Bridlington Town 4 Sculcoates Amateurs 0

Can someone please email dear old mother nature and tell that summer consists of sunshine, warmth and scantily clad women – not the drizzly, miserable wintry fayre we had today.

A very measly crowd of about 90 or so attended this one, where we playing our annual game against Scullies, this time for the Memorial Cup (kindly sponsored by Graham Hebden and family) -we are the current holders.

Some changes for Town after last weeks performance, probably to give some players a good run out before next weeks games (v Hull on Wednesday and Pickering in the league next Sat), especially as some 1st teamers have suspensions pending.

Scullies played well throughout and at times didn’t look to out of place alongside us, one or two of their players stood out – their young goalie in the second half was very good. We did have some opportunities to score a quite a few more, but were lacking that killer instinct in front of goal today – Palms could easily have had 4 or 5.

What was pleasing other than the result, was the fact my lad and me were able to update the Twitter part of the blog with the goals as they went in, and equally as pleasing was Gail’s chilli – not as hot as recent offerings, but pleasant all the same.

Good effort by the team today and its looking good for the weeks, months and season ahead. Roll on a nice big bumper crowd for Wednesday.

Brid 4 Sculcoates 1 (h)

I was able to get to this game, which was a nice surprise. A big thanks to those of you that have given your support, we all appreciate it – cheers !

My son had been to summer school for the past week, which had given him the opportunity to detach himself from the events at home, and as luck would have it (i.e. bloody typical), the presentation night for this thing was around 6′sh on Tuesday. In fairness to the people running the summer school, they had provided an excellent week long learning module with a trip to the space centre in Leicester, and then laid on an excellent buffet (with booze). Plus all the kids got a certificate and an award and a present to remind them of the experience – well done teachers !!

It made me late for the kick off though !! No turnstile man, no team sheets and bloody hell, hardly any fans. Was I missing something ? There must have only been 30-40 paying peeps. And the chairman was out touting the weather lottery.

The football was excellent from a red perspective, the lads played well, plenty of passing and some excellent running off the ball to create space. I’d not seen this for a while and it was pleasurable to see. Scullies, sponsored by the chairmans company, had Shaun Baker in its ranks, and it was nice to see an old Brid favourite playing well.
It was 2-0 at halftime, and i’d managed to catch the second one going over the line on the old camera – though I wasn’t in the best of places to give the goal some credit, but here they are anyway, and a piccie of the bench, click to enlarge.

I’d missed the 2 in the second half, coz I was either gassing or watching me lad get the ball from the rugger field, but according to mainincrowd and friend, they were excellent goals. Scullies did score a fine one themselves, either side of blistering 20/30 yard shots that rattled the crossbar. The encouragement from the dug out to the players was immense and have all settled well into their new club – well done guys.

A welcome to the newest member of our ranks, and probably one of the most important – the 42″ plasma in the clubhouse.

Games seen : 5

Goals seen : 11 home 8 away 1 other

out of 10 : 8, a good run out, some good goals, just hope we don’t burn out before the season begins.