TRAINING & MATCH - SAT 19 SEPT

Hi all

Training is on this Friday at 17:45 at pitch 3 Cheshire County Offices (Upton) on the astro.

Our Saturday fixture is a 9:30am KO (so 9:00 arrival) away against Chester Nomads at Boughton Hall Cricket Club, Boughton Hall Avenue, Chester, CH3 5EL. The pitches are just behind the club house.

For this Saturday we will rest the following players who either can't make it or have been unlucky to be randomly selected first in the weekly rotation. All players will get exactly the same game time over the season.

Rested this week:

Fin Palmer

Harry Peers
Will Bird

Team:

Hugo St John Williams (g)

Lewis Jones (c)
Alex Buchanan
George Winter
Zac Jones
Bailey Graham
Rory Delafaille
Charlie Evans
William Stewart

We will continue to rotate the squad and take 9 of 12 to each game, so if you know in advance of any weekends away please let me know.

Please confirm both training & match attendance.

Thanks

Rob

MATCH REPORT - SAT 12 SEPT

ROCKETS 4 : 4 BLACON YOUTH

A really good start to the league season. 

Rockets started really fast and deserved to go into the lead with a great strike by Lewis from the right hand side. We went further ahead after Bailey finished through a crowded area.

In the middle two quarters Blacon improved and got back into the game with a long range effort from their re-start before drawing level. Hugo kept us in the game with some fine saves, the best one from a free kick which was going into the top corner.

Fin put us back ahead again with a shot from the edge of the area before Blacon again equalised from a defensive mix up to make it 3-3. 

George put the Rockets ahead again with a nice left foot strike and we were unlucky not to hold on for the win as we looked to break forward and seal the victory. Unfortunately we lost possession and Blacon equalised.

All in all the performance and commitment was excellent and we could definitely see some of the things we worked on in training. We kept our positions much better and used the space. We still have some organisational work to do - such as not (ever, ever, ever!) passing across our goal and trying not to lose possession in dangerous places (safety first!).

Man of the Match was Lewis for his tackling, running and a great goal. He will be Captain next week.

Thanks for the support from the touchline. 

TRAINING & MATCH - SAT 12 SEPT

Hi all

Training is on this Friday at 17:45 at pitch 3 Cheshire County Offices (Upton) on the astro.

Our Saturday fixture is a 9am KO (so 8:40 arrival) against Blacon at our Waverton pitches. 

For this Saturday we will take the whole squad and each player will get two quarters as we get used to playing games again. 

From next week we will rotate the squad and take 9 of 12 to each game, so if you know in advance of any weekends away please let me know.

Please confirm both training & match attendance.

Thanks

Rob 

CONFIRMED TRAINING VENUE

Hi all

Had confirmation our training venue is:

Pitch 3 Astro Turf

Cheshire County Offices
Upton 

Friday's at 17:45 - 18:45, starting this Friday 4th Sept.

We will partly train as an age group and in our individual squads with the Arrows team. This will foster a greater spirit within the age group. I know lots of boys have friends in the other teams. 

Subs (replacing weekly match fees) will be £10.00 per month payable in advance to Rebecca at the first Friday of each month (or first opportunity if away). Left over money will be used to fund end of season activities, medal night, team meal and tournament entries.

The boys will need:

Shin pads (no shin pads no training)
Trainers (no boots allowed)
Drink
Waterproof if required

Boys can wear their own football kits. 

Look forward to a good season.

Rob & Paul

TRAINING & MATCH - 4 & 5 SEPT

Hi all

Hope everyone had a great summer. 

Training will start this Friday 4 Sept at 17:45 at either Waverton Pitches or Cheshire County Offices (Upton) on the astro. Just waiting confirmation from the club. 

Our Saturday fixture against Blacon is postponed (by them!) so we will play a practise match with the Jets on Saturday morning at Waverton pitches - all players selected - 9am KO so 8:45am arrival.

Some transfer news...we welcome Zac Jones to the squad who joins from Tarvin Athletic. Josh Thistle has transferred to join his school mates at Chester Nomads and we wish him well.

We will confirm the training location ASAP.

Please confirm availability by Thursday lunch please. 

Thanks
Rob & Paul

END OF SEASON AWARDS

Well done to all the boys on a great first season!

MATCH REPORTS - SAT 6 JUNE

Two matches for our Rockets versus the Upton lads from our league...

Rockets 4 : 0 Upton
A well controlled display from the boys in this game. We rotated players in the first two quarters and changed goalie each quarter and all the boys listened and held their positions brilliantly.

After an even first quarter we started to make better moves and our passing improved which was sending in our players through on the Upton goal time after time. Goals came from George (1) followed by Finlay (2) and Will B (1). It could have been many more...we hit the post 3 times and the goal line technology wasn't working either!!

At the back we were brilliant with Charlie & William winning every tackle and showing a great calmness to receive the ball from the goalie and look for a forward pass. This was the most pleasing thing as its coming from our training sessions.

All the boys were voted man of match.


Rockets 5 : 3 Upton
A fine result from the boys in this game.

In the first quarter there was some great passing and positional pay. Lewis (1) opened the scoring with a great individual effort followed by goals from Harry (2), one of which was a superb free kick.

At this point we had control of the game and Hugo was rarely threatened. In the second half we had to readjust the formation moving some of the boys out of their normal position, which lead to the team losing shape and we began to leave openings at the back.

As a consequence of this Upton were able to get back into the game scoring 3 goals in the second half and they continued to pressure us. This led to a nail biting last ten minutes but the boys came through showing great character and commitment. 

Josh (1) showed great composure to put us back in front after great link up play from Bailey and Harry. Last, but not least, Rory (1) finished with a low shot into the corner which he deserved after opting to play at the back for most of the game. At times he was our rock!

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Well done to all the boys in both games. In the Arrows game they won 14:0 so Carl is off to a great start!

Thanks to Steve & Quint for helping run one of the games.