Match Report 24 October 2009 v London Welsh AFA Cup

AFA Cup v London Welsh - away - match abandoned after 25 minutes.

Not much to say about this game. Everyone knows what happened with Eamon losing it for no reason and pushing and punching the referee.

Its a shame because the game was being played in a good spirit and there wasn't a bad tackle or any kind of trouble until the incident, which just came out of the blue.

London Welsh were not a very strong team and we would have went on to win the game comfortably and be in the next round.

After the incident we carried on and played the rest of the game as a freindly, with us winning 3 -1. Great hatrick from Pasta. I thought the new ref was excellent!

Louis also played a role on the pitch and looked quite good in the right midfield/winger role, until I was told he was supposed to be playing right back.

Adam Tompkinson also showed us that he can play in goal, so Lewis beware.

The current situation is that the incident has been reported to the AFA and we are compiling our report to them. We have no defence as to what happened other that it was just one rougue player who caused the trouble out of nothing. I spoke to the referee after the game in the bar and he said that he had no problem with Minchenden as a Club or our third II in patricular and if he was asked to ref minchenden again he would do it without hesitation. The guys from London Welsh also said to me that they had no problem with us and if we needed it they would give our team (except 1) a character reference for the AFA.

It seems that we will get a large fine and be kicked out of the competition and hopefully nothing else. It would be a shame to punish the rest of the players for just one idiot.

For player ratings this week I will give everybody 9 out of 10 for keeping their composure during the whole time and the game afterwoods. I will give Pasta 10 for scoring some great goals.

Man on the match Pasta

For next weeks game it looks like I have 17 players. As I mentioned on Saturday, I will have to drop 3 players to the 4th II. For those that go down it does not mean that they will not be coming up again as you know injuries and unavailablity always occur.

Next Saturday we are back to League games and are away to Goffs Old Boys. I will post details of this later.

John