RESERVES v Rowville Eagles
Round 9 - 31/05/2008
Round 9 - 31/05/2008
RESERVES ROMP OVER RUFFLED ROWVILLE
It was another sunny day at HA Smith on Saturday that welcomed the travelling fans from Rowville Eagles but there must have been a full moon out the night before as the freaks were definitely out and about!
Oddity No 1: As the two teams strode out onto the pitch and were conducting their warm-up the Scotch College groundkeeper decided to drive his tractor around to the far goals and tear down the nets - while the Eagles were taking pot shots at goal! He was obviously totally oblivious to the 22 players on the park doing their warm-up as he was doing this. After some kind words from Committee-man Roo and some not so kind words from not-Committee-man Alex (I think he rather impolitely said, "eff off!") - I think the lad will be a future PM - the nets were duly replaced with the game ready to start.
Oddity No 2: With the game ready to go there was no "Black Maggot" in sight. Wardy decided to take on that responsibility (one of the many that he constantly tells us he takes on for the club) and the Eagles fans will tell you that he was quite suited to the role and performed as poorly as a normal official would. The home fans would tend to disagree though and thought he performed quite admirably in trying circumstances with only half as many dubious decisions during the afternoon as we would normally expect.
Oddity No 3: Wardy walking out to ref the game with his orange vest on and his black shorts pulled up high over the vest - nuff said!
Pip had made his weekly changes to the squad with a couple of guys back, a couple of guys injured, a couple up to the ones and a couple down to the twos. With all the changes to the squad Pip forgot to change the formation! So we stuck with the 1-2-3-1-2 formation again. Alfie was back in at Sweeper, behind Tibs and Pete Court (replacing a late Wardy withdrawal due to injury) with Jaryd in the holding midfield role. Stevie Whately was having a spell in the Ressies this week and playing a new role in the middle of the park which he seemed to relish. With Alex on the left, Greavesy was deployed on the right and Muz was in behind the front two. Pietro was up front with Richy, who decided to catch a cab to the "Fortress" this week after forgetting where the home ground was last week. Daz and Adam (who were late to arrive at the ground) joined Pallis on the bench for their lack of discipline.
The Eagles were second last on the table and had come into this game on the back of 4 straight losses. They had conceded 18 goals during that time and had only scored twice. The Scotch Ressies were on a high after 3 straight wins so this game was looking like it was going to be a bit of a mismatch. But it did not start that way and it was hard to see which team was at the foot of the ladder with the Eagles bringing the Scotchies down to their level for the first 30 mins. The lads slowly got on top and the first goal came with 10 mins to go of a very frustrating first half. Some neat interchange between the forwards resulted in Muz being put through and neatly slotting home the first goal. Other chances came and went in the first half with an unmarked Richy soaring high onto an Alex corner to see the ball sail over the bar and a Greavesy volley doing likewise only to add further to his frustration as he was ready to implode!! But the Scotchies were up 1-0 at half-time with that being the major highlight of the chat at the break. But a lot of work needed to be done.
Oddity No 4: Greavesy practising his right-foot volley on the poor wheelie bin during the half time break. The poor wheelie bin came off second best, much to the joy of the travelling supporters.
Stevie W was off for the second half with Daz slotting in to centre midfield and the Scotchies started to dominate with a more fluid game. And a couple of quick goals early in the second half killed off the contest. Pietro chased down a through ball and slotted in the second goal and the third was a ball by Alex played into the box behind the strikers with Greavesy there to thunder home the shot at the far post and from a tight angle to ease his tension (and that of the wheelie bin's!).
Oddity No 5: It was at about this time that the Rowville appointed linesman decided to run onto the park to remonstrate with Wardy (the "Black Maggot") in some foreign Eastern-European tongue that Wardy clearly did not understand. Wardy's blank look did not appease the gentleman very much and he had a couple more goes at poor Wardy and then proceeded to throw the linesman's flag at his feet.
