an early start for everyone as we travelled to Romsey for a 10am KO in our first ever game in the Hampshire Cup.
After a sneaky McD breakfast (one of the golden rules of away days!), I struggled to find the pitches and ended up on a very narrow, farm track!
The fog was very thick and when we eventually arrived at the pitches, you could barely see from one end to the other! 
The boys had a good warm up and we're confident of putting up a better display than last week.
After an early flurry and shot from Callum , we went 1-0 down and then 2 and 3. the opposition were not a better team than us, they just wanted it more.
We did score before half time with a very nicely worked goal involving Ben, Xander and then a strong, off the bar, shot from Callum which fell behind the line. 3-1
At half time, we asked more of the boys and encouraged them to play more direct through balls to Elliott up front. Pleasingly , they did just that and we had a 15 min spell where we were clearly on top. after one of those through balls, Elliott squared the ball to Jamie who finished neatly. 3-2.
Their manager was panicking now and was screaming at his players. Another ball to Elliott and he toe poked it through to Ed who managed an attempt to chip the keeper as he came out. the ball rolled agonisingly towards the goal and just and we began to celebrate it was cleared away at the last second. how different things could have been if that had gone in.
After that, Salisbury got a second wind and made in 4-2 and then 5-2. to be honest we completely crumbled after that and the lads heads dropped. 6 and 7 quickly went in and then Zack got injured. 8 and then 9.
Final score 9-2. very flattering score line for them and u think we managed to beat ourselves for most of the game. the team need to learn to never give up and keep going right till the end.
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