Bloody Chelsea

Any Russian Billionaires on the team who can buy Arsenal and purchase 25 of the best players in the world?

If anyone was going to stop Chelsea, I would have thought it would have been ManU, apparently, only lowly Charlton can stop them.


Btw: ManU needs to dump/sell RV Nistelrooy.

Game 4

All,

Game four is this Sunday at 1 pm at CD East. I don't know what color shirts our opponents wear, so please bring a blue shirt along with the red, just in case.
Directions to the field (from the website):
Directions: Take the Union Deposit Road exit from 83/322. Drive East (away from Harrisburg) on Union deposit Road for about 1.5 to 2 miles. Cross Rutherford Road (school is across intersection on the left). Turn left onto Firehouse. You will see fenced in basketball courts in front of you. The field is behind and below the courts. - Not visible from road. Do NOT park in the Firehouse parking lot. - Your car will be towed !

See you there,

mind-games

All, one of the basic principles we need to work on is our movement off the ball. We have a strong goalie and D, can trap, dribble, pass, shoot, etc... But we need to master a fundamental skill. Supporting the play. This is quite simply managing realestate, i.e., creating space that doesn't currently exist. This is most easily accomplished in 2 steps. Step 1. run away from the ball carrier. This creates an open area. Step 2. run back. this creates separation from your defender. this also buys you time to turn once a pass is played to you. Here's the key. multiple people within 30 yards of the ball carrier need to do this. String a few of these actions together and you retain position and work the ball around to find seams in the D. I have included an illustration!

Pickup Next Week

All,

How about a nice, small-sided pickup game, say, next Wednesday at about 7pm? Location tbd. Let me know if you're interested. It would be a good chance to get some touches and some running in...

Leave a comment if you're interested.

Game 3

Here are the directions to the game Sunday (3:00, April 23) at In The Net. If you are unfamiliar with the field there, it is the long artificial grass. I believe most people wear cleats but some wear turfs and few wear flats.

Directions: From Harrisburg and West: Take 322 East through Hershey (past the Med Center and Milton Hershey School) and into Campbelltown. The second light in Campbelltown is Rte. 117, turn left onto 117. Travel North on 117 for approximately one mile. There will be an Airport on your left and an RV dealership on your right. Turn right onto Airport Rd. The complex will be just down the road on your right.
--or-- you can take 422 East and turn right onto 117 (beside Klick Lewis) . Take 117 South for 2 miles and turn left onto Airport Rd.

Game 2

All,
We played quite well this past Sunday, I think, and it's very encouraging that we responded from our first game in such a positive manner.
Now there's a bit of time before our next game and of course time to think, analyze, deconstruct, but there is one very fundamental aspect to our game I think we could focus on for next time - scoring goals. This is everyone's responsibility, not just the forwards. We can build from the back, and now that we've played two games and are getting our legs, we can overlap from the defense.
Last night at the indoor game, we talked about not having that collective edge that pushes you past the opponent. Yes, we played hard, and yes we played well - foundations. I think we're ready to be more aggressive out there, more attack minded, less satisfied with a good chance and more determined to convert that chance.
Give it some thought.
Again, great work this past week. Rest up and we'll see each other a week from Sunday.

Directions to Carlisle Field

I have the intellegence of a 2 year old, so those directions made my head spin. Here's a map to provide clarity (at least for myself) Just click on it to expand the image.

A few issues...

1. Sunday's Game: all in all, not a bad effort. As several said after the game, it certainly was not a 3-0 loss. But that's soccer. We played well at times, passed well towards the end of the game. On the other hand, we need to play the ball on the ground a bit more, try to establish a collective pace, move off the ball....all those things we know we need to do. Remember, we're a new team and it will take some time to get used to each other, get positions sorted out and get our game legs. It will come.

2. Next Game: this Sunday, 3pm, AT A NEW LOCATION: the game will be played at Valley Meadows in Carlisle. Here are the directions as per the website:

Directions: Interstate 81 to exit 44 Plainfield Rt. 465 (old exit 12)
Turn towards Rt. 11 Northbound I 81 turn left Southbound I 81 turn right Go on
Rt. 465 (Allen Road) approx. ½ mile to Rt. 11 (Sheetz on your left) Right turn
onto Rt. 11 (North) Go on Rt. 11 approx. 1 mile to Meadow Blvd. (2 brick
pillars) Right turn onto Meadow Blvd Go 1 block and turn left into gravel road
for field #1 parking OR Go to end of street (2 blocks) and turn left for field
#2 parking Note: Can access either field from either parking lot

If you will NOT be in attendance, please notify both Mark and myself by Friday of this week. This should be the general policy.

3. Payment: not everyone brought his checkbook this week. No big deal. Please bring a check this Sunday. The amount is $70. If you don't bring payment by this Sunday, no problem. The following Sunday the amount is $75. The week after that, $80. Smells like a pattern, I know. I hate to be a bastard about it, but getting burned every season is no fun.

4. Pickup: with the change to daylight savings, pickup games usually start up. If you know of one, please let everyone know. There used to be a pickup game Wednesday evenings at the Hershey Med Center. Don't know if that's still going on or not.

That's it for now - good work last Sunday and see you in a few days.

jc out