Week 6 - Autumn/Winter 09 - Premier League

AN UGLY START UNDERGOES A FACELIFT TO KEEPS BATS HIGH HOPES OF GLORY ALIVE.

Racing Bats 0 Neopolitans 4

Racing Bats 5 Broomwood Rovers 1

THE Bats looked out of their depth as they stepped back up to Premiership-standard football this week and were immediately walloped by old rivals Neos.

But in true form and with a ‘Never Say Die’ attitude they dusted themselves off, had a quick read of Razor Ruddock’s ‘An Idiot’s Guide to Defending’ and hit the pitch to show why they deserve a position in the top flight.

Strike partnership GaS (Gorely and Stalley) were back in form to get the Bats off the mark in style with two goals from Stalley and one from Gorely. A surging solo-effort from Slow-Mo Samsonite saw him drive a finish into the bottom corner to make it four and great vision from last year’s Players’ Player of the Season Tim Hodge found a darting run from Duncan Hep who rebounded his own shot for the fifth.

As luck would have it a win and a loss from every team in the division means that he Bats are sitting pretty in third and looking forward to build on a shaky start next week.


(Premier league stats in brackets)

PLAYER-------Apps----Goals-----Assists----GK Apps---Clean sheet---Dis
D.Vorobtsova---10(0)----0(0)------1(0)------0(0)---------0(0)-------0(0)
S.McCartney----8(2)-----2(1)------1(0)-------0(0)---------0(0)-------0(0)
J.Hepburn------10(2)-----2(0)-----0(0)-------0(0)--------0(0)--------0(0)
A.Hepburn------10(2)-----6(0)-----3(1)-------0(0)--------0(0)--------0(0)
D.Hepburn------10(2)-----1(1)-----2(0)-------0(0)--------0(0)--------0(0)
D. Stalley--------10(2)-----8(2)-----9(0)-------0(0)--------0(0)-------0(0)
J. Gorely--------10(2)-----8(1)-----7(0)--------0(0)-------0(0)--------0(0)
T. Hodgson------0(0)------0(0)-----3(2)-------10(2)-------5(0)-------0(0)