Women's 2nd Team Vs St Austell

Star defender, pizza slayer and all round superstar, Lesley messaged in with flu to start the 7:30am stream of wattsapp messages this morning.  Not a good omen but possibly a useful donkey scapegoat if required at the end of the match.  Today, we faced a well-drilled and slightly grumpy St Austell team today.  With Molly returning up front to join Maysie returning after a 5 year hiatus, we started the match buoyed and within 1 minute, Charlotte had converted Sam’s pass to go 1-0 up.

However, St Austell recovered quickly and Bodmin had to soak up a lot of defensive pressure, with rookie goalie Jo saving a number of shots before they broke the deadlock.  A penalty stroke followed and another goal before half time.  Adrian rallied us in the team talk and pulled out the positives.  Amber decided to deliver her motivational part of the speech lying down in the middle of the circle, quaffing jelly babies, which seemed to be an invitation for class clown Sam to indulge in a small bit of waterboarding!

The second half was better and we did manage to play the ball around more, as we saw more possession but to be honest, they have a couple of phenomenal players and we just didn’t bring our game from the previous week - so the game finished as a 6-1 loss.  Just one of those days really.  We came off the pitch, more than a little deflated - only to find that Psycho Helen had not put her phone in her bra for the first time ever.  We thought our loss was due to our lack of fitness, awareness on the ball and stick ability but it turns out that Helen broke with superstition, and it was completely her fault.

Man of the match:  Scarlett for her pressing runs on the right and being the target of about 423 stick tackles.

Contenders:  Jo for saving way more than she let in.  An excellent debut in goal.

Erin for having a damn good go at marking their super striker and general defending.

Donkey:  Who else?!  Conspiracy much? Yes, Sam!   Apparently water boarding your captain, mid motivational speech isn’t encouraged, nor is wearing your child’s shin pads by mistake!

Close contenders:  Scarlett for failing to wear her skort correctly.

Amber for allowing herself to be waterboarded and then soaking Sam after the match.

Lesley for allowing herself to catch flu and not being able to play.

Team teas:  7/10 - Sausage, chips and beans in the pub - standard fair.

Special thanks to the support on the sidelines - especially for Jack, baby Jack and Adrian for being super cheerleaders - it will be a long day for you guys, given you are probably reading this in Treliske sorting out Adrian’s dodgy digit! :-(