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SO THIS WAS DEFINATELY OUR LAST GAME OF THE SEASON AS OUR FIXTURE LAST WEEK WAS POSTPONED IN STEPPED WEST JUNIORS AS A LATE BONUS GAME SO THE 100 GOAL TARGET WAS STILL ON AND A BATTLE FOR THE GOLDEN BOOT WITH REGAN 2 BEHIND.
AFTER TOTALLY DESTROYING WEST A FEW WEEKS AGO TODAY WAS A DIFFERENT STORY, ALTHOUGH WE HAD A MAJORITY OF THE PLAY WEST DIDN-T LIE DOWN AND FOUGHT FOR EVERYTHING. IT WAS RANGERS THOUGH WHO OPENED THE SCORING AS JAKE SET UP REGAN FOR THE 1ST, YOU WOULDN-T BELIEVE THAT THESE 2 WERE FIGHTING FOR THE GOLDEN BOOT AS JAKE, WHO HASN-T SCORED IN THE LAST 5 GAMES IS ASSISTING REGAN WHICH WAS GREAT TO SEE. WEST STILL BATTLED BUT NOT CAUSING MUCH PROBLEMS AS LIAM,MACAULEY AND HARRY WERE STRONG. JAKE & REGAN WERE AGAIN A JOY TO WATCH AS THEY WERE AGAIN CAUSING PROBLEMS AND IT WAS JAKE AGAIN WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM JACK SET UP REGAN TO CRACK A GREAT VOLLEY TO LEVEL THE SCORES FOR THE BOOT. NOW IT WAS A RACE ON 2 FRONTS, BOOT & 100. SO 2-0 AT HALF-TIME.
MORE OR LESS THE SAME AS THE 1ST HALF AS RANGERS CARVED OUT SOME GREAT CHANCES WHICH WERE WASTED, THEN WEST HIT BACK WITH A GOAL 2-1. JAKE WAS REPLACED AS HE HAD RUN HIS HEART OUT FOR BOTH GAMES WHICH LED TO REGAN TO GRAB THE AWARD, AND I THOUGHT HE-D DONE IT AS HE WALTZED ROUND THE DEFENDERS ALONG THE GOAL LINE AND UNSELFISHLY SQUARED THE BALL OVER TO BEN TO SMASH THE 100TH. REGAN HAD CHANCES BUT FAILED TO FIND THE NET, HE WAS THEN REPLACED BY JAKE TO SEE IF HE COULD JUST NUDGE AHEAD. WEST MADE IT 3-2 WITH A FEW MINUTES LEFT. A LONG CLEARANCE FROM LIAM FOUND JAKE, 1 BOUNCE AND HE LOBBED IT OVER THE KEEPER, A CRY OF "YES" FROM JAKE AS THE BALL CAME DOWN BUT IT CRASHED ONTO THE BAR AND HACKED AWAY AS HE HELD HIS HEAD IN HIS HANDS, THEN IN THE LAST MINUTE SOME GREAT WORK FROM BEN & LEE FOUND JAKE ON THE EDGE OF THE AREA BUT HE SOMEHOW CURLED THE BALL INCHES WIDE. SO A GREAT END TO THE SEASON, ALTHOUGH NOT A LEAGUE GAME I WILL CLASS IT AS THE 1 WE MISSED OUT ON LAST WEEK, SO REGAN & JAKE SHARE THE GOLDEN BOOT WITH 32 EACH FOR THE SEASON AND BEN GRABBED HIS 10TH AND RANGERS- 100TH OF THE CAMPAIGN WHICH IS A REMARKABLE ACHIEVEMENT IN THIS VERY TOUGH LEAGUE. WELL DONE TO EVERYONE INVOLVED IT HAS BEEN A GREAT HONOUR TO TEACH SUCH A TALENTED BUNCH OF GREAT FOOTBALLERS AT THEIR AGE LEVEL. THANKS GUYS.