Rubbish

I suppose you all saw that pantomime on Wednesday night, what did you think?
Here is a bit of fun for you, come up with a funny quote that Mac could be saying. Here's mine to start with.

And here is a blank one for you guys.

Woodbank Warriors vs Westbury (Friendly 4th Nov 07)

Games against Westbury are always taken seriously and even though this game was a friendly, our Warriors were in no mood for charity. The pride of being the best team in Bury was at stake.
Although we allowed Westbury to score first, the result of this game was never in doubt. Liv crossed to Amy who sent a pin-point cross over to Ele who then slammed an unstoppable shot into the left corner to level at 1- 1.
Superb play in midfield from Liv, Hannah and Jenny created chance after chance but could we score? Ten corners later and the score was still 1 – 1.
In the second half our Warriors had a determined look to them. With Westbury pinned in their own half, it was only a matter of time before our domination resulted in further goals.
Megan F started an avalance of goals with a brilliant run finishing with a great strike. Ele quickly made it 3 with a rocket of a shot into the right corner.
Crusher Wrigley and Beth KW stopped any Westbury attacks in their tracks while Bronya and Frankie joined the onslaught.
Amy was next to score. This was a team goal with Amy finishing after great passing between Hannah, Beth S and Jenny.
With Westbury facing defeat our Warriors were rampant. Next to score was Beth S. Again on the end of a great passing movement Beth finished in style. Two goals in two games!
Liv created the next goal. Her determination in winning the ball was followed by a brilliant pass for Ele to run onto to make it 6. A hatrick for Ele.
Megan W and Mya joined the attacks and caused Westbury no end of trouble.
Amy soon made it 7 with another great strike after great play from Hannah on the wing.
This was now exhibition football and with Westbury totally beaten our girls passed the ball around with Brazilian style. Beth KW joined the attack and created the last goal. Ele ran down the left wing shooting only to see her shot saved. Hannah in typical goal poaching style slammed the ball home to make an emphatic score line of 8 – 1 to our Warriors.
Ele was awarded our Managers award for her total unwavering determination, great ability and a brilliant hatrick.
Today however was a team performance for you all to be proud of.
Who is the best team in Bury now eh????
Bring on Fleetwood……..

Woodbank Warriors vs Thorton Cleveleys (4th Nov 07)

This was an early start for our girls. We arrived at Thornton Cleveleys to a warm welcome. A club house with hot drinks and food, clear blue sky and a perfectly manicured pitch to play on. What could be better? Then to our surprise we were directed to another pitch to play our match! Dodgy area, slopping pitch, large lumps of grass and not very picturesque.
We started slowly. I think our girls were still suffering from the early start. Thornton hit us early with a quick goal. Spurred into action our girls attacked at pace with Megan scoring into the right low corner.
Again our defence fell asleep allowing Thornton to score again to take the lead. This time it was Jenny who leveled the score. Collecting the ball on the left she turned and ran across the edge of the box until releasing her trademark rocket to make it 2 – 2.
Beth S dominated the midfield creating attacking chances and stopping Thorntons counter attacks. Bronya, yet to score this season, was next to score. Running forward onto a cross from Hannah she let loose with a thunderbolt of a shot. Megan quickly made it
4 – 2.
The next goal was a peach of a shot from Emily. From the edge of the box she stroked the ball into the right hand top corner to make a healthy scoreline of 5 – 2.
The half time speech went something like “ score another goal and the game is over”.
Beth S did exactly than capping a surperb performance with a lovely taken goal to make it 6 – 2. Game over????? So we all thought.
The next twenty minutes of football are best forgotten. Our defence when to sleep and allowed Thornton to score making it 6 – 3. This gave Thornton confidence. Another defensive error. Another Thornton goal. 6 – 4. Another defence error and yet another goal. 6 – 5.
For the last five minutes we hung on to our slim lead only by the incentive of a trip to Mega Bowl if we won. We did win but only by the skin of our teeth.
Beth Smith was on top form and earned a well deserved Managers Player of the Match. The Opposition Player of the Match went to Hannah for a great display.
Mega Bowl here we come!!!!! But only just.

Woodbank Warriors v Bromley Cross

I think that Paul and myself knew this was going to be a tough game, Bromley and Lytham both sitting on equal points above us at top of the table. We had heard that Bromley liked to shoot on sight and would attack us straight from the off. We had noticed that our Warriors took at least 15 minutes to warm up and get into 1st gear, so this concerned us a little.

Thankfully our girls made a good start and the 1st 20 minutes were good and we seemed to be holding them off well. They were a very physical team, strong and competitive, which in the end started to get the better of us. They scored a couple of goals before half time giving them the edge for the second half.

We have been down 2-0 twice before at half time and come back well, and we hoped this might have been the case again. But again this team showed much more determination than we did and managed to control most of the 2nd half.

We did feel that their referee wasn't up to standard, giving many decisions in favour of Bromley, and also I think his stopwatch was slow, playing well over the 30 minutes in both of the halves. This was noted and sent to the league for their records.

In the end the final score was 5-0. I think that our girls can produce a better result next time we play this team, as long as they fight for the ball, and never give up. We have to match them in competitiveness, we have the quality that's for sure.