OLD MEADONIANS FC CIRCULAR 19th November 2014 Fixtures For Saturday 22nd November Team 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th Opposition Venue / Referee Competition Kick Off Kings Old Boys Away - Kings College London SG, Brockley Rise, London, SE23 1NW League 2.30pm Oakhill Tigers II Home - Salvatore Colavito AFA Inter Cup 1.30pm Old Manorians III Home – Sarah Day LOB Junior 1.30pm Glyn Old Boys II Away - Cheam Sports Club, Peaches Close, Cheam, Surrey, SM2 7BJ League 2.00pm Old Hamptonians III Away - Rectory Farm, Dean Road, Hampton, Middlesex, TW12 1AQ League 2.00pm Old Sedcopians V Away - Sparrows Lane Sports Centre, Sparrows Lane, New Eltham. London SE9 2BT AFA Inter Novets 1.30pm Old Guildfordians Home - Darren Sabena League 1.45pm Witan II Away - Barn Elms Sports Centre, Queen Elizabeth Walk, Barnes, SW13 0DG League 2.00pm City of London III Home - TBA League 1.45pm Army Crusaders Away - Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Camberley GU15 4PQ League 1.00pm 6th 7th 8th 9th Vets Teams 1sts Garry Robinson Jordon Mace Adam Goode Alistair McCombe Kevin Quinn Jack Costello Jack Holmes Ryan Bright Ed Glover Jon Shea Matt O Sullivan Lawrie Pointer Will Gerrish 2nds Joe Beharie Ryan Kohn Dave Miller Damian Reading Nick Jones Adam Boynton Jake Gowers Matt Allen Alex Trotter Nick Wilson Misha Mantel Alex Jones Ollie Matthews Sam Granville 3rds Riccardo Avati David Ryan Jermaine Queensborough Joe Willis Darren Grainger Ashti Hamidi Luke Latimer Tommy Champion Olivier Denau Jose Neto Dwayne Beckford Freddie Jefferies Tim Dorsett Roni Sidhu 4ths Rourke Minors Jack McCarthy Jon Best Eoin Toher Paul Adams Tinashe Sithole Marvin West Dylan Zoufoul Nick Nourrice Mike Conroy Barry Mcguinness Andrea Oliveria Sanni Ahme 5ths Sasha Goryunov Alan Wade Will Knox Ish Beckford Philip Dussard Thomas Barquin Mekel Hackett Lee Greenhalgh Nicky Rankin Kevin Coyne Amir Hussain Matthew Walcott Joey Watts Tim Gates Mark Stone 6ths Lewis Taylor Gavin Kenny Craig Elder Simon Parker Graeme MacSween Brad Waygood James Alder Chris Anthony Usif Bangura Brad Doble Sam Fields Peter Noreaga Jayson Beckford Harj Sindhu 7ths Joshua Kearney Max Kearney Liam Irish Ross Ellison Marlon Wright Stephen Lynch Dave Yorath Jake Sierocinski Kevin Martin John Wynne Mark Richardson Michael Bonsu Danny Knight Alex Thamby Rob Williams 8ths Steve Challice David Terry Paul Smith Lum Berisha Danny Piper Matt Ring David Williams Oner Ozturk Max Eggl Gareth Hurley Rowen Graham Collins Alfie Duckett Brendan Ryan Abbey Balogen 9ths Nathan Nicholson Simon Gordon Julian Gribble Billy Philpott Paul Augtais Ben Weekes Gabriel Woodhall George Toft Scott Brown Barry Baxendale Dan Smith Peter Mielewczyk Steve Nicholl Lionel Scurville Vets Dermot Collins Lee Walsh John Walcott Pete Lovell Neil Hanman Steve Kearney Charlie morales Jaime Allen Roy McLoughlin Allen Kerr Dwayne Rhone Dino Antoniades Steve Dodd Rob Lee  Saturdays Results (15.11.14)  1st: Won 4 - 1 (Oakhill Tigers) - LOB Senior Cup  2nd: Won 4 - 2 (Old Salvatorians) - LOB Intermediate Cup  3rd: Lost 3 - 6 (Mickleham Old Boxhillians)  4th: Lost 1 – 4 (Economicals IV)  5th: No Game  6th: Lost 3 - 7 (Old Suttonians IV)  7th: Won 4 - 3 (Old Actonians VIII) - AFA Junior Novets Cup  8th: Won 8 – 1 (Bealonians VII) - AFA Junior Novets Cup  9th: Lost 4- 5 AET (Alexandra Park VII {SAL}) - AFA Junior Novets Cup  VETS: No Game PLEASE contact the Team Secretary ROB WILLIAMS on omfcteamsec@gmail.com or 07941 134 503 to advise if you’re available and not selected. Managers/Captains 1st Team Rory Vermeulen Paddy Rumley 07979 858 595 07956 377 469 2nd Team Luke Graham 07707 288 174 3rd Team Tim Castle 07455 003 245 4th Team Barry McGuinness 07751 071 537 5th Team Phil Dussard 07920 779 374 6th Team Lewis Taylor 07921 809 349 7th Team Rob Williams 07941 134 503 8th Team Dave Terry 07817 884 739 9th Team Simon Gordon 07989 342 224 Sat Vets Steve Kearney 07973 835 203 Nathan Nicholson 07791 530 214 Sun Vets Roy McLoughlin 07778 551 168 Tour Join the tour party now by contacting Barry McGuinness, our tour organiser. £100 deposit secures your place. See separate flyer for details. Club Training Club training has been suspended for the time being. Watch this space for more news soon! Club Website Take a look at the club’s revamped website http://www.omfc.co.uk. We are also on Twitter and once the season gets going, Instagram. Look up @oldmeadsfc on twitter….. #MEADS Golden Boot Leaders Craig Max Dwayne Matt Oner Nick Sanni Ross Jones Eggl Beckford Allen Ozturk Wilson Ahmed Ellison 15 13 12 11 8 8 7 7 Weekend at the Clubhouse 22 Nov 17:30 Arsenal v Man Utd 23 Nov 13:30 Crystal Palace v Liverpool 23 Nov 16:00 Hull v Spurs Match Reports Please send match reports, photos or anything else for submission in the newsletter to oldmeadonians@gmail.com. We are introducing the coveted ‘Report of the Month’ award once more, so let’s get your creative juices flowing. Old Meadonians’ Press Release 17.11.14 London