A 4-1 thrashing of Sky Blue ends the spring league season for another year. Goals from Paige (2), Lily and Annabel seals our fourth win in a row and sixth overall. Overall our league record ends with 6 wins and 4 losses, with 22 goals for and 19 against. Not a bad record considering we were often playing against older players and trying to gel as a team at the same time. Paige takes home the Golden Boot as leading scorer with seven goals.
We certainly came a long way from our first game against Royal's where we looked disjointed and confused. That was probably the only game where we were outplayed and out-thought. Otherwise I felt we dominated most of our games, and our only real struggle was converting chances into goals. I can remember a number of games (Reds, Silver and Black) where we could have easily had 6 or 7 goals, but had to settle for one or two. And many of the games we lost could have easily gone the other way had we scored on even half the chances we had.
Defensively we were pretty solid, especially after the midway point of the season. We shipped 14 goals in our first five games - 5 in the last five. This may have had something to do with players coming to understand the "system" and the fact we became more comfortable playing with each other (that's the "team" part). However I also think each of you became better players individually. In particular I thought you all became more accustomed to the speed and the bounce of the ball on turf, something that should really help when we start playing U13 games on the new turf at Lochside Park.
In fact many of our games next season are going to be turf from as Gordon Head, Lakehill and Prospect lake will all have turf fields for next season. That is going to be way cool!
One more exhibition game to come and then the beach party. See you first at Finlayson Turf on Sunday. Kick-off is 12:30.
