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MATCH REPORTS 2005-06
Southern League
Premier Division
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Northwood Line-up |
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1 |
Lee Carroll |
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2 |
Max Howell* |
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3 |
Fergus Moore |
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4 |
Dave Nolan |
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5 |
Luke Evans |
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6 |
Shayne Demetrious+ |
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7 |
Gavin Hart # |
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8 |
Chris Gell |
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9 |
Darren Grieves |
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10 |
Peter Dean |
1 |
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11 |
Ryan Kirkland |
1 |
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Substitutes |
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12 |
Harry Howell |
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14 |
Richard McDonagh # |
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15 |
Rob Bixby* |
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16 |
Wayne Carter+ |
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17 |
Dean Lindsay |
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Goals |
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11 |
Dean 1-0 |
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79 |
Demetrious
(pen.) 2-3 |
Hitchin Town 4 Northwood 2
Report by
Alan Evans
The Woods fell to their
second defeat in four days when they crashed 4-2 at Hitchin Town.
Again it was a game that
gave Northwood every opportunity to take the points themselves, but, while
they missed several chances, the Canaries proved much more precise in front
of goal.
Mick Harvey kept faith
with the same starting eleven that had played against Merthyr and the Woods
made a cracking start. Darren Grieves saw his header from a Peter Dean cross
beat goalkeeper Richard Wilmott but crash back off the foot of the post
after just four minutes.
Seven minutes later,
Grieves provided the flick-on which saw Dean get ahead of two defenders to
steer a shot past Wilmott and put Northwood in front.
Ryan Kirkland went close
to increasing that lead with a shot which flashed wide but the home side
were level after 22 minutes. A simple goal it was, too, as Tommy Hayes had
time to pick his spot from the edge of the box and beat the unsighted Lee
Carroll.
Northwood rallied, with
Kirkland going close again and then Chris Gell seeing a shot smothered by
Wilmott, but it was Hayes that proved a real handful for the Woods defence.
He added a second goal after 38 minutes with a crashing finish and then
completed his hat-trick to make it 3-1 on the hour to leave the Canaries
singing joyfully.
It did stir the Woods
back into action. Grieves latched onto a poor back-pass and should have
scored but saw his shot hit the post for a second time in the match, and the
Luke Evans had an effort from a corner just scooped out by Wilmott.
The veteran Hitchin
keeper then denied Dean with a fine save but after 79 minutes, Shayne
Demetrious reduced the arrears from the penalty-spot after Gell had been
tripped just inside the box.
It was Demetrious who
went closest to levelling with a 25-yard drive which went inches wide of the
top corner, but Hitchin then wrapped up the three points with a
stoppage-time strike from Josh Sozzo.
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