Unlucky For Some

Land Rovers knocked in thirteen goals against Toitu United this afternoon at the Shed of Dreams, in front of a record crowd of at least ten people. Land Rovers Manager Steve Hall said the game was close for the first minute until Ben White knocked in a long range pot shot and Rovers never looked back. "We didn't want them to go scoreless" said Hall "so I put Lance 'The Cripple' Edwards in goal in the second half who had only recently returned from breaking his wrist". Hall said Toitu had their own goal keeper issues when first choice keeper Craig Harris was taken out before the match by an over-enthusiastic Chris House from his own team.

Hall tried out Charles Smith as striker but had to pull him off after eight minutes as he was in danger of breaking the side wall. "Charlie was looking as sharp as a double-decker bus in the first half" said Hall "but to his credit he stuck at it and finally got one with a minute to go when presented with a ball that even my mother would have struggled to miss". Hall said he was pleased overall with the pre-season romp, but knew it would be tougher from here on in. "We'll have to lift our game on that performance if we going to win the league again" confessed Hall "but it was a good blow out as we hadn't played for two weeks".

Final Score: Land Rovers 13 Toitu Te Whenua 1