Going to see the stiffs
play again so soon? Yes I know. I am not it the habit of watching reserve
team football but after the Carlos Tevez fiasco the night before I had no
stomach for more Champions League football.
One thing is for certain about reserve team football there is going to
be no shortage of effort from the participants and there is no chance of a
substitute refusing to go on. Ok thats two things. So I
picked up my Brother in Law (John) and off we went to the Rapid Solicitors Stadium on
a barmy night in what is turning out to be something of an Indian Summer.
The line ups...
Hull City
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Rotherham
United
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Joe Cracknell
|
1
|
Andy Warrington
|
Daniel East
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2
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Troy Brown
|
Conor Townsend
|
3
|
Dale Tonge
|
Gavan Holohan
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4
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Jordan Hall
|
Paul McShane
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5
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Mark Bradley
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Sonny Bradley
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6
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Luke Foster
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Francis McCaffrey
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7
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Mitchell Rose
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Kealan Dillon
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8
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Olly Banks
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Dele Adebola
|
9
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Paul Warne
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Martin Pusic
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10
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Luke Beedham
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Daniel Emerton
|
11
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Ben Pringle
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Matthew Mainwaring
|
12
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Liam Royles
|
21
|
Jack Leydon
|
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Fraser Papprill
|
14
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Giorgio Williams
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Douglas Wilson
|
15
|
Laurence McKay
|
Jonathan Margetts
|
16
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TBC
|
Jules Gabbiadni
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17
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Goals: Hull 1 (Pusic) Rotherham 2 (Pringle, Williams)
Match officials: D
England - referee, N Guest and D
McNamara – assistant referees, G Tindall – reserve referee.
We missed the kick off by
a couple of minutes and as we walked in a crisp passing move by Rotherham
culminated with a nicely taken goal by Ben Pringle who rounded the ‘keeper to
slot the ball home; nil one to The Millers.
The early exchanges were
scrappy, but it was clear that the Rotherham side were a more formidable and
physical side than the Scunthorpe side that were cast aside a couple of weeks
previous. There were a couple of ‘big
units’ in the midfield.
The Tigers got back on
level terms about ten minutes later.
Keelan Dillon chipped forward and Martin Pusic brought the ball down and
slotted it home. The rest of the half
was competitive with Tigers gradually asserting more control but failing to add
to the score. Half Time – Hull City
Reserves 1 Rotherham United Reserves 1.
Refreshment time! Last time I cast some doubt about the
provenance of the tea bags used for the half time brew, and being something of
a tea connoisseur I wasn’t actually looking forward to it. There was something of a queue so we gave it
a few minutes. When I did join the queue
I was able to peer through the window of the cabin and to my surprise I could
see a huge bag of catering tea bags. The
packaging was easy to recognise and my heart gave a little leap; Yorkshire Tea
by Taylor of Harrogate. I take back my previous
insults, this week was much better even if a little stewed. Would be better not in a polystyrene cup but
I guess you can’t have everything!
 |
| Proof of Yorkshire Tea Bags |
The second half was a
decidedly scrappy affair. The Tigers
started to lose control and become frustrated banging longer and longer balls
with less and less effect. One ball was
pinged into to the allotments so hard it could have found the main road and
about half a dozen were hoofed over the main stand. At one point I was wondering if they were
going to run out of balls and the game have to be finished with a tennis ball
(just like our school days). No need for
slightly underhand tactics like those adopted by the England Rugby Union team
coaches. The long ball tactic suited The
Millers and as the half went on there were only one likely winners. Sure enough with a couple of minutes to go
Bradley puts Williams through on goal and he chips the rushing goalkeeper Cracknell
beautifully for the winner. Final score
Hull City Reserves 1 Rotherham United Reserves 2. Probably about the right result for me; Hull
surrendered control in the middle of the park and run out of subtlety and ideas
in the end.
So on to the pub for a
beer on the way home. John suggested
Darleys at Hessle, a pub I hadn’t been in for years, not since it was The
Darleys Arms of the long closed Darleys Brewery in Thorne. It was now part of a pub chain ‘The Hungry
Horse’ which doesn’t exactly sound very promising. It was actually a pleasant surprise
though. It is converted to a modern
design children friendly pub which looks to be fairly popular with young
people. The pub does food, of course,
aiming at big platefuls at a fair price; they do a 20oz steak for about £12
which may be worth going back for.
There was a choice of two reasonable cask ales; Green King IPA and Old
Speckled Hen. We opted for a pint of the
latter which at £2.40 a pint was a good price and a decent kept pint.
Links
North Ferriby United http://www.northferribyunited.com/
Taylors Yorkshire Tea http://www.yorkshiretea.co.uk/
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