IT WAS top of the table versus the cellar – but ladder rungs counted for zilch as the Nambucca Strikers put it to a classy Woolgoolga Wolves in a men’s third division North Coast Football fixture this afternoon.
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With the shadow of the final weekend of the school holidays ever present, both sides had some key outs – yet the contest delivered in spades for effort and enterprise.
The Wolves were at home and no doubt looking to make whoopie against the young Strikers, but the Nambucca boys had other thoughts.
The first half was an even, end-to-end tryst, and the hosts should have gone to the break one-up instead of two. But an unlikely own goal from a ballooned clearance inexplicably found the strings.
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Despite the deficit, Nambucca were upbeat at the pause, while the competition leaders headed for the sheds to no doubt discuss frittering a number of opportunities in front – so many in fact they must have registered on the War on Waste radar.
On the resumption, some Socceroos decided to join the party, as some kangas – one with child onboard – invaded the pitch.
Eventually the mini mob decided there were less busy places to graze than the Strikers defensive line and exited stage left – whereupon the Wolves bared their fangs and showed why they are favourites for the title – adding three more.
The Strikers had many moments, and some chances, with Isaac Jones dynamic on the right and Riley Hayden regularly troubling the Woolgoolga defence.
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