A FINE START ON THE DART...

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 4 2011
PIONEER LEAGUE U10 DIVISON ONE
Dartmouth...2
Buckland Athletic...13

BUCKLAND opened their league campaign with an emphatic win at Dartmouth on Sunday.
After a disastrous pre-season campaign which left the club in crisis amid the traumas of a heavy home defeat at the hands of Stoke Gabriel, the non-arrival of the new playing kit and Feasby's continued failure to buy a pair of Copa Mundials, the pressure was on.
But the team handed the management duo a 'Get Out Of Jail Free' card with a stunning performance after the long drive south.
Georgia opened Buckland's account for the season, lashing in a long-range effort to put the visitors 1-0 up, and opening the floodgates in the process.

The goals came thick and fast, with Harry notching five, mostly run-of-the-mill strikes which flew into either top corner from seemingly impossible angles and distances. He's not bad, that lad.

Beck claimed his first hat-trick of the campaign, the pick of the bunch so sweetly struck that it just about vapourised the net.

Daniel bagged a brace, Georgia notched her second and Hamish was on target as the goals kept coming.

Dartmouth threatened only rarely, Jamie and Declan forming the equivalent of the Berlin Wall to keep the home side out, and even when Buckland's goal was threatened Daniella proved to be more than a match.

Joey was back to somewhere near his sparkling best and somehow came away without a goal despite launching more shots than a Libyan rebel. 
Manager Paul was delighted with the manner of the victory, which he attributed to his own excellence.
"I felt the team was in danger of becoming over-confident in pre-season'" he said. "So I deliberately sent them out against Stoke Gabriel in a formation I knew would lose us the game. It was psychological warfare really, and as you can see it paid off today.
"I know there's been some speculation about my future, but I know what I'm doing. In fact only the other day, I heard someone on TalkSport describe me getting the Buckland job as the best managerial appointment since Sheriff Roscoe P Coltrane was put in charge of the police in Hazzard County, and you can't sat fairer than that. Yee-ha!"

Goals: Harry 5, Beck 3, Daniel 2, Georgia 2, Hamish 1.