Team: Sam, Dave, Ian, Gerry, Yi, James, Owen, Kum, Vince
Goals: Gerry, Vince, James
The first round saw a rather rusty ROTS, coming off a year-long hiatus, pitted against a quick and cohesive Nick Groarke. Lack of communication led poor, disorderly defensive efforts which saw ROTS fall behind early in the match through a series of quick goals from the opposition.
The introduction of Gerry saw him continue from where he left off the previous season of SWAT, scoring a goal shortly after coming off the bench, keeping ROTS in the game as half time approached.
The second half saw an improved team effort as we fought to overcome the deficit. Continued offensive pressure from Dave and Sam payed off as a penalty was won and converted. Soon after, James clinically slotted home from close range, reducing the deficit to 2 goals.
Tireless efforts from Sam, Dave, James and Yi helped maintain pocession and create attacking opportunities as we proved ourselves to be the better side in the second half. Ian, our interim 'keeper made a series of fine saves to keep us in the match.
However, the final siren sounded all too soon, leaving us to be content with a promising second half performance.
Although this wasn't the perfect start to the season we had hoped, we did show encouraging signs in the latter stages of the match which we can build on over our upcoming games.
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we suck ... like i know we started this up again for some fun... but winning is fun too.. and we watched some of the other people play in our division after us, and they were good..... duma
Indeed we did suck... but only a little - the final score was 5-3. we let in 3 goals in the first 3 minutes, meaning they only scored 2 goals after we settled and we scored 3.
were the teams after us really that good?
considering that a few of us haven't played for a very long time, i think we did okay. We really need to work out a roster though coz having too many subs will ruin any chance of us developing any momentum during the game, individually, or as a team.
i agree with dave and think that a roster system will be good with max 3 subs. indeed we might find ourselves with not enough later on as often happened with swat after the initial enthusiasm wears off.
and i also agree with gerry in that we weren't good enough. we didn't suck and were competitive but i can't see us winning against the other teams just yet
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