b'THE ELLESMERIAN 126Football1st & 2nd XISummary of resultsConcord College -Draw 3-3Birkenhead College -Lost 2-4Denstone College -Won 3-2Wolverhampton GS -Lost 1-6Denstone Collgege -Draw 4-4One win, two losses, and two draws does not make for the bestscoring two goals, Ellesmere showed their lack of experience and results ledger. However, this squad of approximately twenty playersconceded 4 goals in this game. The importance of playing as a team were better than the results indicated. Winning is not everything; itsand showing tactical nous can lead to teams playing above their about having an enjoyable football journey and where it starts anddevelopmental stage. Unfortunately, however, although this team where it finishes and the learning that takes place along the way. Ashowed plenty of good team work and tactical competency, it was couple of the sides played against were not 2XI sides but were theirnot evident in this particular game at times. However, there was most senior sides so it is important to retain some perspective whenenough evidence that the defense of Archie-George Coe in goals, analysing the ledger of the season. Toby Walker (Captain), Oskar Sevcik, Orson ORorke, Sean Lai, Julius Ruf, and Phillipp Preusse showed enough to see that matters Organisation was the key to the early success of the season.would improve going forward with more experience of playing Establishing roles and working to an agreed system was a priority iftogether. The team that played against Birkenhead was pretty well the team on the pitch was to unlock the talent that existed in thea third eleven side and although it was eventually quite a loss it did squad. Thus an away good start against Concord with a 3-3 drawdemonstrate there was much depth to senior football at the school provided a much need foundation upon which to build for the restwith a number of players playing, including: Tamin Haji Rahman, Adam of the season. A team consisting of senior players including MajorKarlakki, Freddie Brumpton, Cameron Davies, William Key, Jonty Evans, Sen Muya, Toby Walker, and Sacha Connesson provided aLewers, Joshua Mellitzer, Shinil Balakrishnan and Dafydd Craven-Jones. good basis upon which to introduce less inexperienced players.The annual challenge of playing a Denstone side soon refocused the Unfortunately, the initial momentum of the first positive gameminds of the players. The introduction of the experience and robust against Concorde was lost against a useful Birkenhead side. Althoughsports players Alex Phillipps, Tom Boggemann, and Reuban Gallagher'