Post by slush on Oct 5, 2006 11:13:32 GMT
Depleted, defeated but not deflated!
Patrington Stanley Utd Reserves 6 – 1 Easington Utd Casuals
IT’s days like last Saturday when Doug Clubley could be forgiven for thinking the job of managing a third team is just not worth the effort – but, thankfully, the spirit and effort put in by his players is enough to convince him that better times are around the corner.
With goalkeeper Ian Thurkettle absent and Mike Hooley, Adam Swaby and new signing Chris Smith all unavailable, ‘The Chairman’ had seen his resources already stretched before Jodi Stow paid for a mad dash to the ground (he was stuck in traffic in Nottingham at 12 noon!) with a twanged hamstring that restricted his participation to five minutes!
Throw in Matty Findley’s knee injury picked up the week before, which eventually saw him a passenger for the second half, and a “Marlon” Ward at centre half who’s steadily showing the side effects of part-time work in a local hostelry and you may well get the impression this wasn’t the fittest Casuals outfit to ever take a playing field. (Put it this way: it was enough to persuade crocked Club Captain Neil Rutter to ask what size boots were left lying around on his arrival at Welwick Road as a spectator!)
And yet, for 45 minutes this was a real contest. Indeed, the locals will feel that not only should they have not come off 2-1 down but perhaps could even have enjoyed an advantage themselves.
Straight from kick-off Dave Clubley put the elder Purse through only to see keeper Stevenson deny him; later in the half Dave Hurren – scorer of a fine equalising goal at 1-1 – was also denied, while the younger Purse was inches away from his third goal in two games when lobbing Stevenson having again broken clear of a suspect back four.
Unfortunately, after the interval, the mounting injury count and obvious lack of fitness (but we’re not allowed to complain about attendance at training are we??!!) caught up with Easington.
Throw in some stonking Pat goals (including one from Adam Benge the like of which he’ll never score again and a Mark “Yo-Yo” Thurkettle effort from halfway) and you have what amounted to an emphatic defeat.
Thankfully, as the boss was keen to point out, spirits in the camp remain high. But with Dave Hurren out for two weeks, Stow looking likely to be sidelined by a hamstring injury, Findley struggling with a knee problem and Ward working, some of the anticipated squad replenishment can’t come soon enough.
Easington: L Hobson, B Fisk, S Cousins, J Stow (R Clubley), I McNaught, S Ward, D Hurren, M Findley, D Clubley, J Purse, M Purse
Patrington Stanley Utd Reserves 6 – 1 Easington Utd Casuals
IT’s days like last Saturday when Doug Clubley could be forgiven for thinking the job of managing a third team is just not worth the effort – but, thankfully, the spirit and effort put in by his players is enough to convince him that better times are around the corner.
With goalkeeper Ian Thurkettle absent and Mike Hooley, Adam Swaby and new signing Chris Smith all unavailable, ‘The Chairman’ had seen his resources already stretched before Jodi Stow paid for a mad dash to the ground (he was stuck in traffic in Nottingham at 12 noon!) with a twanged hamstring that restricted his participation to five minutes!
Throw in Matty Findley’s knee injury picked up the week before, which eventually saw him a passenger for the second half, and a “Marlon” Ward at centre half who’s steadily showing the side effects of part-time work in a local hostelry and you may well get the impression this wasn’t the fittest Casuals outfit to ever take a playing field. (Put it this way: it was enough to persuade crocked Club Captain Neil Rutter to ask what size boots were left lying around on his arrival at Welwick Road as a spectator!)
And yet, for 45 minutes this was a real contest. Indeed, the locals will feel that not only should they have not come off 2-1 down but perhaps could even have enjoyed an advantage themselves.
Straight from kick-off Dave Clubley put the elder Purse through only to see keeper Stevenson deny him; later in the half Dave Hurren – scorer of a fine equalising goal at 1-1 – was also denied, while the younger Purse was inches away from his third goal in two games when lobbing Stevenson having again broken clear of a suspect back four.
Unfortunately, after the interval, the mounting injury count and obvious lack of fitness (but we’re not allowed to complain about attendance at training are we??!!) caught up with Easington.
Throw in some stonking Pat goals (including one from Adam Benge the like of which he’ll never score again and a Mark “Yo-Yo” Thurkettle effort from halfway) and you have what amounted to an emphatic defeat.
Thankfully, as the boss was keen to point out, spirits in the camp remain high. But with Dave Hurren out for two weeks, Stow looking likely to be sidelined by a hamstring injury, Findley struggling with a knee problem and Ward working, some of the anticipated squad replenishment can’t come soon enough.
Easington: L Hobson, B Fisk, S Cousins, J Stow (R Clubley), I McNaught, S Ward, D Hurren, M Findley, D Clubley, J Purse, M Purse