Brockham Badgers U16B Last Ever League Game
For many of the lads the game represented the end of a 10 year stint with Brockham Badgers.
Their last season with Brockham has been a successful one, the season seeing the team win 4 and draw 4 of their league matches, with Ollie Curtis completing the season as the leagues second highest goalscorer, just 1 goal from winning the league golden boot.
The lads have shown good dedication this season, despite exam and other distractions, with midweek training being well attended, and competion for match day places keen between the 17 man squad.
With agreement from East Grinstead, already D league champions going into this game and without a defeat all season, Brockham included all 17 of their squad for their last game rather than the regulation 14 allowed by the league, East Grinstead doing the same.
For 30 minutes Brockham were on top playing good passing football, Curtis giving Badgers the lead on the half hour mark, good work from Dan Hoad putting Curtis through, his clinical shot making it 1-0.
However the good work was undone with a lapse in defensive concentration which saw the league champions score goals either side of half time as they used the long ball to good effect on a small pitch they knew well.
Brockham kept going second half, rotating the squad to see all players get equal game time, the result always being secondary as Badgers played out their final game time with flair to end their stint with the club.
Squad: Jack Whetnall, Will Sprange, Sam MacFarland, Dhilen Patel, James Stone, Stefan Issberner, Dex Bass, Josh Hook, David Atkinson, Dan Hoad, Josh Caldwell, Ben Wright, Luke Prior, Ollie Curtis, Elliott Austin, Max Ruff, Johnny Bryer
Report by Bryan Bletso
