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Week 8
Division C
It’s been the coldest December in 28 years. January will be no different. Bad referees, handballs, illegal tackles, injuries, goal posts are part of the game. Short of players? Snow storms? It’s all part of the game now.
Ready to start 2010 and forget 2009. The Ringleaders are receptive, focused and determined. Our Captain Nick led the defense, backed up by Kevin and Paul 107. Jonas played in goal.
We played intense football, as MTL-FC was short of subs, their weary legs couldn’t hold up for the 2nd half. To their surprise, once again reunited, the Trepanier brothers (Jeremie and Joas) played a superb match.
After missing many chances to score, including a volley shot by Jano Arabaghian, Jeremie found Joas on 2 occasions which ended with a goal. With only 5 minutes left, The RFC brought home the 3 points needed and moved up on the league table.
Division B
Another tough fixture in week 8 as RFC 2 faced Sabbah, one of the form teams of Division B, and with a couple of key players still away on vacation. It was good to see that Joas made a quick recovery from last weeks injury scare and was back on the pitch.
Sabbah are a strong well organized team and it was always going to be difficult to break them down. Everyone worked hard in the first half putting in a good performance and this was rewarded by a magical Danny Pexis goal from nothing to keep us in the game. No-one on the whole pitch anticipated Danny’s over the shoulder volley into the far corner, it was beautiful.
Unfortunately, in the second half tiredness set in and cohesion waned, and Sabbah continued their relentless pressing game. The effort was there but we were unable to develop any quality possession with the ball and we lost another close game 2-1.
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This week’s match programme was designed by Luca. Since joining The Ringleaders, The one known as “Weird Beard” has blessed us with his wisdom in many ways. The latine quote on the graphic means “Out Of Many One”.
The quote explaining the meaning of the phrase was written on ancient stone in Mesopotamia 3,000 years ago: “Well, It’s because were ALL different… but were ONE team… with the SAME love for football…” Some say God entered Luca’s body while he made this epic masterpiece.
RFC 2-0 MTL FC (Joas (2))
Sabbah 2-1 RFC 2 (Danny)
Tags: Captain, handballs, Jano Arabaghian, Jeremie, Joas, Jonas, Kevin, Mtl-FC, Nick, Paul 107, Referees, RFC, Snow storms, The Ringleaders, Trepanier
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Dec 30th, 2009 | by admin
Week 6
Division B
You can’t win them all. Week 6 versus Atlas Lions was a good game. We played strong. The referee failed to see the handball on their second goal, with only five minutes left to play. Referees can do that; take away points. One thing they can’t do; take away that beautiful goal we scored. Angelo Destounis sent a nice curling ball from midfield, pass 2 defender’s heads. Jeremy Patterson then stepped back with a diving header pass to Danny Pexis, that half volleyed the ball into the net. We lost 2-1.
Is it that lock we have for the locker room? Injuries are a serious issue this season. So far we lost Jesse Bowden, Julien Roussin-Cote, Thanasi Destounis. However is reading this out there, please be careful when you square off against people that don’t know how to play. Try to anticipate their foul movements, read their temper and calculate their actions.
Division C
For the second week in a row RFC were up against an unbeaten team. This week it was our old rivals, the Ballkickers, who were standing intimidatingly on top of the Division C table.
Despite having a number of players out for this fixture we knew we could still steal the win. From the beginning, no-one gave less than 100%, and even when we went a goal down no-one stopped trying. And with our efforts, deservedly we went level with Kevin scoring his first goal of the season.
The final twenty minutes of the game were definitely good for the neutrals but pure anxiety for anyone on the sidelines. With chances at both ends (and a superb goal stopping challenge by Paul 107) we were finally undone by a really tidy piece of play, which consisted of a pin point through ball and a very neat finish.
With three minutes left of the game we attacked with everything we had, but their keeper was exceptional and clawed a sensational volley from bart out of the top corner. So after some intense pressure and a few goal mouth scrambles the Ballkickers held on and claimed their first victory against RFC. Overall a very satisfactory team performance with the Captain holding things together superbly at the back.
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This might be a vision Johnny had. Perhaps his perception of a referee. Matchday 6 is a new day, so let’s start fresh again. The quote “Fail to prepare, Prepare to fail” comes from Roy Keane.
RFC 1-2 Ballkickers (Kevin)
Atlas Lions 2-1 RFC 2 (Danny)
Tags: "Fail to prepare, Angelo Destounis, Atlas Lions, Ballkickers, Captain, Danny Pexis, Division C, Jeremy Patterson, Jesse Bowden, Johnny F. Kim, Julien Roussin-Cote, Kevin, Matchday 6, Paul 107, Prepare to fail", Referees, RFC, Roy Keane, Thanasi Destounis, Week 6
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Dec 14th, 2009 | by admin
