b'THE ELLESMERIAN127Football2nd XI Summary of ResultsThe status quo was resumed against Concord College, who were a Oldham Hulme - Draw11good side and where a draw was a fair result. This was followed by a Wolverhampton Grammar School - Lost01close win against Wrekin College. Liverpool College - Won32 Concord College - Draw22The value of being organised and keeping to the game plan paid Wrekin College - Won10dividends for this team against some good sides. As the season progressed the team began to trust each other more and, as a result, It is never easy to gain momentum in the first fixture of the seasonthe team played some great football at times. against a quality side. However, a draw against Oldham Grammar School got the season under way, particularly as the refereeThere is no doubt that this team had some really good players and commented that he had never referred a game where a side had hadthe overall positive results ledger did reflect the footballing ability of so much possession but not won the game. Ellesmere must have hadthis team. Playing against other schools senior teams and trying to 80% of the possession in both halves. Oldham scored against the runplay positive football enabled this team to develop for the better. of play, with Ellesmere becoming complacent. Players doing theirWilliam Brookshaw was an excellent goalkeeper. Ioan Craven-Jones, own thing meant the team lost shape and allowed the opposition toFindlay Reddington, and Ben Zakers were excellent at the back, exploit this lack of cohesion. Plenty of chances were missed a both insometimes keeping us in games longer than we deserved at times. the first and second halves until Ioan Craven-Jones, playing at centreThese players particularly improved, enabling the team to have a back back, came up for a corner and scrambled the ball into the net.four that was not easy to penetrate.Victory should have been achieved against Wolverhampton butIn the more difficult games, the transition from defence to attack and somehow, we managed to lose a game where, again, we played mostvice-versa proved to be difficult to execute. However, when the boys of the football but found it difficult to score. However, the victorydid get it right it was very good, with players providing valuable against Liverpool was excellent and everything fell into placegoodservice from out wide and through the midfield. organisation, patient possession, positive attitude, and confident in front of goal. Although Liverpool managed to get back into the gameGOin the second half, Ellesmere very much deserved their victory.'