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The first half was good, pressure at both ends. We had a couple of chances but their keeper was magnificent and stopped everything that came near the goal. The game was even and the score was 0-0 at half time. The second half was a different game. Finchley Flyers scored their first goal quickly and it felt like every time they attacked they could score. We had a few shots on goal but their goalie scooped them up. One of our chances just skimmed over the bar. The final score was 5 0, I think it was just we lost all our energy in the sun.

On Sunday 27th March Cassiobury Rangers played Alexander Park South. It was a lovely, sunny day which gave us a chance to start afresh from what had been a bad couple of weeks. We started off brilliantly scoring two goals in the opening five minutes through A.Allaway with a great header, and P.Noren with a stunning, deflected long range strike. We kept a good hold in the game throughout the 1st half with strong tackles in defence, the full-backs and wingers making surging runs down the sides and A.Allaway scoring another goal. The score at half-time was 3-0. In the 2nd half we kept our form up from the 1st half not allowing a single Alexander Park forward through the back four. A.Allaway scored two goals in quick succession, the second of which was his 50th goal of the season. With about eight minutes to go J.Bugler scored a well deserved goal after he had had a storming game up front. Unfortunately to our great frustration with five minutes till full-time we made our only mistake of the game from an Alexander Park free-kick, we failed to clear the ball and consequently they scored. This denied us our first clean sheet of the season. The final score was 6-1

On the 20th March 2011 Cassiobury Rangers played Muswell Hill Cobras. A midday kick off gave us a chance to be bright and fresh for the match. With E. Wiley our regular goalie back in goal we started. The first 10 to 15 minutes were played mainly on the left hand side. Then with a dashing run from K. Vyas running through the opposition K. Vyas had a shot, which the goalkeeper couldn’t hold. A defender tried to clear it and the clearance came off K. Vyas and went in the net. The score 1-0 to Cassiobury. To our disappointment Muswell Hill scored twice in quick succession after luckily for us, A.Allaway poked a shot and scored bringing the score to 2-2. Towards the end of the first half Muswell scored again, we were 3-2 down. In the second half T.Attfield had a good chance to make it level but unfortunately it went over. Then disappointingly they scored another three goals taking the final score to 6-2.

We faced Borehamwood 2000, the league leaders who we lost 2 9 to in October. I feared I would be picking the ball out of the net a lot… but for the first time in 2-3 seasons I played out field and A. Cox took on the role of goalie. In the first 10-15 minutes we were playing better than them and were keeping them under control. Then against the run of play they made a quick counter attack and scored. They then turned in two more chances before half time. We started the second half quickly with Joe scooping a shot over. Then Borehamwood quickly scored again. After about 10 minutes into the second half Joe capitalized on some poor goalkeeping and put the ball into an empty net. Another 5 minutes and we had a corner. It went swinging in and L. Green connected and scored to make it 4-2. Within minutes . L. Green ran at 4 players and beat them, pulled it back to A. Allaway and he pounded it home and its 4-3, game on ! Quickly after the restart they get one on one with the keeper (A. Cox, playing a blinder) and beat him. It ends 5-3 to Borehamwood 2000. We could have won!

It was a cold and cloudy day but at least it was a dry when we played our match at home against ST Albans Rovers. Their ranking in our league was forth and we were third. They were in a good position to win this game because of their high standard and recent good form but as we had an unbeaten streak of 9 we were expected to win this one . Their kit colour was white and in the first half we were winning by 1 goal to 0 as A. Allaway took us ahead. Sadly in the second half a fantastic striker named Omar secured their win with a great penalty to score his hat trick . At the end and in disbelief we lost the game by 3 goals. Graciously we shook their hands and went home with heavy hearts, but we will be back!!