Old Boys’ Senior Cup Oakhill Tigers 1 Old Meadonians 4. Oakhill Tigers, Old Meadonians’ latest opponents in the London Old Boys’ Senior Cup, promised to be a more testing banana skin than other lower division teams Meads have met in this season. Tigers are on the crest of a wave, albeit two divisions below, having won all six of their league games with a healthy goal difference of 14 to Meads’ record of four wins and two losses out of their six, with a goal difference of thirteen and to their credit, Tigers provide superb facilities and an immaculately maintained first team pitch at their Southgate estate. On top of that the hosts then proceeded to take an unexpected lead on the quarter as Meads’ keeper Gary Robinson waved goodbye to a twenty yard shot he had covered when it was accidentally deflected beyond his reach by a prowling Tiger. However, the hosts proved themselves to have more cup-fighting spirit than ability to back up any threat offered and, into the bargain, stirred up a regular hornets’ nest as Meads hit back with a stinging string of six corners. From the last of these, taken by Jack Costello, Craig Jones reacted quickly to stab in from close in on the half hour. Before half time Meads had bared their teeth by hitting the woodwork twice and having one kicked off the line but had also taken the lead with a goal later suggested by joint coach Paul Rumley as a candidate for goal of the season, when Ryan Bright picked up the ball twenty yards out and crashed it into the top right hand corner. The second half saw the hosts showing their mettle by taking the attack to the visitors but having no joy, firstly with Meads’ keeper Gary Robinson pulling off two saves within five minutes of the restart, a timely grab in a one on one and by keeping his legs in reserve to stop a second shot and thereafter, Meads’ back four again became as intransigent as ever. The hosts had also repeated their mistake of the first half by provoking retaliation as Meads scored two in the last five minutes. By this time fresh legs were on and Bright had taken on the role of provider with accurate and controlled crosses. One of these from a free-kick gave John Shea the opportunity to volley in at the far post. Meads’ fourth started with Robinson’s long clearance down the right which was headed on by the soaring Ed Glover into the path of Dave Brennan and he centred for Shea to head in firmly from ten yards. Ali McCombe and Ryan Bright were named joint MoM. Squad: Robinson, Mace, Goode, McCombe, Quinn, Costello, Shea, Brennan, Holmes, C. Jones, Bright, O’Sullivan, Pointer, Glover. 2nds No Match Report but a nice picture has been submitted of Dave Miller 6's Match Report Old Suttonians IV – 7 Meads 6's - 3 Scorers - Bangura, Sinclair, Thamby Broken record time. I'll keep it brief. Score decent goals. Make ridiculous defensive mistakes, don't take responsibility at set plays, aren't brave enough and lack character when game isn't going our way. Not a formula which will win many games. Started the better side, playing some good stuff. Could never build any momentum in the match as when we got a goal, we gave one away. Played well and went into the break 3-2 down. Second half we fell apart. Were reckless, lost our shape, discipline in position and lacked composure. After two very good performances and thinking we'd turned a corner this was very hard to take. Meads 7s (4) vs Acton 8s (3) Williams – J. Kearney – Richardson – Dussard – Wynne (Martin) – Wright – Yorath (M.Kearney) – Bonsu – Porter (Irish) – Knight – Ellison Ha ha ha, Look at them, there is only 12 of them and 2 of them are already limping and 2 more are even older than Dusty and Joe…. we said as they warmed up.On a high from last week (first league win) we went into this game with some confidence for a change… perhaps too much, going by our first half display. We were poor and for some reason turned into a team of individuals. We ended up going in at the break 2-1 down, from there only 2 shots on goal, with Ross scoring ours. GAME CHANGER:2-1 down at the break, was it the removal of Joe Porter (only joking godfather Joe) or was it the introduction of Liam Irish? Was it we were now playing 4-4-2 rather than 4-5-1 or was it they were now down to 10 men (with 1 still limping) as 2 of their players left injured (they actually left!!) Whatever it was, it didn’t take us long to get back to 2-2 after Liam miskicked a shot which allowed Max to get on the end of it, with a trade mark run across the goal and the delicate of touches to knock it in from 7 yards out. Mark then added a 3rd, to make it 2 in 2 for him, this coming from a quick corner between Dave and Michael. Michael, was then to add a 4th and good work by Liam and with 15 to go, game was in the bag (remember they only have 10)!!Well, we like to entertain, our defending at times does that as much as our attacking, and a mix up at the back (I’ll cover Dusty here and take full responsibility) ended in a penalty, another