Tourney: London League V

unless it's another tie ;)

Apart from the game to be finished:

Dark & Stormy - Giant Beasts (Tonight, Newington)
Giant Beasts - Green ?
Alakazam - Goons (Friday, Downs)
Killer Bees - Green ?

Final Score: Alakazam 13 - Dark & Stormy 11

Table updated.

Ive said my team can play Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday for the final 15 min, lets pick a time now and get this done !

PLEASEEEEEEEE do it Friday! In Devon until Tuesday.

Killer bees v green is at downs 1130 am on sat

So if after ET its still a tie...

Penalty shootout?

TIE TIE TIE

Two halves of 15 mins would make sense. If it's still tied, racewalking.

Sorry for taking so long to post this.

Alacazam vs Doughballs
This game started with josh winning the charge, and for the first ten minutes he had close to free reign. Matt and maddie attacked and had some good breaks, but were unable to get the ball into the goal. Alakazam weren't so much breaking, but josh's shots were almost always on target and even with DT tending goal, he scored six unanswered goals!
Around the nine minute mark Jimmy came on for Doughballs, he basically spent his whole time on the pitch shadowing josh, occasionally leaving him alone to attack, but if jimmy didn't have the ball he was obviously on Josh duty! The effect on the game was startling, with matt and DT scoring three unanswered goals over the rest of the half! To be fair to Josh, the scores don't reflect the work he was putting in and he was still getting shots off, but he didn't have as much time on the ball or the freedom to find a good angle as he did in the first ten minutes.
The first half finished with a goal from John H, putting the half time score as 7-3.
I guess I can't start my description of the second half without mentioning that Josh didn't start for Alakazam, which I'm told was unusual. Despite Alakazam linking up well it was DT that opened up the scoring for the half, although Zoe replied with a goal in about a minute. Then there was a bit of a goal mouth scramble which resulted in a goal scored by Maddie. It was around this time there was a bit of miscommunication between the ref and score keeper, who shouted out that this put Doughballs one goal behind Alakazam when the score was actually 8-5! This caused Doughballs to play out of their skin and score three goals between DT and Matt... Equalising, although they were told they were winning!
Phil and John then scored, being told that the scores were now equal, then DT scoring thinking they were again in the lead.
Because of that Doughballs started to play a bit defensively, trying to keep their lead and Josh scored, it was around this point that I noticed the score keeping error, so I shouted out the correct scores. Heads visibly lowed (unsurprisingly) on Doughballs side when they realised that rather than being level they were behind.
Obviously I'm very sorry for my part in this as I feel it had a fairly large effect on the end of the game.
Still, the game carried on and Zoe and then Josh scored for Alakazam, giving themselves a 3 goal lead with only a little over the same number of minutes of the game left.
DT lead the charge to get back, and between him and Matt got it back to within two, but to do this they had to play all out and John H scored another goal with only a minute to go to effectively put it out of the Doughballs reach, DT scored on the buzzer too make sure that their score was a multiple of three like all the other games they played! :)

Having read back what I've written, I've totally over played Josh's part in alakazam's victory, all five members of Alakazam linked up well and attacked well and were all important parts of the victory.

Scorers
Josh 2:12 1-0
Josh 3:17 2-0
Josh 5:00 3-0
Josh 6:02 4-0
Josh 8:16 5-0
Josh 9:26 6-0
Matt 12:19 6-1
Matt 16:20 6-2
DT 22:24 6-3
John 31:38 7-3
Halftime
DT 32:59 7-4
Zoe 34:08 8-4
Maddie 38:29 8-5
DT 39:58 8-6
Matt 40:36 8-7
DT 44:38 8-8
Phil 46:28 9-8
John 47:48 10-8
DT 50:18 10-9
Josh 54:27 11-9
Zoe 56:26 12-9
Josh 56:42 13-9
DT 56:57 13-10
Matt 57:26 13-11
John 58:50 14-11
DT 59:59 14-12

After making a hash of reffing, anyone care to show me how it's done tonight at newt?

Goons vs GREEN

first half
01:30 Joe 1-0
16:30 Ryan 2-0
19:30 Ed 3-0
20:50 Chris 3-1
22:50 Ryan 4-1
23:20 Chris 4-2

second half
15:54 Chris 4-3
16:54 Chris 4-4
18:54 Joe 5-4
24:00 Chris 5-5
28:20 Jack 5-6
29:31 Ryan 6-6

despite some majorly horrible checks into the fence from rik, louis hitting cam in the face in a fist fight and ali saying horrible things about antonios mum, tonights game was really nice! thanks beasts for a great last game!

beasts win by some goals ... no idea how many
(this is all lies except the last bit)
(and the bit about it being a nice last game)

Alakazam Vs. Dark & Stormy
[INDENT]05.03 - D&S - Felix
[/INDENT][INDENT]06.18 - D&S - Antonio
[/INDENT]07.52 - AKZ - Zoe
[INDENT]07.12 - D&S - Antonio
[/INDENT]09.16 - AKZ - Zoe
[INDENT]11.14 - D&S - Antonio
[/INDENT][INDENT]12.14 - D&S - Antonio
[/INDENT]12.50 - AKZ - Josh

16.20 - AKZ - Josh

17.45 - AKZ - Zoe
[INDENT]18.21 - D&S - Felix
[/INDENT][INDENT]24.56 - D&S - Felix
[/INDENT][INDENT]25.16 - D&S - Felix
[/INDENT]29.30 - AKZ - Sebastian
[INDENT]29.47 - D&S - Antonio
[/INDENT]Alakazam 6 - Dark & Stormy 9, at Half Time.
Slow first 5 minutes as the teams warm up to each other and the court, soon settled into some evenly matched attacks from both sides, each playing it safe.

