Grange Men's 1XI
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Sat 04 Oct 2014
Grange Hockey Club
Grange Men's 1XI
11
2
AAM Gordonians
Grange in eleventh heaven as walker sees red

Grange in eleventh heaven as walker sees red

Jonathan Baird21 Oct 2014 - 10:06
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Grange 11 - 2 Gordonians

In the first of our double header weekend we faced Gordonians.

They were looking strong this year and only lost 3-2 to Kelburne the previous week so we were wary that they would cause us some problems.

The Aussies had finally had their passports stamped with the official Scottish hockey logo and could play!
This was good news for us as they brought a bit more forward momentum to our play really pushing everyone up a level and making move the ball quicker.
The first 30 seconds wasn't that though! We allowed their Czech international to stroll through our team and win a corner which they fortunately didn't convert!

We opened the scoring after about 5 minutes with new Todd Harmsworth knocking in a bobbling loose ball at the back post. Upright reverse stick effort - not as good as anything you'd see at the Easter festival but still commendable for a debut goal.

We were the stronger side in the first half but our shape wasn't quite right meaning there were some holes in the midfield when we pressed forward. A couple of quick 16s from them saw us without structure and creating some chances.

They equalised when their Czech forward dribbled the ball into the corner - attracting half of the stags - and crossing passed all of them to the line Gordonians striker at the back post.

We were 3-2 up with about 10 remaining in the first half when Adam Walker - freshly transferred from Grange to Gordonians - picked up a second yellow for dissent.
This meant they were down to 10 for the second half.

We came out of the blocks quickly piled on pressure and ensured that the game was ours.
Some good points to take from the second half were that we didn't switch off after scoring 5/6 we kept going to get 11.

Certainly a good win against a top 4 challenger this year!

Match details

Match date

Sat 04 Oct 2014

Kickoff

12:30

Meet time

12:00
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