Post by oggy on Oct 23, 2011 14:33:13 GMT
Vets completed a miserable weekend for ruts going down 3-2 to grafton this morning,with a somewhat depleted squad espiecially in midfield with whiter,raife,capper,ryder.reynolds & muir all missing and rea missing the kickoff we had to reshuffle the team and from the start we were a bit disorganised to be fair and grafton took an early gripof the game resulting in a early goal although forward was yards offside he cooly slotted home,ruts continued to try and play football but were guilty of wastefull wayward passes and bad communication throughout the team eventually grafton doubled their lead from a massive throw in which should off been dealt with easily floating over the entire heads of the defense for forward to finish giving roland no chance.so 20mins gone 2-0 down knotty was replaced after lengthy lay off for rea to to take command in central defense and caffell moving to right midfield and simon young replaced bloomers on other side,h/t 2-0 down we decided to press them more in their half after the break and old ruts became tranformed with woods and debutant adam martin bossing the centre of park and we were by far the better team now resulting in pulling a goal back through rea from corner,the game was being played at faster pace than most against a good strong team in grafton who had a couple of chessington/hook players and good centre mid fielder who apparentley was ex pro player but with ruts chasing the match grafton attacked again resulting in laying into path of player to finish from 25yds over rolands outstretched hand but we never gave up watford came on late replacing walker and simon young crossed a great ball which gillman could only glance his header wide watford then laid back to caffell who fired in a shot fro 25yds yards but was rising just to much to hit the target,eventually we scored again through woods but time was running out with only a few mins left grafton were under the cosh even resorting to run the ball into corner to see out the time.so in all scrappy disorganised first half cost us the match but encouraging very good second half showing great character to never give the game up fully deserving a draw.that said also a thouroughly enjoyable game to play in whats most important well done all who took part. next week away to cobham fc vets and need a keeper if anyone who reads this is interested contact me lee 07506695850.