Lowestoft League Div 1 - 13/02/10Ole Frank- 4
Pot Black FC- 1
Match Overview- Some may see this as a rather shocking result and I guess after L'Orange dispatched their opponents 5-0 earlier in the season, and after a colossal performance against a high flying Barsham side you might be right.
I could easily sit here and moan that we had lots of players missing and we had Adam Bird and Will Denton call off pre-match, that Max Wall got injured in the warm up and lasted only 4 minutes, and that we were so depleted that we started with players out of position up front in winger Scott Harvey and club captain Darren Boyd or that our bench was so unbelievably sparse that Manager Danny McKinley kicked his first football in 6mths, but quite simply that would be unfair to Ole Frank.
On the day the psychical home side were bigger, stronger, braver and most importantly wanted it more. As individuals we had the ability to play around our opponents despite our absences, but we never won our individual battles, the side we put out should have been enough to at the very minimum match Ole Frank but not once did we look like we could.
Ole Frank to their credit were 2-0 up at half time with a great header from Arnie High and an excellently worked moved down the right was tapped in at close range.
After the interval Frank took a little while to increase their advantage, but eventually with a similar move to their second goal.
Pot Blacks only real shot in anger came from a dejected Captain Darren Boyd who found the top corner with a powerful effort.
But L'orange went down with whimper when Ole Franks striker was played onside before a lunging tackle saw Scott Reynolds fire into his own net, which was in fact only inches from being an outstanding recovery tackle.
Obviously annoyed by our poor performance the mood in the dressing room was rightly down beat, but as we proved after our thrashing against Norton, we can and will bounce back, anything less than 100% is unacceptable this week lets not slip up again.
Goal- Darren Boyd
G.H.Windows & Doors M.O.M- Scott Harvey, worked hard through out and never moaned when asked to play in three different positions.
