Player of the Year

Saturday evening (14/09/2014) saw Patrick & I being recognised for our contributions to the Division One Queens Park AFC team. For the second year in a row I received the Player of the Year Cup along with the Most Valuable Player Award. Meanwhile Patrick was awarded the Most Improved Player Award after playing in almost every position on the field.

From conversations on the night this is the first time that a father – son combination has come away with the awards in the same year for the same team.

It is also the first time that a Division One player has one the Cup back to back. The Division One Team also took the Team of the Year Cup after a reasonably successful year coming second in the league. If it wasn’t for a couple of games where we had the bare eleven and even the walking wounded we could have come away with the title. All things considered though, with two teams dropping down from the Prems the previous year to be competing week in week out with a squad that rarely trained we did exceptionally well.

Congratulations also go to our fill-in manager/coach/general dogs-body who took out the clubs most valuable contributor.

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Brownie Points

Do you think I should get brownie points for taking my wife on a blind date to AMI Stadium to watch the All Whites play Tahiti?

The first half started off really well with NZ scoring in the 1st few minutes. And although they had the majority of possession couldn’t capitalize on their lead.

The second half was a bit of a bore; it was almost as if NZ didn’t want to shoot. Then the game came alive in injury time with a dubious goal which upon the replay coverage should have been offside. Then with time just about up we finally looked like we wanted to attack the goal and scored the best goal of the game. And then to finish things off their was a bit of argie-bargie which should have seen a second yellow and a sensing off for a rash challenge but them’s the breaks.

Well done guys – a wins a win afterall…

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