'A' Team Match Reports
Bishopthorpe 1 – 1 Tadcaster Albion
Squad: Alfie, Ethan, George, Jack, James, Scott, Tom
Scorers: James
Tadcaster Albion made the short trip over to Bishopthorpe hoping to maintain their excellent early season form.
The first half started at a frantic pace and that combined with a rock hard pitch, meant that the quality of football suffered. It certainly didn’t affect the excitement though as play switched from end to end and both defenses struggled to cope with high balls. Alfie had to be alert and as brave as ever rushing out to save on a couple of occasions and Jack rattled the Bish crossbar with a high looping effort. It was amazing really that it took until the end of the first half before the opening goal – the first real quality piece of play. Tom drove up the middle beating 2 players before passing out wide for James to riffle the ball into the net.
The second half was a mirror of the first. End to end play and absolute total commitment from both teams. Taddy rattle the woodwork twice more, but it was Bishopthorpe who completed the scoring when the Taddy defence was deceived by a high bouncing ball which left Alfie with no chance.
Having struck the woodwork 3 times, Taddy can count themselves unlucky not to have nicked all the points, but to be truthful a draw was a fair result.
Man of the Match: Alfie – Showed what a great ‘keeper he his with a couple of excellent first half saves.
2nd Game report
Bishopthorpe 1– 1 Tadcaster Albion
Squad: Alfie, Ethan, George, Jack, James, Scott, Tom
Scorers: James
Two very tired teams lined up for the second game and once again positions were swapped around for the friendly match. Tom and Scott seemed to be having some sort of “who can get away with the most blatant handball in our own area” competition (won by Tom for his 2-handed effort). To be honest though, all the boys put so much into the first match that they might have been better just calling it a day.
The stand-out players were Alfie (fair enough as he’d been stood in goal for all of the first match) and George who showed real hunger to get on the score sheet again (and came really close to doing that).
As for the action, well … Bishopthorpe scored first; we equalised when their ‘keeper couldn’t deal with James’ corner.
Man of the Match: George – see comment above.
Bishopthorpe 1 – 1 Tadcaster Albion
Squad: Alfie, Ethan, George, Jack, James, Scott, Tom
Scorers: James
Tadcaster Albion made the short trip over to Bishopthorpe hoping to maintain their excellent early season form.
The first half started at a frantic pace and that combined with a rock hard pitch, meant that the quality of football suffered. It certainly didn’t affect the excitement though as play switched from end to end and both defenses struggled to cope with high balls. Alfie had to be alert and as brave as ever rushing out to save on a couple of occasions and Jack rattled the Bish crossbar with a high looping effort. It was amazing really that it took until the end of the first half before the opening goal – the first real quality piece of play. Tom drove up the middle beating 2 players before passing out wide for James to riffle the ball into the net.
The second half was a mirror of the first. End to end play and absolute total commitment from both teams. Taddy rattle the woodwork twice more, but it was Bishopthorpe who completed the scoring when the Taddy defence was deceived by a high bouncing ball which left Alfie with no chance.
Having struck the woodwork 3 times, Taddy can count themselves unlucky not to have nicked all the points, but to be truthful a draw was a fair result.
Man of the Match: Alfie – Showed what a great ‘keeper he his with a couple of excellent first half saves.
2nd Game report
Bishopthorpe 1– 1 Tadcaster Albion
Squad: Alfie, Ethan, George, Jack, James, Scott, Tom
Scorers: James
Two very tired teams lined up for the second game and once again positions were swapped around for the friendly match. Tom and Scott seemed to be having some sort of “who can get away with the most blatant handball in our own area” competition (won by Tom for his 2-handed effort). To be honest though, all the boys put so much into the first match that they might have been better just calling it a day.
The stand-out players were Alfie (fair enough as he’d been stood in goal for all of the first match) and George who showed real hunger to get on the score sheet again (and came really close to doing that).
As for the action, well … Bishopthorpe scored first; we equalised when their ‘keeper couldn’t deal with James’ corner.
Man of the Match: George – see comment above.
