Superstars Training Friday Afternoon

I snapped this photo of the Superstars training run on Friday arvo when I drove past Frost on my way home from work - no wonder it pissed down last night.

Line up 17

Much more than a cut lip

Our number 10, may not be available next week pending professional restoration.

This weekend (17)

Day	Date	Time	Home	Grade	Away	Gound
Saturday	31-Jul	13:15	DOY	G45	KDS	DOY1 - Doyalson RSL 1
Saturday	31-Jul	15:00	KIN1	G45	KIN2	KIN1 - Frost Reserve 1
Saturday	31-Jul	15:00	BER	G45	BUD	BERK1 - Kurraba Oval 1
Saturday	31-Jul	15:10	GOS	G45	AVO	GOS1 - Gavenlock Oval 1

Please be at Frost field 1 by 2:30pm.

Sundays Match Report by the Banker

Sunday July 25, and the Relics were drawn to play the second game of the weekend’s double header at Fagan’s Park.  It was also Ladies Day at Frost Reserve and for some unknown reason Posh was unavailable for the Relics.  Coincidence?

Nevertheless in a fine display of Fashions on the Field the Relics discarded their usual attire and donned their resplendent Red, White and Blue alternate strips for the long anticipated clash with arch rivals the All Stars.  Not a thoroughbred to be seen amongst them but definitely some old warhorses, stallions and perhaps even geldings chomping at the bit and ready to run.  The Relics were not so fresh from their last start, or perhaps more appropriately called an 80 minute warm up against the Cavemen the previous day, whereas the All Stars were keen for a run as a dead track the day before saw their Saturday meeting abandoned.

The Relics welcomed back Statue after a brief spell travelling the Asian circuit but his return was however scant consolation for the loss of Whiz, who was off watching the trotting or capitulating Tigers or some such thing and Blackbeard who had track work elsewhere as well as the missing Posh.  Maximillion was apparently stuck in the barriers and missed the start by a good 20 minutes (comments were heard later that it was not until after his introduction to the game that the All Stars hit the lead).

The game started slowly as the weary legged dragged themselves into the game with little to excite the crowd, both of them, although an early break away by Cap’n Hat saw a shot go only inches wide of Man Mountain’s far post, for what was probably the Relic’s best, or only serious threat of the first half.  Likewise the attack by the All Stars whilst consistent lacked any real venom.  Skills were not really on show although one brilliant display of dressage saw the Beer Bitch aka Dallas in his dazzling white socks (a contrast to the rest of the team all in blue) perform a twinkle toes like pirouette and actually continue to control the ball stunning any onlookers.  And with the half drawing to a close a brief altercation broke out after Wrecking Ball and Mustapha of the All Stars collided and a slow reacting Statue was unable to clear the jump crashing down upon them.  No serious damage but a penalty incurring Yellow Card (six-pack shout apparently) ensued for Mustapha.

The somewhat exhausted Relics were glad for the half time break and excited to have held the famed All Stars scoreless for the half.

Turning for home the two teams resumed the struggle again with the All Stars controlling most of the play albeit with the occasional breakaways by the Relics’ sprinters Howler and Axe.  After again containing the All Stars for a good while a stumble finally saw the impasse broken when a relatively innocuous cross was headed passed Smokey from close range. Punters at the track immediately protested to the stewards about the scorer jumping the start but the linesman was unmoved and the goal stood.

The All Stars buoyed by their lead continued to press and the Relics undoubtedly subdued were further rocked when a Fine Cotton incident arose shortly thereafter.  A seemingly harmless corner by the All Stars took a nasty bounce and after a neat deflection by Wrecking Ball that would have seen the ball fall harmlessly wide the cat-like reflexes of Statue on the near post saw an amazing feat of skill to somehow bring the ball back just inside the post for a very soft own goal. Whilst their goal scoring combination was sound it was not impressive enough to see Wrecking Ball feature in the coach’s points for the match though continuing tradition Statue was rewarded.

From that point there appeared little prospect of the Relics getting back into the match as exhaustion began to show, although Crow’ch, had a half opportunity when Man Mountain possibly asleep due to inactivity dropped a ball near his feet, but with the aid of the referee and a fortuitous free kick was able to re-gather.

With the game drawing to a close a dashing, but pointless, sprint by Cap’n Hat saw him blow a fetlock and pull up lame. track sidetrack sidetrack sideWhilst immediately replaced a trackside examination indicated it was too early to consider putting him down though it is not expected he will recover for next week’s rematch.

