Thrapston felled the Kingswood at Islip in a rather one-sided affair. Cameron Glynn got the team off to a flying start with his first of the season with a sweet left foot drive in the opening minutes and was to remain pivotal throughout the match in creating much of the Thrapston attacking play. The rest of the 4 goals scored in the first half became the Alex show - Alex Palmer crashed in a brace before half time; Alex Rutter netted one and Alex Barlow scored but then he always does against Kingswood.
On the stroke of half time Kingswood scored their consolation goal a 40-yard effort that fell out of the sun and just dipped under the crossbar – genius or luck?
Half time saw Thrapston make positional changes to stretch legs and in truth the performance became more disjointed. Alex Rutter completed his brace early in the half and then the Thrapston goal machine stalled until quite late when 3 players broke their duck for the season. Sam Peck popped one in, Charlie Whight worked the percentages and his umpteenth effort finally found the net and William Morrison who had earlier been denied with a thumping header notched with a 10 yard screamer.
Games against seriously inferior opposition are infrequent and hard; you have to remain disciplined and find the drive to keep doing the good things, the simple things. Enjoy today because we will not have this much comfort again this season but keep trying to play the football we so much desire.
