Great Horwood FC

Under 8's 2009-10

Date

Comp

Venue

Opposition

Res.

Score

Scorers

29 Aug 10 Fun Day Home Southside United W 5-2 Will, Ciaran(2), Henry, Chris

12 Sept 09 Lge Home MK City Pirates W 13-1 Will(4), Ciaran(4), Henry(2), Chris(2), Kieran

26 Sept 09 Lge Away New City Saints L 12-3 Will 2, Ciaran

10 Oct 09 Lge Home Deanshanger colts Mustangs W 5-4 Chris 2, Ciaran 2 , og

17 Oct 09 Lge Away Two Mile Ash L 4-1 Henry

07 Nov 09 Lge Home Scot Youth Falcons W 5-1 Will (4), Ciaran

05 Dec 09 Lge Away Water Eaton Blue L 2-1 Will

6th Feb 10 Lge Away Brookfield Rangers Ravens W 0-4 Ciaran (2), Will (2)

23 Jan 10 Friendly Friendly Newport Pagnell Tigers L 10-1 Will

30 Jan 10 Friendly Away Southside United W 9-6 Ciaran (7), will, Chris

6th Mar 10 Lge Home Woburn Lions Whirlwind L 3-4 Ciaran (2), Owen

20th Mar 10 Lge Away Water Eaton Blue D 0-0

27th Mar 10 Friendly Friendly Brookfield Rangers Ravens W 5-2 Ciaran (3), Henry, will

17th Apr 10 Lge Away Roman Rangers L 6-4 Will (4)

24th Apr 10 Lge Away Olney Town Colts Foxes Reds L 6-1 Ciaran

1st May 10 Lge Away Great Linford Cobras L 10-3 Ciaran, Will, Chris

8th May 10 Lge Home Leighton Town Youth W 8-5 Ciaran (2), Will (5), Henry

15th May 10 Lge Home Southside United L 2-4 Ciaran , Will

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GREAT HORWOOD 2 SOUTHSIDE UNITED 4

15th May 2010

Scorers: Ciaran  , Will

Match Report: Poor defending cost us this one. Either ball watching or all defenders going to the same ball. This allowed acres of space in behind that led to 3 goals ultimately costing us the match. We will need to work hard on keeping our shape when we go to 7-a-side next season.

Team: Owen, Jack, KP, Billy, Henry, Ciaran, Chris, Will, Eddie, Louis, Theo

Men of the match: Chris and Eddie

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GREAT HORWOOD 8 LEIGHTON TOWN YOUTH 5

8th May 2010

Scorers: Ciaran (2) , Will (5), Henry

After

The boys played extremely well and this brings our 2010 league record to W2 L2 D1 in a very competitive league.

Team: Owen, Jack, KP, Billy, Henry, Ciaran, Chris, Will, Eddie, Louis

Men of the match: Will and Henry

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GREAT LINFORD COBRAS 10 GREAT HORWOOD 3

1st May 2010

Scorers: Ciaran , Will, Chris

After a bright start the boys struggled again with the basics. Ball watching allowed the Cobras acres of space in behind the defence, second to the ball every time meant no possession and when we did have the ball there was a distinct lack of passing and movement. Lots to improve on but with two home games to come there is still room for optimism.

Team: Owen, Jack, Theo, Billy, Henry, Ciaran, Chris, Will

Men of the match: Billy, Owen

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BROOKFIELD RANGERS 0 GREAT HORWOOD 4

6th February 2010

Scoreres: Ciaran (2), Will (2)

A victorious start to our 2010 league campaign.

In the first quarter his defensive duties were picked up splendidly by Jack, ably assisted by Eddie with Henry unbeatable in goal.

Chris and KP were running the midfield with Ciaran up top. The deadlock was broken when Ciaran made a run from the edge of the box to knee (its now how, its how many) a Chris corner into the net.

            Q1: Brookfield Rangers 0 Great Horwood 1

he second quarter began with Louis in goal looking to build on the Juniors goal keeping training that he is attending.

Billy and Theo were man mountains at the back with Jack sitting just in front of them stopping the supply to the front men. This left Henry to dominate the middle of the park in his usual fashion.

A smart turn and finish by Will from the edge of the box increased the Ravens (the real ones) lead.

            Q2: Brookfield Rangers 0 Great Horwood 2

Going up the slope in the second half was no hardship for the boys and soon Ciaran had broken free to finish calmly into the corner.Eddie made some great saves after this to keep the lead intact but the pressure was building.

            Q3: Brookfield Rangers 0 Great Horwood 3

Quarter 4 saw a rare appearance for Theo in goal and he kept up the clean sheet by making some unorthodox saves but saves nevertheless.Will netted his second and the Ravens 4^th to seal the game.

            Brookfield Rangers 0 Great Horwood 4

A very even game despite the score line.

Brookfield didn’t take their chances but Great Horwood did.

Team: Henry, Jack, KP, Theo, Eddie, Billy, Chris, Louis, Will and Ciaran

Manager Martin’s man of the match – Jack

Coach Tony’s man of the match – Eddie

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WATER EATON BLUES 2 GREAT HORWOOD 1

5th December

Scorer: Will

This was a game the Ravens didn’t deserve to win but they didn’t deserve to lose either.