A fair but hard fought result leading to a combined post match celebration by both teams before it all starts again next week.

Action shots from KRFC site.

Other resuts.

GOS 3 AVO 0
DOY 1 KDS 1
BER 0 BUD 2 (Berkeley forfeited)

Relics 0 Allstars 2

We had bucklies beating the team coming first, especially after having played the day before and they having had a rest. I'm sure next week (when we play them again) most of us will have a lot more energy and we'll be a lot harder to beat.

Coach's points

Statue 3, Howler 2, Dave G. 1.

Other resuts.

AVO 0 Doy 1
KDS vs BER postponed
BUD vs KIN1 postponed

Relics 1 Caveman 2

It was a close game, bad luck guys.

Goal scored,  Shadow 

Yellow card, Brian.

Coach's Points

Vic 3, Rob 2, Shadow 1.

Line up 16 & 3 take 2

Saturday

Sunday

Rustics lose more points.

Yes guys its still not finished, a draw between Berkeley and Doylo has been changed to a Doylo win.

M45 Division A Table

Club	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	WashOut	GF	GA	GD	Points
Killarney A	12	10	1	1	0	39	7	32	31
Kincumber A-1	12	10	1	1	0	35	7	28	31
Budgewoi A	12	7	3	2	0	27	12	15	24
Doyalson A	12	5	1	6	0	11	22	-11	16
Kincumber A-2	12	4	1	7	0	15	19	-4	13
Gosford A	12	2	2	8	0	13	26	-13	8
Avoca A	12	2	0	10	0	14	39	-25	6
Berkeley Vale A	12	3	1	8	0	8	30	-22	5

I think I will be removing our table from this site as it never seams to match the CCFs ever changing one. As you can see we have 13 points on the current one which hasn't taken the -2 penalized points. Come Monday the table will recalculate after the new weekend entries and unless they manually remove penalty points it wont look anything like this one.   

No Chance!

Allstars impressive start of the season has them as firm favorites for Sunday.

Now I know you guys don't want to lose to the lot you see at training and have a beer with every week.

And I know some of you are taking karate lessons, thinking of taking sports enhancing drugs, staying off the alcohol and not having sex the night before.

Well as the manager of the team I have to say 'GO FOR IT AND LETS KICK ASS'.

Come and Learn from Josh on Saturday

Hey Guys.

Young Josh Towler has been kicking with us all summer and training and attending our games. He plays at Frost 1 on Saturday morning at 10.10 against Kanwal, and its first versus third. I know he'd love some of us to watch him play. If you're around pop in, even if only for a half, to encourage him (and to get some ammo for us to bag him next training!!)
See yers all Saturday arvo.

This weekend (16) & (3 take 2)

Saturday

Day	Date	Time	Home	Grade	Away	Gound
Saturday	24-Jul	13:00	KDS	G45	BER	JUB1 - Jubilee Oval 1
Saturday	24-Jul	13:00	BUD	G45	KIN1	BUD1 - Budgewoi FC 1
Saturday	24-Jul	13:00	AVO	G45	DOY	AVO1 - Erina High School 1
Saturday	24-Jul	13:45	KIN2	G45	GOS	KIN2 - Frost Reserve 2

Please be at Frost field 2 by 1:15pm.

Sunday

Day	Date	Time	Home	Grade	Away	Gound
Sunday	25-Jul	12:20	GOS	G45	AVO	FAG2 - Fagans Park 2
Sunday	25-Jul	13:30	DOY	G45	KDS	FAG1 - Fagans Park 1
Sunday	25-Jul	14:00	KIN1	G45	KIN2	FAG2 - Fagans Park 2
Sunday	25-Jul	15:10	BER	G45	BUD	FAG1 - Fagans Park 1

Please be at Fagans field 2 by 1:30pm.

Bandits Steal Victory Over Crooks

The Berkeley Bandits have stolen a two nil victory against the Kincumber Crooks in a dour struggle between the O/45 competition bad-boys. Both teams went into the match as confirmed cheats after failing to challenge rulings from Central Coast Football that each had played player/s contrary to the very poorly written CCF player qualification rules.

