Ladies 2nd XI
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Sat 05 Oct 2013  ·  Division 1
Brooklands HC
Ladies 2nd XI
J Brown (0')
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Neston South Wirral Ladies 1s
BPHC 2s pick up their first points of the season in hard fought game

BPHC 2s pick up their first points of the season in hard fought game

Melanie Smith7 Oct 2013 - 18:52
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By resident benefits cheat, Eleanor Cliffe

Having played, and comfortably won, a preseason warm up against Neston, one would assume that Saturday’s game would be comfortably ours. However, our opposition had seemingly had a shake up, leading to a blazing start to the season, heading the top of the table 2 weeks on the bounce. Understandably, then, there was some apprehension leading up to the weekend, especially given our start to the season - a start that could no be anymore different to Neston’s. We did not let this apprehension deter us.

The game began with a reasonably solid start from us, holding Neston off, but not necessarily looking dangerous. Unfortunately we spent the remainder of the half chasing the game, but still preventing Neston from scoring. A talking to at half time and some areas of focus to work on helped to create a better second half.

However, our luck ran out with holding them off, and Neston managed to sneak in a little goal. Apparently this was the catalyst required to finally put some pressure on. The final 15 minutes saw a stark change in our game - closing players down, working hard to keep our structure and actually looking dangerous. With short corners, long corners and free hits on the edge of the D, it was only a matter of time before we would equalise. And equalise we did. During one short corner, Katie Payne made a special appearance from her spell in Aus, faciliated by El Capitan, Jennie Brown, to bring the scoreline to 1-1. From this we continued to work hard and it nearly paid off again. With some great work in the D, and a cheeky tap in from Linaker, we nearly took the lead.

But...Neston’s keeper had ninja-esque reactions and managed to get her little toe to the ball and knock it just wide of the goal - unbelievably frustrating. SO close, yet just so far. Game finished 1-1. Not a win, but not a loss - a very positive step in the right direction. First point on the board - we are back with avengement* and from here on in - the only way is up.

A clean sweep in the awards this weekend, with Ellie Cliffe taking both MOM and DOD (for buying, then losing Barbie shinpads) - little bit greedy!

N.B. For ‘avengement’, read ‘avengeance’.

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Sat 05 Oct 2013

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TBC

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Division 1
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