An early game for the Archie and the boys this morning. Myself, Archie and Charlie were in the car and on our way to Tring Cricket Club, 16 miles away, at 09:00 for 10:00 kick off. I pre-warned Archie that it was going to be a very difficult match against a team currently sitting 2nd in the top division.
As you can see from the scoreline, you would have thought that it wasn't a successful day at the office, but, to be fair to the lads, they played a pretty good game. The only flaw being that they weren't winning the 50/50 tackles and were rarely first to the loose ball. The whole team gave it their all and was particularly impressed with the way in which Archie played, along with Harry (who was awarded our man of the match), Franky, Liam, Ric and Elliot. The first half seemed like a very evenly fought out contest. Archie had a couple of darting runs on the left flank beating several defenders and also took part in some wonderful one touch football with his team mates. We went in at half time only 2-0 down.
At half time the boys were told in no uncertain terms that they had to be more physical. A couple of the boys did well not to lose face as the deficit grew. Archie was subbed along with Ric and Liam but they got put back on the field and finished the game. Towards the end of the game we were unlucky not to get a consolation goal, which we more than deserved, but the home teams defence was very difficult to penetrate (as the 1st division league table confirms, they have kept 3 clean sheets in 5 games).
Even though we got beat 7-0, Archie was upbeat with his performance on the way back home, i thought it was the best I'd seen him play without scoring. Next week Herons begin their defence of the Junior League Cup with a home match against Kings Langley.
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