USW hosted Met at the sport park on Wednesday afternoon for what would be their final home game of the season.
The game got off to a bright start for USW after key influences from Georgia Evans and Megan Webb. Despite this the game didn’t head their way after two yellow cards almost in succession made the game hard to come back for USW.
Despite this, Head Coach Mark Hutton had this to say with his views on the performance. “Yeah I was quite pleased. You know it was an improvement on last week particularly, but recognising the players we had away. You know that was a depleted squad last week got away with 14, but today the effort was their.”
Later on in the game two of his own players got yellow carded and he had this to say on the topic, “Obviously two consecutive yellow cards down to 13 players and that was the turning point you know, unfortunately. We could question that some weren’t the best of decisions but we know still that we just need to get on with the game.”
As not being able to look to the near future as much Coach Hutton spoke about what the whole team could work on towards the future. “Recognising that we are losing a few players, third year students. Things will obviously change, but from today we are fortunate that we had the game film today. So we’ll take a bit of time to look just to look at specifics, rather than working on one thing in previous times, we can look back at all game film and work on much more.”
Then just before I ran out of time with him Coach Hutton gave a few shoutouts to the squad members, “You know, obviously acknowledging that we had Megan Webb and Georgia Evans representing university today and done particularly well, you know, complimented and uplifted the team. But you know to recognise our captain Keely Ward, very inspirational on the field and with our forwards play, always positive and inspirational to others.”
The team will take these words and have some time to rest as they travel to Bath in two weeks.
Sports Insider by Gerren Scapens 