TRELAWNY LEAGUE - Saturday 18 December 2021

[Dave Deacon]

PREMIER DIVISION

Mawnan Reserves           0-1          Threemilestone

Praze-An-Beeble              7-0          Ludgvan Reserves

St Just                                   10-3       Constantine

West Cornwall                   9-2          Stithians

 

DIVISION 1

Frogpool & Cusgarne      3-1          Perranwell Reserves

St Buryan                             1-4          Penzance Reserves

               

DIVISION 2

Falmouth DC                      6-1          Frogpool & Cusgarne Reserves

Goonhavern Ath Res      1-8          Falmouth United

New Inn Titans                  5-4          St Ives Town Reserves

 

DIVISION 3

Constantine Reserves    7-1          Stithians Reserves

Dropship                              2-1          Mount Ambrose

Lanner                                  1-1          Carharrack

Lizard Argyle Reserves   1-1          Mullion 3rd

Troon Reserves                0-2          Probus

               

DIVISION 4

Goonhavern Ath 3^rd         2-4          Perranporth Reserves

[Dave James]

Chacewater v Illogan Res is off 

[Tom Trust]

Trelawney 3

Lanner 1, Carharrack 1

It's hard to write this without it sounding critical or insulting when it is meant to be neither. Last time I went to game at Lanner was over 40 years ago - and it seemed unchanged except for the two dugouts which are sturdy and dry. Nice compact, level pitch, maintained somehow without the benefit of a shed to keep tools and the roller in. With players having to change down at the Coppice it was a trip down memory lane to how most Junior football was played in the seventies and beyond. It filled me with nostalgia. So many clubs have managed to obtain or provide half-decent facilities, but of course, that requires space and money. Lanner certainly don't ave the space.

A reasonably decent game to watch (have to remember it is Trelawney 3 and not Stamford Bridge) with the draw being fair enough, though I did feel Carharrack wasted a chance of three points. I heard some comments at half time from the home camp that suggested they were hopeful of "hanging on", the score already 1 - 1.

They wasted the chance of leading through a penalty in only the 8th minute. The ball was netted but an encroachment by a Lanner player led to an indirect free kick - no longer a reason for a re-take. After good saves at either end, they did take the lead in the 26th minute, a well-worked breakaway following a period of Carharrack pressure, the ball swept up the right wing, knocked across to the left channel for a fast-breaking player to score. Carharrack huffed and puffed but just never got many shots away. Their equaliser had a tinge of luck about it: Justin Pearce crossed from the left wing towards the far post. Did the stiff breeze help it inside the post? Just in time, though, as it was during first-half added-on time.

The second half saw chances wasted at both ends. The usual culprits prevailed: wayward shooting, poor first touches, passing to the opposition, getting caught in possession, wrong decisions, failure to shoot. Still, two teams putting in a good shift and sharing the spoils. Junior football at its basic best.

[Chris Davey]

Troon Reserves 0 Probus 2 (Oscar Thomas-Donald, Luke Gaye)

Trelawny 3

This was a game that won’t live long in the memory, due to horrendous wind. We played up the hill against the wind in the first half, but we took the lead after 12 minutes when Oscar Thomas-Donald and Ben Emmett played a one two and Oscar finished well with his left foot. We had another chance after 35 minutes when Ethan Gatley’s quick feet on the left got him free, but theTroon keeper saved well. Three minutes later Troon had their best chance when a cross from the left, after a corner was cleared, was swung in and inadvertently flicked off one of our defenders heads, but Tom Rhodes managed to head the ball onto the bar and away for another corner. A couple of minutes before the break Troon had a couple of long range, wind assisted efforts well gathered by Sam Jones in goal.

We increased our lead in the second half when striker Jack Truscott had a good run ended illegally inside the box and halftime substitute Luke Gaye smashed the resulting penalty into the roof of the net. With half an hour to go Jack Truscott’s overhead lick came back off the crossbar. We made 4 changes all at the same time to freshen things up, but the rest of the half was a midfield battle. Troon unfortunately had a bare 11 so they were unable to make any changes and the rest of the game petered out.
 

We were pleased to get 3 points in difficult conditions. Thanks to our manager Graham Smith who was the stand-in ref to allow the game to go ahead. A good start to the season for us but there is plenty of football left to be played. Our next game is at home to Dropship on 8th January.
 

