Saturday, June 2, 2007

North Brunswick vs. Banyul

"Mark your players!"
That was the phrase I heard the most apart from "C'mon, boys!" It was what Taxi, our coach, was saying at every quarter interval. In the first quarter there were loose Banyul boys everywhere. I was in back pocket, marking my man, but half the other defenders were standing alone, waiting for the ball. But why would the ball come to them when the nearest Banyul man was 20 metres away? It was a shocking first half, although we scored 1.0.6 to their 3.2.20 or something. After a huge talk with Taxi like: "You got Huss at full forward, he can take any player on with his size! You got Alex at centre-half forward, I put him there for a reason! You got runners like Blues, Monkey, Darzi, Sunshine! Use them!"
The second half was much better. We got 5.4.34 as a total to their 5.6.36. Even though we lost, it was like a win. Rory at full back played spectacularly well but our forward and centre started to fall apart in the last quarter. Blues gave away a silly high that resulted in a goal. It was good,yet we could of won it if we had marked them, not given awy silly free kicks and running harder. I played the third quarter in the forward pocket where I didn't play well. In the back line I got two marks, two kicks and a handball, so I easily played better than in the forward line, where I got 1 measly handball.

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