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Match Reports
Matches played Saturday 28th January 2012
It's not how you start, it's how you finish!!
The month of January 2012 has seen, without question, the best weather conditions for players and spectators in recent memory, and despite a relatively wet week the playing of the outstanding Premier League fixture of the day in the Amateur League at Hull University was never in doubt, and this turned out to be the case on all sites throughout the area.
Quaddy Rangers have been swapping pole position on a regular basis with Inter Charter, but this meeting of the teams could have given Quaddy the upper hand, given they have played fewer games, and it seemed that at the outset, they were determined to underline their superiority. Recent games, have, however, suggested that Inter are slow starters!!
‘Blink and you’ll miss it’ would appear to have been Quaddy’s opening gambit – as they made their best start to a game for a while, when, within the first 45 seconds, Ben Jubb had whipped in a cross from the left wing and Mike Nagi got his head to the ball on the six yard line just ahead of Inter keeper Steve Murray’s attempted punched clearance, and the ball nestled in the back of the net.
This start inevitably gave Quaddy all the encouragement they needed, and for 20 minutes Inter were pretty much on the wrack. On 20 minutes, matters got worse for Inter when the ball pinged around their goal area, before being turned into the net by Danny Garner, for what Inter would consider a scuffy goal, and which should have been prevented.
Quaddy may have taken their foot off the gas a little, though more likely, Inter suddenly started to click into gear, and suddenly the pattern of the game changed, and Inter were given huge encouragement, when Shane Mackinnon rifled home a shot from 25 yards which gave Quaddy keeper Mark Foster no chance.
With everything now to play for, the game settled into a ding-dong battle, and the scores remained unchanged through to the break, the flow of the game being greatly assisted by the excellent control of Referee Steve Barrett.
The second half was a tight, evenly contested affair with both sides eventually trying to mix things up by the introduction of fresh legged substitutes, who injected new pace, and with fifteen minutes to go, it was Inter substitute Craig Bowser who made the real difference when he finished of a swift attack, and brought the scores level.
Quaddy have built a reputation for scoring late goals, and doubtless believed that throwing players forward would bring the required result, but not on this occasion, as Inter went on the break down the left wing, and a carbon copy of their second goal brought a second goal, and match winning score, for Craig Bowser.
Quaddy, in the last couple of minutes threw all caution to the wind, but Inter stood firm. The final whistle brought un-necessary recriminations between the Quaddy players, which deflected attention from what had been an excellent contest.
AFC Hull welcomed Kingburn Athletic to their University of Hull 3G pitch for what was anticipated to be a closely fought encounter, with both sides having suffered just one defeat since Kingburn came out on top in an eight goal bonanza when the team’s previous met in November.
Kingburn started brightly and worked hard initially, however after just seven minutes a huge clearance kick from AFC Hull keeper Craig Lindley found striker and top scorer Nathan Nuttall and he showed good strength to bring the ball down and beat two defenders before blasting home to give his side a 1-0 lead.
The game became a closely contested midfield battle with neither side creating real chances until Billy Tuttle doubled the lead for AFC Hull with a precise finish from 12 yards out after 31 minutes.
Four minutes later the margin had increased to three goals after more good work by Nuttall who beat two men before advancing to the by-line from where he picked out an unmarked Ashley Fox, who slotted home from just a few yards out, and the score then remained unchanged to the break.
Kingburn came out for the second half looking determined to make a fight of the game and go for broke, but this policy backfired as it left defensive gaps into which AFC Hull launched wave after wave of attacks, and on 52 minutes AFC Hull goalkeeper Craig Lindley claimed his second assist of the game when another long kick reached Nathan Nuttall who again did well to hold off the attention of defenders to double his tally and increase the lead further.
Just minutes later Nuttall completed his hat-trick following a cross from Luke Buxton and after 61 minutes Nuttall again was in the goal action recording his fourth goal with a well struck effort following a through ball by Ashley Fox.
The flood gates had opened, and minutes later Luke Buxton again was the provider with a good ball through to stand in full back Matt Keefe who unleashed a powerful effort from the near corner of the box and his shot went in off the far post, leaving the keeper with no chance.
On 71 minutes Casto Bolo, usually a midfielder, but who had played most of this game at centre back, supported a quick break and went on a great run from halfway, leaving the chasing defender in his wake before drawing the keeper out and sending in a precise effort to score from a very tight angle.
Two minutes later, young substitute Jordan Harrison who was causing the Kingburn defence problems with his skilful runs, made one of them count, when his jinking run led to a well hit cross/shot from a tight angle that beat the keeper and fellow substitute Shaun Wilkinson knocked the ball in from very close range to make sure that there was no doubt over whether the ball had crossed the line!
After 75 minutes, a free kick for AFC Hull just inside the Kingburn half, was capitalised on by quick thinking from Nathan Nuttall who spotted the defence napping and the keeper well off his line, and he sent a strongly struck shot into the goal from nearly 45 yards, adding to his personal scoring spree.
Jordan Harrison scored what arguably may well have been the goal of the day after 81 minutes when he was thirty yards out from goal and near the touchline when he too, spotted the keeper out of position, no doubt trying to rally his troops, and sent a wonderfully hit high curling effort into the far top corner of the goal.