Thank you to everyone that makes football possible on a Saturday - the Trelawny league, CCFA and the referees we’ve had (although we’ve had more than half our games with no ref this season - a sign of the times unfortunately). Also a big thank you to Graham Smith, our manager, who keeps the club going. Hopefully in 2022 we will be able to revive our reserve team (I can’t get in this squad, so we need a second team so I can keep playing 😃).

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from everyone at Probus. See you next year! 🎄 

[ArseneWanger]

Trelawny prem 

Praze 7-0 Ludgvan

The canaries saw 2021 off in style with a very one sided game in blustery conditions.

Clean sheet, some class goals scored and even saw two debuts, welcome to the club Nathan Jefree and Jack Casley 👌

Alex Zam ⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️
Danny Ford ⚽️⚽️
Jack Mankee ⚽️
 

Merry Christmas and a happy new year from all at Praze Fc, let’s hope Boris doesn’t screw up our plans for it! 🔰

[dave jenks]

1 hour ago, Tom Trust said:

Trelawney 3

Lanner 1, Carharrack 1

It's hard to write this without it sounding critical or insulting when it is meant to be neither. Last time I went to game at Lanner was over 40 years ago - and it seemed unchanged except for the two dugouts which are sturdy and dry. Nice compact, level pitch, maintained somehow without the benefit of a shed to keep tools and the roller in. With players having to change down at the Coppice it was a trip down memory lane to how most Junior football was played in the seventies and beyond. It filled me with nostalgia. So many clubs have managed to obtain or provide half-decent facilities, but of course, that requires space and money. Lanner certainly don't ave the space.

A reasonably decent game to watch (have to remember it is Trelawney 3 and not Stamford Bridge) with the draw being fair enough, though I did feel Carharrack wasted a chance of three points. I heard some comments at half time from the home camp that suggested they were hopeful of "hanging on", the score already 1 - 1.

They wasted the chance of leading through a penalty in only the 8th minute. The ball was netted but an encroachment by a Lanner player led to an indirect free kick - no longer a reason for a re-take. After good saves at either end, they did take the lead in the 26th minute, a well-worked breakaway following a period of Carharrack pressure, the ball swept up the right wing, knocked across to the left channel for a fast-breaking player to score. Carharrack huffed and puffed but just never got many shots away. Their equaliser had a tinge of luck about it: Justin Pearce crossed from the left wing towards the far post. Did the stiff breeze help it inside the post? Just in time, though, as it was during first-half added-on time.

The second half saw chances wasted at both ends. The usual culprits prevailed: wayward shooting, poor first touches, passing to the opposition, getting caught in possession, wrong decisions, failure to shoot. Still, two teams putting in a good shift and sharing the spoils. Junior football at its basic best.

Draw was a fair result today i thought. Tom, think you must have visited the old lanner pitch when you were last there. When i started playing for Lanner in the early 90's we played at Clijah, moving to Tresavean in the mid 90's when the changing rooms were provided at the Coppice with the support of the Jolly's. 

[The Tinner]

St Just 10-3 Constantine (HT 5-0)

First half put the game to bed. Great to see Issac Rosenberg in attendance, hopefully he will give a more detailed match report than this. Think Ash scored 5 but also missed 5 sitters as well, so is it really anything to sing about? 

[Tom Trust]

Dave Jenks, was the old ground (45+ years ago) somewhere up above the other end of the village? My failing memory might have been confused by the similarity of driving up some narrow lanes to the pitch and changing in our cars.

[dave jenks]

19 minutes ago, Tom Trust said:

Dave Jenks, was the old ground (45+ years ago) somewhere up above the other end of the village? My failing memory might have been confused by the similarity of driving up some narrow lanes to the pitch and changing in our cars.

I think It was further up one of the lanes in lanner, not sure where. Some of the players before my time used to refer to it as ' ? Fields'. Think i played there once in youth football against lanner when i was at Redruth Dynamos or could have been a junior school match - Lanner v Cardrew (as it was then). In those days we were just driven to places to play by parents or school so tbh not sure where it was. Think there might have been Rugby played there as well back  in the day.

[El Presidente]

27 minutes ago, dave jenks said:

I think It was further up one of the lanes in lanner, not sure where. Some of the players before my time used to refer to it as ' ? Fields'. Think i played there once in youth football against lanner when i was at Redruth Dynamos or could have been a junior school match - Lanner v Cardrew (as it was then). In those days we were just driven to places to play by parents or school so tbh not sure where it was. Think there might have been Rugby played there as well back  in the day.

