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Rockleaze
Rangers FC |
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Girls Years 2 and 3 – Under 8’s |
Coaches
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The
Girls under 8 group is led by
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Players
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We
currently have a few spaces available in the group, for Years 1, 2 or 3
girls. Please contact Darrell if you are interested |
Results
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Date |
Team |
Score |
Opponents |
Venue |
Scorers |
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Rockleaze |
10 :
0 |
Ashley
Down |
Home |
Adie(4), Bryony(3),
Rosanna(2), Georgia |
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Rockleaze |
3 : 2 |
AEK Boco |
Away |
Adie,
Bryony(2) |
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Rockleaze |
2 : 0 |
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Home |
Adie(2) |
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Rockleaze |
1 : 0 |
Portishead |
Home |
Ellie |
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Rockleaze |
1 : 1 |
AEK Boco |
Home |
Adie |
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Rockleaze
U7 |
0 :
3 |
St
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Away |
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Rockleaze
U8 |
1 :
5 |
St
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Away |
Ellie |
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Rockleaze U7
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0 : ? |
AEK Boco |
Home |
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Rockleaze
U8 |
0 : 2 |
AEK Boco |
Home |
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Rockleaze
U8 |
1 : 1 |
Longwell Green |
Home |
Rosanna |
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Rockleaze
Tigers |
7 : 1 |
Ashley
Down |
Home |
Georgia(3), Ellie(2),
Adie(2) |
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Rockleaze
Lions |
3 : 1 |
Ashley
Down |
Home |
Briony(2), Aoife |
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Rockleaze
Tigers |
3 : 0 |
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Home |
Isabelle, Ellie, Aoife |
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Rockleaze
Lions |
1 : 0 |
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Home |
Eloise |
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Rockleaze
U8 |
3 : 0 |
AEK Boco |
Away |
Ellie
(3) |
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Rockleaze
Tigers |
0 : 0 |
Portishead |
Home |
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Rockleaze
Lions |
2 : 1 |
Portishead |
Home |
Aoife,
Eloise |
Reports
Both
Highlights included:
* Great
debuts from Isabella Naughton and Hannah Hawkes against
* Great debuts from Claudia Harvey and Abigail Crooks against Portishead
* Georgia Scott has a fine debut in goal, keeping a clean sheets during her time in goal in both matches
* Aoife Smith and Georgia Scott both did well as Centre Forward - with some good attacking runs and were both unlucky to score.
* Briony Wills looked a class act as usual
* Ellie Courtier capped a couple of goods run with her opening (and well deserved) goal of the season
* Adie
Once again
AEK BOCO proved to be tough opposition, and a draw was a fair reflection on what
was a hard fought and evenly matched contest.
After a
slow start, Rockleaze began to warm up, inspired by Imogen Cotter who had a great debut in midfield – harrying
BOCO and never giving them a moment to settle. Rockleaze took the lead after Adie
Bailey-Douglas completed a fine run with a goal, to extend her tally to 7 for
the season so far. BOCO came at us with
The second
half began shakily – mainly because I forgot to remind the girls that they
change ends at half time. Once this
was sorted out, Rockleaze began to take control, with Georgia Scott, Georgia
Hawkes & Imogen Cotter ensuring that BOCO never
really looked like scoring again. Ellie began to boss the midfield and Briony must have covered every inch of the pitch, putting in
some great tackles before striding forward to release Aoife and Rosanna - who made some good runs – with some
killer balls. In the last 5 minutes Rockleaze looked like they might snatch
victory – but just failed to find the right finish
It seems
like ages since we have played some football, so it was good to see so many
girls and parents make the trip to Yate to watch the matches against St.
The girls
who turned up played with tremendous spirit and ran their hearts out from start
to finish. In the end our unbeaten
run was finally ended, but there a number of positives to take out of the day:
* This was
the first full match that any of these girls had played.
* They
matched a more experienced St.
* An
impressive debut from Yvonne in her first appearance for Rockleaze
*
Disciplined performance from Louisa and Abigail in defence
* Confident
debut in goal from Poppy
* Imogen terrorized the St.
* Claudia
& Jessica really got stuck in and seemed to have moved onto a new level
* An
impressive debut from Elouise in her first appearance
for Rockleaze
* A brave
first half performance in goal by Rosanna , supplemented by Cruyff turns a go-go in the second
* Solid
display in defence from Hannah, until injury forced
her to retire
* A great
display in defence by Aoife
who closed down St.
* The usual
fierce tackling and surging runs from Adie
* Ellie
finished one of many fine runs with a powerful shot into the bottom left hand
corner
* The girls
were ably supported Claudia, Yvonne, & Imogen who
kindly volunteered to brave the conditions and stay on to play for the U8s
Yr 2s 0 :
? BOCO
I was keen
to select a Y2 side so that:
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all the Y1
& Y2 girls could get some much needed match experience (this was the
only first or second full game that most of the girls have
played),
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The girls
would have a chance to play with their peers, and would not be overshadowed by
the Year 3s
BOCO had
hoped to bring a full under 7s team, but due a high number of drop outs on their
side, they were forced to field one mixed team of U7s and U8s.
