Kensington 2 Woodies 5. A game of two halves with Kensington going 2-0 up with the wind behind them. In truth we probably should have been even at half time with the chances we created but we knew that 2 goals was not that much of a lead with the strong wind. The wind seemed to get stronger in the 2nd half and we scored early on and after that there was only one winner. 2 for Andy B and a hat trick for Ben Mitchell. Slight worry for us was Sarj pulling a hammie after 15 mins but hopefully he will be fine as we have some big games coming up in the next month.

Kensington looked a tidy side at times but against that wind it was always going to be tough. A good win for us and showed good patience coming back from 2-0 down.

Heard that Slip beat Pips 4-0 and the title championship probably down to us, BS XI and Slip now. And Slip keep marching on. I keep waiting for them to drop points but alas not just yet.....

Kens 2 v 5 Woodies
A game that was fairly won by Woodies but ruined by the windy weather. We dominated the first half but 2 nil never looked enough when you know the wind will be strong in the second half and we have no recognised keeper (hope Marcin is back next week). I started in goal and actually made a couple of saves (I am also claiming an assist for our second goal!) but woodies are the best team going forward we have faced and they capitalised well in the second half. Bigger games to come for us!

Um , have a look at the D column on the league table.

Suburbs 3 Hayhill 4

Hard luck Ian, shame you had to meet in the quarters. Would love to see 2 church league sides in a gfa final one day.

Dan, I got the distinct impression from our 2 minute meeting in Tesco's that you have an air of confidence about your title ambition!!! On the face of it you'd have to say that you'd fancy your run in compared to ours or BS XI's but we'll see. Good to have a new face challenging at the top, and should be a great run in for the title.

Gordano 4 - 4 BUCU

Another game strongly influenced by the blustery conditions. Gordano were 4-1 up at half time with the wind behind. Our lads fought hard in the second half and in the end we were disappointed not to nick a winner although by the end of the match the pitch was a mud bath making it hard to play any sort of decent football. Gordano are a great bunch of lads and the game was played in exemplary spirit.

That Eakes was right and the criticism was unjust!

If anyone from Santos reads the board, I'm happy to put them in touch with John Spring if they want. He will know a lot about Broadlands, who are largely made up of his fellow teachers and ex-students from their school team that he ran last year. Whether he'll want to divulge any info though......

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2nd half, and Phil PnJ's pre-match info proved useless as Ali Mac didn't go in goal as he'd told me (Pips were missing Andy Newell).

Now, I can explain, firstly I was wrong (obviously) but Ali did say he would go in goal in the 2nd half - maybe he was telling me a porkie pie. My biggest mistake was letting you into the secret in the first place! But as both teams were trying to warm up without getting blown away by gale force winds you would have noticed the absence of Newell. Lesson learnt yesterday - never give away information pre-match, especially to Slip!

Match was ruined by the wind (as most were yesterday) but Slip did cope better, as Nath mentioned at 0-0 we were fairly happy and it was even-stevens in my opinion - the first was fortunate and lucky (wind assisted), the 2nd a great goal. The match was no-where near won at HT though, but we just couldn't gain momentum or any sort of constant pressure to test Shearsy in the Slip goal. Two breakaway moves and two clinical finishes after slack defending led to the scoreline being harsh (only in my opinion). That's the difference, two shots (on target, two goals - clinical).

I reckon Slip definately have a chance of the title, although don't want to big them up too much (!). Not the best attacking team we've played (although scoring 4 would argue otherwise) but defensively solid and they doubled up on Ken well. Good luck to the Slip lads. We missed big Brian and the fiery Wes up front but we can't expect to get anything from games if we keep conceding so many goals.


Roll on Kensignton, let's hope it's less windy.......