Gaffer's Gob (The Elite 5/11/08)

To supplement the infrequent and somewhat fictional match reports provided by Lungboy, the Gaffer has decided to add his own spin on the (at the moment) weekly debacle that is The Molly's.

"Oh dear", pretty much sums up last night abject display against our easy 3 pointers, The Elite. The Molly's suffered from a combination of an inability to hit the back of the net for the second week in a row and the introduction of a Southampton and Portsmouth FC schoolboy 'ringer'. I have it on good authority that he was drafted in to counter the threat posed by Gareth. Whether he continues to pose a threat in the future i suppose hinges on whether he will want to continue to play at Goals on a cold Wednesday Winters night.

However, ringers aside, Molly's did not help themselves with a lack of movement that could have turned the game when an opposition whipper snapper took umbrage at the referee for having the temerity to tell him off for attempting to decapitate our resident defensive journalist Lungboy. Safe to say the ref was happy at being called a see you next tuesday and reduced the opposition to 4 players.

At half time we were 8 goals behind as we were at the end of the match. Tactically in retrospect we could have asked Carlos to goal hang and brought little mike back to help break the midfield as for all of Carlos's flair and ball skills, his Latin tackling was not his best suit. We frequently had 2 or 3 players trying to tackle one leaving a man over which is criminal when you have a numerical advantage. Either way, next week should see the return of Mike and the possible return of Robbie if he returns my email and text messages.

I am somewhat concerned about Don's prognosis that Gareth will be out for another month. There is no doubt we have missed the duo of Gareth and Nathan up front as our lowly league position will testify. Oh and if anyone thinks that i missed criticism of myself, i have to admit that i was shocking in goal last night.