Sawtry FC
15-03-2008, 12:08
Hello all, for the last couple of months I have enjoyed reading a lot of the threads added onto this site especially the Saturday football stuff...I think this is a great site and a very good way of talking about football! Many of the people on this site are fantastic and extremely funny so keep up the good work!
I have never felt the need to actually join or even start a topic as I play football on a Saturday in the UCL league and therefore felt I had no excuse to put my pennies worth in...however recently my Sunday league side has come into some criticism from certain people involved in this site so I felt it only fair to add a little bit and as the title says "set the record straight"!!
As you may recently have read...we have just got into another cup final in the Hunts cup, our 3rd final in 4 years! Firstly I would like to say, for a small village side playing against many teams with a much greater selection field for players...this is a great achievement!
I have heard a bit of a rumour that a Sunday league manager has recently been critisisingng our team and manager for what he says is playing ringers to get to a final!
The player in question is a good friend of mine called Danny...who I would just like to say is a great player but also a local lad to our village!! Danny unfortunately is a student at Liverpool and therefore a) is not available every week b)doesn't have the money to return every week to play for us (which in his words "devastates him!"). Recently he scored 4 goals in a game to send us through to the final...this of course gave ammunition to people to start calling us a one player team and use players only for cup games!!!!
Firstly this is so incorrect that I feel I need to mention the true facts.
Yes Danny came back for our semi final...he also came back and played in the 1/4 final but only scored 2 in our 11-0 win!!! For those who say he only plays in cup games...no very wrong...he has played in more league games this season that cup games (yes he's only played in 2 cup games) but remember how difficult it is for a student to get back from uni to play every week...he has made about 4 league appearances and always played well for us! Not to mention the games we will play over his half terms etc!
Secondly we have been accused of playing a different team for the cup games...again totally incorrect!!
From our side in the first cup (2004) win against a very good side called chequers (they changed their name) who had a few sat prem players in at the time, we have had 4 new faces in, Danny who at the time was playing for Yaxley 18's and couldn't play and also a lad called Ash who would have only been 15ish. Also a striker called Paul who is in his 3rd season now and our keeper Gavin who is in our second (both played in last yrs final)! Also we play this team week in week out in our league games (with exception of Danny) That is it...the rest for the players all played in the first cup final and all league games since then) all our players do or have lived in Sawtry and are all good mates with each other!!
This is what angers me about people who make comments about things they really do not have a clue about and why I felt I needed to try explain the situation!
Sorry its an essay, but I hope you can all see I have only tried to explain the situation and back up my team (whom i've played for for 8yrs and am only 24 for) and not try to .
I do not know many of you who come on this as I have never played a good enough standard to meet many of you and likewise I’m sure none of you know me and my team-mates as Sawtry is a bit middle of nowhere!!
Alex
I have never felt the need to actually join or even start a topic as I play football on a Saturday in the UCL league and therefore felt I had no excuse to put my pennies worth in...however recently my Sunday league side has come into some criticism from certain people involved in this site so I felt it only fair to add a little bit and as the title says "set the record straight"!!
As you may recently have read...we have just got into another cup final in the Hunts cup, our 3rd final in 4 years! Firstly I would like to say, for a small village side playing against many teams with a much greater selection field for players...this is a great achievement!
I have heard a bit of a rumour that a Sunday league manager has recently been critisisingng our team and manager for what he says is playing ringers to get to a final!
The player in question is a good friend of mine called Danny...who I would just like to say is a great player but also a local lad to our village!! Danny unfortunately is a student at Liverpool and therefore a) is not available every week b)doesn't have the money to return every week to play for us (which in his words "devastates him!"). Recently he scored 4 goals in a game to send us through to the final...this of course gave ammunition to people to start calling us a one player team and use players only for cup games!!!!
Firstly this is so incorrect that I feel I need to mention the true facts.
Yes Danny came back for our semi final...he also came back and played in the 1/4 final but only scored 2 in our 11-0 win!!! For those who say he only plays in cup games...no very wrong...he has played in more league games this season that cup games (yes he's only played in 2 cup games) but remember how difficult it is for a student to get back from uni to play every week...he has made about 4 league appearances and always played well for us! Not to mention the games we will play over his half terms etc!
Secondly we have been accused of playing a different team for the cup games...again totally incorrect!!
From our side in the first cup (2004) win against a very good side called chequers (they changed their name) who had a few sat prem players in at the time, we have had 4 new faces in, Danny who at the time was playing for Yaxley 18's and couldn't play and also a lad called Ash who would have only been 15ish. Also a striker called Paul who is in his 3rd season now and our keeper Gavin who is in our second (both played in last yrs final)! Also we play this team week in week out in our league games (with exception of Danny) That is it...the rest for the players all played in the first cup final and all league games since then) all our players do or have lived in Sawtry and are all good mates with each other!!
This is what angers me about people who make comments about things they really do not have a clue about and why I felt I needed to try explain the situation!
Sorry its an essay, but I hope you can all see I have only tried to explain the situation and back up my team (whom i've played for for 8yrs and am only 24 for) and not try to .
I do not know many of you who come on this as I have never played a good enough standard to meet many of you and likewise I’m sure none of you know me and my team-mates as Sawtry is a bit middle of nowhere!!
Alex