League: Over 45s
Shipham AFC vs Barely Athletic
Great game. Lots of goals and a decent pint after.
Bury Legends vs Rapid Dementia
Rapid travelled to Congresbury to face Bury Legends for the first time, and it turned out to be one of our best performances in a long time. Justin Dowling opened the scoring, converting on the volley from a wide cross. Pretty soon Rapid took full control with a quick succession of goals, Jase Curtis showing pace, we thought had long ago disappeared and finishing reminiscent of his youth. Jase went on to grab his hattrick and the players MOM. Other goals came from all quarters with Sam Morton missing a second half penalty. A very good start to the season from Rapid!
A humbling experience for Bury, totally outclassed by a well drilled team. Congratulations to Rapid and back to the drawing board for Bury.
Nailsea Vets 45’s vs Red Star 45s
The Game ebbed and flowed and Nailsea got back into it and would have drawn level and gone in front ,if it wasn’t for three world class saves from Ian the Red Star keeper .
Jon got a second goal for Red Star and it looked like they would cruise the second half but Nailsea had other ideas and stuck at it and their constant pressure produced a well deserved goal, a brilliant header from our own left back. I won’t name him but Andy ignoring shouts of keepers thought it was about time he got on the score sheet. Nailsea definitely were the better team in the second half but Red Stars defence wasn’t going to make it easy for them. Red Star got another goal after a scrum in the box where the Nailsea keeper seemed to fall over his own player. The Goal was given by the ref and all the Red Star players walked back to their own half and lined up for the restart .Two minutes past as a non existent VAR decided to overturn the decision. The last nervous 10 minutes seemed like an hour from the touch line but injuries and tiredness were taking a toll on Nailsea and Red Star saw the game out.
It was a tough game played in a reasonable spirit – Hands up- Red star were definitely responsible for the vast majority of the fouling but Nailsea were definitely better at the moaning
Rapid Dementia vs Bryan Munich
Rapid took on Bryan in their first League match of the season, this time avoiding the Bristol Portway 10k by playing at Radstock Town. As usual our opponents showed great Corinthian spirit and provided us with a good even match.
Rapid had the better of the possession but struggled to make any clear cut chances, numerous balls in from the energetic Darren James and Paul Griffiths falling mainly to a good Bryan keeper.
The breakthrough came in the second half when Gregory found Gurner in some space out wide. His fizzed cross into the box was turned in on the line by a Bryan defender.
Rapid continued to control the possession but again were very wasteful in the final third and it took the two wingbacks to link up to produce an excellent goal – a cross field pass/cross by Griffiths volleyed in by James.
Other chances were spurned before a Bryan corner was converted to provide a slightly nervy end to the match. Big thanks to Dave Stokes for reffing today!
MOM Morgs
Red Star 45s vs Bury Legends
The first game of the new season was probably the most Corinthian game we’ve played in a long time. When I thanked the ref at the end of the game he said “what for, I didn’t do anything, I only remember blowing for one foul “. Even before the game the communication with Bury Vets was good to the point where they even sent me their team sheet with all the players ages on. I’ve never seen that before, but I really like this idea. Bury are new to the league this season and played the game in exactly the spirit the league is looking for. Both teams were very gracious in stopping play if a player was injured and very honest if the ref or lino had made the wrong decision in their favour.
Both teams were missing a lot of players but after 10 mins it looked like two evenly matched sides. Bury took an early lead but Red Star managed to get an equaliser and then go ahead. Bury came back again with an equaliser. Red Star hit the post and bar and Burys keeper made several good saves. With most of the play now in Burys half and with Red Star missing lots of chances, against the run of play Bury went down the other end and scored to go 3 2 up. It seemed every time they shot, they scored whereas we needed 6 chances for every goal.
Bury started to tire and picked up several injuries, I think they even had to reuse an injured sub, so it was no surprise that Red Star started to take control of the game and scored a third then a fourth. With 30 mins to go Red Stars manager bought on a fresh striker to effectively make a front 4, this was too much for Burys tired defence and Waj the fresh striker scored the 5th with lovely chip. The 6th and final goal came after some great backing up from the right back Toby (first goal in forever).
A Hattrick for Gareth ,1 for Drakey, Waj and Toby.
Great game played in the right way – Thanks to Bury Vets – good luck for the rest of the season.