Sunday, 6 July 2008

Maz and McLoskey steal the show!


It's a secret, but Chelsea are looking at making a move for Maz and McLoskey..

It was a new era in the season of the Draw riddled Braves squad on Sunday when they broke their goalsocring drought. With a keen Donnie and and Dan 'McLoskey' Southam up front, the Braves consistently hit feet and made runs from the midfield to support the goalscoring duo.
It was one of those runs from the midfield that saw Maz go one on one with the Tathra keeper, a first time left foot shot squeezing under him to trikle into the goal under the watcful eye of McLoskey. Maz was quoted as saying later that he was trying to nutty the goalie.

Not so long after it was McLoskey who proved a nice square ball for Donnie who finished well from the edge of the area. A flashback to his glory days! May there be many more!

Mcloskey then added 2 more (he may have scored the second), slammed into Donnie in the area, to bugger a good chance, but he wasn't alone in blowing a chance. Paddy had a few good chances, Crouchy almost perfected his edge of the area misfire, Dunko got good at blazing over the bar, J Mac dribbled a couple at the goalie and even Big (not gay) Al chanced his arm a couple of times.

Simo had his best game of the year at the back, Adam was keen and marked tighter than a fishes you know what, Mac was the rock, Barney was solid in more ways than one in goals. Fox was keen, delivering left foot crosses out for goalkicks consistently and putting himself about in every tackle.

A highlight of the second half was Maz taking 7 touches a second everytime he got the ball, getting the Brave's first yellow for the year, much to the regret of the ref. He also managed to bang one in from 30 metres, a candidate for goal of the year which the goalie could do nothing at all about.

Buzz made some lovely runs when he came on to stretch out his blod clot (cork), and could have scored a couple of times but was frustrated.

Nice to see Bemboka's own Crusty the Clown Impersonator and former Brave and now children's recording superstar Tim Bevitt and co in the crowd. We've got Crouchy- 7ft plus tall timber these days Bevo, so he's a good replacement for you:)

Coach J Mac said he was happy, but we should have slotted 6ish at the end of the day. Much better passing, control, ball winning, possession and penetration than the last few weeks though. Is this the turning point for the season?

Only time will tell.

Training as normal this week- building on our current form!

Go you Braves!

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