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Match Reports 2004/05

 

Since 2003/04 the club has produced a weekly newsletter, during the season, containing match reports from each of the games played that weekend.

 

Tue 30-Aug-05

East Grinstead Saints & Sinners Mixed Festival (26/29-Aug-05)

 

It was a gloriously sunny day and despite the desire to watch the Aussies get a well-deserved spanking from the English in the Ashes there were more important things to be considered. The Dragons were competing in the Saints & Sinners Festival at East Grinstead Sports Club. Sadly, there had been real difficulty in getting a side out and the ony option was to send a seriously depleted side down to the festival with the hope of borrowing some players on arrival.

Recruiting players to help from the bar resulted in offers from, among others, a current England Vets player and an U21 Dutch International. Clearly, playing for the dragons was viewed as an honour!

 

The first day saw the side lose just the once against the Guildford LadyBoys after what can only be considered an onslaught! 1-0 was a lucky result. However, the rest of the matches that day could easily have gone either way but one ended up as a draw and the other as a win. However, the team kept fighting throughout the weekend and, after some very heavy drinking on the Saturday night, started Sunday at 9am with the first of three consecutive wins.

 

There was sterling performances all round and the plaudits goas much to the regulars as they do to the ringers! Although, the Scottish girls clearly won the drinking in the evening.

 

Aidan played a blinder in goal for the Dragons and anyone else who asked, Tom netted a brilliant teaser of a goal on the water based, Snowy scored a screamer of a reverse stick net-buster, Chris forced the opposition to defend heartily until a bizarre toilet injury fored him to pull out, Mark pulled out a sublime reverse stick stop, drag and flick to clear the lines, while Isla constantly broke down their attacks on the left and Emma was on hand to provide over 70% of the days crosses.

 

The weekend's results were as follows:

 

Match

Result

Scorers

Bath Rangers

D0-0

 

Guildford LadyBoys

L0-1

 

Scouting 4 Beavers

W2-1

Snowy, Weenie

Suffolk'N'Good

W2-0

Martin, Shadow

Hilbede Old Boys

W2-0

Tom, Weenie

Whackdaddies

W2-1

Martin, Snowy


Would the Dragons go again? Without a doubt, although this time it would be nice to take a full team. That said there's plenty of people ready to offer to join this legendary side if we can't get them from the club!

MJ

Team: Aidan Brock(GK), MJ, Tom Alexander, Lee Snowden, Chris 'Sicknote' Richman, Emma Gilchrist, Isla McGregor... with help from Martin, Martin's daughter, Betty Boo, Shadow, Weenie & a random drunk girl in a visor.

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