17 March, 2008
Westmanstown were the visitors to Old Conna on a wet windy
morning last Saturday to play our U10 team. Westmanstown are a
football only team and are a formidable side as they regularly
clock up seventy points per game. However as it turned out the
opposition did not overawe these young Bray lads. As the visitors
were short players on the day we loaned them three players and
played a 12-aside match.
From the start the Bray lads got stuck into the opposition and
exerted all the early pressure and we got some early scores on the
board. Westmanstown were very economical with their rare forays
into our half whereas the Bray lads were struggling with the greasy
ball and shot several wides. Our goalkeeper Jimmy who just returned
after a few weeks absence was tremendous in his distribution of the
ball from kickouts which helped us keep constant pressure on the
opposition defence. The half time score was 7-4 to the
visitors.
As required under Go Games we rotated several players at the
break and this seemed to be our undoing. During the third quarter
we scored another 4 points but again we struggled to hit the target
with another few near misses. During the final quarter the
Westmanstown midfield began to take over. Their two big men started
to get the range and pick off the scores and our distribution out
of defence started to splutter giving them some more opportunities.
The final score ended 28-8 but with a half dozen over the bar
scores (3 points each) squandered that we would normally get this
should have been a much closer finish. In relative terms this was a
strong performance from Bray as they managed to hold such quality
opposition for three quarters of the match. An all round good
performance with each and every player giving their all.
