Year 9 BSYL. 08/11. Rockleaze 4 - 4 Foxes

Firstly it was hard to believe that the game was going ahead at all. The conditions were atrocious, with standing water and, early on, something approaching hail. We also lost Joe to illness before the kick off and, during the game, Ollie K to injury. Throughout the 70 mins, however, all of the boys were terrific.

At one point, following a very good early goal from the impressive Dom, we found ourselves 3-1 down to a combination of good finishing, a scrappy goal and a player who dominated centre midfield due to his size. After a switch which saw our giant, Tom, move in to a 'man marking' role on their giant, we started to take control of the game and Danny and Sam scored to level the score. Even so, Owen had to make a fantastic one handed save and we did concede one more to finish the first half 4-3 down.

The second half was pretty much all one-way traffic with Dom equalising, Ollie S hitting the post, Jack being denied what looked like a certain penalty and several half chances missed or cleared off the line. But the winner would not come.

There were notable performances everywhere but special mention to Jacob and Harry who stepped in at full back when Harri and Tom had to change positions and played really well. Harri looked perhaps the happiest of all those playing due to opportunity the game gave him to execute a series of perfectly timed and very muddy sliding tackles....

So, while we dropped points it could have been much worse.