Finally, Matt Keefe doubled his tally for the afternoon when another good run saw him through and one on one with the keeper, and he scored with an inch perfect low shot into the near bottom corner of the goal to make the winning margin an unanswered dozen goals, which set a new club record league victory for AFC Hull.
It seemed that Queens County’s trip to Sandhill Country Park, Preston was jinxed when the Premier Division title challengers lost ace marksman Sean Rispin to injury during the warm-up, and already without a regular keeper, had to sacrifice midfielder Chris Rawson to play in goal, which allowed new signing Osman Kemora to start the game.
Queens started well, and could have scored early goals with Kemora hitting the post, before Glen Brigham lobbed keeper Rob Wilkinson but saw his effort cleared off the line, and minutes later, Danny Robinson missed a couple of good chances, which, coupled with the pre-match difficulties, gave an indication that it was not going to be Queen’s day.
AFC Preston grew in confidence and started to play well and took the lead after about 35 minutes from a good shot, after which the half was played out to the break with no further scoring.
The second half started well for Queens who equalised after five minutes through newcomer Osman Kemora, and a comeback seemed on, but Preston remained calm, played good football, and retook the lead from a left foot strike to the near post.
Shortly afterwards, Queen’s rookie keeper Chris Rawson let in the Preston striker who put the ball into the net to secure a deserved win for this most unpredictable team.
Swiss Cottage won their first game of the season after narrowly missing out in several previous close encounters, by beating a very determined AFC Salthouse Tavern side who started the game with only nine players available, but were no pushovers and outplayed Swiss during the first period, but found themselves two goal down when the break arrived.
Swiss took the lead after 7 minutes when George Walker was found unmarked just outside the penalty area and neatly slotted the ball passed the advancing Salthouse stand-in keeper Mark Sexton.
Swiss went 2-0 up on the half hour when Gary Toalster, playing his first game for six weeks through injury, let fly with a terrific shot from 25 yards which left the Salthouse keeper for dead.
The depleted Salthouse continued to give as good as they got and created a some good chances but without success.
In the second half, Swiss heaped pressure on the Salthouse goal as the nine men tired but chances were missed, until, on the hour, a cross into the box by Swiss’s Ryan Lamb found George Walker unmarked and he headed home from 6 yards.
Still Salthouse pushed up to try and get something out of the game, Mike Ross hitting the bar after 65 minutes, but when Swiss’s Matty Nolam broke free down the right wing, he slotted the ball into the bottom corner of the net to increase the margin between the teams, further.
Salthouse kept battling and with 15 minutes left were rewarded with a goal from Andy Moss after a good passing move through the Swiss defence.
Swiss again pressed the Salthouse goal and with 5 minutes remaining, Jack Holborn scored to restore the four goal margin – and when a penalty was awarded to Swiss for a handling offence in the closing stages, there was another golden opportunity to add again to their tally – but Swiss opted to allow their keeper Aaron Lowe to take the kick, and his opposite number saved well.
The instant application and attitude of the Cross Keys players constantly put West Hull United under fierce pressure for the full period of the first half and the Division 1 leaders appeared shell shocked, and could find no answer as the Keys’ defence swallowed up United’s long ball game with ease, and then passed the ball well on the floor to calve open decent, but only half chances.
If it had not been for West’s outstanding keeper, Phil Dobson, the points could have been wrapped up by half time.
In addition, Key’s felt they should have got more from two incidents, the first after Ollie Purchon was kicked in the face, but no penalty of any type was given, and then when Adam Grimmer was hauled down by the West’s keeper.
West Hull needed to do something different in the second half and for the most part played better forcing Keys' keeper John Hawkes to make important stops, but it was Keys who finished strongly with a series of free kicks into the opposition penalty area, but a goal was not to be, as the ball dropped to a good West’s defence unit each time.
With ten minutes to go, Keys forward Adam Grimmer was unhappy when again rugby tackled to the floor in the area, as the West’s defender lost balance, but this merely brought the surprising decision of a goal kick.
Keys felt hard done by as they tried to pull back three points on the leaders, but things beyond their control went against them. Their verdict? - West Hull will need to improve next time out, if they are going to hang on to top spot.
Waterloo felt they had under-performed in Division 2 against AFC Hawthorn, but still came away with the three points!
Waterloo never really got to grips with the boggy surface at King George Playing Fields in Cottingham but took the lead through their only quality passing move of the half, finished off by a lovely strike into the bottom corner by Matt Carr.
Hawthorn had dominated the half after that setback but could not find a way past Lee Robinson in the Waterloo goal who made a few brilliant saves.
A half time talking to by player-manager Lee Drury, seemed to do the trick as Waterloo started the 2nd half much better and scored straight away from a corner, which Mike Waddy back heeled into the net, latching on to a good flick-on at the near post.
Hawthorns came back at Waterloo, and were again having most of the play but could not find the finish.
Waterloo introduced their substitutes to try to provide a spark and help stem the tide and it did the trick!
A counter attacking move involving Lee Drury, Jimmy Lowthorpe and Craig Jones passing around each other, ended with a clinical top corner finish from Lee Drury who managed a repeat of his feat from last week - scoring after coming on as a sub. Life in the old timer yet!
Hawthorn still kept coming at Waterloo and were finally rewarded when a handball in the box resulted in a penalty which was despatched into the net – just.
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