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Sat 27 Oct 2018
Cambridge Nomads Hockey Club
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Men's 3rd XI: No Points for Performance

Men's 3rd XI: No Points for Performance

Peter Jarvis8 Nov 2018 - 23:27
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We were good again this week, unfortunately Ely were better

It's taken me a while to write this one, partly because of other commitments which I won't bore you with, partly because of general laziness, and partly because I have been waiting to come up with something more original than "we were good but they were better". But nothing else is coming, and as the above statement basically sums up the game it feels like time to get something down.

The pre-match team-talk was about how this would be the most serious test of the season so far, and how we could not afford to start as slowly as we had against St Ives or we would get punished and it would be a very long haul back into the game. So, thus inspired by the skipper's rhetoric, we started every bit as slowly as we had against St Ives, we, um, got punished by a couple of forwards who were rather quicker than last week's opponents, and, well, it proved a very long haul back into the game.

We did manage to play a hell of a lot better in the final three quarters, and created a good number of chances. However, this week instead of spraying them all around the skipper was hitting them unerringly into the pads of the Ely keeper. Bit of over-correction that, I will try to come up with something kind of between those two extremes for next time. Chances fell to plenty of other people as well, they did rather better with them but the Ely keeper was in great form and managed to keep out everything that came his way. So a lot of huffing and puffing from us, but the Ely house remained very much not blown in. We even tried coming down the chimney, but as we all know that never ends well.

But although we came away with nothing this week, I have to be pleased with the vast majority of that performance. We kept moving the ball, we kept creating openings, and once we had sorted ourselves out from the early goals, we defended pretty competently. The difference in the end though was our poor start, and credit to Ely for punishing us for it. Not much else to say really. We showed thereafter that we can still play, and we certainly competed more than cometently against the current leaders. However, against these top sides we are going to have to start better than that and not allow them such an easy early advantage. We will take the lessons from this one, remember what we still did very well, and we move on.

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Sat 27 Oct 2018

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