Following a search for a new linesman Pip made a couple of changes bringing on Pallis for Pietro and later Muz came off injured to be replaced by Adam. The final half hour ended in complete Scotch domination with the rabble from Rowville looking disinterested. A Pallis free kick from 30 yards thundered against the crossbar and that was followed shortly after by Alex being brought down in the box for what was an easy penalty decision for the "Black Maggot," err ... Wardy, with little complaint from the Eagles. Alex dusted himself off and picked up the ball to see Pallis and Daz (not sure what he was doing there begging to take the penalty!) queuing up at the spot. In what could've been a Drogba and Ballack stand off sanity prevailed and Alex blasted home his second (and what will be his last) penalty of the season! The fifth goal was credited to Alfie after some neat passing in and around the box resulted in his shot being deflected into the top corner - he tells everyone he was aiming for the top corner but we think it was the other top corner.
A late lapse in defence allowed Rowville to get a consolidation goal with virtually the last kick of the game and leave poor Mikey (who had very little to do all day and did not even shank a goal kick) desolate that he had missed out on his third clean sheet in row. That late goal means that the Ressies missed out on climbing one spot on the ladder on goal difference and remain in sixth spot. Ironically, had our game against Fitzroy City gone 10 seconds longer and the Old Melburnians game 10 seconds shorter the Ressies would have been in equal second spot and one point off the lead. The team is playing well and has now secured four wins on the trot!
Oddity No 6: After the match Greavesy was walking out to watch the Seniors with a hot dog in one arm and his girlfriend on the other. One of the Rowville fans approached him and berated him for taking out his 14 year-old son in the first half with a flying elbow to the head. Greavesy's response, "What's he doing playing senior football if he's only 14!" That's the spirit Greavesy - where's a wheelie bin when you need one!
Let's hope the full moon is not out as we travel to Mooroooooooolbark next week!
5-1 the final score.
PP
It was another sunny day at HA Smith on Saturday that welcomed the travelling fans from Rowville Eagles but there must have been a full moon out the night before as the freaks were definitely out and about!
Oddity No 1: As the two teams strode out onto the pitch and were conducting their warm-up the Scotch College groundkeeper decided to drive his tractor around to the far goals and tear down the nets - while the Eagles were taking pot shots at goal! He was obviously totally oblivious to the 22 players on the park doing their warm-up as he was doing this. After some kind words from Committee-man Roo and some not so kind words from not-Committee-man Alex (I think he rather impolitely said, "eff off!") - I think the lad will be a future PM - the nets were duly replaced with the game ready to start.
Oddity No 2: With the game ready to go there was no "Black Maggot" in sight. Wardy decided to take on that responsibility (one of the many that he constantly tells us he takes on for the club) and the Eagles fans will tell you that he was quite suited to the role and performed as poorly as a normal official would. The home fans would tend to disagree though and thought he performed quite admirably in trying circumstances with only half as many dubious decisions during the afternoon as we would normally expect.
Oddity No 3: Wardy walking out to ref the game with his orange vest on and his black shorts pulled up high over the vest - nuff said!
Pip had made his weekly changes to the squad with a couple of guys back, a couple of guys injured, a couple up to the ones and a couple down to the twos. With all the changes to the squad Pip forgot to change the formation! So we stuck with the 1-2-3-1-2 formation again. Alfie was back in at Sweeper, behind Tibs and Pete Court (replacing a late Wardy withdrawal due to injury) with Jaryd in the holding midfield role. Stevie Whately was having a spell in the Ressies this week and playing a new role in the middle of the park which he seemed to relish. With Alex on the left, Greavesy was deployed on the right and Muz was in behind the front two. Pietro was up front with Richy, who decided to catch a cab to the "Fortress" this week after forgetting where the home ground was last week. Daz and Adam (who were late to arrive at the ground) joined Pallis on the bench for their lack of discipline.
