Ominous Signs?
We're starting to struggle a bit.
Ominous Signs?
You know what? I’m actually not sure we’ll win the league this season.
The beginning of my worries came with our match against Utulei. We won, yes, but only by the slimmest of margins — an embarrassing 1-0 triumph against the worst team in the league. Our young centerback Hengihengi Pouli scored our only goal, which is the part that stings the most.
Even our fan support waned. We only attracted 276 customers to that stinker of a match. We usually have right around 500.
The Big One
That’s when we faced Lion Heart.
Lion Heart have established themselves as our only real competition this season. They came into this match in second place, with 27 points to our 29 and with a game in hand.
And, oh man, did they ever beat us.
We lost the match 5-2, and weren’t in it at all. After Jermaine Sione scored in the 40th minute for them, Toa Maile came back with an equalizer. Sione scored again in the 64th minute, but Rock Kaleopa game back a few minutes later to tie it up again.
And then we just fell apart defensively. Sione got his hat trick, Junior Teoni added two more, and it was a disaster.
It All Falls Down
We followed that up with two poor matches: a 2-2 draw with Royal Puma and a 0-0 draw with Green Bay.
We managed a 5-2 win against the Tafuna Jets to make it somewhat interesting, but I really don’t think we have a chance at doing anything better than second place this season.
I’ve got no idea what happened to the magic we had the first year.