soft one, after Mark tapped their striker on the back of the leg. They managed to score to make it 4-3. Game back on!! They had 2/3 more chances to equalise but scuffed their chances…. Luckily for us.A win is a win and we are still in both cups, we managed to get a lovely away tie somewhere in East London, one day we will hopefully make it look as easy as the low in morale 8th team  Here is a photo of Liam walking Here are some photos of more Meads players walking and Paul Whelan walking off with Stanners retirement chair. Oh and Dusty trying to tackle his own player… Meads 8s 8 (eight) - 1 Old Bealonians Squad:- Richards, Piper, Smith, Duckett, Terry, Graham-Collins, Berisha, Coyne, Balogen, Eggl, Hurley, Ringo, Ryan Scorers:- Hurley (3), Eggl (3), Piper (1), Berisha (1) Only the toughest of hearts would fail to have a little sympathy for Old Beals on Saturday. They made the long old trek over from my old stomping ground Essex, but were never once anywhere near being in the game. Nice blokes, but unfortunately, for them, not great. If I'm honest, we made heavy work of the initial exchanges, but once we opened the scoring and settled down (nerves were still apparent from previous results) it was one way traffic. I can't remember the exact order of goals, but a Hurley penalty opened the scoring, with the evergreen striker adding a further two. Young buck Max helped himself to a hattrick and if not for at least 5 off side decisions, could have doubled that tally. Danny P grabbed a well taken goal after returning from a long term injury and Mr Berisha got in on the scoring act also. Was nice to see the boys playing with a smile on their face and what defending we had to do was done very well. Apart from the last 10-minutes when we did get bit goal hungry and lost our shape (and conceded) we treated the game and the oppo with respect they deserved. We tried to do the right things throughout and whilst much tougher challenges will follow, this should give us a nice confidence booster moving onwards. Injury crisis has hopefully abated a bit, and sure we can recreate these kind of performances regularly, against tougher oppo, once the team settles down and confidence improves. Thanks to Gary for playing in goal (never seen him more animated than when they scored) and Danny P, Ringo and Kevin for stepping it at late notice. MoM:- joint award to the hattrick heroes Gareth and Max 9THS Old Meadonians 9th 4 – 5 Alexandra Park 7ths AET (M Walcott 2?, Smith, J Walcott) Not for the first time this season the 9ths fell victim of the club selection policy with two no shows\late cry-offs. With four of last season’s team playing for higher sides we’re continually encouraged to pick players who let us down. Fortunately Matthew Walcott was a late volunteer and John who came along to watch put on a kit at the side of the pitch. The description ‘club legend’ is often inappropriately used in match reports but John is certainly worthy of the title. Alexandra Park’s 7ths are riding high at the top of their division, above their own 6th team and on paper are tougher opposition than we’d normally face. After 20 mins the pre-match stats lived up to the billing. We were 0-3 down chasing shadows against a younger, fitter and quicker side than ourselves. It wasn’t that we started badly, but AP had a striker worthy of their 1st team (a confession later made) and a centre midfielder who was doing a worthy impression of Xavi, who between them breezed through our defense. I can’t give you much detail of what actually happened as I was struggling to breathe but I remember getting fairly annoyed at the showboating, whooping and encouragement of hatricks. What followed may not have been pretty or gained too many Spirit of Football points but in true Old Meads fashion the 9’s got stuck into AP. Matthew scored our first before half time, which was just reward for his fantastic work rate and skill running at AP’s defense. A key moment was Julian saving a penalty at 1-3; a casual chip down the centre of the goal summed up AP’s nonchalance. We went up the other end and scored soon after. 2-3. Iffy scored a superb freekick to equalize. 3-3. I think AP scored next and then John Walcott scored from long range 4-4. During the last 15 minutes Meads were in the ascendency and could have won in normal time with George and Matthew both having one on ones saved after great individual runs. FT 4-4. Extra time. The match was decided by AP’s star striker who had been starved of service for so long that he took the game into his own hands and picked up the ball near the halfway line flew through a few crude challenges before finishing well. 45. The 9’s had a couple of half chances to equalize in the fog but AP clung on to the win. Credit to AP, they were a good bunch of lads with several very good players who shouldn’t really be playing at our level. As for the 9’s every man had a storming game considering the circumstances, certainly no shame in this defeat.