The Eagles were second last on the table and had come into this game on the back of 4 straight losses. They had conceded 18 goals during that time and had only scored twice. The Scotch Ressies were on a high after 3 straight wins so this game was looking like it was going to be a bit of a mismatch. But it did not start that way and it was hard to see which team was at the foot of the ladder with the Eagles bringing the Scotchies down to their level for the first 30 mins. The lads slowly got on top and the first goal came with 10 mins to go of a very frustrating first half. Some neat interchange between the forwards resulted in Muz being put through and neatly slotting home the first goal. Other chances came and went in the first half with an unmarked Richy soaring high onto an Alex corner to see the ball sail over the bar and a Greavesy volley doing likewise only to add further to his frustration as he was ready to implode!! But the Scotchies were up 1-0 at half-time with that being the major highlight of the chat at the break. But a lot of work needed to be done.
Oddity No 4: Greavesy practising his right-foot volley on the poor wheelie bin during the half time break. The poor wheelie bin came off second best, much to the joy of the travelling supporters.
Stevie W was off for the second half with Daz slotting in to centre midfield and the Scotchies started to dominate with a more fluid game. And a couple of quick goals early in the second half killed off the contest. Pietro chased down a through ball and slotted in the second goal and the third was a ball by Alex played into the box behind the strikers with Greavesy there to thunder home the shot at the far post and from a tight angle to ease his tension (and that of the wheelie bin's!).
Oddity No 5: It was at about this time that the Rowville appointed linesman decided to run onto the park to remonstrate with Wardy (the "Black Maggot") in some foreign Eastern-European tongue that Wardy clearly did not understand. Wardy's blank look did not appease the gentleman very much and he had a couple more goes at poor Wardy and then proceeded to throw the linesman's flag at his feet.
Following a search for a new linesman Pip made a couple of changes bringing on Pallis for Pietro and later Muz came off injured to be replaced by Adam. The final half hour ended in complete Scotch domination with the rabble from Rowville looking disinterested. A Pallis free kick from 30 yards thundered against the crossbar and that was followed shortly after by Alex being brought down in the box for what was an easy penalty decision for the "Black Maggot," err ... Wardy, with little complaint from the Eagles. Alex dusted himself off and picked up the ball to see Pallis and Daz (not sure what he was doing there begging to take the penalty!) queuing up at the spot. In what could've been a Drogba and Ballack stand off sanity prevailed and Alex blasted home his second (and what will be his last) penalty of the season! The fifth goal was credited to Alfie after some neat passing in and around the box resulted in his shot being deflected into the top corner - he tells everyone he was aiming for the top corner but we think it was the other top corner.
A late lapse in defence allowed Rowville to get a consolidation goal with virtually the last kick of the game and leave poor Mikey (who had very little to do all day and did not even shank a goal kick) desolate that he had missed out on his third clean sheet in row. That late goal means that the Ressies missed out on climbing one spot on the ladder on goal difference and remain in sixth spot. Ironically, had our game against Fitzroy City gone 10 seconds longer and the Old Melburnians game 10 seconds shorter the Ressies would have been in equal second spot and one point off the lead. The team is playing well and has now secured four wins on the trot!
Oddity No 6: After the match Greavesy was walking out to watch the Seniors with a hot dog in one arm and his girlfriend on the other. One of the Rowville fans approached him and berated him for taking out his 14 year-old son in the first half with a flying elbow to the head. Greavesy's response, "What's he doing playing senior football if he's only 14!" That's the spirit Greavesy - where's a wheelie bin when you need one!
Let's hope the full moon is not out as we travel to Mooroooooooolbark next week!
5-1 the final score.
PP
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Welcome to the new website for Old Scotch Soccer club. You'll find stacks of information about the club, past and present.
There is a lot of information on the site but we are always looking for more input. Please contact us if you have any comments or anything to add.
All the action from 20008
Access to all the ladders, matches and reports from 2008. Click here.
2008 Presentation Night
A hugely successful event. All the reaction and awards from the night of nights. Click here.