24/04/2023
2-3 GRESFORD
You wouldn’t believe it, but our first game of the regular season didn’t go to plan. From the get-go, we had a few unfortunate pullouts and once again played with the bare minimum numbers, but hey it’s not like we weren’t prepared for it. Our trial with no subs the week before stepped us up to be able to play the full 80+ minutes without resting, and we almost delivered.
Starting out, Tyler Haffner and Nate Delizzotti put the pressure on the opposition’s kick off, stressing them out enough to earn an early goal, adding it to the long list of achievements for the House of Haffner. It wasn’t long until Gresford returned the favour, and for the rest of the time it was anyones game. Things were looking positive for about 10 minutes until two more goals found the back of our net after they peppered us with some incredible shooting skills.
But the Jaffas were still hungry and refused to go down like that. After an (almost) glorious bicycle kick that may have splintered the spine of Ethan Meredith, it was the veteran defender, Michael Saxby who decided to take it upon himself to go score at the end of the game from a perfect corner curled in by Dylan Jackson, leaving it at 2-3 by the final whistle. Our now equal leading goal scorer also took man of the match on his debut of the 2023 season, and gosh is he getting more and more handsome with age? Maybe scoring agrees with him.
There was a lot to learn from this game that we will be taking into account for next week. Look out for the big W on this page.