The Match report 26 October 2009
THE RESERVES CLIMBING UP THE TABLE!!
 
After emphatically whipping New Malden town last week the reserves were looking for a comfortable win against Putney lions. The whole team were confident from the previous 2 weeks victories. the game started with the sun beaming on a well tended pitch. It didn’t take long to get into our stride with a few sloppy passes here and there but with us comfortably in control creating various chances but just not finishing. It started to look like Putney’s lack lustre performance was starting to rub of on us.
Finally the first goal then came after a free kick in our own half was lofted in by Scott, bounced over the on rushing  keepers head and through his hands and Scott’s Bro was their to steal the glory. After the first goal we started to get in our stride and create chances. The second goal came thanks to macca after a nice one two with Paul Macca calmly kept his head to beat two defenders and then the keeper.
Half time- Putney lions 0-2 Roundshaw reserves
After some home truths regarding our poor performance from Dave, we stepped out for the second half, it didn’t start too lively as Putney seemed to of finally got their act together and came on strong with some great defending by our back four & Wayne. We defended like Trojans however after 10 minutes Putney reverted back to their norm whilst we got our heads down to complete the job we started.
Soon after the interval the third came after a great run from Juan he kept his composure to slot past the keeper for 3-0 and all three points, Putney lions weren't going down without a fight and they saw there best effort of the game fantastically saved by Wayne aka Spiderman who was determined to get his first clean sheet of the season, and then was lucky to keep it after another long range effort left the crossbar rattling.
With about twenty minutes to go Roundshaw looked more than comfortable, disappointingly Putney where let down by their No.15 6ft.2” & 20 + stone when he started to wipe out our wingers under the pretext of getting the ball obviously upset because they had been raping him all game, it did look very silly when he faced up to Juan who came just above his belly button, hey maybe he will look back and see what he looked like. We then added to their misery by smashing in a fourth, a great cross by Al saw macca's overhead kick the ball only to rebound off the post and land at Juan’s feet to smash the fourth and final goal.
The remainder of the game saw a switch from Dave to let his returning injured players have a kick and the smart switch helped Roundshaw see out the rest of the game without danger.
Final score Putney lions 0 - 4 Roundshaw reserves
Man of the match - Juan (9), a all round great game, and proved to much for the left back good efforts to defend as well.

 Match Reporter Paul Williams

W**ker of the week award Putney's No.15 closely followed by josh who played the ball to himself when taking a corner that left us all scratching our heads with this twilight zone moment.

 Player scores Wayne 8 Adam 8 Scott 8 Bizzy 8 E-man 7 Juan 9 Josh 8  Al 7 paul 7 Jon 7 Richie 8 mike 7 Macca 8

Managers Comment: very pleased about the clean sheet a poor performance by us generally but as they say when you can grind out a win and a 0 – 4 win at that when we aren’t playing well that’s the sign of a great team. most improved game Adam for the assist, composure and team management on the pitch also a mention in despatches about Bizzy for finally starting to open those legs and go

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