Brinny Yth. Returns 4 Bramhall Rangers 3
Rangers get caught short!
In the first game of the spring 2006 season, Rangers hoped to build on the progress made toward the end of the last campaign. In a league that doesn’t contain any outstanding teams, Rangers are confident of improving on their final league position of 7th. Belly will be missing for the majority (if not all) of the season whilst recovering from his knee injury, so a goalkeeper rotation policy will be adopted. Pie started the season in goal (wearing a technicolour dream coat!) against new comers Brinny Youth Returns, an unknown quantity. The outfield players consisted of Shiz, Nev, Mr T and Rascle (hoping to improve on his 2 appearances and injury hit winter season). Mini and a very eager Piggy made the attacking duo. Piggy’s eagerness was so consuming that he left the house minus his shorts! A sight if ever there was one! It’s starting to get to the point where Piggy could be charged with indecent exposure!
Starting the game against a skilful looking but relatively unfit Brinny, Rangers expected a close game. And that was how it panned out in this low scoring affair. The two sides exchanged attacks for the early parts of the game. Both keepers were not really troubled, but the goals came started after the first substitution. Rangers took the lead, after good work by Piggy and Shiz in the right hand corner led to Shiz playing an accurate cross right to the feet of Mini, who couldn’t miss an easy side foot from the edge of the box. Excellent link up play!
The game as a whole didn’t create that many chances, so it was disappointing to concede 2 goals in the first half. Brinny Youth registered the next two, capitalizing on slack marking and a failure to close down the shots. Pie could do little with the two goals. Rascle was coping well with the pace of the game and seemed confident in defence and also pushing forward as Nev covered all angles at the back. Shiz and Mr T created space with good movement. Piggy and Mini struggled to form the partnership that saw them score over 50 goals last campaign, with final passes and finishes going astray.
Before the half finished, Rangers found themselves back in front. All 3 goals for Rangers in the half were very similar and right out of the five-a-side training manual. Firstly, Piggy controlled the ball in the corner and played a pass off the back board for Shiz to poke home from close in. Just before half time Mini, in a similar position, took advantage of Brinny Youth’s relative inexperience and lack of knowledge of the rules, by lifting a pass off the back board, over the head of the defender for Piggy to catch on the half volley left footed into the goal. It was vintage Rangers.
Despite the lead, Rangers were never that comfortable. Brinny Youth were clearly tired and Rangers should have capitalised on that. The second half saw Mini and Piggy squander several chances and some one-on-ones. Mr T had a chance when he latched on to a Mini through ball, just ahead of Rascle. Nev fired a warning shot across the bow, and Rascle hit the post with a well struck left footer after a lay off from a free kick. The Brinny goalkeeper was also in fine form, and seemed to get better and better as the game went on. He played in a similar vein to Belly, showing no fear and using an ice hockey style. He performed well.
In football, if you don’t score you run the risk of conceding late goals to lose games. This was the case. Brinny, who had battled and pushed through the fitness barrier, scored two goals that probably could and should have been avoided. With Mini and Piggy pushing up into the space (of which there was a lot) Rangers were sometimes exposed and overrun in defence. Some poor communication and failure to cut out the shots was key to the defeat.
In the end the game ended with a whimper by the Rangers, and they will certainly need to improve to pick up points this season. In an amazing turn around, Cheadle Utd top the league after the first win (by default, in that opponents Burnage Thursday did not field a team). Rangers sit mid-table despite the defeat. Northern Canaries and Puss in Boots both surprise losers to The Griswalds and Monkhouse Gladbach respectively. This season seems like one where BRFC could achieve something, but a marked improvement needed.
Final Score: Brinny Youth Returns 4 Bramhall Rangers 3
Goals: Mini (1), Shiz (1), Piggy (1)
Nev goal watch - 22 games
*For comparison: Jon Stead (Sunderland) – 22*
In the first game of the spring 2006 season, Rangers hoped to build on the progress made toward the end of the last campaign. In a league that doesn’t contain any outstanding teams, Rangers are confident of improving on their final league position of 7th. Belly will be missing for the majority (if not all) of the season whilst recovering from his knee injury, so a goalkeeper rotation policy will be adopted. Pie started the season in goal (wearing a technicolour dream coat!) against new comers Brinny Youth Returns, an unknown quantity. The outfield players consisted of Shiz, Nev, Mr T and Rascle (hoping to improve on his 2 appearances and injury hit winter season). Mini and a very eager Piggy made the attacking duo. Piggy’s eagerness was so consuming that he left the house minus his shorts! A sight if ever there was one! It’s starting to get to the point where Piggy could be charged with indecent exposure!
Starting the game against a skilful looking but relatively unfit Brinny, Rangers expected a close game. And that was how it panned out in this low scoring affair. The two sides exchanged attacks for the early parts of the game. Both keepers were not really troubled, but the goals came started after the first substitution. Rangers took the lead, after good work by Piggy and Shiz in the right hand corner led to Shiz playing an accurate cross right to the feet of Mini, who couldn’t miss an easy side foot from the edge of the box. Excellent link up play!
The game as a whole didn’t create that many chances, so it was disappointing to concede 2 goals in the first half. Brinny Youth registered the next two, capitalizing on slack marking and a failure to close down the shots. Pie could do little with the two goals. Rascle was coping well with the pace of the game and seemed confident in defence and also pushing forward as Nev covered all angles at the back. Shiz and Mr T created space with good movement. Piggy and Mini struggled to form the partnership that saw them score over 50 goals last campaign, with final passes and finishes going astray.
