Squad : Aaron Carter - Marcus Watson - Alex Jupp - Josh Holland - Elliot Richards - Josh Knight -Luke Fewtrell - Lloyd Jones - Jordan Eaton - Tom Slane - Alex Charlick  

Sub's : Rafa Barbosa - Paul Wade - Shaun Tullett  - Mason Saunder - Toby Goddard  

This Saturday saw my young Reserve side take on yet another tough encounter, this time against a very determined Hanworth Villa.

It was very pleasing to field more or less the same squad as the previous few weeks (give or take a couple of players)It was also nice to see Elliot Richards back at Hartley (on loan from Fleet Spurs). The squad is starting to show that they are coming to terms with playing Suburban League Football. The game started at a frantic pace, with both teams struggling to get control of the ball although we didn't create any real openings ourselves we did have a couple of long range efforts that in fairness didn't really test their goalie.

Hanworth started to adopt the long ball game playing over the top of our defenders and running on to it which started to work for them and before we knew it we were 1 - 0 down, Aaron Carter had to make some good saves to keep us in the game, we started to push forward ourselves and looked like getting an equaliser some good work down the right side of the pitch from Josh Holland then onto Luke Fewtrell who put a nice through ball to Jordan Eaton to slot it passed their out coming keeper 1 -1

We upped our tempo and started to take the game to them, but again they hit us on the break Marcus Watson made a good tackle in our box but the ball span up and hit his arm and the Ref gave them a Penalty 2 - 1 down. Again my young lads got on with the game and worked hard for each other and just before half time we got our well deserved equaliser Lloyd Jones hit a rocket shot from the edge of the 18 yard box to see it fly into the top corner 2 -2.

2nd half : this started much the same as the 1st with Hanworth looking to play open attacking football probing our defence at every opportunity. In the end they were to strong for us  and we lost the game 5 - 2, but I must say my young squad wanted to play football and did not give up YES we lost 5 -2 and It sounds like a bit of a drubbing but it was not. The lads are growing with confidence and we are creating chances whoever we are playing against, but as I have mentioned already this season we need to be more clinical infront of goal. If we can cut out our mistakes and convert more of our chances we will do ok in this league. Well done lads.