Ballina midfielder wins player of the match in Final
Ballina has succumbed to an unfortunate defeat in the final of the Anzac cup losing on penalties to some Lismore team.. . I don’t know which they all have the same vacant expression and shifty eyes.
The Balllina boys started proceedings well with some solid passing and constructive play only to allow the other team to net an easy goal. This however seemed to spur the seahorses on and they pushed forward repeatedly only to be denied time and again.
With Ballina enjoying the bulk of possession for the first half, the Lismore team were left looking ambulatory and disinterested, as if they were passing time until the centrelink opened the next day. This allowed Ballina to push forward and create holes with Troy Percival looking dangerous up front being supported by Shannon Macjieski (apologies for the butchering of your name dude) and Brent Manieri.
After the half time interval, the Lismore team still appeared disinterested and intent to only attack on the break. A tactic that was thwarted time and again by the Ballina backline, with big ups to Dave Betteridge, Dane Seymour, the unflappable Thommo and the webmaster himslef Lucas Wagland.
Apparently having not read (possibly due to lacking the ability to) the always entertaining football article in the local “newspaper” by their football “journalist” Lismore were again pedestrian at best after the half with Ballina able to turn concentrated pressure in to goals through a cracker from Phil Amery and penalty from Troy Percival after Cerys Hawkins expertly picked out a defenders arm in the box.
The seahorses pushed for a third goal to finish the tie, however this allowed the other team to score which brought the game back to evens. Then we scored through the ever reliable Adam Izzard and they got one back. It then went to extra time and then penalties. Afterwhich the game ended. Oh and Shaz got the player of the match. Huzzah for Shaz. Well deserved.
The Ballina squad did well in the game and should supporters should be bouyed by the teams efforts as the controlled the majority of the play and played some attractive football and created a lot of chances.
Oh and post script what the heck were the talking about in the “newspaper” article about them using the “spirit on Anzac day” to help them win? What the hell does that make us the Turks? They do actually read what he writes before they print it don’t they?
April 26th, 2008 at 7:57 am
Addendum. Just read the match review in the paper. It seems that whilst they were ejecting people for bringing their own alcohol you could smoke as much crack as you wanted
April 26th, 2008 at 10:26 am
i would just like to congratulate our new signing aaron Izzard on scoring a goal for the club. He did very feel for nor turning up to training or any other games. A big effort from Adam Izzard who netted the third goal for us.
April 26th, 2008 at 10:52 am
Just wanted to let all the players know how well you ALL played last night. Great to see a terrific TEAM effort all the game. Keep it up! Proud of you all.
Well done to the coach & manager Smith combo too for masterminding the effort.
And well done to the vocal supporters who helped spur on the team.
April 26th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
there was crack there…
April 26th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
Well whoever wrote the article in the paper was obviously smoking it
April 27th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
apparently it was matthews who sparked rovers with a 80cm kick, coincedentally the ‘journalist’ should have also been ejected for whatever he sparked up upon writing these ‘articles’… i havent witnessed many anzac cup finals but that would have to be one of, or the best final played from any point of view, but i guess ‘ballina scored three lucky goals to make a game of it’ makes for much better reading
pretty decent effort tho boys, we keep turnin up like that every week and we will be back there for the trophies that count, massive effort from shaz, thoroughly deserved mom, even more considering he started on the bench!!!
April 28th, 2008 at 9:44 am
Yeh in between scoring our third goal Aaron was standing out the back in a dark corner selling it.. I would just like to say how our literacy skills are going through the roof….i mean we now use words such as ambulatory to describe soccer games…..thats superlative stuff.
April 29th, 2008 at 9:15 pm
great game, not sure what game the reporter was watching but anyway, no point crying over something that happens everytime we play. Oh yeah I think luc must be tooooo super fast when saving goals cause in 7 years they still only have pictures of the ball in the net