Before the half finished, Rangers found themselves back in front. All 3 goals for Rangers in the half were very similar and right out of the five-a-side training manual. Firstly, Piggy controlled the ball in the corner and played a pass off the back board for Shiz to poke home from close in. Just before half time Mini, in a similar position, took advantage of Brinny Youth’s relative inexperience and lack of knowledge of the rules, by lifting a pass off the back board, over the head of the defender for Piggy to catch on the half volley left footed into the goal. It was vintage Rangers.
Despite the lead, Rangers were never that comfortable. Brinny Youth were clearly tired and Rangers should have capitalised on that. The second half saw Mini and Piggy squander several chances and some one-on-ones. Mr T had a chance when he latched on to a Mini through ball, just ahead of Rascle. Nev fired a warning shot across the bow, and Rascle hit the post with a well struck left footer after a lay off from a free kick. The Brinny goalkeeper was also in fine form, and seemed to get better and better as the game went on. He played in a similar vein to Belly, showing no fear and using an ice hockey style. He performed well.
In football, if you don’t score you run the risk of conceding late goals to lose games. This was the case. Brinny, who had battled and pushed through the fitness barrier, scored two goals that probably could and should have been avoided. With Mini and Piggy pushing up into the space (of which there was a lot) Rangers were sometimes exposed and overrun in defence. Some poor communication and failure to cut out the shots was key to the defeat.
In the end the game ended with a whimper by the Rangers, and they will certainly need to improve to pick up points this season. In an amazing turn around, Cheadle Utd top the league after the first win (by default, in that opponents Burnage Thursday did not field a team). Rangers sit mid-table despite the defeat. Northern Canaries and Puss in Boots both surprise losers to The Griswalds and Monkhouse Gladbach respectively. This season seems like one where BRFC could achieve something, but a marked improvement needed.
Final Score: Brinny Youth Returns 4 Bramhall Rangers 3
Goals: Mini (1), Shiz (1), Piggy (1)
Nev goal watch - 22 games
*For comparison: Jon Stead (Sunderland) – 22*
posted by Mini at 9:13 am
9 Comments:
Very nice, but unlucky with the result. Sounds like this could be a good season but let's not get complacent! I wish I could be part of it this season.
Great report. As Mini has alluded to, we lost because we didn't play to our strengths. We had a defense heavy team last night, yet the opposition had too much time and space. The best case study of this is comparing the two keepers throw out (a key part of the game).
- Pie in the second half getting frustrated with the fact that everyone was marked, and he had no easy throw outs. Yes maybe one or two of his throws weren't perfect, but quiet frequently there was a combo of good marking of there part, and poor movement on ours that meant Pie had very little options.
-Brinny youth's keeper on the other hand had an almost guarnteed easy throw out everytime. That's not to say someone wasn't aware of the guy he threw it too, just the people on our team who were forward gave there defenders loads of space to pick up the ball, look for a suitable 1-2, and away they went. Close marking by our defence of their defenders on goalie throw outs ended up being totally wasted if they have players able to build up plays from their own half.
This lead to a situation that Russ pointed out of our traditional hardcore defenders (Russ, Nev and me - I class Pie and Mark as defensive mid-field as in different ways, they are pretty handing supporting the strikers) pushing up to mark opponent defenders, and players like Piggy and Pete (who we desperately needed to score goals last night) sometimes being left as the last man back.
To sum up. Forwards must mark opponent defenders very closely. This forces the keeper to do longer throws, which the traditional defenders can take advantage of using there strengths, and then hopefully get the ball to our strikers. Failing to do this, turns our team on it's head, with defenders pushing forward, and strikers hanging back.
Let's learn from this folks.
"Forwards must mark opponent defenders very closely." - this is definately a part of my game that I am going to work on this season.
Please don't be afraid to yell at me if I am standing off for throw outs!
You know it makes sense!!
:):):P
"lease don't be afraid to yell at me if I am standing off for throw outs!"
I did...you didn't listen.
:)
Not about that you didn't. On your throw outs and lack of movement yes, but not that.
Besides, you have a knack of making everything you shout sound like a bit of a whinge and a moan, rather than encouragement.
:):):P
Actually i did that. All through the game, until towards the end of the second half because I got fed up of people not listening to what I said. So ner.
Mini has a point but then so do you John. Remember, encouragement comes best with trust. We need to sort out three areas in my view. 1. being that we need to give a good option to the keeper when he has to throw. If he is forced then he will make errors. 2. We need to sort out where defender and attacks need to stand during a free kick. There is no point me standing on the penalty line. 3. Where to mark and move. There will always be a need to track back as many teams use all players to attack at some stage. The solution is to in deed track back but also allow Mini or Mayself to hang back to give us more options to shoot or to give John a controlled roll out.
For and on behalf of Piggy.
"because I got fed up of people not listening to what I said."
- not a nice feeling is it?!?!?
:P
Hang on. 4-3? It was 3-2 to them at half time, and i definately picked the ball out of the net at least 3 times in the second half.
I'll take it, even though it papers over the cracks a little.
Who's in net for the next game?
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