The plucky Redemption FC combination went down against Old Boys in Round One of the 2008 Chatham Cup, but by George, they will be back! From all accounts it seems like a match that was fairly even and it was probably the superior fitness of a team in a higher grade and the benefit of a few Southern Premier League players which made the difference. It still was a top effort by the Redemption Lions. Here are some quotes from the Soccer Otago and Soccer Southland websites!
Soccer Otago - Old Boys beat Dunedin fourth division side Redemption 4-2 in Invercargill, but the scarfie team competed well and after equalizing to 1-1 shortly after the break looked capable of creating an upset.
But Old Boys kicked on to clinch the match and earn the Churchill Rosebowl Trophy for being the only Invercargill team to progress into round two of the Cup.
http://www.soccerotago.co.nz/spl2008/rnd1chatcup.htm
Got it slightly wrong Rab, it was in Dunedin!
It is interesting to get the viewpoint from the opposition, the mighty Soccer Southland.
http://www.southlandsoccer.org.nz/allreviews.htm
Old Boys will have its name engraved on Southland Football’s Churchill Rose Bowl trophy for the second consecutive year as it is the only Southland team to progress to round two of the Chatham Cup following Saturday’s fixtures in the Soccersouth region.
All four Southland teams performed with credit but all four paid the price for a lack of fitness and endurance with three losing their way in the second half, and, in McLellan Motors Queens Park’s case, extra time.
Old Boys was never in trouble against Otago fourth division team Redemption from the time that regular Spirit FC player Hamish Low put it 1-nil ahead.
Although having only the one goal margin at the break Old Boys had enough possession to suggest a better outcome in the second spell. So it proved to be, but not before Redemption had grabbed an equaliser three minutes into the half.
Low put Old Boys two up minutes later and then a brace of goals from Scott Kiddey took it out to a 4-1 lead.
Redemption had the last say with a late consolation goal.
For Old Boys youngster George Hercus had another strong game in a good team effort and thoroughly deserved his player-of-the-day tag.
2 comments:
Old boys were very lucky! we have played better teams this year and not only did i equalize with a scorcher making the defender and keeper look silly, the team did amazing to hold on till around the 75minute where we were well in the game but somehow gave up 3 soft soft goals before i pulled back another one but unfortunatley too late in the game as i recon 10 mins more we could have forced xtra time
Old boys were very lucky! we have played better teams this year and not only did i equalize with a scorcher making the defender and keeper look silly, the team did amazing to hold on till around the 75minute where we were well in the game but somehow gave up 3 soft soft goals before i pulled back another one but unfortunatley too late in the game as i recon 10 mins more we could have forced xtra time
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