26/05/2024
On Friday night we had our final game of the 23/24 campaign and the occasion couldn’t of been bigger. The final of the Peter Shaw trophy against Pendle Blues. With both teams being fresh and having full squads out it was always bound to be a fantastic showing of football.
We made a perfect start to the game, when Michael Hodson snatched onto a loose ball and squared it to last weeks MOTM Stephen Trickett who tapped in with ease on the 8 minute mark. Not long after that we picked up a corner and some incredibly smart thinking from Aidan Parker as he burst forward from the halfway line picking up the ball outside of the box and fizzing it into Callum Wetherall who dispatched the ball into the bottom corner, an fantastically worked goal from the boys. But the celebrations were very short lived as Reece Miller picked out Toby Sudderick at the back post who nodded home to bring the game to 2-1 at the interval.
With a shaky first 10 minutes into the second half we knew we had to get the next goal to give us some breathing room. Enter Jimmy Astin, was brought on in the 55th minute and within a few minutes he got his first of the night with a neat finish in the bottom corner to put us 3-1 up. But the scoring wasn’t finished there, James Astin with some unbelievable footwork dancing around the blues CB’s and again with a finessed finish into the bottom corner to make it two for the night for himself and to put us 4-1 up. Not long after that another goal came courtesy of Isaac Turner who smashed home from short range. The last goal came from no other than Jimmy Astin who completed a 35 minute hatrick with just a few minutes remaining. A superb performance from the super sub.
The score finished 6-1 to us on the night which saw us bring home the Peter Shaw trophy. A dominant display from the boys there wasn’t one minute where we didn’t really look out of our depth.2 trophies in 7 days, a perfect way to finish the season. Man of the match could have gone to anyone on the pitch on the pitch on the night but James Astin was selected as the man of the match and fully deserved.
With the season being done I would like to round up with a few thank you’s to everybody who has supported us in our debut season lifting 2 trophies.
Our first thanks goes to Chris and Mark of Mellows at Barrowford, the amount of support they have give us, sponsoring our training tops, providing us with food and refreshments after every single game we’ve had this season. Coming to support us on game days and letting us host club events free of charge in their establishment, a massive massive thank you goes out to you both.
We would also like to thank VS Group for the sponsorship of our home kit for the season.
Our last thanks goes to ABSvisionphotography. Tony did a superb job for us on both cup finals photographing the games and did it off his own back, a fantastic touch and a top bloke.
For now we look towards our presentation night and our end of season do, but other than that we will be looking for friendlies with teams from the middle of July. If you would like to organise a game please send the page a message and we’ll get back to you!
