Witches of Courage
Taking on Woden for the second time in five days,
things were not looking too bright for the Witches.
They were only able to field ten players and a
number of those were carrying injuries into the
game. Conversely, Woden had a complement of
fourteen players to call on. The Witches were
instructed to play a defensive game, relying on
quick counter attacks when possible. The first half
was fairly predictably dominated by Woden both
territorially and possession wise. Despite this the
Witches defended brilliantly with only a minimum of
errors and the score at half time was 0-0. The
numerical advantage, combined with the injuries was
taking it's toll on the Witches but they never
baulked at the job ahead. Every player contributed
to their maximum capacity and they repelled wave
after wave of attack from an increasingly
frustrated Woden.Although they were showing
signs of severe fatigue the Witches took every
opportunity to launch a counter attack, causing
Woden no end of problems. It was from one of these
swift raids that the Witches broke Woden's back,
Rach sending through a long pass which was seized
on by Cass. She took one touch then sent a low shot
across the goal and into the far side netting. The
Witches barely had the strength to celebrate the
goal they were that exhausted. Nevertheless they
did muster enough energy to snuff out Woden's last
feeble attempts over the final seven minutes to
signal the end of an incredible effort by the most
wonderful, courageous group of Witches in
Goulburn.(or anywhere else for that matter)
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