Updated: 18 Apr 2003

CHERRYBROOK BULLDOGS HISTORY

CHERRYBROOK BULLDOGS LEAGUE SEASON 8

Season 8 started in March 1995 with Nick Brill beating Alex Sutcliffe 4-1. His first goal was after only 27 seconds. Steve Wilson scored an early goal in his match against Anthony Spencer. Steve’s second goal broke Anthony’s ‘keeper, and the third rebounded off the crossbar onto the back of the goalie into the goal. Anthony was 3-1 down early in the second half, but with a late surge he scored two to get a 3-3 draw.

Champion elect, Nick Brill started his second half of the season early and extended his unbeaten run to seven matches when he beat Alex Sutcliffe 3-0. Adrian Grunbach was lucky to get away with a win when he scored in the last two minutes against Alex, the final score was 1-0. Anthony Spencer moved up into third when he beat Adrian 3-1. Richard Wilson moved to within five points of Nick when he beat Stephen 1-0 in a close match. Richard was leading Matthew 6-0 at half time and went on to win 8-1. Stephen then beat Matthew 4-0.

Adrian came close to drawing with Matthew, with the score locked at 1-1, Adrian scored a winner with one minute left on the clock. The upset of the round happened when Nick was 1-0 up against Stephen, but went down 1-4 after a second half scoring spree from Steve. This was Nick’s first loss for the whole season!

Adrian scored a late goal to draw 2-2 with Richard, who was disappointed at missing the chance to go ahead of Nick.

After the 1-4 loss to Steve, things started to go wrong for Nick. He scored late in the game to draw 1-1 with Anthony, then was beaten 1-3 by Adrian. Stephen drew 1-1 with Anthony, then 0-0 with Adrian. Nick beat Matthew 5-1 in a match that was locked at 1-1 at half time.

Alex played four matches in one day and had some good results. He beat Matthew 2-0 , then went on to beat Adrian 1-0. A goal in the first 20 seconds was enough to win the match against Adrian’s Toccer figures. Alex played well in the first half against Richard, but eventually lost 0-6, letting in 3 goals in the last 5 mins. Alex had another good performance, losing 2-3 to Steve.

The most important match of the season was between Nick and Richard. After letting his significant lead slip, Nick needed to beat Richard to win the league. Richard scored first, Nick equalised soon after, and Richard took the lead again just before half time. In the second half, Richard packed his defence well and won the match 2-1. The Championship was won by Richard for the fifth time in eight seasons.

Nick had lead from the start and looked to be a certain championship winner with a seven match unbeaten run, but it all fell apart in the last few games. The last week of league matches saw Adrian draw 1-1 with Anthony, who had four games left to play.

Anthony beat Matthew 6-0, two of them were own-goals from Matthew. Alex lead 2-1 at half time against Anthony, but the score was level early in the second half. Anthony went on to win 3-2 with a late goal.

The last match of Season 8 was between the Champion, Richard, and Anthony. Richard was looking for a win to end his season, and Anthony wanted at least a point to move up and finish third. Anthony led 1-0 at half time, but the final score was a 2-2 draw.

League Table

Pl

W

D

L

F

A

Gd

Pts

1

R.Wilson

12

8

3

1

36

11

25

27

2

N.Brill

12

8

1

3

31

17

14

25

3

A.Spencer

12

5

5

2

30

16

14

20

4

S.Wilson

12

5

5

2

31

18

13

20

5

A.Grunbach

12

4

4

4

14

16

-2

16

6

A.Sutcliffe

12

3

0

9

11

28

-17

9

7

M.Lee

12

0

0

12

4

51

-47

0

League Results

A.Sutcliffe

1

N.Brill

4

N.Brill

3

A.Sutcliffe

0

A.Grunbach

1

M.Lee

0

M.Lee

1

A.Grunbach

2

R.Wilson

1

S.Wilson

1

S.Wilson

0

R.Wilson

1

M.Lee

0

A.Sutcliffe

2

A.Sutcliffe

2

M.Lee

0

N.Brill

5

S.Wilson

4

S.Wilson

4

N.Brill

1

R.Wilson

4

A.Spencer

1

A.Spencer

2

R.Wilson

2

S.Wilson

3

A.Sutcliffe

1

A.Sutcliffe

2

S.Wilson

3

A.Spencer

0

N.Brill

1

N.Brill

1

A.Spencer

1

A.Grunbach

0

R.Wilson

1

R.Wilson

2

A.Grunbach

2

S.Wilson

3

A.Spencer

3

A.Spencer

1

S.Wilson

1

R.Wilson

6

M.Lee

1

M.Lee

1

R.Wilson

8

N.Brill

3

A.Grunbach

0

A.Grunbach

3

N.Brill

1

A.Sutcliffe

0

A.Spencer

3

A.Spencer

3

A.Sutcliffe

2

A.Grunbach

3

S.Wilson

3

S.Wilson

0

A.Grunbach

0

M.Lee

0

N.Brill

4

N.Brill

5

M.Lee

1

R.Wilson

2

A.Sutcliffe

0

A.Sutcliffe

0

R.Wilson

6

A.Spencer

3

A.Grunbach

1

A.Grunbach

1

A.Spencer

1

S.Wilson

5

M.Lee

0

M.Lee

0

S.Wilson

4

A.Grunbach

1

A.Sutcliffe

0

A.Sutcliffe

1

A.Grunbach

0

N.Brill

2

R.Wilson

1

R.Wilson

2

N.Brill

1

A.Spencer

6

M.Lee

0

M.Lee

0

A.Spencer

6


BULLDOGS LEAGUE CUP SEASON 8

The format of the League Cup was the same as last season. There were two leg matches played in the First Round and the Semi-Finals, with straight elimination determined by the combined score.