Picture a bright February day with the sun gleaming off the puddles of a muddy pitch. The sideline was filled with all our regular supporters, trusty linesman John Bird, three generations of P. Noren’s family, two coaches and one Pepper the dog. Rangers continued in their winning ways and ground out a 4-1 win despite difficult pitch conditions. E. Wiley seemed at home diving around in the mud and made a particularly brave save, throwing himself at the ball outside the area. J. Pickard made his customary interceptions and well timed tackles (despite the ball often stopping dead as it got stuck in the mud). P. Noren kept up with their speedy winger. There were strong tackles from O. Shann and massive goal saving clearances from L. Green(in his favourite position of centre back!). We saw sparkling runs from G. Bishop, K. Vyas and R. Troud and a well weighted pass from R. Curwen through to the front men (inches offside). Midfield general W. Parkinson looked comfortable on the ball as usual and again it was slick interplay between our front men J. Bugler and A. Allaway that unlocked the opposition defence. J. Bugler scored 1 and A. Allaway 2. At 3-1 up A. Allaway’s Mum was still pacing around nervously on the touchline saying ‘we need to be at least 6-1 up before I can relax’ Goal of the game came from A. Cox – a swerving rocket into the roof of the net from way outside the box. (Classic A!) L. Green fulfilled his pre match promise and performed what can only be described as a swallow dive into the muddy goal mouth puddle. Yuk! Well done boys!

A midday kick-off on a damp, cold misty afternoon, we comfortably won the game and continued our fine run with a 5-1 victory. With E. Wiley missing we were forced to make some changes and A. Cox went in goal. With both teams getting a feel of the muddy pitch we started to take control and J. Bugler grabbed a brace in quick succession. This calmed our nerves and we started to play some nice football between the midfield of L. Green, myself, K. Vyas, G. Bishop, R. Troude and R. Curwen with J. Bugler and A. Allaway making some fine runs and streching the oppositions back four. Our back four of O. Shann, S. Bird, J. Pickard and P. Norenr always looking calm and composed and winning those fifty fifty battles and crucially the headers. R. Troude popped up again just before half time make 3 nil going into the break. 2nd half we were up hill, but you would never have known as we continued our passing game and is was'nt long before G. Bishop added a fourth. They replied with a consolation goal but we were not finshed yet and with a fine run I managed to find A. Cox who slotted home to make it 5-1. A great team performance. from W. Parkinson your MOTM.

On a very windy, rainy, cold day we won deservedly 3-4. We started slowly, but after early Harvesters pressure we started attacking well. Goal number one came from a throw-in to the penalty box, which came to J. Bugler, whose brilliant shot flew into the top corner. Whenever Harvesters had an attack, our defenders, P. Noren, J. Pickard, R. Curwen and S. Bird were there to stop it. Our second goal was from quick passing and ended with a neat finish from A. Allaway. We started to believe in ourselves and with K. Vyas and O. Shann flying down the wings we were creating lots of chances. When our third goal went in from J. Bugler, it looked like it could be a big win. However, soon after, Harvesters grabbed one back from a corner. Our heads did not drop, though, and just before half-time A. Allaway smashed the ball over the keeper and into the back of the net. At half-time it was 1-4. In the second half we had lots of chances, but their defence and goalkeeper somehow managed to keep us out. Our defence, with the addition of G. Bishop, were blocking Harvesters, and L. Green and T. Attfield were creating chances left, right and centre. Half way through the second half, Harvesters got a free kick which was curled into the bottom corner. At the end of the second half, Harvesters were awarded a penalty which E. Wiley almost saved. After the penalty, having been brilliant all game, E. Wiley was injured and A. Allaway had to end the game in goal. The final score was Harvesters 3-4 Cassiobury. From S. Bird, MOTM

The splodgy pitch and gale force winds made the conditions in this match very difficult. The team started strongly, with our back four J. Pickard, S. Bird, P. Noren and O. Shann, defending some early attacking play. K. Vyas and A. Cox got off to a fast start making some great moves down the wing, as they did throughout the first half. W. Parkinson and T. Atfield were supporting every step of the way, looking for that through ball to A. Allaway and J. Bugler to give us our first goal. We didn’t have to wait too long before A. Allaway placed the ball neatly in the back of the net. 1 – 0. End to end battling was then unfortunately finished off with an unstoppable goal from the edge of the penalty area by their number 7. 1 – 1. More skilful play from all followed, defence still stopping the ball like a brick wall, E. Wiley blocking everything that came his way. R. Troude came on and gave a perfect pass onto A. Allaway’s foot in front of goal. He turned and straightaway smacked the ball just underneath the bar. What a goal! 2 – 1. Half-time. Starting the second half, P. Noren knocked away every run their number six tried. L. Green played tough in midfield and made some outstanding passes. W. Parkinson skilling out the opposition to keep possession in midfield and a brilliant long shot effort at goal. J. Bugler kept on fighting to get in front of goal and worked hard in the corners to get the ball across for A. Allaway. It was really hard getting the ball out of the penalty area against the wind and Hadley scored their second (slightly lucky!) goal. 2 – 2. Once again, A. Allaway was straight off the mark and managed well to stay on side and score his well-deserved hat-trick. 3 – 2. J. Pickard and T. Atfield made two amazing tackles, S. Bird made some vital clearances and E. Wiley made another spectacular save to notch up. However, hard tackling from all did not prevent the equaliser. 3 – 3. A last ditch effort by A. Allaway nearly won us the match but it didn’t fall his way. MoM for O. Shann doing a stirling job in defence! All in all a fair result for an exciting end to end game.

