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Football Coaches Assocaition -Evon Mckenzie
Round 17 Claro Super League
Match: Maverley/Hughenden FC Vs Bull Bay FC Saturday January
23- 2009 3.00pm; Venue: Maverley Sports Complex. Weather: Sunny, windy and dry; Field: Grass – Poor with large bare areas in both penalty
and goal areas as well as in the middle third of the field,
uneven bounce expected. Coaches: Keith Johnson – Maverley/Hughenden FC -- Andrew
Williams –Bull Bay FC Formation: Maverley/Hughenden - 3 -5-2; Bull Bay 4-5 – 1.
(L) Keith
Johnson – Maverley/Hughenden FC -- Andrew Williams –Bull Bay
FC
Coach Andrew Williams of Bull
Bay said his team had come to claim all three points in the
game; they did some work on passing during the week and is
expected to play total football. In his view, since Maverley is
one of the weaker teams in the competition, his team should play
without pressure, play good football and win as they prepare for
the next season.
Coach Keith Johnson of Maverley
was not available due to the fact that the homesters were not
organized and certainly not ready when the referee called the
teams to the line.
Warm Up
Bull Bay was the only team that
did some warm up on the day .They spent some 18 minutes mostly
on dynamic exercise as well as multidirectional movements;
unfortunately they concluded with six minutes of static
stretching!
The home boys were busy sorting
themselves out so they were not able to warm up before the game.
However as some of their players walked on the field, they began
to stretch while they were very dry. Now, even if they were not
planning to stay in the super league for the next season, there
was no reason to stretch when cold.
Two Cellar Dwellers
The game started seven minutes
late due to the late arrival of the police. However, as the
whistle went, Bull Bay immediately started to put some passes
together and proved that coach Williams’ work during the week
could turned out to be very useful for them . In the meantime,
the underprepared Maverley Hughenden team seemed to use the time
on the field to get warm as well as to get organized. It wasn’t
surprising therefore to see that Bull Bay started the scoring as
in the 16th minute, Maverley defenders failed to clear a ball
coming from the left side of the field and provided Bull Bay’s
Bevill Grossett with the opportunity to strike home a power
house which the Maverley custodian could not handle properly.
Kryshon Dryden equalized in the 29th minute from a goal mouth
melee when Bull Bay’s goalkeeper came to intercept a high ball
coming from the deep and failed to make contact from an ill
timed unnecessary high jump supported by the usual high boots
even then the ball was so hard to that it was first kicked on
the upright and with a feeble effort ended up in the Bull Bay’s
net.
Energy from the Equalizer
The home supporters sensing
that three points were very much in their grasp began to
encourage their team who despite the support were not able to
respond positively to them. Chances came for both teams to take
the lead in the remaining minutes but faulty shooting let them
down and the first half came to an end with Bull Bay holding the
advantage with more possession.
The second half started with
much expectation from the home supporters yearning for a win
which could take them closer to other teams in the cellar.
However, the continued individual effort by Maverley appeared to
draw the visitors into playing the game they wanted hence Bull
Bay opted to suspend the team game they played in the first half
and started playing the long deep passes and hoped for one to
score. Well hope did turn in their favour as the game petered
out into what was heading for a draw until in the 81st minute
Sheldon Madden ran on to a threaded pass and slot the ball on
the ground pass the oncoming keeper to give bull Bay the lead
for the second and final time in the game, When the final
whistle blew. The homesters were left pondering their fate for
the next season.
Post Match
The happy Andrew Williams said
that his team played the better football on the day and deserved
to win. “We passed the ball very well in the first half but with
fatigue stepping in we did not do the same in the second half”.
In expressing the view that his team was the fitter team, he
said that this condition will help them to play better in their
preparation for the next season.
On the other hand, Keith
Johnson said that his team was not as disciplined and they will
have to decide what they want to do next season. He said that
they still have an outside chance to play the super League next
season but the leaders and the players will have to do better
quickly.
Fact or Science Sometimes
Lags Behind Effectiveness
In 1969 when Armstrong, Aldrin
and Collins visited the moon, some 40 years later many still
don’t believe that man can in fact reach the moon. The fact that
a team win a league doesn’t negate the fact that science have
proven that static stretching reduces muscle strength for up to
60 minutes after the stretching, so if a team wins they were not
exempted from the muscle strength reduction. What I can say is
that they won even though they could be more efficient and
effective if they did dynamic stretching.
Team football requires
training, and sometimes many hours on the training field to get
the result you need, but it is possible. Google is at almost
everybody finger tips, therefore any information that is in
doubt can be queried, to sit back and wonder or even worst to
hold onto the fact that I did this 10, 20, 30 of 40 years ago
and win a cup so I can’t see why these guys shouldn’t do the
same is like asking a youngster not to take the bus and walk two
or three miles to school
