Change to 7-a-side tournament date
Please note, the 7-a-side tournament will take place on Friday 7th May and not the 23rd April as previously reported.
Match Report for 12th March 2010
Muckross v Three Rock Rovers - Friday 12th March 2010
The official manager was in a dilemma as to who should play in goal due to the fact that with Dee in goal the team would only have 10 players but with yours truly in goal and Dynamite Dee outfield we would have 11.
The decision was taken on the night to play 11, the game got under way with Margaret Towers umpiring on the far side of the pitch which was a little unsettling as she normally umpires on the rugby pitch side. After about 5 minutes play a short corner was awarded to Three Rock - god knows why - anyway they scored partly because our goalie was crap although Bernie did try to stop the ball with her leg. A few minutes later our crap goalie was faced with 2 on 1 and obviously went for the wrong player - yes they scored again. One of their forwards swore but the umpire chose to ignore this - perhaps a letter should be written to the Leinster branch pointing out how un-lady like this is!!! Me thinks she may have been enticed into swearing by one of our players (no names mentioned).
Nora pulled a fetlock and swapped places with Helen as centre forward - hopefully she’ll be ok for our last match.
Half time arrived with us 2-0 down, there was a quick turn around and believe it or not our goalie (and she’s good - no not me) from last week did a spectacular dive in the circle and scored!!! For some reason Vanessa decided to come back and play in defence, perhaps she was hoping to get player of the match - your trick failed. All was going along swimmingly until about a minute to go when Three Rock struck again and we went down 3-1. Mary MacSherry and Bernie O’Sullivan shared player of the match.
It was great to see Eleanor back out playing. Good luck to the team on 26th March when they take on Hermes in Railway at 7.30pm as I won’t be there and have left Dee in charge - will she show up on time to open the changing rooms??
Match Reports for 26th February and 5th March
Muckross v Genesis Friday 26th Feb 2010
Having received a call from Genesis informing me that they only had 6 players and after a head count I said no problem as we have 12 you can have 3 of our players and we’ll play a friendly. Having struggled into my gear and chatted with my team mates in the changing room we headed down to the pitch to find that in fact Genesis had 8 players and we only had 10!!! Don’t ask??!!
Anyway the game got under way and we should have scored at least 6 times in the first half but our mids and forwards could not put the ball in the net even though there was no goalie and on 1 occasion nobody in front of 1 of our players (no names mentioned but she plays cricket for Railway). At last Vanessa managed to score (about bloody time) and about 10 minutes later Ursula put the ball in the net having received the ball with a great flick back by Colette.
Yours truly touched the ball once although Emer had to shout at me to move as I was rooted to the ground. Half time came and we were 2 nil up. The second half saw some lovely hockey with great passing between players on both sides but no goals were scored or conceded. Gormlaith was awarded woman of the match.
We retired to bar for our warm down and were joined by Railway who had travelled all the way to Botanic while we were using their pitch - who does the fixtures these days?? Railway beat Botanic 4-0 and as we drew with Railway I am expecting great things next Friday at 7.30pm in Railway against Botanic.
Muckross v Botanic Friday 5th March 2010
At 3.30pm on Friday 5th March a plea went out to all club members to come and help out the vets who were reduced to 9 players due to other commitments - needless to say there was no response and to make matters worse Hilary cried off as she had to work late and our sponsor forgot that we had a match!!!
With 7 players we took to the pitch to take on the 11 strong Botanic side only to find ourselves 1-0 down at half time which was a pretty good effort although Colette tried to take out Emer instead of one of the opposition. The girls were a little out of breath but went back out for the second half determined to try and score a goal. Nora got a rush of blood to the head and forgot that an outfield player is no longer allowed to stop the ball with a hand and gave away a penalty corner (we all thought this should have been a stroke!!??). Dynamite Dee lived up to her name and pulled off save after save although one of her dives was a little late but looked good and she was awarded player of the match.
The full time whistle went and we lost 1-0 but in my book that was a win with 8 (yes our sponsor Mary turned up with 5 minutes to go) against 11.
Our next match is on Friday 12th March v Three Rock Rovers in Railway at 7.30pm.