TARA Plumbing Football Club

With tara missing players such as maisey,howells, m grounds along with long term injured Elliott channing and dan bridge, the tara squad was stretched, but again we could still name 3 on the bench, the squad strength in depth being the best ever

The game started with tara dominating possession and having a few half chances whilst aussie looked like being reduced to counter attacks, and a great hit from former tara man wretham produced a top class save from stand in keeper rob lord, tara then took control of the game with a couple of goals in a short space of time, the first coming after great work from the ever willing aaron brady who was outstanding on the day, crossed for adam newton to fire home, this was followed by a cross from tara which was only half cleared and fell to the right boot of steve martin who duly thumped in a right foot strike from the edge of the area into the top corner, previous games against aussie have been much the same and we should have taken control and used our heads slightly better, however a lapse in concentration from the normally reliable scott hedges allowed nick Baxter to square for wretham to slot past the exposed rob lord, this was then game on as a pumped up aussie then had the bit between their teeth and competed better in the 20 mins before the break than they ever have against us, from our point of view we should have tried to take the sting from the game and use our heads a bit better whilst frustrating them by keeping the ball, however this did not happen and aussie were winning more possession with a greater strength in the tackle and an apparent greater will to win,

Half time and nor the players nor management was happy with proceedings and a greater call for a higher level of commitment was asked for in order to re earn the right to play our football as we had lost a bit of the impetus which we worked hard to gain, this was answered almost immediately when the normally placid lee g put in a late tackle which summed up tara’s desire to stamp some authority on the game, the passing got better and the control of the game appeared to have been regained with aussie not having any joy early doors second half, we needed a goal whilst we were playing well and this duly arrived with antonio playing a through ball from which matt wood slotted past pedgo in the ausie net, once again the control of the game seemed in taras hands before matt wood was sent off for a second bookable offence after some handbags in the aussie box, this was a stupid and reckless dismissal which was easily avoidable and not a proud moment for myself having worked hard over the last year or so, to stop this type of crap creeping into my game, my apologies again lads!!

The control of the game remained in taras ands as afc aussie appeared to have given up, following this there was time left for kieron bean to continue his recent scoring streak by claiming another goal from a corner with a header which pedge had no chance with,

In summary yet another win without really looking convincing, having said that the history between the 2 sides makes this a more intense game and more of intense derby whereby we get involved in personal stuff and don’t concentrate on our jobs for the team, again can play a lot better which is a good sign, but the next three games are step up in opposition and our team play needs to be better,

Ratings

Rob lord- one superb save from wretham, no chance with goal 8

Antonio –continued recent good form 7.5

Aaron –mr consistency, linked well with brady 8

Kieron- pretty solid capped off good game with goal-8.5

Scott-poorest game in tara colours for a while, at fault for goal, 6.5

Lee g-not as effective as week b4, but still good work from lee-8

Steve b-quiet, solid, gave it easy, settled in so well-8

Steve m-passed, probed was vocal, got stuck in and scored, 8.5

Aaron b-turned the aussie right back so often was unplayable,great game, top wok rate mom 9

Matt w-reckless, stupid, immature, goal was only decent thing all game-6

Adam –scored, worked hard, held it up wll 8

Subs

Huckers-solid as ever 7.5

Ozzy-some nice touches and settled play down pretty well 7.5

Mike-not long on pitch but great vocally from sidelines-7.5

Mom-aaron bady