Squad : Aaron Carter - Tom Slane - Alex Jupp - Toby Goddard - Elliot Richards - Josh Knight - Luke Fewtrell - Lloyd Jones - Rafa Barbosa - Jordan Eaton - Alex Charlick.

Sub's : Josh Holland - Paul Wade - Craig Mugford - Shaun Tullett

League Challenge Cup 1st Leg V Carshalton Athletic Who play in the Suburban Premier League so we were up against strong Team today, They had 4 first teamers playing for them - Luke Baddialt - Jake Hill - Sonny Ayres - Dean MacDonald who all get paid a lot of money to play their football. Carshalton adopted the total football approach, playing the ball out from the back at every opportunity and at times it was great to watch, even as the opposition manager! but with them playng out from the back it did help us with some opportunities early on with both Jordan Eaton and Rafa Barbosa shutting the ball down well and disposessed the Carshalton defence on a few ocassions creating a couple of shooting opportunities for themselves but both just missed the target.

When our visitors did venture forward they certainly looked dangerous, with the pace and trickery of their forward players. They kept coming at us we held them off as much as we could but after 23 minutes we found ourselves 1 - 0 down. My young side worked very hard for each other but again they found our net on the 42 minute 2 - 0 at half time.

2nd Half The 2nd half was tough, the quaility of our visitors started to show with some slick passing moves and posession of the ball, I also had to make 3 substitutions due to injuries which did not help, Hartley at times were just managing to hang on to the game my young squad continued to dig in and for that alone they deserves a great deal of credit we lost the game 4 - 0 and it sounds like a bit of a drubbing but in all honestly it was not, yes you have to hold your hands up and admit you were playing against better opposition. When you look at it Carshalton Athletic's 1st team play in the Ryman Premier league so our young side deserve a pat on the back for making a game of it and giving the vistors a good work out Well Done Lads.