Winning

Another glorious night in the history of the club was achieved as Style over Substance reached an all time high of 3^rd in the table on the back of a convincing 8-3 win over a sometimes obnoxious Cissie Young’s with the “Cissie” being very apt on this occasion, credit must go to Jim Butler for this beauty.

The game started as usual with both teams feeling pretty fresh despite the excesses of the previous weekend, defences were on top with Style over Substance again pressing the opposition into mistakes and creating a few early chances which they weren’t able to take due to some, lets call it overzealous (over the fence) shooting!

After 10 minutes Style over Substance made the breakthrough; Tomas Connolly, a debutant on the night, forced a turnover and released Alan Sheehy down the right where he cut it back from the byline to the on rushing Tomas and he smashed it beyond the keeper in to the corner, This lead was quickly built on and almost in the next attack Style over Substance doubled their advantage, Podge Nicholas rolled the ball out to Jim Butler at left back and he fed the ball down into the corner where Alan Sheehy picked up possession beat his man before cutting in and after a dummy on the defender tucked the ball beyond the keeper, 2-0 and Style over Substance were flying.

Cissie Young’s however were made of sterner stuff in what was a hugely changed side from the one thumped 16-8 on match day 2. They clawed a goal back on 20 minutes with an excellent strike after some good interplay, the cross shot giving Podge no chance in goal. A blow to Style over Substance arrived in the form of a very harsh yellow card for Stuart a sliding tackle from him on the defender resulted in the ball hitting the back of the net but to the side dismay this was disallowed and was then compounded by the yellow, However Style over Substance hit straight back, excellent work down the right wing by the energetic Eamonn Kennedy whereby after beating his man for pace he squared it beautifully to Alan Sheehy who side footed home. Even with a man disadvantage Style over Substance were still the better side and saw out the 10 minutes with the loss of a goal.

Style over Substance were on top all over at this time with Stuart, Neil and Tomas doing some great work in Midfield to stop Cissie’s from getting through and turning over possession, Neil and Stuart both went close but heading for half time it was 3-1.

Almost on the stroke of half time the gap was reduced to 3-2 with Cissies grabbing a fortuitous goal with the aid of a deflection.

On the resumption Style over Substance showed why they are a championship quarter team and blasted ahead with some stylish play, Super work by Tomas and Alan released Jim who unselfishly played in Stuart who composed himself and flashed a shot past the keeper. The raiding Eamonn almost added a 5^th but was just unable to reach a cross from Alan after a flowing move.

Neil having arguably his finest game of the season was coming in for some rough treatment from an increasingly argumentative Cissie’s who were now feeling the pace of the game and were wilting under the suffocating Style over Substance defence where Eamonn, Jim and Stuart were outstanding.

Neil again danced away from a couple of challenges and good interplay with Alan resulted in Alan bearing down on goal and again he slotted home, 5-2 and sailing!

This was the dominant period of the game where after 15 minutes of the second half Style over Substance extended their advantage to four, when Stuart raiding down the left exchanged passes with Tomas, who beat two or three men and played Stuart in and he gleefully hammered home.

Cissie’s now had their best patch of the game, plenty possession but no cutting edge was evident, Style over Substance defended excellently and were subjected to some frustrated words from the opposition and their ‘fans’ once such phrase being “The Italian Job” this in reference to the water tight defence which has become a hallmark of the side of late.

With Cissie’s getting narky and some over the top challenges coming in Eamonn was again the subject of some banter with referee Amos with the “cross face” once again remarked on!!!

Tomas who had an outstanding game giving the side a huge boost with his energy again won possession with a strong challenge, evaded a challenge releasing Neil who drew the keeper and played in Alan who tapped into an empty net.

The pace of the game died for a while after this with Cissies resigned to another defeat, good work again by Alan and Jim prevent a shot on goal, Podge in goal played the time killing game to perfection although was penalized for hanging too long at one point but in typical Italian fashion didn’t really care.

Stuart and Eamonn repelled all that came at them, while the midfield of Tomas, Alan and Jim continued to outplay Cissie’s regardless of the supposed AUL player in the team who at one point threatened “I’d run around all of you if the pitch was bigger”, it wasn’t and he didn’t!

The gap was reduced to five with a long range effort which came through a crowd of legs giving Podge no chance, Jim then played in Eamonn but a fine saved denied Dani Alves, sorry I mean Eamonn his first of the season.

At the death Style over Substance again broke, Tomas, Alan and Neil combined with Stuart at the end of the move beating his man and slotting home, 8-3 and a comfortable night for the side in what is increasingly becoming a fine season.

Up to the 3^rd in the table with the leaders awaiting next week, Style over Substance will be hoping to avenge their 10-5 reverse again the same side.

Scorers:

Alan [4] Stuart [3] Tomas [1]