Friday 8th July
Pre-season Friendly
Havant & Waterlooville 3 Winchester City 0
Allowing for the fact that both sides have been back in training for less than a week, an entertaining tussle took place at West Leigh Park on Friday evening.
For City it was a several new faces alert fielding a different side in both halves of the match. They took the field with summer signings David Hook and Tommy McCormick and also Shaun Dyke making a return to the club. City also fielded trialists Shane Small-King (ex A F C Newbury), Toby Sumner (ex Basingstoke Town), Stuart Brown (ex Salisbury City). Also included in the side was Matthew Bicknell, still undecided at leaving The City Ground for Windsor & Eton. Ex B A T striker Richard Gregory also played the last quarter of an hour of the first half.
City played some neat football in the first half. An early chance for Havant & Waterlooville Joe Flack was stifled by Mark Jones before City had the games two best openings. On twenty five minutes some neat footwork by Shane Small King created an opening for a cross which was met by Stuart Brown but his header was well saved by home goalkeeper Colin Mathews., Some five minutes later Matthews was beaten as Small-King curled a shot beyond the keeper but the ball struck the post after some goof work by Ben Kneller.
It was some slack City defending though two minutes later that saw Dave Town loft the ball past David Hook to give the home side the lead.
The second period saw major change for City. Gregory remained on the pitch but apart from that City fielded a different side. Not only a different side but also many new faces for City supporters. Daniel Wakefield, Sam Dixon and Paul Burnett were members of last seasons reserve side. There were trialists in Mark Zawadski (Basingstoke), Mark Smith (Otterborne), Reza Soutoudeh (ex Salisbury, Bemerton, Eastleigh), whilst Jamie Nash, Rob Fox, Matthew Rackham and Nick Lewis are expected to start the season in the revamped reserve City side. Mark Lilley made his reappearance for City since returning from Eastleigh.
The period saw Havant prove too strong for a resolute City side. Dutch trialist Hakan added Havants second goal on fifty-nine minutes then on seventy-five minutes a rasping near post header from Matt Gray added their third.
Havant (first half) :Matthews, Pearce, Poate, Collins, Jordan, Gray, Champion, Pitcher, Town, Flack, Byles
(Second half) Howells, Chewins, Awford, Jordan, Campbell, Pethick, Poate, Davis, Hakan, Town, Newman with rolling subs throughout the half of the rest of the first half squad.
City (First half) : Hook, Dyke, Bicknell, Jones, L Green, McCormick, Sumner, Kneller (Gregory), Brown, Small-King, G Green
(Second half) Zawadski, Wakefield, Dixon, Mark I Smith, Nash, Fox, Rackham, Lewis, Gregory, Lilley, Soutoudeh with Burnett used as a rolling sub throughout the hal
Havant & Waterlooville 3 Winchester City 0
Allowing for the fact that both sides have been back in training for less than a week, an entertaining tussle took place at West Leigh Park on Friday evening.
For City it was a several new faces alert fielding a different side in both halves of the match. They took the field with summer signings David Hook and Tommy McCormick and also Shaun Dyke making a return to the club. City also fielded trialists Shane Small-King (ex A F C Newbury), Toby Sumner (ex Basingstoke Town), Stuart Brown (ex Salisbury City). Also included in the side was Matthew Bicknell, still undecided at leaving The City Ground for Windsor & Eton. Ex B A T striker Richard Gregory also played the last quarter of an hour of the first half.
City played some neat football in the first half. An early chance for Havant & Waterlooville Joe Flack was stifled by Mark Jones before City had the games two best openings. On twenty five minutes some neat footwork by Shane Small King created an opening for a cross which was met by Stuart Brown but his header was well saved by home goalkeeper Colin Mathews., Some five minutes later Matthews was beaten as Small-King curled a shot beyond the keeper but the ball struck the post after some goof work by Ben Kneller.
It was some slack City defending though two minutes later that saw Dave Town loft the ball past David Hook to give the home side the lead.
The second period saw major change for City. Gregory remained on the pitch but apart from that City fielded a different side. Not only a different side but also many new faces for City supporters. Daniel Wakefield, Sam Dixon and Paul Burnett were members of last seasons reserve side. There were trialists in Mark Zawadski (Basingstoke), Mark Smith (Otterborne), Reza Soutoudeh (ex Salisbury, Bemerton, Eastleigh), whilst Jamie Nash, Rob Fox, Matthew Rackham and Nick Lewis are expected to start the season in the revamped reserve City side. Mark Lilley made his reappearance for City since returning from Eastleigh.
The period saw Havant prove too strong for a resolute City side. Dutch trialist Hakan added Havants second goal on fifty-nine minutes then on seventy-five minutes a rasping near post header from Matt Gray added their third.
Havant (first half) :Matthews, Pearce, Poate, Collins, Jordan, Gray, Champion, Pitcher, Town, Flack, Byles
(Second half) Howells, Chewins, Awford, Jordan, Campbell, Pethick, Poate, Davis, Hakan, Town, Newman with rolling subs throughout the half of the rest of the first half squad.
City (First half) : Hook, Dyke, Bicknell, Jones, L Green, McCormick, Sumner, Kneller (Gregory), Brown, Small-King, G Green
(Second half) Zawadski, Wakefield, Dixon, Mark I Smith, Nash, Fox, Rackham, Lewis, Gregory, Lilley, Soutoudeh with Burnett used as a rolling sub throughout the hal
Document last updated: 08/06/2007
