Well not a great start to the League, were they five goals better than us probably not, Did they have a quality pacy forward yes they did. But we tended to make our own trouble. Some thoughts

1) Pass strong and pass to your players, giving the ball away cheaply causes quick counter attacks.

2) Come to the ball , don’t wait for it.

3) Once we have the ball pass and move, One / Two touch football.

4) If you beat a man don’t turn back in to beat another, look for a pass or knock it into space. Turn their defence.

5) Still need to work harder, close the players in midfield double up on the opposition , help out your team mate, dont stand, watch and pray.

6) Clear the ball if you have no options for throw on, do not play the ball back across your goal.

7) From our goal kick we have someone goalside of every player and challenge!

8) Everyone needs to be alerts all times.

9) Don’t moan and argue with each other it solves nothing.

At times we did play some nice triangles I saw Morgan , Connor & Franckie in the first half and Tom, Carl and Arch in the second. When we did that we broke quickly and looked dangerous. we just have to do it more.

Patrick worked hard against a very quick attack and never gave up, he kept trying and working till the end.

So everyone try to make training and work hard at training

Keith’s MotM was Patrick

Related articles

• Enfield Town 14 HW & Wingate 0 (davidvince.net)

So it was the last of our three cup matches against much higher opposition. (Thank God)

Well on the plus side i thought the Referee had an awesome game and i was very surprised that Nick didn’t give him MoTM .

It was always going to be hard game but it didn’t help not having Patrick, Dabaye & Archie. Very simular to the previous games, started well 20 mins conceded 3 quick goals heads dropped. We then had injuries to Saul and Mario so even less options at the back.

To be honest they were a very good team with good pace and great passing we could learn a thing or two. Things to take on this week.

1) Close players down, dont let them have to much time.

2) If a player goes pass you dont stop and watch keeping running back to help.

3) KICK the ball, clear the ball keep your eye on the ball, a misplaced clearence causes so much trouble.

4) Stay in your positions.

5) Spread the play, play into space and turn the opposition.

Plus points, did i mention the ref, oh yeah. Charne battled hard and Kevin worked hard without a lot of ball. You all kept trying for the first 25 mins of the second half even if you were 8.0 at the break.

Anyway so Nick gave MoTM to Kevin well done

See you at training tomorrow and please bring any subs owed

Much better performance this week, even though we lost, Three of the goals were due to the conditions on a very windy day. We played a team from a division higher but to be honest they were not that much better.

Things to take home .

1) Play in the position you are given do not run around like headless chickens.

2) Go with runners and keep chasing back.

3) Challenge for every ball.

The match started off very even and we probably had the best chances in the first Twenty minutes. The first goal was lucky goal as the wind blew it in from a corner.

Two nil another corner, no challenge scramble hint of handball to knock it in.

Three nil long range with wind top corner, fourth another short corner we had numerous chances to clear but we didn’t,another cross and an unlucky slice for OG.

Second half different story, we had the wind and the slope. Good goal from Carl but they came back quickly after we failed to track back leaving the back four exposed.

Great goal by Charney (who had a really good second half) we also had two more one on ones a goal disallowed. They did hit us on the break at the end but all in all much better.

Everyone Please try to make training and get to matches at the specified time. Its important too warm up properly and sort out team selection.

Keith’s man of the match – Charney

Hadley Wood & Wingate 1 – Hoddesdon (Errm cant remember)

Well lets start with the Positives

1) Great Goal from Tom smashed home a free kick from 20 Yards to make it 1.1

2) The match was all square for 25 mins.

3) The rain held off till we finished playing.

Thing we should of learned today

1) Everyone needs to track back when defending.

2) For a player to be offside defenders must be behind them.

3) The Pitch is huge , so let pass into space and use the wings.

4) Every ball must be challenged for.

For a first game it was a tough ask to play a team 3 divisions above, but we competed well for 25 Mins then 3 quick goals and heads dropped and after that it was please blow the whistle ref !!

I must admit i did like our attaching formation for the last 15mins of 3 defenders 1 midfield and 6 attacker’s but it did open us up to the counter attack LOL.

Anyway the League is the important thing this year so we have 2 more cup games to learn about playing 11 a side and training on Monday.

Nicks Man of the match today was Tom