Game recap...Nov 8

MVLA at Fury
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Apparently, we must have drawn the short straw as we were the only team to have to play the 1st place MVLA twice this season. The Ice Breakers are a team that plays our game better than we do. They have speed up front, well, one girl at least. But that one girl beat us for 2 goals and caused problems with her speed all day. It shows you what speed, skill, determination, and game sense can do when used properly and how dangerous it is when you put all 4 or those traits together. They were also tough in the back and frustrated our forwards the whole game. The bright side is they will definitely move up to the A bracket and our girls showed we can hang with them. Having said that, we have our work cut out for us if we want to ever reach their level.

MVLA was always talking to each other and more importantly, for each other. That is probably one our biggest weaknesses. For some of our girls, they are just very reserved or quiet. For others, they are quiet because they don't know what to say. Either way, our girls need to communicate to each other more on the field. Without it, it's like playing with blinders on. It may seem like a small thing, but you'd be surprised how much it can help in a game. Seeing another team talk and execute the way MVLA does is great for the girls to see. Beating a team similar to us is great, but I'd rather lose to a better team and learn lessons like this that are hard to preach in practice.

Unfortunately, playing MVLA twice hurt our chances for points in the standings and both the Mustangs and Quicksilver past us up in the standings with wins the past week. But I'm not worried about that. See my "Season recap" for the reason why and for a more detailed recap of Fall 08 and why I think we made some major strides to become a better team.

Thanks again to all the parents that helped with field setup.

Go Fury!

Dan