Forgive me father for I have sinned, it is 6 days since my last confession because I have been very busy and very lame in fulfilling my blogging responsibilities.
Where do i start ? Ok there were two games before the Whitby one that I’ve not recorded – both away, Arnold Town where we won 7 (seven)-0 and against Liversedge, where we won 5-1, this after being 1 down after 25 seconds. Several of the guys got on the scoresheet, Craig Palmer getting back to back hat tricks. The lads were absolutely awesome by all accounts, but then we know that already !!
The Whitby game.
The build up to the game was quite entertaining, the week leading up to it, someone had posted on our forum about one of our number who, not so long ago, left the club and to start following Whitby (after a brief foray of watching Frickley). This person had made one or two comments which had riled our guys, couple that with one or two Whitby comments about how easy it will be, beating us, made the tie that little bit more appealing.
Weather was red hot – typical summers day. The lads were warming up, a little spring in their step, I had a good chat with Teach and Gary, and a couple of the lads – they were all in fine fettle. I know Gary knows exactly what he is doing with the team, but such a workout in that heat must have been hugely exhausting.
370 pack into Queensgate (probabl our third highest attendance of the season 2 x Scarborough being the most – and hopefully a dream run in the vase will help us surpass this mark). Whitby probably having somewhere in the region of 100 there, and they made some noise early doors. However, this was short lived as they started to realise our lads weren’t here to make the numbers up, and that the lower league home team weren’t actually that bad.
First half and the majority of play is in the Whitby half, how Brid don’t score, I don’t know. The Whitby keeper is the coolest player in their team and does command his area well. Before you know it, half time comes and Whitby actually look a different team in the second half – must have had one helluva bollocking. They don’t penetrate too much and on 73 one of their subs breaks through and scores a smart goal in the far corner. 310 heads drop in disbelief, recognising that Whitby have scored with probably their second shot of the game, we can’t do much in the last 15 and lose by the only goal.
A great report from an independent fan can be found here —-> kirky’s report
Some pictures of the game are here ——-> pictures
And a number of the Whitby fans were quite complimentary of our team and fans.
Since then, we had a trip to Maltby Main on Wednesda night, where normal service was resumed, we won 5-1. However, it appears to have been a bit of a dirty game with a fairly incompetent official in charge. By the end they were down to 8 players, we were down to 10 (Craig Burdick getting a red for something or other), plenty of yellows and a massive melee after some poor tackling. The famous groundhopper has put a report up on his website, which can be found here —-> Groundhopper
A free weekend – probably to do some jobs or shopping no doubt ….
Brilliant read Zin you should write something for the match programme.