Match Report: Milton Keynes, Home 9th December 20042-3 loss: 25-20, 21-25, 18-25, 25-15, 8-15Team : Bruce Archibald, Chris Seal, Jem Clark, Nigel Collins, Nishi Saran, Roger Gudge, Sara Clark After a promising start with a first set win things were looking good, all aspects of our play seemed to be in tune. The second set started ok then we hit a bad patch and our game suffered and we lost a close finishing set. We then seemed to panic a bit and in the third set, we lost our concentration and the set was lost. The spiking had lost power and we hit very few winning shots. This may have been due to the constant change of team after each set, I'm not sure. We needed to put more effort into the 4th set, which we did, our spikes had more power and accuracy. With a much improved performance we won the 4th set convincingly. We needed to continue that level of play into the 5th, which we did to start with. At the change over we had a lead of 8-7 and looked in control. For some reason we then got into a bad rotation for us and went on to lose the match without us scoring a reply against their one server. Obviously we need to look at what happened and learn from this frustrating outcome. Thanks must go to Graham for again doing a faultless refereeing job and thanks as well to those who did the scoring. Chris. |