Match 10 v Long Sutton. We have played each other for decades and this match was quite like that. We knew who their best players were, they knew who our better players were! Naah, not really, they didn't!

Our warm up was good, sun was good, weather was good, no rain in November was good and the first ten minutes were better than our last nine matches!

We controlled the midfield, Puddefoot, Coops, Walsh and Menzies doubling up to stop their Number 15! Captain Coops was shouting, "Don't dive! Just channel!" Sometimes it's good to listen to him, so this time we did! Our defenders, Anns, Asbo, Artaman, Catley and Bhav were calm with the ball. The back and around passes worked well.

Left and right flanks worked brilliantly. Passes from Catley to Tom/Jon & Bhav to Jimmy/Shin down the flanks allowed us to get into Long Sutton's D. Slowly and steadily we built on our movement from the middle too. In one such move Shin got the ball and dodged three or four defenders to pass the ball to Puddefoot. Simple slot into the back of the goal! One-nil in the first twenty-five minutes.

In another move, Shin and Jon combined well. They worked on "pass and move", and kept going past three or four defenders together. Through on the keeper, they went, "You score." "Naah, you score." "Naah, you score"! The Sutton defender stole the ball and cleared!

Another move - I could copy and paste, replacing Shin with Menzies. Jon now had a crack at the goal and it whizzed pass the right post! Bhav did something "not so easy" and got the LoM! That was the first half!

Half time talk - lets keep doing what we have been doing!

Copied and pasted from the M1s' report >> An aerial bombardment rained in the second half, Tom Anns demonstrating a regular way of dealing with the high ball. Artaman, equally effective, took a more unorthodox approach with series of mindbogglingly uncoordinated but sensational reverse stick takes (and sometimes kicking the ball too).

In a move, the Sutton strikers went past our goalie and then slotted it in. One-one. Did the ball bounce off the Sutton players body? Was it a back stick? Not sure, but the goal stood!

We all put in a big effort in the last ten minutes to get our second goal. In other circumstances, one would say that we got one fewer penalty corner than we expected in the last ten minutes. Steedy was shouting in my ear till it bled about this. One brave man tried to stop Jimmy's run down the left flank, literally by body checking him (had he not seen the size of Jimmy's body?) and then Jimmy was subbed off by "Hot Head Steedy".

Seventy minutes - final whistle. It's the best we have played this season! Intensity was high, passing was precise, strength of the ball was brilliant, when we found space we took that space, we marked well! Just didn't get our second goal. Unfortunate.

MoM went to Tom Anns - for being a good defender! Let's stop giving him MoMs now and we must keep a check on our love for him!

LoM went to Bhav - description below:

• So a simple side line ball on the left side of the pitch, about three meters from the substitutes. Menzies is the sub, giving simple instructions.

• Discussion 1

• Menzies says: Easy

• Bhav's brain: Ok

• Discussion 2

• Menzies says: Easy

• Bhav's brain: Ok (2nd time)

• Discussion 3

• Menzies says: Easy

• Bhav's brain: Ok (3rd time)

• Bhav hits the ball like he's teeing off on the 18th hole! The ball flies and hits the Sutton player on his bottom! He is on the floor and Bhav's embarrassed!

• Menzies: It was the easiest ball and you hit it in the most complicated way! Wow!