Good evening as we take a short trip to Kakaha Park for this Chatham Cup Preliminary fixture against High School Old Boys. It’s been a very short turnaround between this game and our game against Western AFC last Thursday in the English Cup.
Last week’s game saw us agonisingly lose to Western in penalty shootouts after having been able to bring ourselves back from losing situations. Although we are disappointed in not being able to reciprocate a performance that matched the support that was present at the Nest, it was a good wake-up call for everyone involved, including myself. Having said that, it is great to see even when we are short of our usual performances, that the lads are able to claw themselves back into the game. Finn Steel got us back into the game with his trademark run from deep and Isaac Williams was able to bring it back to make it 2-2. Conceding very late could have seen us drop our heads but Conor Clark being able to make it 3-3 showed that these boys will never quit.
Our focus now turns to High School Old Boys’ and the boys understand that we cannot let our standards drop like we did on Thursday. We know this will be a game of the unknown but we are committed to putting in a performance that shows we have learnt from our past mistakes. With their recent performances for the reserves, Sam Meecham, Hugo Feng and Abdifatah Sheikh have been rewarded with a call-up, with this potentially being a fixture Abdi could potentially make his first team debut.
As always, we look forward to seeing everyone there supporting the lads, it does not go unnoticed. Up the Hawks!
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