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This is a new page dedicated to
our youngest team.
The under 7's are a non-competitive squad who are made up from last seasons
Saturday Soccer club.
This squad trains on a Saturday morning at Forest Community Primary School
here in Brandon,
starting at 10-30 for 1 hour.
The squad is trained by Mark O'Malley and Steve Bales, both Mark & Steve
are FA Level 1 qualified, they joined us last season and both of
them are enjoying their new coaching roles.
This squad will continue to train throughout the season and hopefully will
be in top form for when they become a competitive league team at under 8's
next season (2008-09)
This squad is open to players who are of school year 2.
We will add more details (news &
photos) to this page when they become available.
For more information about
joining this squad then please contact
[Mark O'Malley]
Back row; Alexander, Jake, Callum, Oliver, Will, Ben
Front row; Jack, Lewis
Saturday 8th March 2008
Brandon Lads 5 Bressingham 0
Brandon U7's entertained Bressingham on a
brisk windy day on a beautifully prepared mini soccer surface at the
Brandon Leisure Centre. Brandon started off well and took an early lead
when Lucas Kent slotted the ball home after a tantalising run through a
series of the Bressingham defenders, this was only his second game and
he is already showing confidence and promise up front and in midfield.
After some tenacious tackling Jake Vincent
broke through Bressingham's defence to slide the ball home and make the
score 2-0 with around 10 minutes gone. Before half time Jake added a
third (with his left foot) and his second to move towards the break with
a healthy lead and increased confidence ready for the second half. Jack
Slater was tackling well and running around up front causing the
opposition some real problems. Bressingham fought hard but with the
windy conditions and some excellent work from Ben Long, Callum Horne and
Alexander Turner they found it difficult to break into the Brandon half.
They did half way through the second half but Will Bales in goal scooped
up the ball with ease and cleared with a big left footed "hoof" up
field. Lewis O'Malley came on in the second half and made some nice
passes to his team mates and a few good tackles.
Callum Horne was awesome in defence and
threatening going forward, in fact his long throw-ins really caused the
Bressingham team problems this culminated in a superb volley into the
top corner by Jake Vincent to make the score 4-0. Jake scored the fifth
goal to round off Brandon's first well deserved win after 2
disappointments against Thetford Indies and St Edmunsbury Primary over
the last few weeks.
(Man of the Match) - Ben Long - for his
tenacious tackling and good clearances from the back - well done
everyone!
Saturday 8th Dec 2007
Brandon Lads 2 Thetford Indies 3
Goals scorers; Callum Horne & Jake Vincent
Saturday 10th Nov 2007
Brandon Lads U7 2 Bury St Edmunds 8
Goals Jack Slater x 2
Brandon Lads (U7's) welcomed Bury St Edmunds
for Brandon's first ever competitive match at Brandon Leisure Centre.
Brandon fell behind from the start by
conceding 3 early goals, from here on it was going to be very difficult
to recover.
Despite this Brandon played some absolutely
superb "passing" football and outplayed the opposition for long periods
of time but by half time they were 5-0 down - Time for a re-shuffle!
It was clear that Bury's tactics was to get
the ball to their Ipswich Town (Elite) striker and let him run at goal
and expose Brandon's goalkeeping inexperience.
At half time the defence and goalkeeping was
tightened up with the introduction of Will Bales (Goalkeeper), Alexander
Turner and Jake Vincent, Will made some incredible saves and showed
absolutely no fear in some difficult situations, Alex tackled back well
and Jake made some superb individual runs forward and in defence.
Brandon now looking tighter at the back and
fighting for the ball hard, scored two superb team goals finished
by Jack Slater, this gave the whole team a well deserved lift and
continued strength to fight on.Based on the second half performance,
lots of positives can be taken from this defeat and we now know
categorically what we need to work on in training before next season!
Callum Horne and Lewis O'Malley did well throughout the game with Ben
Long unlucky to be marked by two burly defenders for most of the game.
5 a side tournament..... at
Downham Market on June 2nd 2008
Brandon kicked off their first game with
an excellent win against Ramsey "B". Jake Vincent and Lucas Kent
scored the goals to seal and excellent 2-0 win.
Brandon then took on Outwell Swifts and
fought hard to come out victors with a 1-0 gritty win (Jake Vincent
was the scorer). Brandon passed the ball well and Callum Horne and
Jack Slater were superb in defence and getting the ball moving
forward. Lucas Kent and Lewis O'Malley worked hard and Alexander
Turner cleared and defended extremely well. Will Bales made some
good saves and kept Brandon in the match towards the end.
In our third game Brandon took on
Wootton "A" and thrashed them 5-0 with excellent goals from Callum
Horne, Lewis O'Malley, Jake Vincent (2) and excellent corner from
Lewis O'Malley that was deflected in off a Wootton defender. Winning
this game put them through to the knock-out stages without conceding
a goal. Again Lucas Kent, Alex Turner and Jack Slater were solid
throughout with Will Bales mopping anything up that did get through!
In the Semi-final Brandon entertained
Hungate Rovers and completely out played the opposition. Callum
Horne was again outstanding in his new role just in front of the
defence. He dictated the match and Brandon were victors 6-0. Goals
came from Jake Vincent (2) Callum Horne (2) Lucas Kent and Jack
Slater. This took them through to the final to meet Heacham Minors.
The final was a really tight game and it
was obvious that a single goal was probably going to decide things.
Unfortunately for Brandon a defensive error gave Heacham the chance
to toe poke a goal and get their noses in front. Brandon fought hard
to equalise but just ran out of time. Brandon played a superb
tournament and although being slightly disappointed by not winning
played some excellent aggressive football. The boys did our club
proud and represented themselves in a professional positive manner -
Well Done - Superb Result!
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