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Ground: Caboolture (but noone managed to tell Andy)
Crowd: More than there were Rangers (A first or second perhaps)
Commitment: Total

This was (major pause as can't think how would describe the night) a
strange (sort of), eerie (no), unbelievable (no X-file here)....it was
night. Yep, definitely night time despite the absurdly early kickoff time.
Could tell cause it was dark. And it got darker as it was obvious no
morethan 9 Rangers would show.

When Ray and I (Dave) turned up with a few minute to kickoff and
couldn'tsight anyone at the ground for either team, thought must be at
wrong ground. No idea what Andy was thinking when he would have turned up
at Grange.

Nonetheless (mainly less) we were there. And so was the opposition with
five million reserves. After much debate on the line-up, we then decided a
4-3-1 approach. But just generally stack the middle and see what happens.

Well, no presents for guessing what happened. They dominated. They had
total control and were passing it willy nilly but couldn't score. We
actually had the first on target shot of the night but by full time you
could count our shots on one hand (maybe one and a half) and really good
chances not using any hands. But you could expect no less.

After a while, the pressure eventually told and they scored from a great
curling kick from outside the area. Oh, did I forget to mention Ray picked
up a yellow card? Some things change, but some things stay the same. They
also received a couple of yellows themselves but unfortunately none of them
got sent off.

Ray eventually conceded a penalty for a pretty inoccuous (pronounced
in-ock-you-us in case spelling bit out) challenged. Russ almost spat the
dummy at the ref but did manage to control himself. The news that we have
to play the final 25 minutes against Devies with this ref may have been in
his mind (oh and what a stupid decision by the committee on that one but
don't get me started).

Anyway, they f---ed (expletive deleted for Caboolture Shire Council
purposes) up but Eroy had it covered anyway. They knocked two more in by
half time and we turned at the break down three nil. Heads were starting
to get down but the half time break revitalised us for a determined
defensive effort for the second half. Russ decided to stick with the same
starting nine. This was the weird part of the night I guess. Some
different things happened that you don't normally see.

Ray was spoken to by the ref for not wanting to fetch the ball. Our
delaying tactics were brilliant. Even if not everybody knew about them.
Early in the second half Eroy kicked the ball out landing nowhere near any
Rangers or opposition for that matter. Up front I thought it was just a
crap kick. Then Eroy did it again. Bit further down field this time but
still near none of us. "How the hell am I supposed to get that?" I
thought. Then Eroy did it again. It clicked. "Well I wish he'd have
bloody told me so I didn't try to create an option" I thought. Not much of
an option with five defenders on you.

Pete was playing really well holding the ball up and controlling it as much
as possible. Chris was also slowing them down well on their numerous
raids. Russ, Nick, Harry and Froggi were doing well to repel each raid.
Eventually they slotted their fourth. I decided I'd had enough up front
albeit defending in our own half and went to sweeper. The ever versatile
Ray went up front.

They were not to score again. They had a few golden opportunities but were
crap in front of goal. And despite my most vehement appealing for offside
I did not get one. Mind you having Russ 20m behind me didn't help. And if
it wasn't Russ, it was Harry or Nick. But in this league I guess the
offside trap is very dangerous. I don't remember us having too many shots
in the second half except a wide effort by Ray and a clearance by myself
20m inside our half that caught their keeper bludging outside his area.
The ball flew past them all but went a few metres wide.

The final whistle eventually went signalling a brilliantly determined
effort by the nine Rangers. The beer and bangers were well deserved that
night.

Quote of the week:
Pete to Russ - "Should we get Dave to play in the halves?"
Russ response - "If we do that we'll be right for about 10 minutes but then
we'll be down to 8"

Team:
Eroy, Nick, Harry, Russ, Froggi, Pete, Ray, Chris, Dave.

Quote of the actual match:

"Good game ref", by Ray. A sentiment not agreed upon by anyone else on the park.