The opening 20 minutes of the match, played on the postage stamp like Kurraba Field, was owned by the Crooks with the Bandits at sixes and sevens in defence as the Crooks’ midfield and front line attacked the Bandits’ goal at will. During this period the Crooks had numerous chances to score and should have converted at least two goals. Team speedster ‘Baby Face Nelson’ continually found space, and when the ball fell comfortably to his right foot he looked very dangerous. Several times Baby Face found himself one on one with the keeper but, seemingly lacking the killer instinct for which he is famous, failed to finish. The Crooks best chance in the first half came when Baby Face pushed a shot just wide of the right hand post. The miss was bad enough but the spindly ‘Jesse James’, who was parked on the right post, could not complete the simple tap-in for a goal. Jesse James has never missed such an easy target!

Shortly after the near miss the Bandits went ahead 1-0 after some deft headwork from ‘Hannibal Lector’ which saw him squirt the ball past ‘Fat Tony' for an own goal. Lector, always looking for the positives, reminded those that play up front that goals can be scored from the head! He then added if they had a problem with it he would eat them.

The Bandits were up 1-0 but not out of gaol. The Crooks continued to press hard for a death blow. Midfield sensation ‘Billy the Kid’ was combining well in attack with coach ‘Manson’ and new eyes ‘Al Capone’ to continually put Baby Face, Jesse James and Jack the Ripper in strong attacking positions. The Crooks went to the half time break down 1-0 but deeply in the contest. One over-sized Bandit was lucky to survive alive after an altercation with Manson.

The second half saw the Crooks continue to push for the equalizer. Jack the Ripper swooped onto a great ball from Captain ‘Kelly’ down the left flank to snap a super shot on goal. The shot looked in for all money! It missed. Later Jack was to hit the crossbar with another sensational strike.

The Crooks defence, as usual, looked impregnable (unless we score against ourselves). ‘Dr Evil’ had another strong match. The bald evil doers ability to turn with the ball on a two cent piece, obviously a hangover from his hockey days, quickly turned defence into attack.

His combination with Lector and his fellow backs the drunk Russian ‘Rasputin’, the angry ‘Ted Bundy’, the cunning ‘Lee Harvey Oswald’ and the legendary ‘Robin Hood’ withstood just about anything the Bandits tried in attack. Robin Hood, the Beckham of his time, was inspirational at full-back. (Note Robin Hood played by Errol Flynn!)

The Bandits’ second goal came from no where! An aging gray Bandit, thinking he was Billy the Kid, struck a goal from 30m out. The ball went like a bullet to the top left of the goal just wide of the outstretched Fat Tony.

All in all, for a bunch of crooks, the team played reasonably well. As mentioned earlier the game was played on an oval the size of a postage stamp and was, for the most part, a ‘shotathon’. The Crooks will relish the opportunity to get back onto a larger field next week against The Cavemen and the Superstars.

According to the sidelined Crook ‘Sitting Bull’ the players to stand out were Jack the Ripper, Ned Kelly, Dr Evil, Fat Tony and Hannibal Lector.

Robin Hood

Other resuts.

Doy 0 Bud O
Gos 0 Kds 1
Kin1 5 Avo 0

The Points Table on the CCF site works out the points according to the current Win, Draw & Lost cells, and hasn't deducted the penalty points. I think my table is correct.

Rustics 2 Relics 0

Our chance to get back to 4th place on the table will take a little longer but we'll get there soon, no doubts. Had a good tussle, they nailed their goal we missed our chances and helped them with an own goal. Chins up, we can play the same game against them again and have a different result.

Coach's points,

Dave G 3, Ian 2 & Tolly 1.

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Line up 15

Who's next?

Looks like Berkeley were punished for misreading the rules as well, funny that.

M45 Division A Table

Club	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	WashOut	GF	GA	GD	Points
Killarney A	11	9	1	1	0	38	7	31	28
Kincumber A-1	11	9	1	1	0	30	7	23	28
Budgewoi A	11	7	2	2	0	27	12	15	23
Doyalson A	11	4	1	6	0	9	22	-13	13
Kincumber A-2	11	4	1	6	0	15	17	-2	11
Gosford A	11	2	2	7	0	13	25	-12	8
Avoca A	11	2	0	9	0	14	34	-20	6
Berkeley Vale A	11	2	2	7	0	6	28	-22	5

	TEAM	PL	W	D	L	F	A	Gd	PT
	KDS	11	8	1	1	38	7	31	28
	KIN1	11	8	1	2	29	10	19	25
	BUD	11	6	3	2	27	14	13	21
	KIN2	11	4	2	5	17	19	-2	14
	DOY	11	4	1	6	9	22	-13	13
	BER	11	3	2	6	11	27	-16	11
	GOS	11	2	2	7	13	25	-12	8
	AVO	11	2	0	9	14	34	-20	6