Riverside Tavern 2 St Pats 1
After last weeks efforts the pats were looking for another good result at 'dogshit' park vs the Riverside Tavern. With some players missing - Matthew Jones(school trip to pensicynner wildlife park), Hywel ap Dafydd (MIA - later found out to have been on the job), Phil Thomas (in bridgend hospital with his sister and her twisted ankle)- it meant a return to the starting xi for the ferrets apprentice Matt Donlon, Ryan 'dirty harry' Calligan, and Vin Diesels in 'xXx's long lost brother 'sSs' (Scruffy Scott Sainsbury)!
the opening 20 minutes proved to be a bombrdment of Riverside attacks with Tom Cole's hair doing a remarkable job between the sticks, along with some great last ditch tackling from 'Miami Ink' Crowley, Haribo West (Truck) and Matt ' slidey mcslide' onlon.
in the later part of teh half the pats found ther game. and with Simon Mcgee 'actually' giving a few easy passes and Liam Barry like some kind of possed John Mclane in midfield some cracks were showing in the opposition defence. Keiran 'shit touch' Brennan twice missed glorious opportunities to give the Pat's a lead and with Chris Crowley and Trucks bald patch both hitting the woodwork there was an eerie chill in the air and a sense that perhaps it wasn't to be the pats day!
half time 0-0.
the second half started much as the first did with the Pats with their backs to the wall and having to battle for everything. the Don was having a fucking hammering in midfield and it was down the Liam' judge , jury and executioner' Barry to put a stop to it! He'd had enough and he was pissed off! after yet another foul on the 'Don' a foolish midfielder from the Riverside refused to clear a path for Liam to take the free kick. This resulted in him getting a swift kick to the shins for his troubles and a tyrade of expetives in his general direction!
What happened next is something only Tom Coles can explain.After a long ball from midfield toward our goal he called for the ball. Crowley hearing the call allowed the ball to run through to the keeper only for him to have some kind of spaz attack and slice the ball straight to the on rushing attacker for an open goal! Tom you Cock!
1-0
Looking for a quick equaliser the Pats looked frustrated and found chances difficult to come by and were soon 2-0 down to to some good pressure from the tavern and then the boys looked stretched as it was apparent that the we could not adjust our wing back formation to suit a larger field.
substitutions were made in search of a goal, Liam , Don and Matt were replaced with Dai 'gaffer' Rees , Gavin '2heads' Davies and CK!
This however made no real impact on the game as heads were falling fast and legs were tiring faster.
Some god work from CK and Frodo led to a deep ball that was picked up by Con, and when his shot was blocked by a Riverside arm the Ref was left with no option but to give a penalty.
In the absence of Matthew Jones as main penalty/free kick/throw in/Corner/goal kick taker, the manager placed the ball on the spot himself and with the last kick of the game sent the keeper the wrong way to make the score at the final whistle - Riverside Tavern 2 - St Patricks Rovers 1.
A dissapointing result for a dissapointing performance. Perhaps it's time for Dai to wield that 'axe'.
see you next week sports fans!