Collegians 2-3 Woodkirk Wolves

Match Day: Wednesday 23rd April

Can we play midweek fixtures away in Huddersfield every week?

After beating champions elect Berry Brow last week the challenge was set to beat second in table Collegians. And boy did the lads respond.

To make things even harder we played with 9 men for 30 minutes, as players tried to rush across to the other side of the country to make kick off. The number improved to 10 after 30 minutes and then on 40 minutes we got to the luxury of a complete set with the added bonus of a couple of subs.

Onto the game itself, with 9 bodies we conceded a deflected effort from the edge of the box after the ref refused to blow for a couple of blatant pushes. When we got to 10 we equalised through our top scorer, Whelan. 

We saw out the rest of the half and got in level, which allowed us to make the adjustments needed to come away with a positive result.

We were on the wrong end of another poor decision from the referee with the lad stood on the goal line for a pretty obvious offside. We dusted ourselves off and Tim having finally found the pitch and making his debut for the firsts equalised with a smart finish.

Just as we felt we could kick on the ref threw another clanger, the ball having hit the skipper in the stomach, the ref blew for a penalty. Thankfully justice was served when G making his debut pulled off a cracking save.

With 15 to go Sam drove through and with crowd screaming for him to shoot he showed maturity beyond his years to square it to the old head in the team Karim to tap on at the back post.

Daniel could have wrapped things up with 5 to go, but instead wrapped up the miss of the season with a complete air shot from 6 yards and a gaping goal.

We then had to see out a phenomenal 7 minutes of injury time that the ref found.

To a man, the lads put in a hell of a shift and represented the club with great heart and commitment.

MOM - There was a number of contenders but we're going to land on the first joint one of the season. Mark who never stopped working in the middle of the park and winning challenges against players twice his size. And Harry Bennett who is now getting back to his best, up against one of the best wingers I've seen at this level, he dealt with him with real authority and was a rock throughout.