sounds like Burwood got a reality check today at Selwyn. Anyone at the game? Fair result?
Yeah fair result, although at 1-1 Burwood had a penalty saved and after 30 minutes or so Selwyn really got on top. Was 4-1 at halftime and the 8-2 result was a fair one. Burwood are a good side wasted in Div5 due to politics. Only thing they need to work on are their tactics for coming up against better sides. To have players on the pitch AND the coaching staff/players on the bench yelling out 'Take him out' when Dan Ede and other players dribbled past 3 or 4 of them is poor at best. They may not be used to playing with proper referees etc, but that is verging on inciting violent play. Yes we all give away 'tactical fouls', but we don't yell out to 'Take him out'. Some of their efforts to take out players were just plain dangerous as well.
Selwyn have struck a few sides who are very physical and try to let us know that they are there to win every challenge, but the feeling in the camp after was it was the worst we have come up against this season, even compared to physical sides like Parklands, Hornby. We were really pushing to blow out the score as much as we could.
Sides like Burwood and Hurunui can only benefit from playing at as high a level as they can as they have shown they are good sides. Maybe if a full SI league came in, it would force a rethink of the levels underneath and the teams in each division could be properly worked out