Recently the Netherlee Football team had a match against their local rivals Carolside Primary School. The result was an eight five win to Netherlee. The match was split up into three thirds of twenty minutes, the first third Netherlee had a good start and went 3-0 ahead.

Unfortunately the second third didn’t go quite as well as we would have wanted it to. Carolside scored three goals in quick succession. Luckily for us we nicked a goal in before the end of the second third to give us a four three lead.

At this point we knew we needed to get back on top of our game which we did by scoring two more goals to make it six three. We were then unlucky and conceded another goal to make it six four. It then went to seven five then eight five.

Unexpectedly Glasgow McKenzie had to go in goals for us as our original goalkeeper, Lewis Gough, injured his hand and was unable to carry on. The goal scorers were Johnny Greenwood who scored a hat-trick, Ben Thomson scored two and Michael Foley, Christopher Jack and Alex Addie all scored one.

It was another strong performance and we look forward to our next game.

Report by Michael Foley & Thomas Pavri

Congratulations to the P7 school football team for doing really well in their two football games against Merrylee Primary School. Both of our football teams went out and played good games against both Merrylee teams. Both of our teams played fair and well. Each team won against Merrylee blues and narrowly lost against Merrylee oranges.

Report by Alex Addie & Craig Kyle

It has only been two days since the Netherlee football team came back from Woodfarm High School with two fantastic, well fought, results against St Marks PS and Giffnock PS.

NETHERLEE                          1-1      ST MARKS                                                            (Glasgow Mckenzie 13′)               (St Marks #7 5′)

In the first game, we came off the pitch with a well-earned 1-1 draw. If we had taken our chances we could have won the game by at least two goals but we wasted a handful of chances. We were shaky at the start conceding after just 5 minutes. Joe McNulty made a good save in the goal but the rebound fell to the St Marks no 7 for him to comfortably slot home from close range. After that we got into our stride and started making chances. The first chance was a throw in from Glasgow from the left  in which Ben Thompson’s header was tipped out for a corner. The resulting corner was played short to Glasgow whose curling effort was deflected wide. The best chance of the game though fell to Johnny who was through but was unlucky in trying to lob the keeper on his weak foot. Our pressure finally told though when another short corner played to Glasgow this time by Scott Nicol struck a sweet half volley into the top corner two minutes from time. Then the final whistle went and we were proud of our character to get back into the game.

NETHERLEE                      4-0                 GIFFNOCK

Ben Thomson 5’                                                                                                     Johnny Greenwood 7′                                                                                    Matthew Norrie 10’                                                                                                 Craig Kyle 12’

In the second game, we beat Giffnock Primary 4-0 after a dominant performance by Netherlee. We took our chances in this match and everyone played fantastic. We started from the off  when Ben Thompson played a good pass to Johnny Greenwood who played a cheeky pass back to ben who put the ball through the goalkeepers legs. 2 minutes later Scott Nicol played a brilliant pass to Ben Thompson who slid a lovely ball in to Johnny Greenwood who smashed it into the back of the net. A few moments later, Scott Nicol put an incredible ball in to Matthew Norrie at the back post who chested it and hammered a sweetly hit ball into the bottom corner. We found another goal when Scott Nicol put a ball towards goal but then pushed out by their goalkeeper to Craig Kyle who scored Netherlees 4^th of the afternoon. Netherlee were very proud with their performance.

Pre-season friendly

Match date – 23-2-16

NETHERLEE 7-11 ST JOSEPH’S

This was a thrilling match with lots of goals that kept you on the edge of your seat. The end result was 7-11 to St Joseph’s. St Joseph’s took the lead very early in the game and that made it hard for Netherlee to come back. After half time it became very close as St Joseph’s had a one goal difference but towards the end St Joseph’s pulled further ahead. Everyone in the Netherlee team put in a good effort but in the end St Joseph’s showed their skills to keep the lead.

NETHERLEE squad

Alex Addie

Craig Kyle

Ben Thomson

Drew Makeham

Louis Drummond

Michael Foley

Jonny Greenwood

Joey Malcom

Glasgow McKenzie

Matthew Norrie

Thomas Pavri

Scott Selbie

Lewis Gough

Scott Nicol

Christopher Jack

Joe McNulty

On Tuesday the 23^rd of February Netherlee’s girl’s football team had a match against St Joseph’s girl’s football team. Mr Lawson offered us (the girls team) a chance to play them, so of course we accepted. The atmosphere was intense yet exciting and I think it was the same for the St Joseph’s team. The match was fair and clean and St Joseph’s were gracious in their loss. By winning 6 goals to their 5 we feel that we are capable of playing another match.

We are hoping to get another match soon.