Match Report
Round 13
23 July 2023
AJAX v Old Xaverians
Episode 9: Let’s Hear It For The Boys
Life is full of interesting twists and turns
For those, for example, stranded on Whitey Island, this week they looked out to the ocean and instead of seeing endless blue sky there was the return of the Ferry service. Mishnah Man will tell you, if you pray hard enough, things happen (he’s offering to do free tefillin for all if we win again next week … watch out)
But, wait, here is a conspiracy theory for you, the kind you can build a 2 hour movie around. Say for example the peeps stuck on Whitey Island contacted their local politician (David Southwick) and pleaded with him to pressure Dan to cancel the Comm Games and redeploy the savings into getting the ferry service up and running again. Nice theory hey!
Enough with all that, let’s get down to business
What a day! What a win!
Could not have been prouder of the lads today. The endeavour, the effort and commitment all of you put in today. Today was a story of a group who came to play for each other, for the jumper and for those who had come down to support them
There were many wonderful examples of players putting their bodies in places knowing that only pain came next, running that pushed their lungs to the max, tackling and bumps that you could hear the crunch and play that was truly inspiring
What today showed was the benefits of First Option Football and working as a team, for the team. Today we had 1 nominated leader SOQ but on field, we had 24 leaders.
Today the “minimum standard” was set - the standard you should expect of yourselves and of each other as a group
The mentions:
Liam E - the jet has landed! Hard at it, fast, disciplined. I went out to speak to him at one stage, he was so gassed from working so hard that he couldn’t talk. I think he may have blown a lung
Wizey and Peker - took on the oppositions most damaging players and came away with the chocolates. Amazing selfless work for the team
One week you lose to Parkside, the next you best a notable giant in Old Xavs
Let’s hear it for the boys - they were awesome today
Goals: Efron 3, Vogel 3, Peker 2, Rosenbaum 2, Eliau, Schwarz, Marabel-Whitburn
Bests: Peker, Vogel, Marabel-Whitburn, Waislitz, Eliau, Shulman
Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 | |
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AJAX | 4.1.25 | 7.1.43 | 9.4.58 | 13.7.85 |
Old Xaverians | 3.1.19 | 5.2.32 | 6.4.40 | 8.5.53 |