soccer report

[rone]

It's always a bad omen when people are warming up for the game and you're short people.  Even as they trickle in late, you're gonna start the game short on subs and people get tired soon.  Compounding this was the fact that my membership expired, so i had to let someone goalkeep for me while i went to get a renewal.  So we never got our rhythm going offensively, and went to the break down 2-1 to Coherent SC.

Just before the first half ended, one of our players got taken down on a breakaway, so the offender was boxed.  I told the guys on my team to press as soon as we started, since we'd be up a man.  Instead, we gave up a shorthanded goal on a lucky bounce that led to a lobbed header past me.  After that, everyone on our team got tired soon, and things just kinda went to hell.  We lost 9-1.  It's these damn 17:00 games; everyone probably had lunch and didn't have a snack at 15:00 or so to have some energy for the game.  I ended up choking down some toast on my way out the door.  Not the best preparation, really.  I hope tomorrow's game goes a lot better.