A member of the defence recently quipped that winning hockey matches is all about out-scoring the opposition. Well, Mr Webb, that's all very well but I'd nonetheless appreciate it if we don't concede seven goals again this season.

The match was going well at the start with the South with intelligent runs from Eliot on the right wing and Forrest on the left. The defence was comfortably keeping March at arm's length and Psycho, in his come-back appearance for the side, was in an unfamiliar role at left mid but made it look easy with some solid tackling and energetic support of the front line. Mr Webb himself started the game on the right side of midfield and produced some intelligent balls up the wing. The cut and thrust out wide was ably supported by Cheggers and Mikey bursting through the centre.

Things started getting exciting when the March forwards wriggled through the South defence and put a couple of goals on the scoreboard. It was harsh on South, as not only was it against the run of play but additionally one of the goals never actually touched an attacker's stick inside the D.

This South team never knows when it's beaten, though, and bystanders were impressed with the response shown by South after conceding the two goals. Within minutes, Forrest had jinked his way into the March D and tripped over the goalkeeper, intelligently forcing a penalty flick (next time mate, just score). Cheggers stepped up to do the honours. And moments later a short corner was planted into the back of the goal as Cheggers bagged a brace for the first time in this league campaign. And it was so nearly a hat-trick as a second penalty flick (foot on the line) was awarded to South but the ball slipped away from him (it's the ones that don't move that are tricky) and the ball passed the wrong side of the post.

Cheggers later commented that this miss was "probably the defining moment in the game" as it would have levelled matters at 3-3 (another lucky bounce). Instead, March grabbed a fourth and at half-time it was 4-2 to the home side. It's difficult to argue with his comment, as March maintained a 2 or 3 goal cushion throughout the second half and never looked in serious trouble.

Not that the away side didn't have a good go at it. In the first half Webb found himself unmarked at the top of the D, ball on his stick and the situation begging for a shot. Those with keen memories will recall Webb's attempt last season from a similar position - let's just say that he's still got room for improvement. Cheggers had another opportunity when he was through on goal but the keeper was out smartly to smother the shot. Psycho was putting in useful crosses from the left and Mikey distributed the ball intelligently from the middle of the park.

The second half saw goals flying in at both ends and Johnson added to his tally for the season with a true predator's strike, flicking in Chegger's shot from a short corner. A fourth goal came courtesy of Mikey when the ball broke loose from a short corner and he calmly lifted it over the prone keeper. And it could have been so much more as Forrest played through first Psycho and then Johnson. Unfortunately the latter was suffering some mild concussion and impaired vision at this stage of the game after a collision with a March player and frankly it was impressive that he was running in the right direction at all, let alone getting on the end of through balls. Now at right mid, Eliot was running tirelessly and the constant harrying forced errors from the March players which helped keep the pressure on the home side. Johnson had another opportunity near the death when Forrest's reverse stick cross found him in front of goal but the keeper managed to scramble across.

Johnson was the second person to pick up a knock for South as The Organ capped an unfortunate day by colliding with Mikey's stick after only 20 minutes of the game (and only about 21 minutes after arriving in March) and had to come off with a dead leg.

With all the opportunities to score we were unlucky not to get more goals, and frankly the defence played well too. Parker pushed a short corner flick over the bar, made an excellent stop at the feet of an advancing March forward, Wallace and Thorpey were solid at the back and 'Chopper' Oren was, well, let's just say that he made it difficult for players to get past. And so it's a shame really that they scored all those goals. One of them was unstoppably good, another should have been disallowed and we should have scored that flick. So all in all I think we can claim the… er… moral draw.