly flagged for offside but I, the referee, had ignored him as someone of little consequence to the game by then, and play continued. I was gonna blow for full time anyway, it was well over. Anyway a ball was played forward and M. Twigg rushed on to plant it home 2-0. I thought it was a goal, two of their lot said it was offside, forward pass, but the solution was to blow the final whistle, us winning rightly 1-0 at least. Twiggy says he ran onto the forward played ball and I believe him. So to me it was 2-0 but who the fuck cares.
An excellent first half performance not matched in the second half going downslope when we rarely attacked them. Mind Brendan was through from the half way line , he advanced, checked, advanced , checked , advanced and finally toe poked fruitlessly. He said he succumbed to cramp in his moment of beckoning glory!
Roy advanced threateningly over the half way line before being trapped on the ground by the octopus tackle that left him screaming. We thought the worst from such an exhalation but in moments he was back as curmudgeonly as ever in the back four! The boy who screamed wolf.
They hit the bar and the ball ricocheted from the goalline, Trevor pulled off a few eye catching saves and the team fought well for a deserved victory.
Half of that energy and impetus against Kempston would have sufficed.
Good performances from Nick, John T, Steve B, Chris, Roy, Trevor, Matt, Martin, oh and also Dave, Steve H, Brendan and Paul. Well done the lot of you.
Next week crucial league match home to Goldcheats. Be up for it you who are available.
Welwyn want a revenge game which I have tentatively arranged for late May- pitch availability depending.
Goodish turnout in pub- 9 of us, three of them. No grub. Thank the Lord!
The referee
A match punctuated by lengthy stoppages as they slowly and boringly rang the changes on and off, but mainly off, of their 15 man squad. An early free kick from 32.67 yards was beautifully rifled into the top corner by M. Bull ( eat your old heart out Mr. Mills). This lead lasted until the final nanoseconds when a Knobs break of 6 against 2 led to to a John Twigg tap in. Their linesman who never moved from the half way line, so engrossed was he in conversation with his mates, had belatedly flagged for offside but I, the referee, had ignored him as someone of little consequence to the game by then, and play continued. I was gonna blow for full time anyway, it was well over. Anyway a ball was played forward and M. Twigg rushed on to plant it home 2-0. I thought it was a goal, two of their lot said it was offside, forward pass, but the solution was to blow the final whistle, us winning rightly 1-0 at least. Twiggy says he ran onto the forward played ball and I believe him. So to me it was 2-0 but who the fuck cares.
An excellent first half performance not matched in the second half going downslope when we rarely attacked them. Mind Brendan was through from the half way line , he advanced, checked, advanced , checked , advanced and finally toe poked fruitlessly. He said he succumbed to cramp in his moment of beckoning glory!
Roy advanced threateningly over the half way line before being trapped on the ground by the octopus tackle that left him screaming. We thought the worst from such an exhalation but in moments he was back as curmudgeonly as ever in the back four! The boy who screamed wolf.
They hit the bar and the ball ricocheted from the goalline, Trevor pulled off a few eye catching saves and the team fought well for a deserved victory.
Half of that energy and impetus against Kempston would have sufficed.
Good performances from Nick, John T, Steve B, Chris, Roy, Trevor, Matt, Martin, oh and also Dave, Steve H, Brendan and Paul. Well done the lot of you.
Next week crucial league match home to Goldcheats. Be up for it you who are available.
Welwyn want a revenge game which I have tentatively arranged for late May- pitch availability depending.
Goodish turnout in pub- 9 of us, three of them. No grub. Thank the Lord!
The referee
Sunday 2 March 2008
Sandy v Knobs cancelled
Too many mothers and too few babysitters led to an early cancellation of this league fixture.
Injuries and lethargy are also starting to make trheir presence felt. A nice home fixture against
a strong Welwyn Pegasus side next week should bring a few of you out of the woodwork.
Will Newcastle go down? Probably not.
Anyone fancy a turn at reffing next week, I fancy a trot out.
Ronald
Injuries and lethargy are also starting to make trheir presence felt. A nice home fixture against
a strong Welwyn Pegasus side next week should bring a few of you out of the woodwork.
Will Newcastle go down? Probably not.
Anyone fancy a turn at reffing next week, I fancy a trot out.
Ronald
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