Guantanamo Draw But Forfeit Provides Points
Wednesday 19th March 2008
Racing Guantanamo continued to improve on the court, thrashing out a draw with a hastily-assembled Team X last night at BRAC Arena.
With most of the Team X squad MIA, it was left to the rest of the league to provide players to entertain the capacity crowd. The small squad led to the X’ers having to forfeit, providing Guantanamo with their first points of the season.
With the pressure of having to win off the team, the Oranges took the opportunity to experiment with the side, drafting in new marquee player and former Fremantle Docker, Tony Delaney. Delaney had previously made a guest appearance for Guantanamo last year, but it was announced earlier in the day that the club had picked him up for the rest of the year, using most of their transfer war-chest in the process.
With the squad list starting to settle, Guantanamo looked to test out different positions and concentrate on playing good quality football.
As the match began, Francois Kruger showed just why he was voted the best player of 2007 by stringing together some high quality saves and taking control of his penalty area. The goalkeeper kept his team in it by swatting away any attack that Team X managed to throw at him.
Delaney immediately proved why he is a force to be reckoned with by making thrusting forward runs whenever possible, and terrorising the opposing defence. Scoring an absolute screamer of a goal and setting another up for captain Ryan Platten to tap in, the former Docker was a fire in the belly of the Guantanamo heroes.
