MATCH 07 SUMMARY | Stirling District | 29 May 2010

We arrived at a very sloppy Aldgate PS pitch today to take on Stirling District, and to make things tougher for us, we only had 12 players. This was going to be an interesting game.

Bronte was nominated as our Captain this week, with Brooke in support as Vice-Captain. There were a few laughs when our guest, Jamie Briggs MP, threw a dodgy first toss of the coin, but after a decent one was flipped, the game was on. Lofty won the toss and Bronte chose to play downhill and against the wind.




From the outset, Lofty was constantly pushing forward, with our forward-backs and mids creating some amazing opportunities for our strikers. We fought hard up front, but struggled to get a shot on goal in the bad conditions. Stirling were flooding and crowding their defense, so we really should have done what we've been working hard on at training; MAKING SPACE.

On the day, our attack were pretty much playing like defenders. We were hanging back, resting, and waiting.

Brooke was working her heart out on the wing, but still dropping a little too far back, and so was Claire on the right, but Bronte was in total control in centre-mid. With Louise out, Bronte stepped up and cracked a scorcher from a way out for Lofty's lead.

We really should have gone for the oranges with a bigger first-half advantage.

In the second half, Kali started to play like we know she can, as did our super-star runner in defense, Meisha. Bronte stepped up again to pepper the goal from long-range with a number of beautiful, lofted strikes. She was robbed of at least two goals, but importantly, she bagged the clincher for us.

This was a really gutsy effort by our depleted yet determined squad ...!

Great work on the day guys... particularly by Bronte, Meisha, Brooke, Natasha, Milly, and Sahara.

Result:
MOUNT LOFTY 2 - Stirling District 1

WIN #05 for LOFTY ...!!!