After a series of poor results, it was with great aprehension that we travelled to the league leaders, which was going to be a very difficult game, not one that was going to help lift the teams low levels of confidence. And we certainly started the game looking like a team low on confidence, and it literally went downhill from the off, as with the slope and a strong wind with them, Brinscall took a very early lead, and at that point our boys literally waved the white flag. For the rest of the half Brinscall totally dominated the game, I think their keeper maybe had 2 touches! We were totally second best in everything, lack of committment, ducking out of challenges, not tackling and a complete lack of effort summarised our first half effort.

After lots of encouragement and motivating during half time I had hoped the boys came out with a little more passion, but again we were second best most of the time, and Brinscall struggled more with the strong wind than any problems we gave them. Bar for a late rally when they took their feet off the pedal a bit, when Matt finished off our best move of the match, and then he sidefooted a rebound from a great free kick by Cameron that came back off the bar, the game was over, 9-2.

This was without doubt one of my most embarrassing games, as I told the boys I can cope with getting beat if everyone has given 100%, but not the way we surrended virtually with no fight at all. We have a bit of a break now before we play Aspull on the 15th, and there are a lot of things to address before then!!.