RESULT : Skidmarks 8 - 1 Pixel Fusion

AND WE ARE BACK!!!!!!!

Finally a good result and a good team performance all round....yes Fred, round is a shape too :)

A couple late cancellations, i won't mention any names though Peter "I scored 1 goal & now am retired" Dunias and Bruce "Mr Reliable" Andersen!!! But we managed to scrounge together an extra player in the form on Richard "Zeus" Kenny and managed to take the number of individual goalscorers this year to 10. Good to see we have learnt to share....well i haven't but i guess Dom "Current Golden Skidmark" Albrecht & Gary "I think i can toe poke" Hatfield have decided to. Well done guys.

So back to the game, starting team for the night was :

1) Gary "Tighty Whities" Hatfield - 1 goal
2) Luke "Tanga's" Hatfield - 2 goals
3) Richard "Zeus" Kenny - 1 cracker of a goal
4) Peri "" Zourides - 1 goal
5) Brendan "" McNiven
6) Dom "" Albrecht - 2 goals
7) Ulundi "" Makhanya - 1 goal

I seemed to miss most of the goals on Monday night so here are the views of the prosepective players, from their mouths/keyboards....i cannot guarantee an objective view like when i describe my own goals...which is very often!

Dom "Empty Net" Albrecht

"My first goal - lundi got the ball in the corner, slipped a gentle pass inside to fred who expertly chipped the onrushing keeper for me to tap into an empty net.

The second i caught the keeper in midfield and made him look a bit silly before sliding the ball into another empty net."

Richard "I played 90 minutes" Kenny

"A speculative long ball was played out the back, which the defence failed to deal with.
The Baby Rhino took the ball to the corner and layed in back into my path.
, i thumped it into the top corner, rumour has it that the earths rotation was altered by one second as the ball hit the back of the net"

Peri "2 versions" Zourides

"My version:

After displacing a helpless striker in our half I played a neat 1 – 2 with Lundi and then proceeded to shimmy, shake and shibobo my way thru the opposing defence after which I played a sublime ball to Gary “throw my foot at the ball and score” Hatfield who returned the favour with a crisp thru ball, with me following up and ripping the top corner of the net for the evenings best goal.

The blog version:

Dispossessed opposition and broke playing a ball out wide. Cut thru the middle and received a pass from Gary on the left, hit the ball side foot under the keeper.

Prefer my version"

Ulundi "I like to embelish" Makhanya

"You can't remember it?!!
Well, I can't really remember too much, but what I remember was....
...((feel free to add name, as I am not sure who)) took a shot from outside the area. Lundi, using his predatory skillz ghosted into the area unnoticed. With what was almost a sixth sense, Lundi knew where the ball was going to land before any of the defenders. He noticed the fear in their eyes as they all realised that the ball was going to drop to the oppositions most deadly finisher. Coolly, calmly and with a certain element of panache, Lundi placed the ball between the keepers legs for his opening goal (and closing) goal of the season.

I thank you!"

Gary "Feeder" Hatfield

"the defender was shilding the ball, so a flung a speculative foot at the ball, which somehow made the slightest contact with the ball, which then somehow, inexplainably crossed the line from an acutre angle"

i do believe the spelling is shielding and acute, and i don't think inexplainably is a word...? maybe unexplainably ?, thanks goodness i write this blog - Ed...(i have always wanted to be the Ed!!!)

Luke "Ginja Ninja" Hatfield

"With the scores still deadlocked @ 0-0, The Ginja & The Baby Rhino launched a 2 pronged attack against the lonely and helpless pixel defender, like a rabbit in the headlights he showed a moment of weakness, The Ginja had to decide dribble the defender and have a left footed shot or pass to The Baby Rhino on his dreaded left foot....he took the former, sold the defender like a packet of chips and toe poked past the on-rushing goalkeeper"

"Late in the 2nd half with the game wrapped up & Pixel Fusion leaving gaps at the back, B Dogg launched a monstrous throw-out over the head of the despairing defender, The Ginja Ninja & Baby Rhino were once again left to fight it out...The Ginja Ninja won once again, thumping a left footed volley past the helpless goalkeeper"

Thanks for the effort guys but you can now clearly see why i am the one who writes this, and not you!

The standings for Golden Skidmark are :

1) Luke "You not gonna catch me" Hatfield - 9
2) Gary "UK" Hatfield - 5
3) Dom "The Baby Rhino" Albrecht - 3
4) Peri "Left Foot" Zourides - 2
5) Peter "Retired" Dunias - 1
6) Bruce "The Matrix" Andersen - 1
7) Ricky "Allisons Brother" Arnold - 1
8) Rhys "Rice" Davies -1
9) Ulundi "I scored before Richard at least" Makhanya -1
10)Richard "The token beat me" Kenny - 1

Well done guys, i said 10 individual goalscorers last week and we did it.

Even B Dogg came close to scoring last night, hitting the post in the 1st half with an audacious outfield run and forcing the keeper into a save in the 2nd half!

For those of you who don't know Gary "Spanky G" Hatfield will be retiring from The Skidmarks @ the end of the current season to pursue his footballing career in Europe, specifically the UK.

Toetsins (how do u spell it??) Spanky G!

Speaking of Gary "I drive a girls car" Hatfield, anyone wanting to buy his car, Golf 4 Cabriolet - Silver, let him know on garyhatfield@gmail.com

In honour of Gary "What the f#ck are you wearing?" Hatfield, here are a few pics of him being him!





And last but certainly not least, a big shout out and R.I.P to Chris Uitzinger Snr who passed away on Tuesday 22 August 2006, aged 80 ! Keep it real Oupa and say hi to Ouma in heaven!!!