Summary of the Pot Black FC season 2007-08
David ' Jim Magilton' Edmunds
Manager Supremo
The curtain has finally come down on another football season for PB, albeit late because of the fixture chaos caused by the very hard weather we had in the winter. I think not. After 4 weeks without a game, and then playing 2 games to finish the season, we eventually finished last week with a resounding victory as our opponents had to call off the game by not being able to raise a team, good job we held our nerve till the very end because we were in the same position. This is the result of being forced by the committee to play a meaningless game purely to forfill the fixtures. There were high hopes for this year with alot of form signing in the close season which resulted with 38 players signed on with a good blend of experience and youthful players. Guess what the usual happened for Sunday Football we struggled to get a side some weeks. The season started brightly with me on holiday as usual ( I hear Wally shout, talk about the pot calling the kettle black!) and the team winning the opening game with Wally in charge. I returned the following week and Wally had great delight in telling me who was the successful manager as it was another 4 weeks before we got another victory and guess what I was not there (perhaps I should have been sacked then and got a huge pay off from the club as all under achieving Football Managers get.) Still we battled on until xmas with me getting more and more frustrated with the poor performances considering the quality we had in the team and were getting beat by some very poor teams but who had the fight in them to win games they should not have done. The record up to xmas was not very impressive to say the least, in the bottom 2 with only 2 games won, again I hear sack the Manager, but it did not materalise and over the xmas break, decisions had to be made. We started the new year with the team made up of all the youngsters who will be the back bone of the team for years to come. If we were to be relegated, at least we were planning for the future as the experienced players had not delivered to the expected levels. But as it turned out, the youngsters have done us proud and our form after xmas has been much better with 5 wins from 8 games and finishing a creditable half-way in the league which was something you could only dream about at xmas. Again it has been a season of highs and lows, poor performances, players not turning up and not letting me know, but the one high which everybody was pleased about was Jason scoring his first league goal and winning a fiver from Birdy for doing so. He deserved that for the number of times he stood on the side-line as sub but never moaned and turned up every week. Thats me finished for another year, I can put my feet up and look forward to next year with the future of the club looking good (have I heard that somewhere before). Finally thanks to our loyal supporter George who turned up most weeks and even biked to Normanston from his home at Carlton Colville only to find we were playing at Kessingland but that did not deter him, he just got on his bike and rode to Kessingland, is that dedication or wot. See you all at the presentation night on 31st May down the club.