Dark & Stormy speed the game up and start off the goals with some long shots from Antonio. Alakazam respond with Josh and Zoe up front, whenever Dark and Stormy dared slow the game down to try and hold their lead. Dark and Stormy responded late in the second half by using slower tactics, getting Felix up close to score, with blocking and passing from Antonio and Nic.

Second Half...

30.36 - AKZ - Jess
[INDENT]34.16 - D&S - Antonio
[/INDENT][INDENT]41.04 - D&S - Antonio
[/INDENT]15.39 - AKZ - Josh

17.23 - AKZ - John H

18.56 - AKZ - Sebastian

24.15 - AKZ - Zoe

25.30 - AKZ - Josh

29.57 - AKZ - Josh

Jess starts off the second half with a goal at 30 seconds, twice around the court passing with Josh, Jess certainly addressing the speed that had Dark & Stormy dominate the first half. Antonio responds for Dark and Stormy, but largely, knowing their lack of subs, they try to slow the game down and defend.

This proves costly for them, as the changing lineup on Alakazam refreshes the team. Passing from Josh and Zoe gets everyone on their side a goal, as they creep up to almost equalise, Dark and Stormy muster their last energy and attack. Unfortunately for them Sebastians goal keeping evades them the payoff. As Dark and Stormy tire, their communication fumbles, and in a tense final 10 minutes, Zoe and Josh capitalise on this to equalise, and eventually take the win.

Final Score: Alakazam 13 - Dark & Stormy 11

your forgot to mention that john h subbed in sebastian without asking anyone...well, i think he asked max. his league though i guess.
and it woulda be nice if i hadn't bust my wheel up and not been able to play the last 17 minutes too but i though the boys held up well. close game.

So what happened in goons Alakazam?!

13-10 goons.

I thought it was 13 - 11? Not that it matters.

Great game though, really enjoyed going out with a hustle!

Ok dark and stormy's last game which was against us, mighty beasts. No refs and D&S only havin thre players (beagle taking a holiday from his unemployment ;) meant the beasts not playing kept score and time. I in no way made it up... Anyway the long and short of it is I scored 39 goals so I get the golden mallet.

Anyway not much of a match report as I was mostly paying attention to scoring most of the goals.

Times as follows:
Mighty beasts vs Dark and Stormy
Alex 1:54 (1-0)
Nic 14:04 (1-1)
Alex 14:16 (2-1)
Alex 15:54 (3-1)
Felix 18:47 (3-2)
Cam 25:42 (4-2)
Cam 30:10 (5-2)
Halftime
Nic 32:01 (5-3)
Ali 35:53 (6-3)
Ali 40:15 (7-3)
Ali 40:52 (8-3)
Felix 43:00 (8-4)
Ali 43:50 (9-4)
Antonio 45:01 (9-5)
Felix 46:30 (9-6)
Cam 48:40 (10-6)
Antonio 50:05 (10-7)
Ali 51:20 (11-7)
Felix 51:50 (11-8)
Cam 54:00 (12-8)
Cam 58:20 (13-8)
Cam 59:30 (14-8)
Nic 59:40 (14-9)

I've taken the Goons-Alakazam result at 13-10, and the above result for Beasts-D+S result into my league table.

your forgot to mention that john h subbed in sebastian without asking anyone...

Jonny's let himself go?

harsh louis. :)

the sebastien sub is effing bullshit. but you know. your league your rules.

whatevs, nik beat john H in an arm wrestle so thats evened up some. :)

Scorers for Goons 13 - 10 Alakazam.
2', 1-0, Maya
11, 2-0, Joe
11:30, 3-0, Ryan
15, 4-0, Joe
15:20, 4-1, Josh
19:20, 5-1, Ryan
20:30, 6-1, Joe
23, 6-2, Jess
24, 6-3, Josh
25-40, 6-4, John
28:30, 7-4, Ryan
32, 8-4, Ryan
36, 9-4, Ed
38, 10-4, Joe
44:50, 10-5, Josh
46:50, 10-6, Jess
47:40, 10-7, Josh
48, 10-8, Jess
48:20, 11-8, Ed
51, 12-8, Ryan
57, 12-9, Josh
58, 12-10, Zoe
59, 13-10, Ed

harsh louis. :)

the sebastien sub is effing bullshit. but you know. your league your rules.

whatevs, nik beat john H in an arm wrestle so thats evened up some. :)

ouhh yeah this is my team

Who was Sebastian a sub for?

I do agree that when it comes to a captain who is also one of the two league organisers it would look better if he asked more than just the other league organiser.

Also what was the green bs score?

24-12 to Green.

Green:
Spoons, 1, 7, 9, 17, 19, 28, 29, 32, 42, 44, 47, 48, 59, 60
Aidan, 5, 31
Chris, 7, 14, 17, 20, 44, 45, 51
Jack, 48

Bees:
B, 9, 18, 25, 29, 41, 60
Bogey, 35, 40
Sean, 8, 13, 21, 49

Despite the scoreline a fairly even game for most of it, just green had a couple of periods where they scored some quick goals, the rest of the time it was back and fourth.

A very clean game, played in the correct spirit.

Re alakazam game: In eligible player. Not sanctioned by the league captains before the match. Therefore the result should be stricken from the record. Joshs goals can be distributed amongst the other Cambridge players.