by Dave » 15 Oct 2015, 18:55
Anyone who's ever been to Richard Hancox' indoor football area, if you can call it that will tell you, it's barely big enough for a 5 a side let alone anything else. As far as this game goes, it depends on the reason it was played, the club talked about putting itself back in the heart of the community, if this game was played for that reason, then I get it, and would say fair play to the club.
If this game was played for any other reason, why, just why? For a start the Devon side was by no means the strongest they could have put out, I believe no players from Buckland, Tiverton or Bideford played, It appears this may have been a Devon senior side, with senior being the key word.
There are many players playing in the S-D-L premier division because that's their level, that's as good as they are, and as good as they're going to be. There players playing at that level because they've got no ambition, that's an accusation I'd level at a fair number of the Watcombe team, including Finch, I don't know him as person do know him as a player, as I do most of the S-D-L premier teams and players.
More than half the Watcombe team are good enough to play a couple steps higher, but they choose to trudge around King George the 5th playing fields winning game after game, against sub standard opposition, Finch bangs in 40 odd goals every year, jeez my Dad could, none of these players are close to good enough for the NL; premier, South or below.
However as said, if this game was about bringing the club back to the community then I'm all for that, I would just urge the club to invite players from around local football to play in future games rather than sticking to the few.
Anyone who's ever been to Richard Hancox' indoor football area, if you can call it that will tell you, it's barely big enough for a 5 a side let alone anything else. As far as this game goes, it depends on the reason it was played, the club talked about putting itself back in the heart of the community, if this game was played for that reason, then I get it, and would say fair play to the club.
If this game was played for any other reason, why, just why? For a start the Devon side was by no means the strongest they could have put out, I believe no players from Buckland, Tiverton or Bideford played, It appears this may have been a Devon senior side, with senior being the key word.
There are many players playing in the S-D-L premier division because that's their level, that's as good as they are, and as good as they're going to be. There players playing at that level because they've got no ambition, that's an accusation I'd level at a fair number of the Watcombe team, including Finch, I don't know him as person do know him as a player, as I do most of the S-D-L premier teams and players.
More than half the Watcombe team are good enough to play a couple steps higher, but they choose to trudge around King George the 5th playing fields winning game after game, against sub standard opposition, Finch bangs in 40 odd goals every year, jeez my Dad could, none of these players are close to good enough for the NL; premier, South or below.
However as said, if this game was about bringing the club back to the community then I'm all for that, I would just urge the club to invite players from around local football to play in future games rather than sticking to the few.