It was called Cottage Field at the top of Chapel Hill, windy as hell and a real leveller

[dave jenks]

23 minutes ago, El Presidente said:

It was called Cottage Field at the top of Chapel Hill, windy as hell and a real leveller

Thanks for clarifying. Wasn't sure of the exact name but rings a bell now. Nice to see some ex players at the game today from Lanner and Caharrack (some played for both).

[ArseneWanger]

2 hours ago, The Tinner said:

St Just 10-3 Constantine (HT 5-0)

First half put the game to bed. Great to see Issac Rosenberg in attendance, hopefully he will give a more detailed match report than this. Think Ash scored 5 but also missed 5 sitters as well, so is it really anything to sing about? 

Putting 10 past Tine is a good accomplishment to be fair Joe, they gave us two difficult games full of goals, as the 3 conceded tells in your fixture. 
Can’t wait till our fixture, going to be a great one!
 

Merry Christmas from the team in second place🌲🔰⚽️

[brayer10]

West Cornwall 9-2 Stithians

Jamie Barkle

Tom Furse

After being 2-0 down pulled it back 2-2 then West Cornwall made it 3-2 5 mins before HT.

2nd half we got absolutely battered, could have been alot more than 9.

Well done to West Cornwall, well reffed by Liam Mankee.

 

[Clubman]

6 hours ago, The Tinner said:

St Just 10-3 Constantine (HT 5-0)

First half put the game to bed. Great to see Issac Rosenberg in attendance, hopefully he will give a more detailed match report than this. Think Ash scored 5 but also missed 5 sitters as well, so is it really anything to sing about? 

Hope Rodney doesn't get arm cramp as I heard the home lino was at least 0.1 seconds slower than Isaac 

[Richard Chown]

1 hour ago, Devils@Dusk said:

I've just been on the Full-time FA site looking for Storm, but there's nothing there. Are they still around, or has something happened to them (folded, or withdrawn from the league)?

They current sit in 08th place in Trelawny Division 4 however haven't played since 13th November 2021 and don't have another fixture until 08 Jan 2022. Does seem a bit odd. 

[mbkted]

4 hours ago, Richard Chown said:

They current sit in 08th place in Trelawny Division 4 however haven't played since 13th November 2021 and don't have another fixture until 08 Jan 2022. Does seem a bit odd. 

Nothing too odd to explain

think we have now lost two games due to covid outbreaks with our opposition and lost a couple to the weather.

we are ready to push on after the new year and see how high up the league we can finish

[isaac rosenberg]

Lovely to be back at Lafrowda Saturday for another double-figure triumph. Stine Galacticos manager Mr Buckethead must have been still stuck in Penryn Asda looking for the victory champagne.

Met his stand-in before kick off, trying to persuade his number 14 he ought to start. Poor lad didn't want to; he hadn't signed his will yet.

It was a lovely Mediterranean St Just afternoon, no heat haze, you could see both goals at once and the Mistral had dropped to a Force 8. The Tinners made a fairly casual start with Neil Curnow dropping back into a Beckenbauer-Ben Medlin rather than a Pirlo role and sportingly encouraging the visitors by avoiding too many Cruyff turns and only playing the occasional fifty yard ball between their Stine centre halves for tap-ins. Class is permanent.

The Tinners were only a couple of goals up when Stine Galactico number 6 was sinbinned for spitting his dummy at the very reasonable referee. Poor Mr Buckethead's stand-in had to listen to bloodcurdling stuff about how any Tinner trying any fancy stuff on the pitch against Number 6 would be missing more legs in a minute than a Waitrose Turkey Breast Joint.

I was terrified. Everybody else in the stand will need Trauma Counselling. We are very gentle, pacific people in St Just and not used to intemperate language. No. 6 was not a happy Galactico bunny.

With him off the pitch, Stine improved enormously and could have got back into the game. Then he came back on and St Just were so intimidated that Ashley broke into a trot and soon it was 5-nil. Half time. Had a good old rant about Johnson, Brexit, covid, that sort of thing, as usual. Long live the People's Socialist Republic of Rod Beer ! 

Mr Deputy Buckethead did his stuff and Stine came out like raging lions and their number 9 scored a well-finished goal from a narrow angle. I must have been readjusting my mask after that because I didn't see Stine fade as Ashley popped in a couple more and young Josh got another, crowning an excellent support striker performance. Much muttering from Stine about going with the runners. I agreed. It does help to stop Ashley scoring if defenders don't leave him unmarked. I think he got five in the end, with goals 3, 4, 6, 8 and 9.

