| Team | Mens 1 |
| Opponent | Team Bath Buccaneers 4 |
| Date | February 8, 2025 |
| Result | Win |
| Score | 4 – 3 |
LHC M1 vs Bath Buccaneers 4 | Written by Sam
It was foggy day.
A ghastly cold wind was blowing west. 8mph.
Darkness began to descend upon bath around 2pm along with the Lansdown first squad sporting black and yellow.
In one half, playing out of Cheltenham, Gloucesteshire, in Black trunks.
In the other half, playing out of Bath, Somerset, in Navy Blue trunks.
The highly anticipated showdown between LHC M1 and Bath Buccaneers M4 was about to commence.
Bath started out strong, quickly storming out in a full press and winning a short corner off the bat. Bath injected well, followed by a quick left slip and slap across goal, nick made a miraculous save but it unfortunately hit Ritchie Owen’s foot and another shorty succeeded, but succeed – bath did not.
Bath kept putting the pressure on with more short corners taking place but to no avail.
Nick made a crucial 1 on 1 save for which he was nominated flare moment.
Eventually we counter attacked and managed to get ourselves a shorty at 12 minutes. After a clean injection by Luke, Ed Blogg sent it into the bottom left corner, I witnessed this myself and knew it was going to be a goal because Johnny was already walking back to the halfway before Ed even flicked it in.
Having one goal in the bag gave Lansdown the confidence boost that propelled them into a much more aggressive attack, many opportunities followed but none were converted… that is until Richie Owen got fed up at minute 30 and decided to run through the whole Bath Buccaneers team twice before flicking it in through the goalies guard, above his head and into the back of the net – oldest trick in the book.
Bath fought back tenaciously after half time and rapidly scored two goals. After this by some stroke of luck Sam VV (inhibited due to forgetting his stick) picked up the ball from top D around minute 55 and tomahawked the ball into the net, it wasn’t a big deal really, just doing my job innit.
The score was now 3-2 and with plenty of time left in the half, the proverbial deal had not been sealed as of yet for Lansdown, so Richie scored another one in minute 60. 4-2
Everything was fine from this point onwards, smooth sailing for Lansdown.
Except they scored again! There would be less head turning at a tennis match at this point, do people even know they can come watch this for free?
They scored via a P-flick because Johnny headbutted the ball out of play, shout out to Johnny’s mask.
Things were stressful now for Lansdown.
The fate of the match hung in the balance.
All they had to do was hold onto the ball and prey, so we started overheading it relentlessly into the other team because the best defence is a good offense.
The whistle finally blew and it was all over.
Thanks to the organizers and those the came to support.
Richie got Champagne Moment for both his goals and it was well deserved.
MOM went to Nick for some excellent saves but at the end of the day he was just doing his job.
DOD went to Sam for forgetting his stick, being late, being sad after scoring and for being South African.