West Exe Match Report

Central City 1 (1) West Exe 0 (0)

City got their first win of the season in a well deserved victory over West Exe.

City were down to a bare 11 players for this match which meant that no substitutions were available, giving every player a full 70 minutes of football.

City were on top from kick off and after a couple efforts on target from Onur and Tom O, they were awarded a penalty after 20 mins for a shove in the box. Captain Charlie stepped up to slot the ball into the bottom corner. They maintained their dominance for the remainder of the first half with the defence standing strong with the welcome return of Cameron, and went in at half time with a 1-0 lead.

The second half began in a similar pattern and the only way they were going to concede was through the lack of concentration or the work rate dropping. Tom O who showed a good level of commitment for the whole a game had a couple of good chances to extend city's lead but was unable to find the net.

The match entered the final quarter and the game suddenly became scrappy with City losing focus. The good pressing and passing deserted the team for ten minutes and it almost let West Exe steal a point with a couple of good chances.

City picked up again for the last 10 mins and Tom D almost doubled the lead with a powerful shot that hit the top of the cross bar. As the final whistle blew on a good mornings work, the whole team should be pleased with a solid performance.

Steve Tapp

Saturday's match

Hello everyone

Just a quick note from me to confirm that we have a home game on Saturday against West Exe.

We are really struggling this year with injuries which this weekend will see Ewan and Sam P unable to play, and with Noah at rugby trials (good luck Noah!!) and Dylan and Max both away......you can see that we will have another challenge.  It does pose quite a headache for John and I and it is hard to know how best to manage it, whilst it is tempting to sign on new players we currently have a 17 man quad and I am reluctant to increase it at this time.

Fear not however as I am confident we will do our very best against West Exe and it would be so so good to get a win on the board!!

See you at 10am at KGV please for a warm up.

Regards

Mark

Alphington match report

Central City 0 (0) Alphington 7 (2)

City were knocked out of the cup in a one sided match against a big and strong Alphington side.

Struggling with injuries to key players it was always going to be a tough game, but city fought well after conceding an early goal and went in at half time with a narrow 2-0 deficit. The second goal being conceded through a fortunate Alphington shot that went through Noah’s legs.

The second half started okay but after we conceded a third some positional changes were made in an attempt to become more offensive.

Unfortunately this led to more gaps appearing at the back and Alphington ran away with a comfortable victory.

We are a good team, but we need to work harder on our physical side and make better use of the ball when we are in possession.

Unfortunately there were too many passes lacking thought or direction.

Come on City

Steve Tapp

Few thoughts

Hi everyone,

Well this is proving to be a testing season already isn't it and it is only September!!  No trouble, we are a great bunch and it will all come good I am very confident.

A few things just to mention….

I have had to submit a form last week to postpone the match planned for this Saturday 8th October.  We were due to play Collumpton however we have Sam, Max, Onur and Joey all away on a school trip so this would have left us without enough to raise a team.  Added to this we still have Josh out for another week and Ewan out with a fractured wrist.  

We also had confirmation yesterday that Cameron has a stress fracture to a metatarsal in his left foot!!  This will see him out for as as yet unknown period, but potentially 4- 6 weeks, although we will know more in 2 weeks when he has another x ray.  

Training will now switch for ISCA from this Wednesday 5th October  6pm to 7pm.  

No match or training this weekend, leaves our next match an away fixture against Alphington (deep joy!!) on Saturday 15th October.

I am going to organise a team social trip for those that would like to come down to Plymouth on Sunday 6th November to watch the Plymouth Raiders basketball team.  I know many of you will have been down there before, but it is a great afternoon (4pm tip off), fun atmosphere and a good way to spend a Sunday afternoon.

Depending on how many people we get I will try and negotiate a group booking, but either way I wouldn't anticipate it being more than £10 per ticket.  If we have enough interest then I would be happy to hire a minibus or see if we can get enough cars to bring everyone down.  This is open to players, parents, siblings so just let me know and I will book up.  Could I have confirmation please by Monday 10th October and I will book the tickets.  We can sort the money out later.

Think that's it from me, see you on Wednesday at Isca.

Regards

Mark