So, the BTH Raiders are back with a bang in 2011 with their first friendly match of the season, and a first win. We took on the Harbord AL5's on a cold, windy, rainy Sunday evening, and beat them 4-2.
I was AMAZED when I turned up to find we had 15 players for the game, that's twice as many as our average for the league games last season. Nice one boys, hopefully this season will be more fun than last season. If we can get the team from Sunday on the pitch regularly then I think we'll have a good shout of winning this year.
Adam played in goals for us, and did a great job. Only one small error where he palmed a shot into his own goal. We can't blame him for that though, he had spent a full season watching Rury last year, so he was bound to be a little confused.
We played a 3-4-3 formation, which worked well going forward, but maybe not so well at the back, so some shuffling around maybe required for the next friendly match.
The team was from the following:
Defenders: Mick, Craig, Dean, Javs
Midfielders: Dave, Brian, Robbie, Tony, Nico, Alain
Strikers: Butch, Ben, Tucks, Alan
In the future, I hope to get some photos from the games to make the blog more interesting.
I am hoping to organise another friendly match in the next few weeks to give us a bit of match practice before the start of the season, I will let you all know as soon as I know anything.
Alan
P.S. In true football team fashion, we will be doing a 'dick of the day' award each week. This week it goes to Ben for using the word Scrimage to describe a friendly match. Brian was a close second for backing him up on this point, but just got away with it.
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