Balmain Wanderers

Well, after a long season, punctuated by injuries to both grades and some up and down performances, we are finally down to some finals football. Unfortunately the Firsts bowed out of all competitions over the weekend coming to grief against the Leichhardt Tigers for a second week in the row.

The Reserves however are in all competitions still, all 3 of them. After accounting for a mostly absent Fenix side on Saturday in the strange Divisional knock out cup, they got up for a stirring win over Bondi FC on Sunday.

A tense first half highlighted by some outstanding defense, was followed by a flurry of activity in the second. Two top shelf strikes from Callum put us up 2-0 before Bondi came roaring back. Bondi came home with a wet sail after their bugalugs centre midfielder roofed a ball from the 6 yard box and they pressed hard for the final 30 mins. Despite trying their same trick from last season by trying to bowl the keeper over into the net they were not able to equalise.

So this sets up two consecutive weeks of finals against the Golden Stars. All games now are at Lambert Park which will makes things interesting with the running game of the boys from Ghana!

Also dont forget for those interested there is the end of season trip to the Gold Coast ( contact Phil for more details ), the SAFL shindig at the Bald Faced Stag on Oct 10 and the inaugural Mark Kenny’s Ball ( details to follow ).