Just 2 weeks ago Bletchley Town beat a mixed Trees side 6v2 although they did have 33 players (they didn't play them all at the same time though that would be just stupid).but the Ressies restored some local pride with a great display against our South Mids neighbours as the respective Reserves Teams clashed.

Again there were some new faces fielded by the Trees with the likes of John Hall, Mike, Andy Cadman & Dee playing with some returning players like Del Priceo and Wayne.

Trees had the better of the early encounters with John Hall looked a decent addition to the Club as he was running the midfield and the strike combination of Dee and Nige looked lively without ever looking like passing to each other. Nige admitted that he hadn't a clue what Dee was going to do next, although if Nige didn't know then the opposition wouldn't have a clue either.

Trees took the lead with an exquisite volley from Nige which would be a deserved addition to his Golden Goals DVD available soon from all good retailers. A cross came in from the left which came at an awkward height for Del Priceo. Any normal person not playing at International level would have tried to bring it down, but Nige who doesn't do tap ins launched himself into the air and executed a perfect scissor kick volley. The effort alone would have been great enough regardless of where the ball ended up, but the ball flew into the back of the net with the Keeper rooted to the spot.

Cloggsy had the rare luxury of a defence that looked solid as the the back 4 were restricted Town to only 1 effort in the 1st half which Jon easily dealt with.

The 2nd half saw Town move up a gear, although it was still a shock to concede an equaliser as they hadn't looked like threatening up to that point. Three Trees players challenged for the same ball, although as Cloggsy pointed out that is better than no-one challenging like he had for most of last season and the loose ball fell to Gerrard... hang on what the F*ck is Gerrard doing playing for Town?? I hope that he got confused and wandered into the wrong dressing room, get that man signed on for the Trees!

Gerrard - swaps Trees striking duties for lino flag at Town!

Anyway his effort was well cleared off the line by Mike whose poor clearance fell straight to Gerrard who gobbled up the unexpected 2nd chance and equalised.

Town weren't level for long as John Hall burst through the middle of the Town side and cooly dinked it over the Keeper for an impressive debut goal. From that moment on it was always going to end in a Trees victory. Dee was put through minutes later and he rarely looks like missing when presented with such a situation and dropped the shoulder on the Keeper before going round him and slotting into an empty net.

We should have made it 3v1 when Dave Benson & Hedges (I know that's not his real surname, but when you have a double barreled surname you should expect to have the piss ripped out of you) went through with Trees outnumbering the Town defence 4 to 2. Of all the players to pick out he chose that prolific marksman Rusty who couldn't convert and the chance went begging.

 

 

New Signing John Hall gives the Town midfield the run-around before notching twice

Town weren't finished and reduced the deficit to 3v2 but then we found holes in their defence bigger than that hole in Waynes teeth and Dave B-H made it 4v2 with quite possibly the worst goal ever scored in BTFC history. If Nige's goal could be compared to a Miss World contestant then Dave's goal was an ugly munter of an effort who even Newsham wouldn't touch after half a bottle of JD....... actually it was worse than that and she also has 5 kids and lives in Tinkers Bridge.

Rusty went through again and amazed everyone by skipping pas the Keeper in a rare moment of skill. He laid the ball off to Dave who had an empty goal about 4 yards out who proceeded to hit the bar. A lifetime of abuse was reduced to only a few weeks when he converted the rebound. To his credit he didn't celebrate the effort, although he had to face the wrath of the BTFC support as Cloggsy immediatly subbed him straight afterwards with the purpose to get the piss ripped out of him.

We could now relax and took time to laugh at Walshy who took time to chat to some of the younger members of his fan club on the sidelines as BTFC were in control.

When Walshy asked his pupils to meet him after school in a quiet location this is not what he had in mind!

Note - Bruce notes the 2 Girls and 1 Man scenario and moves in

Gravesy belatedly entered the action late on after stressing to Cloggsy that he hadn't risked divorce for a run out in the final 5 minutes although he may have wished he hadn't bothered after being literally bulldozed to the ground by Big Nathan in an aerial challenge. The ball had richoched in the air and it was one of those challenges that you know there's a good chance you will get flattened but you can't bottle out of. Gravesy not known for his aerial prowess done his token jump where he doesn't expect to win it but tafter Nathan won the aerial challenge he then literally flattened Gravesy afterwards. Astonishingly Gravesy had no recollection of the incident afterwards which can only be down to mild concussion.

Jezza challenges Gerrard in the air

John Hall capped a fine performance with another dinked effort as Trees finished the game well on top which as Cloggsy pointed out is his 3rd win in a row - Good Times.