A very close game was scoreless at the end of the first quarter and at half time.

The Ravens dominated but couldn’t find that last pass to set up Will or Ciaran.

The Blues broke the deadlock in the 3^rd quarter despite a fine effort from Henry in goal.

The fourth quarter brought the deserved equaliser when Owen broke up a Blues attack and sent Will clear with a beautiful pass.

Will finished with his normal clinical style.

Sadly with only a couple of minutes to go the Blues seized on a sliced goal kick to squeeze the ball just past Billy for the winner.

A very even game that the Ravens deserved something from but that’s football.

Squad: Owen, Eddie, Henry, Billy, Theo, Jack, Chris, Kieran, Will and Ciaran.

Manager Martin’s man of the match: Chris

Coach Tony’s man of the match: Theo

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GREAT HORWOOD 5 SCOT YOUTH FALCONS 1

7th November

Scorers: Will (4), Ciaran

Competition: MKDJ7

Match report: Back to winning ways

Don’t let the score line fool you this was a very close game.

In a very tight first quarter Ciaran managed to nick a goal to put our noses in front.

Thankfully some sloppy defending by the Falcons allowed Will a second quarter hat trick but we were still at full stretch in defence.

The second half saw constant Falcon pressure which realised a goal in the fourth quarter.

Will restored our cushion shortly afterwards with another nice finish to ease any worries

A very good result against a good side.

Team: Ciaran, Billy, Henry, Chris, Owen, KP, Will, Theo, Louis, Eddie and Jack

Men of the match: Billy and Eddie

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TWO MILE ASH ROCKETS 4 GREAT HORWOOD 1

17th October

Scorers: Henry

Competition: MKDJ7

Match report: The Terrible Twos

The worst performance by far this season resulting in a defeat to a team who we beat easily earlier in the year.

No movement, passing or fluency coupled with basic defensive errors such as not marking and not being goal side led to us conceding 4 goals.

Henry’s goal was our only noteworthy effort. A nice move straight from the kick off.

Shame we couldn’t build on it.

Team: Ciaran, Billy, Henry, Owen, KP, Will, Theo, Louis, Eddie and Jack

Man of the match: Louis

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GREAT HORWOOD 5 DEANSHANGER COLTS MUSTANGS 4

10th October

Scorers: Chris (2), Ciaran (2), og

Competition: Friendly

Match report: Ravens back on track - just.

The boys bounced back from their league defeat but only just.

Oozing quality, half time was reached with a 4 – 0 lead.

Chris on the mark twice, along with Ciaran and an unfortunate own goal.

I’m not sure what happened at half time but a completely different team came out.

The Mustangs got back to 4 – 4 in the fourth quarter and looked like they were going to win it until Ciaran snatched the winner with a minute to go.

Concentration clearly lacking and woeful kick offs to be worked on in training again.

Team: Ciaran, Billy, Henry, Owen, Chris, Will, Theo, Louis, Eddie and Jack

Men of the match: Chris and Ciaran

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NEW CITY SAINTS 12 GREAT HORWOOD 3

26th September

Scorers: Will (2), Ciaran

Competition: MKDJ7

Match report: Ravens back down to earth with a bump.

The Saints proved far too good for the Ravens in this one-sided encounter.

3 - 0 down after only a couple of minutes was to become 3-2 at the end of the first quarter thanks to Ciaran and Will but the writing was on the wall.

The Saints all swarmed to the ball and the Ravens could not find a way past them.

Sadly 4 more goals went in the wrong end in quarter two with only a solitary Will reply.

The second half was one-way traffic as well with 5 unanswered goals being scored by the opposition.

A tough game for the boys.

Team: Chris, Louis, Owen, Will, Henry, Ciaran, Eddie, Theo, KP and Jack

Men of the match: Jack and Louis

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GREAT HORWOOD 13 MK CITY 1

The Ravens entertained MK City Pirates in their first league game of the season.

An outstanding first quarter saw the Ravens lead 4 - 0 with goals from Will (2), Ciaran and Henry.

The boys played some really lovely football that was too much for the visitors to cope with.

Two further goals from Will and a solitary reply from the visitors gave the home team a 5 goal cushion at half time.

After a stirring half time team talk from coach Tony the boys returned to their brand new pitch but this time playing up the slope.

The gradient made little difference as Henry, Chris and KP all netted to make the score 9-1 at the end of the third quarter.

Just as the oppostion thought things could get no worse the fourth quarter saw the re-introduction of Ciaran who scored 3 times and set up Chris for his second making the final score 13 - 1.

An excellent effort all round. Owen, Jack and Theo were all man mountains at the back whilst Eddie sprayed the ball around in midfield as usual. Louis looks more and more like Owen Hargreaves but without the injury problems.

This will be a hard act to follow but I'm sure the boys are up to the task.

Men of the match: Will and Eddie

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GREAT HORWOOD 5 SOUTHSIDE UNITED 2

28th August 2009

Scorers: Will, Ciaran (2), Henry, Chris

Competition: Fun Day

Match report:

As it turns out, the best we played all season.

Team: Owen, Jack, Henry, Ciaran, Chris, Will,

Men of the match: Will and Henry