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Competition: Shamrock FC

Location: Randalls Island #75, Randalls Island

Conditions: Nice brisk sunny spring morning.

Fans: 2 (Edmunds, Karen)

Result: 0-2 (0-1 at H/T)

Goals: 1-0: None

Yellow Cards: None

Red Card: None

Mike D’s aka No Shows: None.

Conboy’s aka Reverse Mike D’s: None

”Mr. Glass” Fragility/Old Man Injury Award: No injuries.

Old Man of the Match: Several good performances in defense including Jones, Teesdale, and Morgan; but Resnik playing out of position in goal came up with two 1v1 saves in the first half to keep the game from getting out of hand early, and came out many times very confidently and aggressively to control the final third of field from any thru balls.

Old Man of the Bar: Again, strong performances by the usual Fink & Resnik (even with instigators Venkataraman and Faherty out of town).   Also a strong performance by Lion who was cheering on his Hotspurs and waiting for the Whites to come celebrate their win.   BUT it was Morse who stayed well into the late afternoon with his girl Karen, even thru a brutal 1.5hr long inquisition about their dating history by Fink who was working on his talk show hosting skills..

Team Bar Showing: 10 out of 13  (+1 fan)   (resnik, tessdale, murray, beeman, mershon, morse, nizam, teran, fink, lion, & Karen)

Team Bar Night: 3 ½ out of 5 – Good turnout.   Several good matches on TV, and then some Masters golf.   And a relatively large crowd from the Whites as they just won their state cup semi final, and the Red Reserves who won their QF cup match.

Team (No new profiles this week): Mark Resnik (GK), Steve Teesdale (DF), Lars Murray (DF), Andy Jones (DF), Clive “Ollie” Morgan (DF), Jake Beeman (DF), Creighton Mershon, Steve Morse, Mike Conboy, Hakan Nizam, Ernesto Teran, Kevin Fink, Yuval Lion

Scouting Report: Solid top 3 team.   Very aggressive, and gives no time on the ball to the other team anywhere on the field.  They are always gonna score one or two goals, so you have to take advantage of your counters and chances and put away two or three yourself.

Goalie: Looked decent, but was generally untested.. Grade: B

Defenders: Probably the weakest part of their team, but on this day they were not really put to a strong test as their midfield performed so well and thwarted most chances in middle third. Grade: B-.

Midfielders: Best part of their team, especially the always dangerous “Bicker”. Grade: A-

Strikers: Decent skill, but not going to do a whole lot without a setup from the midfielders. Grade: B