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Having not played for two months we were eager to keep our winning run going. We started well with two superbly taken goals from goal machine A.Allaway and speed demon K.Vyas which gave us a 2 goal lead early on. However two speedy Borehamwood forwards were causing destruction and before we knew it, we were pegged back to 2-2. Our determination soon paid off, with J.Bugler setting up A.Allaway for his amazing 32nd goal this season! They fought back attacking hard, but we were no pushovers with E.Wiley pulling off some great saves and leading our back 4. Their hard work paid off, making it 3-3 on a counter attack. Again we were back and J.Bugler calmly finished off some fine passing movements to score our 4th. It was HT and we were 4-3 up and we knew that some effective teamwork and shooting down hill would give us an advantage for the second half. The second half had began, and some inaccurate passing led to their 4th, and last goal. We were desperate to win now and it showed, with L.Green pulling off a rocket shot into the roof of the net. We knew what we had to do now and we soon had a 6th with J.Bugler showing some great skill before powerfully shooting straight into the net. We now had 7 with W.Parkinson skilling up some players before beautifully striking the ball past the dejected goalie. I was determined to get my first ever hat-trick and I soon had it after my shot ended up in the top corner with a slight deflection. By now, we were well on top and could have added more with A.Cox, who looked more assured as the game pregressed, having two goals ruled off side. The team was helped massively at different times by the defensive grouping of O.Shann, P..Noren, J.Pickard, R.Curwen, G.Bishop, S.Bird and debutee, R.Troude who by the Second Half were in complete control. There were some fine performances, not least T.Attfield for his battling Central Midfield role, but Man of the Match went to J.Bugler for his all round contribution. A great team performance helped us win today, well done everyone! By J.Bugler

A bright and crisp Sunday morning and the boys were up for it, following a great training session on Saturday they were alert and ready to ignite some fireworks of their own.

With a performance that rivaled any bonfire night displays the boys handed out a real lesson in teamwork to our opponents. Every aspect from the training ground was catered for, Hold the line... Done,... Don't let the ball bounce.... Done.... Get it wide.....Done.... Pass and move....Done. There was not one average performance they all played superbly and stuck to there tasks with enthusiasm and great endeavour. Lining up with all the boys available aside from W. Parkinson there was only ever going to be one winner in this return match.

Now A. Allaway had one thing on his mind this morning - "got to get my hundredth" little did he think that such a resounding performance from his team mates and a full length "save of the season" from E. Wiley would allow the Clarets to return their greatest every result..

With well taken goals from A. Cox, L. Green and J. Bugler to add to a few interspersed by A. Allaway the boys did themselves and the cheering spectators proud with a score-line that the performance actually deserved.

Any of the team could have walked off with the MoM trophy but a little matter of 8 goals probably helped to tip the scales in A. Allaway's favour.

Halloween was the day of this cup game and what a howler of a game we had playing Hemel Hempstead Aces. The 11-2 score reflected how good the other team were. The rain overnight and during the game gave us a slippery and muddy surface to play on. As well as the fact that we only had 11 players which meant the team had to work very hard. The pitch itself appeared to be a lot bigger than ours, as were the goals, which is not what we are used to. With the absence of our regular goalkeeper E. Wiley due to injury, O. Shann took up the roll of goalkeeper in the first half. In defence we had P. Noren on the left side of defence the two centre backs were S.Bird and L. Green and on the right side of defence there was G. Bishop. The Midfield were T.Attfield on the left side and K. Vyas was on the Right. The Centre Midfield were W.Parkinson and A. Cox and the two boys up front were J.Bugler and A.Allaway. The game got underway but unfortunately after the first couple of minutes Hemel went 1-0 up. Much to our disappointment Hemel scored again we then got a lot livelier with T.Attfield making some strong runs up the left which lead to A. Allaway scoring a great goal. With the score 2-1 we played some strong passes with P. Noren getting it forward to T. Attfield. Despite our best efforts Hemel scored again. J. Bugler and A.Allaway took the kick off and J. Bulger played a lovely through ball to T.Attfield who then passed it to A. Allaway who had a shot which stung the goalkeepers hands . K.Vyas followed the ball up and calmly slotted it in. The score at this point was 3-2. Despite our best efforts Hemel scored another two goals which led us to half-time. The second half saw some solid passing from W.Parkinson and O.Shann and S.Bird making some tackles from the back. A.Cox made some blinding saves in the second half but was unable to stop Hemel from taking a strong lead. We could not keep up with the pace of the Hemel players which resulted in them scoring 6 goals in the second half. The end result being 11-2. By K. Vyas

