TOTALY BLOWN AWAY..
IT CAN'T BE SAID THAT EASTS PUT UP A POOR PERFORMANCE IN THIS GAME AS THEY DID TRY THIER BEST FOR LONG PERIODS OF THE GAME, BUT OULTON WERE ON FIRE AND AFTER RUNNING OULTON CLOSE A FEW WEEKS AGO THIS WAS THEIR WAY OF SHOWING EVERYONE WHO WAS BOSS.
EASTS CUT OUT A LOT OF THE SILLY HANDLING MISTAKES OF THE LAST FEW WEEKS THAT HAD COST THEM DEAR BUT COULD FIND NO WAY PAST A DETERMINED OULTON DEFENCE WHO WERE NOT LETTING ANYTHING GO. A FEW DODGY DECSISIONS SAW OULTON PILE ON THE PRESSURE IN THE 1ST HALF AND AT THE BREAK THEY LED 20-NIL. THE SECOND HALF STARTED WITH OULTON APPLYING MORE TORMENT ON EASTS AND THE SCORE BOARD KEPT MOVING AWAY FROM THEIR VISITORS. THE ONLY CONCELATION FOR EASTS CAME WHEN REECE BROKE FREE FROM SEVERAL WOULD BE TACKLERS AND PASSED THE BALL ON TO IN-FORM CHARLIE WHO RAN AT THE DEFENCE AND THEN FED TYLER TO DIVE OVER IN THE CORNER FOR THE TEAMS ONLY POINTS OF THE GAME, EVEN THEN THE REF TOOK AN AGE TO AWARD THE TRY.
EASTS DID HAVE A FARE SHARE OF THE BALL IN THE GAME BUT TIME AFTER TIME FOUND THEM SELVES UNABLE TO MAKE ANY YARDS AS THEY WERE PEGGED BACK, OULTON ON THE OTHER HAND FOUND IT EASY TO BREAK THE EASTS LINE AND KEEP EASTS WORKING HARD IN DEFENCE, A DEFENCE THAT CRUMBLED AS THE GAME WENT ON.
A FEW PARENTS ASKED IF WE WERE REALLY THAT BAD IN THE GAME AND THE ANSWER HAD TO BE NO, NOT FORGETTING THE TEAM ARE IN THEIR 1ST SEASON IN DIVISION 1 AND THE GULF BETWEEN DIVISIONS IS SO LARGE,IT WAS ALWAYS GOING TO BE A BIG ASK GETTING A RESULT AGAINST A TOP TEAM LIKE OULTON. YES THE DEFENCE COULD HAVE BEEN STRONGER AND TOUGHER, BUT WE ARE GOING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION AND WITH A FEW MORE NEW SIGNINGS TO STRENGHEN THE TEAM AND COMPETE FOR PLACES, HARD WORK IN TRAINING AND PASSION. IT WILL BRING THE REWARDS THE LADS DESERVE.
OULTON ARE A GOOD TEAM.. WE ARE GETTING THERE