The Trees Res tour of Great Britain continued with a journey up the M1 to West Haddon. Trees took another strong squad with 5 subs, which is good considering we were missing 3 players. Trees started poorly again and found themselves 1 down in 10 mins for the 2nd game running (must start better).
Agian we settled down well and stop panicking and started to play some exellent football. Wayne F pulled back the deficit with a lovely top corner strike from the edge of the box. Debuts were given to Jake, Ben and young Dan all of whom were very impressive. Shawn and Dave Bartlett were rocks at the back and composed playing the ball out of defence and not just lumping it forward. Jez went in goal in the second half, taking over from Rusty who made a point blank save from a West Haddon corner. Trees were 2-1 up at half time after Walshy kind of gave the lead from a free kick which the keeper dropped into the net for us, it was nothing more we deserved.
2nd half saw some really good football being played mainly from closing West haddon down quickly as a group and breaking quickly, although they did nearly equalise just after the break from a long ball over the top but the West Haddon net bulged 3 more times with strikes from Benson, Ben and Jake.
Oh by the way Deano missed a pen.


GAFFA SAYS

Outstanding performance and a joy to watch. Play like this next season and we'll not be far from the top. Thanks to Andy for arranging and to West Haddon FC for their hospitality.Next stop a bit closer to home as we take on Bally's boys at Tattenhoe on Thursday kick of 6 45pm.