B Team
The comeback game of our season so far.
After Rob had given the team his game plan and all was prepared for another day of football, it all was going well until the kick off. A corner was unnecessarily conceded straight from kick off, and it produced a goal inside 25 seconds as some loose defending allowed Gleeson a free header on the 6yd box. From the restart Sturt seemed ruffled and could not settle into any rhythm as a result we conceded another goal 7min's later.
Sturt finally gained some composure and pushed Gleeson in midfield but there was no way past the tight defence being set up in front of them. Sturt became more frustrated and lost there shape as the game wore on and it became a battle not to concede any more goal before half time. Half time score Sturt Marion 0 - 2 Gleeson
A reassuring talk at the break and a positional change had Sturt moving the ball much better at the start but it wasn't until some angry on field words between 2 Sturt players that got everyone fired up. It seemed as though that was what it needed for Sturt to really push themselves and it didn't take long before Tim Clarke opened the scoring account for Sturt with a well taken strike.
Gleeson seemed to stir alittle but were sent back into their half as Sturt mounted more serious attacks. Gleeson came forward again and were awarded a corner which was cleared out for another corner on the same side, this time the corner resulted in a direct goal as both the keeper and defenders were caught out by the in corner assisted by the stiff wind blowing towards the Sturt goal, now 1 - 3 down and the game, to many bystander who had seen it happen before, looked over for a despondent Sturt team.
However a few minutes later another Sturt attack forced Gleeson to give away a free outside the box. Steve Grafton and Tim Clarke stood over the ball before Tim hit a pearler of a left footer curling into the far corner of the net, score now 2 - 3. About 10 min's remained and Gleeson were struggling to hold on and it was too much for them as Tim Clarke finished the day with his 2nd half hat trick as he pulled away to the right and as the ball was played across goal he stepped forward and drove the ball back across goal and into the net, score now 3 -3 .
The final whistle blew soon after , but if the game had gone on for another 5 min's Sturt could have won the game. Well done to all the team for a quite welcome result, it gets us of the mark and sets us up for more improvement.
Good games from Tim Clarke, Dave Woodifield, Elliott Brown, Simon Green, Adam Gray
FINAL SCORE Sturt Marion 3 - 3 Gleeson Team Tom Beatty, Richard Styles,David Woodifield,Ron Parry, Steve Grafton, Adam Gray, Elliott Brown, Simon Green, Simon Patritti, Tim Clarke, Hayden Cawley,
Subs. John Santos, Brenton Thomasson, Steve Zidov