Woodies 4 SAS 2. A game of 2 halves, we started the brighter and had a couple of great chances through Ben Mitch that we didn't take. SAS came back into the game and could have scored a couple themselves. But with both sets of strikers slightly misfiring against the target the deadlock broke through an own goal with SAS going 1-0 up. 2nd half was a different game and we had a golden 15 minutes from half time and scored 3 from Ieu (2) and Joey Mitch who was awesome down the left wing. SAS gave themselves an outside chance by pulling one back on the break to make it 3-2 but we got a penalty which Andy B duly slotted home. We could have added to the toal in the last 15 minutes with some fresh legs on the pitch but their keeper made 2-3 very good saves. In the end a good win but could have been different but for that 15 minutes in the 2nd half although I thought we controlled the 2nd half.

Castle Green 2-0 Hartcliffe Saints

Really pleased to get the result today, 11 players unavailable (injury/work/Uni) so this was almost a Castle Green Reseve team!

Both goals in the first half from Nick Gilleece and George Malyckyj.

Could have (should have) had a few in the second half but that's football. Hartcliffe Saints battled valiantly and we wish them well for the season.

Grace Church 1 - Rock Crusaders 5

Our goal scored by Nathan Randell

Shame about the scoreline as I didn't think we played that badly...! Would be nice to get a win under our belts though, it's been a while. Rock were good value for their win, bossed the midfield mainly which left us struggling a bit on occasions. We were missing a couple of our key players which probably didn't help, but we kept battling to the end, even after going down to 10 men for the last 10 minutes due to an injury and us having used all our subs.

Game was played in a great spirit though, really enjoyable. Thanks Rock!

Welton Rangers 2-0 Racing Santos
HT: 0-0
A great win for us today against another strong Santos side. First half was very even, Santos probably edged it due to the more chances they had. Came out strong second half with two early goals. Santos then came back at us. Most of the remaining game there was chances at either end. Santos coming close many times! Was the best result we could have hoped for... first clean sheet this season and in 13 competitive games! Cant understand how Santos don't have more points. Every time we play against them they turn up with a strong team including last season... best team we played against however they only came fourth????

Goals from F.Lines, L.Tucker.

Yep, we ran away with it in the end. First 5 minutes we started really well, then Suburbs found their feet and competed pretty well until we got the opener. They definitely showed they can play a bit, but couldn't quite get the ball to the right player on the two or three occasions they had a man free in our area. Having said that, we had a few good chances and efforts on goal ourselves, but only managed to put one of them away.

Second half, I think we scored two (first one deflected) in quick succession and it was game over then really.

Nice to meet the Suburbs guys though, who are a nice bunch of lads. Apart from that Nathan Duggan who must be the dirtiest player I've ever seen in any walk of football. Deliberately out-paced me at one point.......

welton 2-0 racing santos

L Tucker
F Lines

An enjoyable and always hard fought game when it comes to playing racing santos everytime we play them. (i think moody wanted to kick me after the game as it could of easily gone the other way today ) a heavy pitch made it hard to play football. changed the formation today which was a brave decision due to the number of goals we have let in recently. needed to tighten up at the back as i always think we can get a goal or 2 regardless who we play.

in the 1st half santos had a few chances to score and were the better side (think it took a while to adjust to the new setup) but was a difficult game to play any flowing football. credit to santos they kept plugging away. 2nd half we flew out of the blocks and started to create more chances fred taking his goal well. managed to get the 2nd goal not long after the 1st which could help us relax.

Racing santos kept battling hard throught the 2nd half but could not find the back of the net. But was delighted with the clean sheet yesterday as we defended well at the back as we soaked up a lot of pressure.

yes it wasnt pretty yesterday but a win is a win and sometimes you have to play ugly football to get results. nice to be in the quarters of the shield hopefully we can get a decent draw (touch wood)