Coomera Soccer 12 Div 2

The game against Magic United was our best result so far the season, in that we scored freely. The rain and lack of approved officials were disappointing parts of the game.

I don’t like highlighting the goal scorers too much as each goal is a real team effort that can start with the Goalie or defenders. The boys will correct me but I think that Danny, Andrew, Lian and a Magic player scored for our four goals. The boys are starting to look dangerous throughout the field and put together some good moves.

The dissapointing element was that the game continued after our Goalie, Bradley, was lying injurred on the ground. This should not be allowed to happen as the safety of players of either side is more important than anything.

I believe that although the boys lost, they enjoyed scoring a number of goals and the attacking moves. My focus over the last two weeks has been getting shots on and scoring. We scored once against Mur’bah and improved against Magic. With players of this age, the scores are reasonable high, so we have to be able to score goals to do any good. The next step is to score more goals than the opposition. This will come, as I believe we have not yet been outclassed player for player by any team.

Talking about the team, we have a large proportion of the team who want to play up front of midfield. We obviously need defense at times as well and a goalie. My solution at this stage is to adapt some of the positions so that backs can move up the field when appropriate as long as someone covers them and they get back when needed. Andrew proved the success of this during the last few games. The other strategy is to rotate the boys through either defence midfield or midfield forwards.

We have to work on defence as well and this will come but games will be only won by outscoring the opposition plus the boys get great deal of enjoyment as long as they are scoring – we are here for the boys’ enjoyment after all.

I will have a separate entry for the Kingscliff game.

Chris