Colts 0 Culter Colts 3

Todays match was played in pleasant conditions, but slightly frosty under foot.

Craig was missing from his usual coaching role as he had other commitments sp Steve Argo stepped in top help out with the refereeing.

We went with a changed line-up for this match due to the low turn out at training with a lot of the boys having been at the home AFC match, and Martyn had been ill.

Starting team : Logan, Chris, Fraser, Reece, Jordan, Ross, Craig & Stuart. Alex, Matt & Martyn were subs.

The open exchanges saw Colts being pinned back into there own half and allowing Culter easy possession, but they were not causing any problems to the Colts back line. Colts were managing to exploit the high line Culter were playing, but Stuart passed up a few 1 on 1 chances to shoot early, but with no reward.

The game then settled with neither side making any clear chances, but both moving the ball around well.

Colts did create another 2 on 1 chance, but again Stuart decided to take the early shot, when an easy pass to Reece would have exposed the Culter keeper.

Matt replaced Stuart to try and gain some composure up front.

The change seemed to work with Colts creating a lot of good movement down the right through and Reece pushing forward, but the final pass did not reward the good play.

Chris and Fraser we dealing with the Culter attacks, but were being pulled forward by their good movement. Jordan, Ross and Craig were also doing well in midfield, with Craig making some good interceptions and good forward movement.

Colts got caught on the wrong end of a Culter counter attack with a good finish to open the scoring.

Logan had to deal with a few shots from distance, but nothing troubled him. He was growing in confidence and came to clear from ground to cancel a few Culter moves.

Half time : Colts 0 Culter 1

Craig was replaced by Alex, pushing Matt wide right, Fraser into the holding role and Reece up front.

From the kick-off Colts nearly got the equaliser after a good long ball, but the keeper did well to put round the post. The referee somehow awarded and goal kick (this was typical of the Culter referee, but no more word on that one!).

Again there was a periodof even play with neither team making anything of note, but it was obvious that Colts were getting slack and not keeping their shape.

From open play a Culter player got room to shot from distance. Logan left the ball thinking it was going wide, only for the ball to sneak in at the foot of his left hand post.

Colts kept pressing, but with little decisions going our way the boys fight and spirit seemed to go at this point. Martyn replaced the tired Jordan.

Colts resorted to shooting from distance with a few shots from Matt and Ross but none to trouble the keeper.

Whilst pushing to get back in to the game Ellon were caught again with a scrapy goal which killed the game as a match.

Full time Colts 0 Culter Colts 3

A reasonable start to the match, but Colts seemed to tire and loose concentration far to quickly and his needs to be resolved if we are to get anything from our matches. Some good performances, but a few of the boys need to pick themselves up and get back to the performances they are capable of.

No Michael this week as he was away during the school mid term break.