Now thats much better Darts.
Tonight everyone constantly battled away and completely out played Sittingbourne who didn't look in the game what so ever. Eddie McClements was superb playing wide right midfield as was both Jay & Cassy who fully deserved his hatrick (well done Brendan). Even Greenie playing left midfield was non stop running and battling away for the whole 90 minutes and although some of his crosses weren't great he did make up for it in his work rate and constant chasing.
Im sorry to say that Brad Potter looked completely lost to me tonight and as much as i think he's a good lad & i like Brad he's just not up to this standard, certainly not on these last 2 performances. From what i recall i only see him make 1 good pass to a yellow shirt and that was more luck than anything else the rest of the time he struggled to control the ball, he lost it to the opposition or he past it to them. We really do need to get another good midfielder into the team and if the rumours are true that are currently going round then Thursdays announcement is just what we are after.
The defence held out great again tonight until a silly penalty was given away with about 10 minutes to go, but as for our goals Flanners scored the first for us after we had 2 attempts and the keeper saved well before it fell to Flanners to knock into an empty net.
Our 2nd goal was well taken by Brendan for the start of his run, the ball was played through and both Cassy & the Brickies keeper ran for a 50/50 ball which Cassy just managed to get his boot to & flick it past the keeper and into a completely open goal.
Then came goal No 3 from Eddie McClements after an excellant through ball was played by Jay May for Eddie to run onto he drew the keeper and cooly slotted it past him and into the bottom right hand corner of the net.
Goal No 4 came about after a good pass was made to Brendan who ran through on goal with the Brickies keeper coming out to close him down, as the keeper went to make a the save his studs seemed to stay in the ground as he twisted to turn and he just hit the ground like a sack of s**t and didn't move, Brendan obviously slotted the ball into the net but then went straight over to check on the keeper who you could hear was in absolute agony. Unfortunately the keeper he to be stretchard off with possible ligament or cartlidge damage and the Brickies brought on their young back up keeper with about 3 minutes to go until halftime.
The 2nd half kicked off and we started where the first half had ended with non stop attacking and it wasn't to long before the Brickies goal was under attack again but to give him some credit the young sub keeper did actually make a couple of good saves with 1 being a finger tip save to push the ball out for a corner from what looked to be a cert goal for Jay May.
In the end it had to happen and goal No 5 and Cassies hatrick came along when he hammerd his shot into the far corner of the net for 5-0. The scoreline could well have been a lot higher had the keeper not made some saves or a couple of other shots been on target.
We then decided to make our first sub with Tom Bradbrook coming on for Brendan Cass, Tommy had 2 or 3 chances where he could well have scored with a couple of them being very good chances but unfortunately he put them wide of the post.
Tony then decided to bring on our last 2 subs with Richard Avery & Dave Moore coming on for Eddie McClements & Brad Pottor.
With about 10 minutes to go we gave away a silly penalty after either Flanners or Guest seemed to push a player, the strange thing was seconds before the Brickies player had actually fooled our defender and the ref shouted play on but as soon as they lost the ball he awarded the penalty which Bradley Spice slotted away for 5-1.
A great result by the lads on a very poor pitch that on the eye looked nice with plenty of grass but as soon as the ball rolled over it you could clearly see just how lumpy & bumpy it really was.
Great support tonight from the choir with non stop singing to raise the players spirits & keep them lifted, we must have had at least 100+ supporters with us tonight. Not to sure what happend to the Sittingbourne singers from Saturday as they didn't seem to make any noise at all tonight and didn't really seem to have any support at all.
My MOTM vote tonight has to go to our hatrick hero Brendan Cass.
My final note is that i hope the injury to the Brickies keeper isn't to serious & he's back playing again ASAP as it certainly looked nasty when he was carried off. I wish him all the best for a speedy recovery.
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