Versus Simply Mortgages, 01/08/07

A seriously depleted tfk team minus the sevices of Rocko, Fats, Smelly, Ro and Colly travel to Raheny tonight to take on this bunch of brokers in a 2nd vs 3rd battle.

Everyone else will have to up their own performances massively in the absence of all the lads.

Leaders will need to emerge where once timid little lambs stood.

We can still get a result with the right attitude and application.

Let’s get into them team.

I love you guys (equally).

A bit of a sickener tonight and it looks like we’re consigned to 3rd place in the league now

Played pretty well but ultimately our depleted squad succumbed 5-2.

We held a 2-1 lead from early in the first half until the latter part of the second and in truth missed some excellent chances to extend the lead. As the relative stalemate continued deep into the second half the 4th goal of the night was always going to be crucial.

After I saved a one-on-one the rebound was handled on the line by one of our covering defenders who was sin-binned for the offence. I sprung cat-like in typical Bandage fashion to the top right hand corner to tip the resultant penalty over the bar and it seemed like we could go on and do it.

However, it was gutting to concede in a scramble from the corner that followed. We then fell apart somewhat and the opposition used their man advantage to good effect and put us to the sword from there to the finish with some slick moves to find the man in space.

There was lots of good things about our play tonight and if we had got the goal for 3-1 then we could have won it but ultimately the sending off turned the game.

A shame but that’s football.

Smashing debut by John despite the hand ball though.