Richard beat Alex in both legs, the aggregate score was 5-1. Adrian won easily with a surprising 7-1 aggregate win against Stephen. Anthony beat Matthew 5-0 in their first encounter. Nick got a bye into the next round as he was the Cup holder.

Richard Wilson made it to the Final of the League Cup with a 3-2 aggregate win over the holder, Nick Brill.

Adrian Grunbach got a handy 3-0 lead in his first semi-final match against Anthony Spencer. He then won the second match 4-0 to proceed to the final with a 7-0 aggregate victory.

The Third Place Play-Off was an "emotional" encounter between Nick Brill and Anthony Spencer as both players were intending to retire from table soccer. Nick won the match 5-3.

The Final was between League Champion, Richard Wilson, and Adrian Grunbach. Richard took the lead after only three minutes when a hopeful angled shot rolled under Adrian’s goalkeeper. Richard made it 2-0 with three minutes left on the clock before half time. In the second half, both players had a few chances, but there were no goals.

The final score was 2-0 to Richard, who had won his fourth League Cup title.

League Cup Results

Quarter-Finals (Double Leg Matches)

R.Wilson

2

A.Sutcliffe

1

R.Wilson

3

A.Sutcliffe

0

(R.Wilson wins 5-1)

A.Spencer

5

M.Lee

0

A.Spencer

BYE

M.Lee

-

(A.Spencer wins 5-0)

A.Grunbach

2

S.Wilson

1

A.Grunbach

5

S.Wilson

0

(A.Grunbach wins 7-1)

N.Brill

BYE

(Cup Holder)


Semi-Finals
(Double Leg Matches)

R.Wilson

1

N.Brill

1

R.Wilson

2

N.Brill

1

(R.Wilson wins 3-2)

A.Grunbach

3

A.Spencer

0

A.Grunbach

4

A.Spencer

0

(A.Gunbach wins 7-0)


3rd Place Play-Off

N.Brill

5

A.Spencer

3


Final

R.Wilson

2

A.Grunbach

0


CHERRYBROOK ORAL-B OPEN 7

The Open was bigger than expected as some of the younger players came to challenge the senior league members. The thirteen competitors were divided into three groups of three and one of four. The schedule was tight, but the major matches were all played in one day.

In Group 1, Matthew Lee faced three newcomers. He drew with Gregg Mansell 1-1, and finished top. Gregg was second after beating Emile Raffoul 3-0 and drawing 1-1 with his brother Neil.

Group 2 saw Adrian Grunbach against Terry and Damien Jordan. The brothers had a goalless draw, so whoever had the best goal difference against Adrian would qualify. Adrian beat Damien 3-0 and terry 5-0, allowing Damien to proceed to the quarter-finals.

Group 3 was a competition between Nick Brill and Steve Wilson for top spot. Nick beat Steve 1-0. the youngest of the Jordan brothers, Anthony, played well, losing 2-0 to Steve and 5-0 to Nick. These were his first games ever!

In group 4, Anthony Spencer thrashed Ray Raffoul 9-1, then beat Richard Wilson 2-1. Richard beat Ray 3-1 to qualify in second place.

The quarter-finals produced some high results. Steve beat Damien 4-0, Richard beat Matthew 6-0, Adrian beat Anthony 2-1 and Nick beat Gregg 7-0.

In the semi-finals, Nick extended his high scoring run with an amazing 5-0 demolition of Steve. Richard also won by a large margin, beating Adrian 4-1.

Steve won the third place play-off 2-1 against Adrian.

It was the second time ever that Richard and Nick faced each other in an Oral-B final, Richard won that 1-0. After a goalless first half, Nick piled on the pressure, having two early corners and scoring in the second minute. He scored again a minute later to go 2-0 up. In the last six minutes, Richard came back into the game with four decent shots at goal. He scored with five minutes and forty seconds left on the clock.

Nick Brill added his first Oral-B win to his list of three League Cups, winning the final 2-1.

Open Results

Group A

Group B

M.Lee

2

N.Mansell

0

D.Jordan

0

T.Jordan

0

G.Mansell

3

E.Raffoul

0

A.Grunbach

3

D.Jordan

0

M.Lee

1

G.Mansell

1

A.Grunbach

5

T.Jordan

0

E.Raffoul

1

N.Mansell

0

M.Lee

2

E.Raffoul

0

G.Mansell

1

N.Mansell

1

Group C

Group D

N.Brill

1

S.Wilson

0

R.Wilson

3

R.Raffoul

0

S.Wilson

2

A.Jordan

0

A.Spencer

9

R.Raffoul

1

N.Brill

5

A.Jordan

0

A.Spencer

2

R.Wilson

1

(All Group matches 10 minute halves)


9th Place Play-Off

T.Jordan

0

A.Jordan

0

(aet, 3-1 pen.)


Quarter-Finals

S.Wilson

4

D.Jordan

0

R.Wilson

6

M.Lee

0

A.Grunbach

2

A.Spencer

1

N.Brill

7

G.Mansell

0


Loser's Semi-Final

M.Lee

1

G.Mansell

0

D.Jordan

BYE

A.Spencer

-


Semi-Finals

N.Brill

5

S.Wilson

0

R.Wilson

4

A.Grunbach

1


3rd Place Play-Off

S.Wilson

2

A.Grunbach

1


Final

N.Brill

2

R.Wilson

1

 

 

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