At 8-1, Rangnick Sturgeon, brother of Nicola, decided to introduce a few subs. So much rolling on and off, It was like trying to keep track of the love life of Troon. Apparently Stine scored a couple down the other end while we were talking among ourselves about who was going to win Strictly. Number 7 scored a penalty. I think the ref felt sorry for the boy who fell over and he had a good day generally so I will not lower the tone of this post by writing anything about guide dogs.

 Number 10 popped in another one and Number 6 thought the comeback was on and was momentarily full of fu-fu-fulsome fantasies. Back came Ashley with another one. Our number 14 brought up the ten. It could have been about 19-1, but hey, it's Xmas ! Peace, love and Yuletide benevolence to all Galacticos and to the absent Mr Buckethead, who will surely be allowed out again come New Year. As for Galactico Number 6, give him a few pints of Snake Bite and send him to the Penventon Immediately ! Or wherever it is you young people go nowadays for a good old rousing political discussion and a bit of social!y distanced pugilism  ! Happy Xmas to Praze-and-Beeble AFC too, along with their Nancegollan Massive and Magpie Globetrotters ! 

[ArseneWanger]

6 hours ago, isaac rosenberg said:

Lovely to be back at Lafrowda Saturday for another double-figure triumph. Stine Galacticos manager Mr Buckethead must have been still stuck in Penryn Asda looking for the victory champagne.

Met his stand-in before kick off, trying to persuade his number 14 he ought to start. Poor lad didn't want to; he hadn't signed his will yet.

It was a lovely Mediterranean St Just afternoon, no heat haze, you could see both goals at once and the Mistral had dropped to a Force 8. The Tinners made a fairly casual start with Neil Curnow dropping back into a Beckenbauer-Ben Medlin rather than a Pirlo role and sportingly encouraging the visitors by avoiding too many Cruyff turns and only playing the occasional fifty yard ball between their Stine centre halves for tap-ins. Class is permanent.

The Tinners were only a couple of goals up when Stine Galactico number 6 was sinbinned for spitting his dummy at the very reasonable referee. Poor Mr Buckethead's stand-in had to listen to bloodcurdling stuff about how any Tinner trying any fancy stuff on the pitch against Number 6 would be missing more legs in a minute than a Waitrose Turkey Breast Joint.

I was terrified. Everybody else in the stand will need Trauma Counselling. We are very gentle, pacific people in St Just and not used to intemperate language. No. 6 was not a happy Galactico bunny.

With him off the pitch, Stine improved enormously and could have got back into the game. Then he came back on and St Just were so intimidated that Ashley broke into a trot and soon it was 5-nil. Half time. Had a good old rant about Johnson, Brexit, covid, that sort of thing, as usual. Long live the People's Socialist Republic of Rod Beer ! 

Mr Deputy Buckethead did his stuff and Stine came out like raging lions and their number 9 scored a well-finished goal from a narrow angle. I must have been readjusting my mask after that because I didn't see Stine fade as Ashley popped in a couple more and young Josh got another, crowning an excellent support striker performance. Much muttering from Stine about going with the runners. I agreed. It does help to stop Ashley scoring if defenders don't leave him unmarked. I think he got five in the end, with goals 3, 4, 6, 8 and 9.

At 8-1, Rangnick Sturgeon, brother of Nicola, decided to introduce a few subs. So much rolling on and off, It was like trying to keep track of the love life of Troon. Apparently Stine scored a couple down the other end while we were talking among ourselves about who was going to win Strictly. Number 7 scored a penalty. I think the ref felt sorry for the boy who fell over and he had a good day generally so I will not lower the tone of this post by writing anything about guide dogs.

 Number 10 popped in another one and Number 6 thought the comeback was on and was momentarily full of fu-fu-fulsome fantasies. Back came Ashley with another one. Our number 14 brought up the ten. It could have been about 19-1, but hey, it's Xmas ! Peace, love and Yuletide benevolence to all Galacticos and to the absent Mr Buckethead, who will surely be allowed out again come New Year. As for Galactico Number 6, give him a few pints of Snake Bite and send him to the Penventon Immediately ! Or wherever it is you young people go nowadays for a good old rousing political discussion and a bit of social!y distanced pugilism  ! Happy Xmas to Praze-and-Beeble AFC too, along with their Nancegollan Massive and Magpie Globetrotters ! 

Merry Christmas good sir. Hopefully see you in the new year.

All at Praze FC 🔰🌲🎅