Men’s 2s 2 - 0 Bromley & Beckenham 1s (H)
By Dave 'Beanhead' Bartram
Trinity Boys Make the Difference for M2 Against BromBecks.
HT 0-0, FT 2-0
Scorers: Lars Hansen FG (45 minutes), Will Haspel PC (48 minutes)
After two fantastic wins against a strong Spencer side and a moaning Old Cranleighans contingent, the mighty Surbi M2s knew that a match against BromBecks carried a high probability for a banana skin slip up.
Captain Max set the standards of the day by turning up late to the meet time, with Beanhead also rocking up just five minutes before the match started. This meant that Redders led the warm up. Ultimately there was no energy, it was flat and quite frankly, uninspiring. Morgs enjoyed visualising himself as the postman in the warm up, but with a split personality we didn’t know if the player was Morgs or Morgan Males, apparently he has two personalities.
The first half was pretty boring to be honest, 0-0 at HT. Scott Pearce tried his best to open the scoring but unfortunately he produced the biggest air shot known to man, big swing no ding.
The second half picked up a fair bit. Redders unbelievably hit the ball on the half volley (what was more remarkable was that it was on his forehand), but the BromBecks keeper denied the face of Surbiton Men’s 2s. Some two touch hockey eventually led to Lars’ first senior goal at SHC. What a guy, seriously… after gracing the nightclubs of Clapham the night before, he rocks up, scores a goal and puts in a man of the match performance.
The game felt under control with the 2s dominant in possession, and more and more chances created and PC’s awarded in our favour (eight in total). With our three drag flickers all present again, you may have thought we would manage to score at least one. After numerous failures to convert, it was decided to let the other Trinity boy, Will Haspel, take things into his own hands, lovely deflection from a Scott J pass, 2-0.
Scott Jones was shown a yellow after demonstrating to Dewi how to save a slower ball with his feet (just outside the 23m). Arjan felt that with a two goal lead, he would let the rest of the boys finish the job and so took himself off for an early shower.
It was shortly after, that Haspel rinsed one of their players on the baseline and as he was taken out, deservedly won a PS.
It was in this moment that Vice-Captain Morgan Males screamed over to Beanhead that he should take it as the boys would have a greater chance of scoring if he did. Although Dave was hesitant, the crowd on the hill persuaded him to take the stroke. With some positive remarks like ‘if you miss this we will see you next week in the 3s’, Beanhead bravely stepped up and missed (obviously he felt he couldn’t resist the offer of playing in a lower league). It kept the game a lot closer, and more exciting for the crowd in the last 10 minutes (in my opinion).
The game finished 2-0, another three points that saw the Men’s 2s very briefly take over as EHL East Conference league leaders for the first time.
POM and DOD votes were made and a few worrying truths were revealed by Scott ‘handlebars’ Jones that simply cannot be repeated. We also learned that Josh Redstone, is incapable of using any punctuation in his writing… looking good for the future generation of the UK. Scott Evans was brilliant yet again, Dewi was only slightly angry this week, but well done on your one shot, zero goals.
What a bunch of players. Two more games until a well-earned Christmas break…H&W away next week under the lights at Paddington Rec, in a game that takes place in parallel with the reverse M1 fixture. Watch this space.