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The return of the woody!!

Good to see you back js and an updated u21 team page too.. nice! If you need any help over the season give me a shout

Good luck for the upcoming season buddy!

Well done JSB looking forward to another great few seasons. Morwood is back in the house welcome mate looking forward to catching up.

Thanks to you all for your kind messages, hopefully we can enjoy some more success together as a community.

Good Luck! :D

BELGIUM 111 - 112 ENGLAND
The campaign started welcoming a strong Belgium side who looked very powerful inside as well as containing a lot of depth in all positions. We started the first quarter the better of the two sides and quickly established a good lead with decisive attacking play getting shooters open for jumpshots as well as preventing the Belgian's getting into a rhythm by playing solid defence. However, in the second quarter, Belgium managed to carve out some good opportunities and found themselves back within a single point game, mainly thanks to their big men who started to get hot from the field. At half-time, we led 55-48. The third quarter was a replica of the first seeing us get a variety of team-mates open from the three point line with Centre, Stu Feldman, nailing 4-4 from downtown to see us cruise to a sixteen point lead with one quarter to play. For some bizarre reason, we let the game slit and allowed Belgium a pathway back into it with the Belgian's rediscovering their pizzazz and draw level and take the game to OT. In overtime, it was closely contested with both offences getting the better of each other. In the dying seconds of the game and from an improbable position, we hit our three last three-pointers, one coming from Phil MacNeish and two from Dirk Witten to snatch the win and get the campaign off to an illustrious start.

What can I say? What a game that was to watch. So up and down and demoralising how it looked like we let all the good work slip because of a horrendous last quarter but thanks to our great three point shooting (21-36 for the game!) we managed to pick up the win and start the campaign well.

Next week we have Cyprus.

Last edited by js8 at 2/29/2016 5:43:28 PM

ENGLAND 90-54 CYRPUS
England cruised to their second win of the campaign over one of the smaller teams in the group, Cyprus. We shot the ball quite well, just under 50% as a team and defended solidly to limit the Cyprians to a low amount of points to boost our point differential.

ENGLAND 81-93 FINLAND
This was a really tough loss to take, I definitely thought we had enough to beat Finland despite a few key players missing because of poor game shape. After watching the game, we defended poorly in the last quarter and couldn't make our chances count. Mark Halflife was once again our best player and is proving to be a huge talent at London Kings and could be set for the NT in future seasons.

It's going to be tough to qualify from here if I'm honest. We have two solid opponents to play in Greece and Portugal and we'll have to win both of them to stand a chance of going through, but I'm still optimistic this can be achieved. As a whole, game shape has been poor, especially for key players, this season. Some players have been good but the majority are operating at around average/respectable, and that's just not good enough. If we're to beat Greece and Portugal, we need this up.

Also, my apologies go out to all concerned about my lack of response to emails and posting in this forum. I've started my new job in the last week or so and it's been absolutely mad! (I even forgot to set two lineups for my own team!!) so I apologise, I'm not ignoring your messages or being lazy when coming to reports.

Congrats on the new job. Shame about the loss, I know what its like to lose to Finland.