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After Saturday's draw against Boldmere, the fifth XI were looking to get some serious points on the board and drag another low placed division eight side into a possible relegation dogfight.
From the start Wulfs looked far more composed than the opposition and should have gone ahead after five minutes when Ian 'Wrighty' Phillips found Chris Nicholls in space and he should have scored to make it one nil. To be fair it was complete one way traffic with Daniel Cox and Ian 'Wrighty' Phillips creating chances at will.
There were some great performances from Mike Hill and Wilf Guest on the flanks which for the first forty-five minutes did give the fifth XI some options attacking the Smethwick goal.
It was an unfortunate error by Pango in the Wulfs goal that gave Smethwick an undeserved lead, his goal kick
went straight to the Smethwick forward who then nutmegged Pango to make it one nil to Smethwick.
Despite some great defending from Danny Cheal, Pete Oakley, Rob James and the very impressive Rich Lovegrove, it was amazing how Smethwick could have scored a second within the dying seconds of the half.
From the kick off Smethwick were far sharper and wanted the points more. Wulfs lost Daniel Cox with a knee injury a few minutes into the half, which was a massive blow as he has the habit of terrorising defences with his silky skills, as well as old ladies. But when you have a legend on the bench anything can happen. Replacing Daniel Cox was Gordon 'The Legend' Brown who was looking for goal number 601 and to be fair he created a few chances to get it.
The game suddenly changed from a nice game of football to free for all. Chris Nicholls got Involved with a Smethwick player after a great tackle on the Smethwick forward with the latter lashing out. Unfortunately if your eight stone dripping wet you usually pick on some a little smaller, not a fifteen stone nutter.
Smethwick finally killed the game off with a great goal which no keeper would have stopped, an eighteen yard screamer hitting the far inside goal stanchion.
With fresh legs on the bench it was no surprise when CJ introduced Mike 'The Mars Bar Kid' Garner into the action. This was just the fresh legs and reorganising that Wulfs needed if they were to get back into the game.
Unfortunately, for all their graft, Wulfs were completely caught out for Smethwick's final goal, a free kick lobbed over eight of Wulfs Players who stood and watched and then appealed for offside when the ball fell to not one, but four GNG Smethwick players. Remember lads, when the ball is kicked, if the players are in front of you and choose not to follow them, you can't look at the linesman for offside.
On the day there were some plus points in the fact that we have some good individual footballers. If we could just play as team we might just beat a few teams in the run in.
A special Mention must go to Rich Lovegrove who played brilliant once again at left back.
Moan of the match - Danny wasn't his usual self. According to form his missus will be doing more moaning then him tonight..... Easy Tiger!
Taxi of the match 1 - Pango's giveaway goal and then the cheek of the player to nutmeg him for it.
Taxi of the match 2 - Smethwick's fourth goal. Listen lads, are you all women? Do you know the offside rule?
Ref Watch - This was the best ref with have had this season. He now knows all players by first names and invites managers into the refs room for halftime team talks, I think his name was Anders Frisk but don't tell
Mourhino...
Final score: Old Wulfrunians 0 GNG Smethwick 4.
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