United Hit For Six

FOLLOWING Saturday’s League match,relegation to a Step Five league is now almost certain for Thame United.
They are currently 21 points from safety and seven of their eight remaining fixtures are against teams in the top 10.

This game against Bracknell was not as one sided as the score suggests. For long periods of the game possession was 50/50 with both sides creating scoring chances. The difference was that Bracknell clinically took their chances whereas Thame squandered theirs and defended poorly.

Thame dominated the early stages and were unlucky when Dave Tregurtha met a free kick with a good header, which flashed past the post. Against the run of play Bracknell got their first goal on 10 minutes when Scott Taylor met a cross with a good header. The injured Thame goalkeeper, Paul Searl, gifted the second goal in the 28th minute when he scuffed a goal kick to a Bracknell player who passed to John Dyer. As Searl came out to meet the danger, Dyer calmly shot through his legs. Two minutes later it was 3-0 when Taylor got his second with a fierce shot from eight yards.

Shortly after the restart, Rob Hopkins did well to block a goalbound shot with the Thame defence beaten. Dyer got his second on 48 minutes when he again found the back of the net with a shot that passed through the legs of the advancing Thame goalkeeper. Bracknell?s fifth was scored in the 56th minute by Jon Palmer, who received the ball with his back to goal, quickly turned to buried it in the corner of the Thame goal. In the 80th minute another poor goal kick allowed Palmer to finish the scoring.

It is a tribute to the young Thame side that their heads did not drop and they continued to fight for every ball until the final whistle.
Final score: Bracknel 6 Thame United 0

Thame United: Searl, Way, Hopkins, Eason (capt.) (Hocking), Tregurtha Connelly, Fisher, A Rhodes (Groves), Moore, Raja, Boland (N. Rhodes).

Thame United do not have a game next weekend. Their next fixture is the semi final of the Oxfordshire Senior Cup which will be played at Court Farm Place (Oxford City?s Ground) on Wednesday 29th March (7.30pm). Their opponents are Southern Premier League team Banbury United.