Pre-Game

• What Rebecca described as a very serious team talk.
• Warm up.
• Tactical choosing of the far end of the pitch due to the sun.
• Sam stole Paul’s bag.

1st Half

• Strong; representative of our performance against Hertford the week before.
• Great distribution from Nic and Ellie at centre back.
• Good attacking of the wings from Grace, Aoife, Rebecca, Sam and Charlotte.
• Jess W and Lauren held solid in the middle.
• Strong shots on goal from Jess F, Eimear and Izzy, but Bedford’s keeper made some good saves.
• We went one-nil up sometime mid-way through the half. Reverse goal under the keeper as she dived from Izzy, via Jess W.
• Slightly too much passing to the opposition (we just like to let everyone play).

Half Time

• Jelly babies.
• Chat from Paul about aforementioned passing to the opposition. Encouraged to stop doing that as it isn’t very productive for our own game.

2nd Half

• Not our best effort and Bedford stepped up their game.
• Continued to pass to the opposition.
• Jess W managed to give one of the Bedford players a piggy back.
• Conceded a short in the final two minutes, which is how we drew with Bedford the last time we played them. Thankfully this was put wide.
• Paul urged us to keep control, shut the game down and hold out for the win, which we managed.

Final Whistle

• Paul happy.
• Team happy.
• Commended by the umpires on a very friendly game of hockey.
• Very tired legs.

MoM - Jess W. Great running, intercepting, distributing and annoying of Bedford’s centre mid. Set up the goal.

LoM - Izzy. Delayed push back in the second half to announce to the pitch that I didn’t have my mouthguard in yet. Failed to concentrate for a sixteen and only realised the ball was coming to me when Sam shouted (received and gave a good pass I might add) and then subbed myself off in a strop after failing to do anything useful with the ball I had about three days of time on. Votes also for Sam for stealing Paul’s bag.