Orangemen vs Rowdies Nov 2013

True to form we once again did better in the second half, then the first.  It’s really not clear to me, how, with an aging team, we seem to pull it together in the second half, and it’s not like the other teams back off.  No, in this case I think the Rowdies had more action against us in the second half, but we played up to their advances.  So the first have score was 4 to zero.  And we went 1 to 1 in the second half.  Bernie gets the honors for the goal in the second half.

Gene had a number of tremendous saves...he was always well positioned.  One shot was in his hands, he was too hard, another shot beat him on the near post it looked like he had it covered.

We lacked passing in the back third and in the final third.  Last night passing in the final third would have been more effective.  

When things are not going well for the Rowdies way a couple of their players seem to whine a bit more than most.  One is an extremely talented player...but he constantly complains and tries to gain an advantage anyway he he can. He pushes and fouls, but when he get’s fouled it’s like he was a victim of Charles Mason.   He’s got whining on the brain and is one of the most annoying players to play against.  Don’t know what it might be like to be on his team, but after the game, to walk off the field and not shake anyone’s hand is a classic move and gives us a glimpse of his true character.  I think he actually believes he’s too talented to be on the field with us.

Although he was a young guy he didn’t do the damage to us.  The Rowdies pass the ball, relentlessly.  That was does the damage.  The guy passing the ball in get’s a much pleasure from a great ball in then the strike itself.  Why we can’t play this way, I’m not sure, but we need to passing or crossing the ball into the box.  Last night, in fact the game last week, we were only playing fast breaks.

I talked to Doug and he apologized for the underage player.  He says he showed up before he knew he was on the field.  He said he wouldn’t allow it next time we play.

Finally, I’m not a big fan of the Ref who called the game from over half-field.  I’ve heard that the ref’s from one of the other companies are of higher quality...I’m going to start looking into it.