Matthew was scheduled to play an indoor game (at Legacy) Saturday night but Friday brought some interesting emails - could the team switch schedules to an earlier time slot to play in a college showcase game. 30 minutes against two teams, 30 minutes off between games. Hate this late notice (I’m the manager this year to try and avoid some of the admin problems the team has been having - which would frustrate the hell out of me if I wasn’t kind of in charge) but ask everyone and it seems we can make it. Turns out the organizers did have 8-10 college coaches in attendance.
Match 1 - We play MAFC 02 - when Chill fell apart last year there were four ‘great’ 02s on that team. Three, including Matthew, play on the Rush team but one has chosen to drive down to Brighton to play with MAFC and has made some (maybe joking?) comments that he didn’t play with Rush because they/we were a ‘bad team’.
So it is really cool that we just obliterate the MAFC team. It’s 4-0 and the ref gives them a verrrry soft PK to make the final 4-1. Boys are really happy about the result, parents are happy, it’s a good thing. Against MRL competition (the ‘higher’ league that is ‘supposedly’ better than us) we are 4-0 this year when our full team plays.
Match 2 - we’re matched up against the Fire 00’s; they are two years older. And they come out and are bigger, faster, more physical, and we are down 2-0 quickly. We rally to play the rest of the game even but it was a disappointing outing. In the end…pretty easy to forget when you think back about how the day began with that win…yeah, who cares about this game.
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