Castle Green 4-0 BUCU

Relieved to get this game on after Packers was called off at midday yesterday. Managed to get in at Filwood and all the phone calls, emails and texts to get everyone there paid off, as this was another cracking Castle Green/BUCU encounter.

Fortunately, this time we managed to shrug off our losing streak v BUCU this time out and produced a solid display and a 4 goal win.

Lads played well this morning. Goals from Nick Gilleece, George Malyckyj, Mike Clifton and...............Matt Comley (who needs to seriously sort out his goal celebration, sorry mate but whatever you were doing with Damien shouldn't happen in a public place)!!

Good day at the office

Also heard Racing 4-8 OCR, which apparently a Jonty Flynn volley from the half way line!!

And for the record from the other thread, TBC 0-2 Woodies.

Come on Dave, surely you look at the table?

Hillfields v Kensington was off

but.......

Hartcliffe 1 v Hillfields Res 4 (reserves first win)

The reserve team played really well first half with some good football on show and Through Leon 2, Andy N (captian) and Dany we were 4-0 up at halftime. A poor start to the second half meant we conceded a goal and that put us on the back foot a bit as Hartcliffe sensed a comeback but 20 mins in we settled and then when to try and kill the game off. We couldn't score again but we did our best, hitting the woodwork 3 times and also woeful finishing letting us down.

Great attitude from both teams and great for us reserves to finally earn a win and move off of the bottom of the BCFA :-)

I can only assume those deflections weren't near you davo as you would have claimed it. Great win for Slip, never nice to have to ref your own team Nath but I think if you could trust anyone to be fair that would be you.

Strange game this morning... I felt we were on top for most of the first half but somehow ended up going in on level terms. Second half was a more scrappy affair with us playing some good stuff but getting to the final third and choking... no options or flair which is something that i haven't seen from us so far this season. In previous weeks we have been getting bags of chances and not taking them, and today, we took our chances but didn't get many.

'Slip utilised their height up top well with Dan flicking on effectively and we didn't really cope with that today. But fair play to the 'Slip boys, they scored more than us and deserved to win the game.

MASSIVE thanks to Nath this morning. The ref overslept and woke up at 11 but Nath did a fantastic job. Let's face it, nobody wants to do this but he took it on and did a great job. Nath - the penalty might have been soft, but not really controversial. Other refs might have given it too. No complaints from us on either decision. Thanks again.

Also, we shared a prayer this morning for Luca's Dad who suffered a stroke this last week. He's at home recovering but as always with things such as this, it's never easy. Luca has asked me to pass on his thanks to the Slip lads who said some kind words before and after the game. I'd like to add my thanks to that too.

Powerhouse lost 4-2 (don't ask) and I think Pistols drew 3-3.

Nope. Not really. Probably the result of a few years of looking at it obsessively when I was managing Santos (and by obsessively, I mean looking at it on a Thursday and then looking again on a Friday when there wouldn't have been any bloody change anyway). I quite like just turning up and playing.

Great win for us yesterday. Wasn't very positive when we were 2 down, didn't see us coming back but we rallied well and we have shown on numerous occasions that we can come from behind. Years gone by we would have bickered and argued at 2 nil down but we are much more of a team now which is great. Nath did well as referee (NJ - you still owe him £20 ;-)). Never easy reffing your own team but for me it was a definate penalty. One of those 'if it was outside the box it would be afoul all day long'. And their penalty shout was nothing more than a shout, Dre headed the ball and they bumped into each other.

Nice to have Tim back, and what a goal. Nathan SAS left stranded as he dinked it over his head :-).

What a start to the season for us. Top of the league and lovin' every moment, especially as we are above BSXI :-)

All this talk of SAS v 'Slip and no one has mentioned Spring's miss! Squared ball by Tim to Spring who was well within 6 yard box and he kicked it backwards!