Remmer & the Arg 8-8 H-ton Hawks (Pre-Season Friendly)

The H-ton Hawks are left disappointed after they fail to pick up their first win.
In a game they should have won the Hawks should they do have the ability to score goals.

This week the team was Borthwick (goalkeeper), Lawrence, Cummings, Houghton and Watchman Atkinson as Wilson and Aldridge were sidelined with man-flu. After a very scrappy first 5 minutes in which the Hawks were all over the place, they found themselves 1-nil down, but managed to turn things around with by applying pressure to the opposition and pulling off excellent passing manoeuvres. It wasn't long before the Hawks were in control. For the remainder of the first half they dominated the play. This resulted in some in-fighting between the Remmer & the Arg team-mates. This spurred the Hawks on and they took a 6-2 lead.

With the Hawks in a commanding position the game looked theirs. Unfortunately in the world of H-ton Hawks, things never go to plan. The lack of fitness kicked in and the Hawks started to struggle. The runs down the flanks that had proven so decisive in the first half dried up. The play from the back was flat. The running machine that is Houghton descended into a canter after a knock in the chest winded him.

The Hawks momentum had ceased. Remmer & the Arg pulled it back to 6 all, then it went to 7-6. The Hawks found themselves behind for the first time since the opening goal. They dug deep to find an equaliser but then fell behind again. With minutes to go, Houghton let rip with a long range power shot which caught a slight deflection and went sailing into the goal. 8-8 was the score with only a couple of minutes remaining. This was to be the end of the match. A member of the opposition turned their ankle straight after the restart resulting in the rest of the game being abandoned due to the time the first aid treatment took.

This was a very entertaining game for the spectator. Dave the referee commented that it was on of the best games he'd seen. Hawks goals came from Houghton(3), Lawrence(3) and SWA(2). All the goals were well taken in their own right. The unselfish play by SWA in passing to Law to calmly slot the ball past the keeper, the individual skill of SWA to talk on players and power home the goal, and the shear persistence of Houghton to intercept the goal keeper's throw-out and knock it into the back of the net. Cummings played a solid performance in defence and Borthwick played another blinder in goal. The Hawks will be disappointed not to take a win from this fixture.

Next week sees the first week of the new season with the Hawks in division 2. The game is on Court 1 at 7.30pm, 18th November against Barmy Army.