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Tuesday 7th September 2010
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Matches played Saturday 24th January 2009
Last gasp fight back leaves Quaddy fuming.
A week further on, and the wet weather again dominated the football scene with waterlogged pitches causing another glut of postponements.
Although one pitch at King George V Playing Fields on Cottingham Road was given the go-ahead, and looked in reasonable fettle, it quickly became apparent that the pitch was very heavy, making the game difficult for both Quaddy Rangers and Pinefleet Wolfreton, and progressively the playing surface became even heavier, and playing constructive football, more difficult.
Quaddy Rangers were on a high from an excellent win a week previous, and began with great confidence passing the ball well, but were frustrated on occasions when the ball held up on the sticky surface.
Pinefleet fought something of a rearguard action early on, and were fortunate not to concede an early penalty, and again after a 20-minute ‘arm wrestle’ Quaddy went as close as they could without scoring when a long range effort hit the top of the crossbar.
This was merely respite, however, as Quaddy took the lead through Jamie Marshall with a crisp strike from the edge of the area, when the ball was half scrambled away.
The remainder of the half produced few chances, as Quaddy undoubtedly enjoyed more of the play, adapting better to the difficult conditions, and well prompted by Danny Thompson who was able to create time and space for himself and sprayed out telling passes.
Pinefleet had to endure the proverbial halftime verbal rocket, but responded and displayed more vigour when play resumed, but were still struggling to create chances, although one did present itself to an unmarked Dean Kinch who took the harder option and missed from four yards!!
This error was looking decidedly costly when Quaddy doubled their lead with another well-taken goal, this time from Simon Start, the ball looping into the net away from keeper Darren Hemmings.
With time running out and the conditions deteriorating, Pinefleet threw on veteran Andy 'Cleggy' Clark and Sam Mountain in an effort to change the course of game, and they proved to be masterly substitutions, and change the game, they did.
With only eight minutes remaining, Gareth Monkman was able to break clear on the left, picking up a neat pass from Clark and raced to the bye-line before squaring the ball to the feet of the onrushing of Dave Fee who finish well, side-footing the ball into the net.
With the watch running down, Quaddy sought to increase their lead, rather than protect it, and Pinefleet sniffed out an equaliser when Mountain raced clear and finished at the second attempt amid claims for an offside decision, which did not come.
Both teams appeared to have settled for a draw, though Quaddy were doubtless feeling they deserved more, when in the last minute Graham Waudby found himself in the clear in acres of space and in front of goal and finished well to amazingly win the game for Pinefleet, to the disbelief and disappointment of Quaddy.
For the second successive week, a late venue change ensured that Geoff Wednesday were in action, on this occasion facing a Duke of Wellington side still seeking their first win of the campaign in Division 1.
Wednesday began well enough, but were unable to penetrate the Duke’s defence for 20 minutes, until Richard Dook eventually broke the deadlock.
Some neat play then set up Dook for his second goal, which allowed him to become the club’s joint top scorer, and two further goals from Danny Garside and Ian Bruce hoisted Wednesday into a position they have not enjoyed for some time – comfortably ahead at the break!!
The half time talk was for more of the same, but goals failed to materialise other than Dook completing his hat-trick, while the Duke of Wellington got on the score sheet courtesy of Les Urry.
Paull Wanderers were hoping to get the previous week’s poor performance out of their system when facing AFC West Hull ‘B’, and recapture the winning mentality they had been developing.
Paull started the game with the intention of proving a point to themselves, and played some fine football, with good movement all around the park, and it seemed it was only a matter of time before Paull scored, and the goal duly arrived after 28 minutes when Mark Sexton laid a simple pass to right back Mark Rigione who floated a nice cross right to Liam Frazer whose shot found the back of the net - an encouraging start for the versatile player who is normally a full back but had been moved up front to cover for players missing through work commitments and injury.
Dominant up to this point, Paull seemed to think it was job done, and eased up, allowing West Hull to get more into the game.
The second half saw Paull reverting to the poor form of the previous week, allowing West Hull to grow in confidence and Paull were pegged back.
Paull shuffled their side to accommodate the introduction of veteran Terry Thompson from the subs bench, in the hope he could come on and score the all important second goal, but though one chance did come his way, he was quickly closed down.
The conceding of a penalty looked to have removed Paull’s hopes of a return to winning ways, but keeper Liam Smith restored the belief when he brilliantly saved the spot kick, and Danny Wilbor further raised the home side’s hopes but his shot struck the West Hull bar.
Matters went from bad to worse for Paull when Mark Rigione was shown red for a poor tackle, and five minutes later Paull conceded a second penalty when Shaun Newton handled the ball in the area, and Lewis Hoy showed that he had learned from his first miss, by tucking the penalty away.
At the final whistle, Paull were grateful to come away with a share of the spoils from a game they should have put to bed in the first half.
The Division 2 fixture between AFC Malt Shovel and The Courts started brightly with both teams looking to take an early lead, but with both defences standing firm, even half chances were at a premium.
It was perhaps inevitable that a mistake would be required to provide an opening, and after 20 minutes a slip on the edge of the Courts area by Steve Fowler caused both his centre backs to be exposed, and Malt Shovel’s Rob Lambert grabbed the chance to smash the ball into the roof of the net past the helpless Court keeper, Paul Creasey.
Buoyed by this success, Malt Shovel pushed harder and harder and were rightly awarded a free kick on the edge off the box, but the kick proved controversial, as Creasey was still setting his wall when the kick was allowed to be taken quickly, Lee Kenny duly doubling Malt’s lead.
Courts raised their game in the second half and they came close on several occasions - Nathan Atkinson seeing one free kick tipped round the post, and another tipped onto the bar by Malt keeper Johnny Sanderson, and on a third occasion when the same player beat the keeper, the ball struck the bar and rebounded safely away.
Keeper Sanderson proved to be in no mood to be beaten, and although the Courts kept piling on the pressure his outstanding performance continually denied them, and earned him the man of the match accolade - and Courts went home at a loss as to how they failed to score in the second half.
Eddie Beedle went into the second leg of their first round League Senior Cup game against Raine FC with a healthy three goal advantage, and extended their lead further when a penalty was converted by Gary Humphries after 20 minutes.
A second goal, scored by Craig Copley gave Beedle a two goal interval lead, but Raine pulled a goal back after the restart through Jordan Drinkall after being set up brilliantly by Lee Nagy.
The game was marred by the dismissal of a Raine player, before Beedle made absolutely sure of preventing any Raine recovery, as Matty Carr added to their tally after 70 minutes.
A glance at the respective positions in the league tables of AFC Hull and Staks FC would have suggested an easy passage in the Junior League Cup for AFC Hull – but cup football is unpredictable at ALL levels, and the game began with a flurry of goals, first to Staks, an equaliser to AFC Hull followed by the lead being regained by Staks, and all within the first few minutes!
A shock result was still a possibility into the second half as Hull still trailed by a 4-3 margin, and it took a penalty from ace spot kicker Sam Nicholson to bring Hull level.
This deflated the brave Staks side and two further quick goals finally knocked the stuffing out of them and secured the win for AFC Hull – but what a fright they were given.
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