Because of the number of Yr3 players in the team, BOCO were simply
too strong for the Year 2 girls. Although the score was rather one sided ,
hopefully the girls will gain from the match experience and there were some
highlights including:
- Some
great closing down of attackers by Isabella in goal
- I
thought Amelia and Jess’s movement has come on in leaps and bounds and they
were both starting “to get stuck in”
- Hannah,
Claudia, Imogen and Abigail all stuck to the task
well, and kept applying the pressure and tried to play football
Yr 3s 0 :
2 BOCO
For me,
the match of the season so far. I thought everyone played their part in
producing a thoroughly entertaining game of football. The game was never dirty,
but I have not seen such a fiercely competitive girls match – and I thought the
girls rose to the challenge magnificently.
The Y3
girls had BOCO under the cosh for large parts of the game. They enjoyed more
possession, more corners, more shots; and I really felt they deserved to get
something out of the game – but sadly it was not to be.
All credit
to BOCO’s goalkeeper for pulling of string of fine
saves, and to their forwards for taking their chances so well.
I believe
Longwell Green are unbeaten
this season. They have beaten St.
We had
large amounts of possession and territory in the first half - but could not turn
this into goals. Longwell Green defended well and
were always dangerous on the break, but Briony and Adie mopped up whatever was thrown at them. The
first half finished goalless. We began the second half well enough, but the
first time we failed to clear the ball out of our box Longwell Green strikers pounced and scored with an
unstoppable bullet into the top left hand corner. All credit to the girls, they kept
trying to play football and continued to take the game to the Longwell Green.
Longwell Green
continued to hit us on the break and would have taken a 2 goal lead - but Grace
managed to tip a long range shot round the post for a corner. With 2 minutes
left on the clock it looked like once again the girls were not going to get the
reward they deserved, when a nice pass released Rosanna in space in the penalty
box, for her to coolly slot a shot into the bottom right hand corner to even the
scores
I thought
all of the girls played their hearts out and should be extremely proud.
Highlights included
- Aoife and Briony - who covered
every blade of grass, got back and tackled, and passed the ball forwards so
well
- Grace -
Fine debut in goal
- Isobel -
played as a year 2 in a match with Year 3s and did not look out of her
depth.
- Rosanna
- Great goal
- Adie,
Ellie, Elouise and Georgia - harried, and passed and
tackled - and all could have scored on another day
Rockleaze Tigers 7:1 Ashley
Down
The tigers
came out with a roar. They scored in the first minute and nearly always looked
in the control. Highlights included:
- A
hat-trick from
- A brace
for Ellie & Adie
- A couple
of great stops from Rosanne in goal.
- Claudia,
Isobelle and Yvonne never looked out of their depth
against a team that was a year older than them.
Rockleaze Lions
3:1 Ashley Down
Ashley
Down regrouped after the first match – and came out much more determined in the
second game.
- A brace
from Briony – the first of which was a contender for
goal of the season
- Aoife scored
her first goal of the season with a delightful chip
- Thanks
for Hannah and Elouise, who took turns playing for
Ashley Down when one of their players was injured. Elouise always looked dangerous up front and scored Ashley
Downs goal
- Grace
would have kept a clean sheet – had she not been up against Elouise
- As above
Imogen, Abigail, Hannah, Isabella were playing
against girls a year older – and never looked out of the depth
- Louisa
and Jessica, were playing against girls two years
older than them. Imagine how good they might be in a couple of year’s time.
The Lions
and Tigers picked up from where they left off last week and controlled both
games against
Rockleaze Tigers 3:0
Highlights
included
Isobelle opened
the scoring with a great bit of poaching to rifle the ball into the top corner
from a tight angle. Ellie, was our first line of
defence even though she was playing in attack. She harried and hassled the
Congratulations
to Emily on a great debut & well played to Georgia, Adie, Poppy & Yvonne
Rockleaze Lions 1:0
Despite
only scoring 1 goal, the Lions dominated their match more than the Tigers did
Poor Rosanna did not get a single touch of the ball in goal. Eloise made
up for scoring against us last week by firing a fierce shot between the goal
keepers legs. Imogen,
Briony, Charlotte, and Eloise all had further chances,
but were not able to take them. Well played to Louise, Jessica (both year
1's!) & Abigail.
Adie and
Aoife bossed the game by pushing up from defence,
ensuring that we played almost the entire game well inside the AEK BOCO
half. Ellie was on fire, powering through the BOCO defence time and time
again, and scoring a well deserved hat-trick, and on another day could have has
five or six. Rosanna had very little to do in goal, but on the rare
occasions she was called upon, she acquitted herself well. Georgia,
Isobel, Imogen and Eloise played their part, and all
had shots on target.
Many thanks to the Portishead girls, parents and coaches for playing the games
in such a sporting spirit. It was end to end stuff in
both games, and all 3 teams will have come away thinking they could have scored
more goals, but a dry & bumpy pitch made passing, dribbling and shooting
difficult.
The Lions
showed tremendous spirit after falling behind to a freakish own goal, and
changed up a gear. Aoife levelled the scores with a well struck low shot from the
edge of the penalty area, and you could see a surge of self belief ripple
through the team. When their #4 (who had been breaking up our attacks
brilliantly all day long ) went off with an injury with 5 minutes to go, the
tide had definitely turned in our favour and Eloise
popped up in the penalty box to break Portishead heart
by firing in the winner with the practically the last kick of the
game.