Round 3 Review

REAL GUMBIES FC DREW WOODY’S BLOKES 8-8

SCORERS: Naveen Nadesan 4, Greg Potter 2, James Wong 1, Howie Leung 1

Review: We were so close and couldnt hang on. Very lively early on – and deserved our 3-0 and 6-3 lead. I was concerned once they started scoring as they would find their scoring touch which they did. Goal of the season so far from Naveen who took on 3 players and scored in the top corner. 8 goals is a good return, but we let through 8 so we just need to play well on defense and offense.

With Naveen hitting the post a few times, Greg missing two penalties, Craig gifting a penalty, a goal going right through my legs – theoretically we should have won. So don’t let the scoreline distract you – we played well today.

Conclusion: Its been a while since we scored 8 goals, so lets look at the positives and forget we drew the game.

BREAKING NEWS

Greg is playing tonight!

Everyone meet at 8:45pm for 9pm game.

Cheers.

Round 2 Review

CHARGERS FC DEF. REAL GUMBIES FC 7-3

Scorers: Naveen Nadesan 2, James Wong 1

Review: The Gumbies morale has well and truly deflated after a 6th league defeat in 7 games. Yet once again the gumbies matched the opposition in the first half (2-2) but then couldnt quite get the job done in the second. Are we getting tired? Are we lacking skill? Have we run out of our ideas? One thing is for sure, we just can’t score at the moment. I would personally say we all played well and had fun, yet we all as a team threw the game away, it was russian roulette at 2-2 but we took the bullet.

Does it even matter whether we win or lose as long as we have a good time?

Conclusion: The team is completely impotent.

Game 2 Preview

Real Gumbies FC (4th) v Chargers FC (5th) 6:20pm Training at Laburnum 5pm – try to be on time.

Both teams are coming off narrow defeats in their round 1 games. The Chargers who were relegated from Division 5 last season lost in a closely fought game to BHS United 5-3. Meanwhile the Gumbies lost to the Lucky Strikes 7-5. In the other game the Eastern Vultures defeated It’s a Free Country 6-0. It’s a Free Country were relegated from Division 5 last season, and Eastern Vultures is a new team.

Stats for Sunday

This is the first time the Gumbies play the Chargers. If Naveen scores a hat-trick, this will be the 10th time he scores 3 or more goals in the one game for the Gumbies. If Naveen scores one goal, this will mark his 50th goal for the club. If Andy scores a goal this will mean every Gumby has scored.

We have conceded 5 or more goals 15 times out of 21 (71%). Of those 15 matches – we have won 1 match

1. Drifters won 6-5.

The other six matches where we didn’t concede 5 or more goals were –

1. Vanderlay Industries lost 4-1
2. Eric Li won 10-1
3. Dragons won 6-3
4. He Punted Baxter won 10-2
5. Dragons won 9-3
6. Team Targe won 5-2

What does this mean – this means we win when everyone plays well defensively!!

Training

Everyone bring a ball (if you have one).

Round 1 Review

LUCKY STRIKES DEF. REAL GUMBIES FC 7-5

Scorers: Naveen Nadesan 4, James Wong 1

Review: We played pretty well in the first half – leading 1-0 for 12 minutes and had them on the ropes. 3-3 at the end of the half but everyone looked tired when they came off. Ran out of puff a bit early I must say. In general i thought everyone was pretty solid. Ray, Andy, Chris were good. Howie was pretty good for his first time playing in the middle and forward, in the first half created a lot, but it looked like he ran out of legs in the second half. Same for me, the pace of the game and the defenders got the better of me, I think they worked me out. Nav kept us in the game with his four goals. I missed a string of chances and I apologise. In the end, they had tons of shots on goal, some of them blocked by good defending, some of them bad shots and some saved by the keeper.

Conclusion: We are going to have to start passing the ball around rather than the fowards chasing it. Even if it means losing a few games in the short term, we really need to take it to the next level sooner rather than later.

Real Gumbies FC: Season 2

Real Gumbies Fc Sun Div 5 Season AUTUMN 2007
Rnd	Opponent	Date	Practice	Time	Court
1	Lucky Strikes	15 Apr 07	None	9:40 PM	Camp Nou (4)
2	Chargers F.C.	22 Apr 07	5pm	6:20 PM	San Siro (5)
3	It’s A Free Country	29 Apr 07	None	9:00 PM	Wembley (6)