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Sat 11th Aug 2012 @ 15:00 - Victoria Ground Attendance: 212
Bromsgrove Sporting
3 - 0
Pelsall Villa
Referee: Mr. B. Morris (Hereford) Midland Combination / Premier Division

Goalscorers
Joe Brookes (46)
Danny Deehan (6)
Jonathon Rogers (78)
None
Starting Line-ups
Chris Mole
Aaron Roberts
Jamie Parker
Danny Deehan
Chris Thurbon
Nicky Martin
Joe Brookes
James Blake
Keith Draper
Jonathon Rogers
Stuart Hall
Andy Hughes
Ash Lawley
Craig Timmings
Aaron Simpson
Matt Hunt
James Lewis
Craig Smith
Ryan Williams
Lloyd Dune't
Daniel Battisson
Tom Green
Substitutes
Chris Bright
Peter Jenvey
Dan Wilkes
Chris Morrison
Alex Kelly
Richard Morley
Callendar Ward
Stephen Cooke
Simon Drake
James Grove
Substitutions
Chris Bright -> Danny Deehan (64)
Chris Morrison -> Stuart Hall (71)
Dan Wilkes -> Chris Thurbon (78)
James Grove -> Ryan Williams (51)
Richard Morley -> Craig Smith (85)
Yellow cards
Stuart Hall (56)
None
Red cards
None None
Match Report | Programme
MIDLAND COMBINATION PREMIER DIVISION
SATURDAY 11TH AUGUST 2012
BROMSGROVE SPORTING 3 PELSALL VILLA 0

Sporting opened the season at the Victoria Ground with a win that was more comfortable than the scoreline suggests. With better finishing they could have had six or seven. Nonetheless the Rouslers can be very happy with this display and their first Premier Division points. The quality of their play was particularly pleasing and it is a pity that only 212 paid to watch this fine entertainment. They will surely be back as, no doubt, will the man who watched from the roof of his shed.

Sporting needed only six minutes to take the lead. Danny Deehan ran onto a through ball that caught Pelsall's back four square, and finished well from close range. Two minutes later Jon Rogers was upended in the penalty area only for Stuart Hall to hit a weak penalty that was comfortably saved to the goalkeeper's left. In a fine team display where everyone played well Brookes was quite outstanding.

After this the match, played in muggy heat, entered a lull and became rather scrappy. Towards half time however Sporting picked up the tempo and exploited the squareness of Pelsall's defence with both Brookes and Rogers being played onside only to shoot narrowly wide in one on ones with the goalkeeper. Failing to turn superiority into goals is always a worry and Pelsall threatened as half time approached. Dunet fell over rather comically as he tried to turn and shoot but nearly had the last laugh a minute later as he played Green's pass into the path of Smith whose close range shot was well saved by Chris Mole.

That was however the last we saw of Pelsall as an attacking force. Only a minute into the second period Joe Brookes ran through to score a fine individual goal and that ended the game as a contest. As Sporting dominated, Draper,Blake and Hall all went close before the Rouslers scored a quite superb third goal after 78 minutes. Brookes chipped in a free kick from the right to Jon Rogers who scored with a spectacular volley. It could have been four soon after as a fine passing move opened up Pelsall only for Rogers to hit the post.

A good performance then and three well deserved points. There are surely grounds for cautious optimism even after just two games. We will of course play better teams than Pelsall but if Sporting can maintain this level of performance I really can't see too many teams taking points away from the Victoria Ground.

Sporting. Mole, Martin, Parker, Thurbon (Wilkes 78), Brookes, Roberts, Draper, Blake, Rogers, Hall (Morrison 71), Deehan (Bright 64)

Sub Not Used: Kelly, Jenvey

Pelsall Villa: Hughes, Lawley, Timmins, Simpson, Hunt, Lewis, Smith (Morley 85), Williams (Grove 51), Dunet, Battison, Green

Sub Not Used: Ward, Cooke, Drake

Referee Mr B Morris (Hereford)

Rouslers Man of the Match Joe Brookes