This was always going to be a tough game: top vs bottom. But the battling Men’s 4ths did their best to make it competitive, as always. St Neots were only able to dominate towards the end when they were playing with the fierce wind in their favour, to run out 6-1 winners

Man of the match Matt Saint-Gower was one big reason why the score was kept down, with a string of blocks and saves. He did actually manage to open the scoring too, with an unstoppable deflection close to the line. Sadly it was our own line. Minor detail. David Bridge, one of the stalwarts of the Steed/Ho/Bridge/Thomas/Jeroen defence who were excellent throughout, got in on the act with our second goal, a deft flick past Matt. Nil-two.

Newcomer Jeroen was the pick of the backline, tackling manfully and frequently, rampaging around authoritatively, and thumping the ball upfield in the style of the absent J Siddorns to try to get attacks going.

After half time St Neots decided they really should do their own goalscoring and finally converted a short corner with a decisive tonk from long range. Not to be outdone, Ky Ho got himself onto the scoresheet with a stick-foot combination wrongfooting the keeper. Nil-four.

At this stage the home team, playing into the wind, actually had some attacking moves, led by midfield dynamos Stu Creed and Laurie Ho. Reward came with a well worked goal to peg things back to 4-1, as Stu Creed shimmied into the D, laying the ball across to the advancing Nick Georgiadis who made no mistake, gleefully thrashing it into the net for his first of the season.

A couple more short corner goals late on gave the scoreline an unbalanced feel, but Cambridge South had nothing to feel ashamed of.

Onwards and…onwards.