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MATCH REPORT:
Crook Town (Away): NL Div 2, 12th December
2009.
F/T : Draw 0 - 4
Scorers: - Brunskill (2), Bradley, Seaton
We made two changes
from the team that saw off Gillford Park in
midweek, Rob Jones returned to replace the
injured Benn Thompson, and Richie Ward took
Anthony Roberts’ spot in defence.
Following the
resignation of their manager a week earlier and
the departure of six first team players, Crook
managed to scrape a side together and included
several debutants.
We took to the
pudding of a Millfield pitch and had all the
opening possession but managed to do little with
it.
Crook came close
with their first venture into our half on eight
minutes. Failure to deal with a ball into the
box allowed Paul Bailes to shoot low at Brendan
Ledgeway. His blocked shot fell to Gavin
Barton, whom Stuart Jackson had to tackle, and
after a scramble the linesman raised his flag
for an offside.
Our first chance of
the game came after 14 minutes as Daryll Hall
sliced a clearance behind him for Rob Jones to
run onto. He hit a decent shot across Paul
Gibson, but the keeper managed to get a hand to
it to concede a corner.
Dom Gamble’s corner
fell to Richie Ward at the back post, but the
defender couldn’t help it on target.
Derek Bradley
created himself a good chance on 21 minutes
after playing a neat 1-2 with Jones at the edge
of the box, but couldn’t steer his curling shot
on target.
We came closest to
opening the scoring during the first half after
35 minutes when Bradley’s looping cross had to
be tipped over the bar by Gibson.
We forced four
successive corners but failed to threaten from
them.
Half-time:
Crook Town 0 v 0 Marske United
Craig Skelton
replaced Owen Dixon at the break, and had a goal
ruled out for offside within the first minute of
the restart.
Crook nearly caught
us cold from a corner on 48 minutes as Barton
glanced a header just wide.
We took the lead
after 53 minutes when Gamble got forward and
played a teasing low ball across the six yard
box that Danny Brunskill got on the end of to
score with an easy finish.
Brunskill came
close to a second three minutes later as he was
picked out on the edge of the box by Skelton.
Gibson was at full stretch to tip his effort
around the post for a corner.
A good build up on
58 minutes resulted in a rare Josh Myers shot
that deflected off John Jury before being turned
round the post by Gibson.
We were much more
into our stride since the introduction of
Skelton who and on the hour mark he held up
Brunskill’s through ball before cleverly finding
Gamble on the left wing. Gamble drove into the
box and blasted a low shot across goal that
Bradley turned over the line from close range.
John Seaton came on
for Josh Myers and made an immediate impact.
After starting a move forward, he got onto the
end of a Gamble cross but volleyed just wide.
Brunskill and Ward
both had chances to increase our lead as Gamble
and Seaton were causing the home defence all
sorts of problems.
And the two of them
combined to score our third goal on 70 minutes.
Skelton held the ball up on the left before
playing in the overlapping Gamble whose low
drive into the box was struck home by Seaton to
grab his first ever goal for the club.
Jackson headed a
corner towards Brunskill on 75 minutes whose
sliced volley was cleared off the line by Graham
McTaggart, before we rounded things off with ten
minutes left.
We broke from our
own box with Skelton and Brunskill combining,
the latter cleverly controlling Skelton’s cross
and cutting inside his marker before coolly
slotting the ball into the back of the net.
Full-time:
Crook Town 0 v 4 Marske United
Whatever Burto said
at the interval seemed to work as we came out in
the second half with all guns blazing. With
Crook visibly tiring and Dom Gamble in
unstoppable form on the left we soon got into
scoring mode and took our tally to 21 goals in
the last five games as well as keeping another
clean sheet.
Teams:
Crook Town:
Gibson, McTaggart, Brown, Hall, Jury (Robinson),
Best, Towes, Taylor, Barton, Bailes, Peachey.
Marske
United: Ledgeway,
A.Raw, Gamble, Swalwell (Helm), Ward, Jackson,
Dixon (Skelton), Myers (Seaton), Brunskill,
Jones, Bradley.
Not Used:
Taylor, Roberts.
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