Hey Team
Tonight we are play Club Fut on court 3 @ 6pm heres the lineup

Darryl Young
Jeff Telfer
Michael Greene
James Shaw
Alwin Verbeek
Alessandro Greggio
Neil Bar
Robercarl Berocal

And Darryl's advice this week STAY GOALSIDE!!!

Goodbye Bibs!

Finally we have got our offical shirts! Well, it took half of the season, but at least now we can play with a bright red color shirt restoring our identity and hopefully playing better :)

PS. Darryl has the shirts and he will bring them tomorrow night. If you will not play tomorrow, pelase contact him to collect your shirt.

Evolution - Rio Madrid 9 - 6

Our team suffered another defeat, a honourable defeat though with the
best team of our league. The game was lost 9 - 6 but a good match was
played by everybody.
Man of the match was James who sacrifices himself in the role of goalkeeper.
Micheal scored a penalty I could catch with my camera (see picture below)

Michael is the new captain

As I am going on leave in Italy until the end of Septemebr, Michael is
replacing me. He will send you an email every week to get a
confirmation of your availability.

Third time with evolution

We lost the previous 2 games with them (7-5 and 6-0). Let's try to do something better this time :)
By the way, Evolution is leading the league and it is going to be a very tough game.

Here it is the list of players for tomorrow night:

Darryl Young
Chung Chen
Michael Greene
Robercarl Berrocal
Carsten Kraut
James Shaw
Jef Telfer

Last Game

Hey Team, Michael here just going to post a reaction to our game last week which we lost 5 - 2 to Score-a-lot-United.
We didnt play to badly with some good inter play between all players and we had much more opportunities at goal than the opponent team.
However, the 2 most noteable problems was the defence and finishing. Giovanni was missed in goal as we all rotated around and conceded some extremely soft goals. Most importantly though in defence we need to get goal side of the opponents attacking players. This means allways be between your own goal and the other player, theres to many times the attacker gets in behind the defence and they play a simple ball up to them for a 1 on 1 opportunity with the goalie.
As mentioned earlier we had many shots yet few hit the target maybe some more shooting practice is needed for all of us.
This week we need a win!

Rio Madrid - Score-a-lot United 2 - 5

Unfortunately we lost last match. I was not there and I cannot comment the match. However I can just make a simple consideration: we lost with the last team in the ladder :(

Team Formation and Tactics

Players for the next match:

Fixtures on the Lords' webpage

I came across with some strange things on the Lords's webpage and I asked Lords to clarify them:

1) The website unfortunately defaults to court 1 for every game
2) The 0.00 time means that for that week we are on a bye
3) Fixtures may be subject to change. Changes will be confirmed via 'Reminder Slip' or notification to me. However I will be able to notify you two to threes before the match only.

For this reason, it is very important you check out our blog prior each match. The blog will be updated with the latest info.

Rio Madrid - WonderBros 2 - 3

I know we lost another match. However this time we played a fantastic game. We were leading the match for most of the time. First half was played beautifully with a very good organization in the defence. Unfortunately one substitution was not enough and the people started to get tired at the end of the match. It is really a shame because we conceded a goal 37 seconds before the end of the game. It could be a better result.


Well done for everybody! In fact the opponent team was quite strong and it is currently leading the league.

Robercarl played as playmaker, distributing the ball and creating opportunities and in the same time assuring a very good cover in the defence.

Michael scored 2 goals in his new role as striker, replacing Paul. He managed to finalise the few occasions to goal we had.

Chung and Niall were very important when defending, blocking the attacks of our opponent team, running a lot.

Welcome to Carsten that joined the team yesterday. He also played a good game.

When a match finishes with 3 goals against, it means that the best player was the goalkeeper... and if you do not mind I would nominate myself as man of the match.

List of players

Giovanni Firmani
Michael Greene
Chung Chen
Niall Inverarity
Carsten Kraut
Robercarl Berrocal

Opponent team: WonderBros
position in the ladder of the opponent team: 2nd

Ladder and fixtures

The entire season of fixtures and ladder are now available on the internet webpage of Lords:

http://www.lords.com.au/sport.htm?SportID=4&TeamID=1451&action=showteam

Our team is currently third !