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| Rosehill Rovers Under 10s (B ) NEW ! Match reports |
| Posted on 14/11/03 at 04:54 by Dead Ball Descendant |
(I'm not a complete cunt, I have to write these bastard reports for the team mag anyway)
Rosehill Rovers (B) 0 - 1 Ponton (B)
A difficult game with which to begin the season but it was a much improved performance over those against the same opposition last season. Whether the summer's training schedule was responsible for the vaguely noticeable physical growth of some of our players remains a matter of debate but regardless of such intricacies, upwards and onwards...
Lostock Rangers (B) 3 - 0 Rosehill Rovers (B)
Downwards and backwards but never mind. We are still in the summer holiday period and missing some of our best players. Although that's assuming they're improved ten fold by the benefits of paella and a slight tan.
Rosehill Rovers (B) 2 - 1 New Mills (B)
Quite simply, GET IN. Sean Mannion and Sam 'Jamo' Jameson scored our first competitive goals of the season and saw us to a more convincing victory than the one goal margin suggests. Just as satisfying was the suggestion that the new defensive partnership of Thomas Outeridge and James Kenworthy were heading towards a Bruce/Pallister-like understanding. Not bad considering that James had only escaped the rather tedious role of A team goalkeeper at the end of last season.
Burnage (A) 0 - 4 Rosehil Rovers (B)
Okay, there's the vaguaries of the Saturday morning A6 to take into accoutn but otherwise this is a great away day. It's easy to find, thanks to the looming presence of the McVities factory and the pitch is possibly the best in the league. Fortunately, you can't say the same for the team and there are moments, even in kids' football when it's not the taking part that matters, it's the merciless destruction of the opposition. For Miles this was a return to his former club, which is quite cool when you think about it, while for Jordan Young and Jamo it was a chance to increase their season's tally by two apiece. We should mention the friendly match in this instance because not only did Miles managed to pop one in, George Sullivan ran riot in front of goal.
Cherry Tree (A) 2 - 2 Rosehill (B)
Last season we drew a number of games we should have won. This was a satisfying reverse of that trend. Never has a point been so hard won and this in itself showed a new grit amongst the team. Our two shots on goal during the entire game justly rewarded George Sullivan's efforts which were otherwise restricted to hovering around the halfway line wondering if the ball would ever leave our penalty area. Remarkably, we lead at one point but - despite Robert Banwell's brilliant performance in goal - the Cherry Tree equaliser was as predictable as their third, fourth and fifth goals. Just goes to show, you can't predict everything. A very, very, well won point. (Oh, and we're now without Miles thanks to a broken arm sustained by falling off/out of something high. Gah!)
Chinley Juniors 0 - 6 Rosehill Rovers (B)
Chinley are a new team but did they not exist, it would be necessary to invent them. Their picture-postcard ground was a pleasure to eventually find and they're a nice bunch of people. After our first goal went in, your writer lauded the team with the cry 'I'd buy you a beer for that if you were old enough' (it's an encouragement of sorts), the home supporters at once retorted 'we're old enough...!' This was the game when everything came together. Joe Jones ran riot down the left wing, setting up the first three and scoring the third. The aforementioned opener however, was the one we were writnig home about on the back of those picture postcards. A fabulously mature passing move seemed to end with a cross from Joe which, beautifully placed as it was, fell to the massively improved Callum Jones on the volley. Professional footballers would struggle to connect as perfectly as Callum subsequently did, hence the promise of beer in eight or so years. Elsewhere on the pitch Jamo got himself two, the increasingly intelligent Tom Rolph opened his account for the season and George popped in another. The team had played very well on other occassions this season, but this was not simply a goal-fest, it was proper football.
Rosehill Rovers (B) 2 - 1 Vernon Vipers (B)
As we gathered for this game, much of the talk was of Callums goal from the week before. The mums and dads who had missed the Chinley trip were treated to a good number of enthusiastic re-enactments but were soon treated to a goal that they themselves can pass on to future generations or total strangers in the pub. We took the lead with a great goal, Sam Jamo rounding off the sort of passing move that is becoming pleasingly typical of the lads but it was our second that had us all retrospectively reaching for the video cameras we don't own. It was simple enough in practice. A corner, a goal. Actually, there's nothing simple about that. We never score from corners but here we did, like we never will again. James had moved forward from defence and took up a position at the edge of the area. The ball arrived, slightly behind him. He flicked his heel, it went straight in. To put it another way, he scored with a backheel volley from the edge of the area. Eat that Mark Hughes. Of course, we made hard work of the win but we won and it was fun.
Glossop 3 - 1 Rosehill Rovers (B)
The best thing that could be said about this trip was that there was ample parking. The availability of just one pitch meant the B team had to stand around watching the A's before playing their match. A first half goal from Jamo, along with a more than competent performance all round, created a rosy picture at half time. Sadly the picture went all Dorian Grey at half time and a radically rejuvenated Glossop ran through us like a Chinley supporter at last orders. We'd been five games unbeated so no-one's really complaining.
Rosehill Rovers (B) 1 - 2 Hollingsworth Juniors
Blimey, what a battering. It would be pointless to fault our players because in keeping the defeat down to one goal they performed heroics. Once again, Robert Banwell was exceptional in goal. The Thomas/James partnership in defence kept Hollingsworth out for the whole first half and, stood on the side lines next to the opposiong manager, I had to throw him an apologetic glance when his team hit the bar for the umpteenth time. Eventually they broke through and quickly followed it up with a second. George Sullivan's fine goal in the last seconds would have been a consolation even if he'd scored it half an hour earlier but, as with the Cherry Tree game, we pushed a clearly superior side to the end. This way we'll earn points that last season we were giving away.
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