Cassiobury Rangers arrived bright and early at home to play AC Finchley South. It was a crisp and clear autumn’s day with eleven players so Cassiobury had to work hard without any subs. When the match got under way we took an early lead with W. Parkinson whipping in a perfect cross which fortunately dipped over the keeper which left O. Shann to tap it over the keeper which made it 1-0 only after 1 minutes play. We received another corner which W. Parkinson again whipped in curling towards the far bottom corner of the goal. Luckily it went in possibly with the help of L. Green’s foot. After only 2 minutes of play the score was already 2-0. J. Pickard was very strong at the back being constantly pummelled by the hard shots from the Finchley attack but stayed strong. With K. Vyas running some storming runs down the right wing working brilliantly with J. Bugler and T. Atfield, he was unstoppable. As well as K. Vyas working with the attack, J. Bugler and T. Atfield were doing some perfect and precise one-twos and T. Atfield creating some great attacks with some genius through balls that J. Bugler ran on to. K. Vyas was running down the wing sprinting well past the punished midfield. He put a clever ball through to the attack which T. Atfield got the end of and streamed past the poor defence and slotted a powerful shot into the bottom corner of the goal which the keeper had no chance. A couple of minutes before half-time the score was 3-0 to Cassiobury. With a thundering clear from the defence it was W. Parkinson’s header that created the next successful attack. The good header set up J. Bugler but unfortunately he missed it and went to the defence, but then thanks to some sloppy defending from Finchley the ball came back to J. Bugler and on the half volley from the penalty spot he powered a strike at the keeper which he got to but trickled in to the goal. At half time the score was an impressive 4-0 to Cassiobury Rangers. After David’s/Andy’s team talk Cassiobury were rearing to go with similar tactics. Finchley got off to a good start pushing the defence back enough to get E. Wiley involved in making some confident keeping and we were soon in Finchley’s half again. With the midfield working hard with some flawless passing out to the wings Cassiobury managed to push up the field quickly. K. Vyas made another fantastic run which he crossed in which hit the defence but with a poor clearance it came to W. Parkinson (whom we know has a lethal shot) who powered in an amazing shot from outside the area which flew into the bottom left hand corner to make the score 5-0. With another brilliant run down the right wing K. Vyas forced a corner which W. Parkinson took again. It wasn’t the best of corners and hit the defence and cleared out of the box to an open space for the defence to have a shot. As this was L. Green’s territory when he’s in defence he screamed “MINEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” but P. Norén dragged it out to the left hand side with the outside of his left foot, took a couple of steps forward and blasted an unstoppable shot into the top left hand corner from outside the penalty area. After his goal there was a big celebration because it was his first goal in open play. Now the score was a staggering 6-0 to Cassiobury. From the off Finchley got there act together and made a good run down the right of the pitch and crossed in a ball which the Finchley attack got hold off and slotted the ball past E. Wiley to make the score 6-1. In the dying minutes of the match Cassiobury switched off a little and Finchley made a couple of attacks down the middle. On one of them the Finchley attack got past the defence and took a very powerful shot to the left hand side which E. Wiley pulled off a spectacular one handed save to keep the score the same. The whistle went and Cassiobury were delighted with there 6-1 win over AC Finchley South. Match report By P. Norén

Well done everyone!

From the MOTM E.Wiley

Match report by your man of the match A. Allaway

 A real game of two half’s which we lost the 1st half 4-0, then won the 2nd half 3-1. Overall a good performance against a very good team, and a special mention to J. Bugler and W. Parkinson for their well deserved man of match awards.