Hamworthy Rec Res welcomed Swanage Town & Herston to the Meyson Properties Stadium, after a run of poor results and a depleted squad, Charlie demanded a performance from the lads that they showed for the first 60 mins in the Cobham game, with only 12 players able to play the result didn’t reflect the performance the lads put in.

The game got underway and both sides took a while to settle in, Rec trying to play and maintain possession, Swanage looked to go more direct and work off the knock downs off Will Prior. Swanage initially looked to have the upper hand with Toby Butt being the busier of the GKs but Rec grew into the half capitalising on Swanage playing a high line and leaving spaces in the wide areas, Jake Motton and Curtis Lane had large amounts of joy playing down the wings, Rec just failed to capitalise on the balls being delivered into the box. The first half ended with neither side really troubling either GK.

HT 0-0

The second half started with Rec looking to exploit the wide areas and it didn’t take long for them to capitalise, in the 50th min Ollie Gomm and Curtis Lane linked up on the right wing, Ollie mad an overlapping run which squared the full back up, this allowed Curtis to drive into the penalty area, Harrison Whitelaw mad a diagonal run across the defender towards the front post, Curtis played Harrison in and he placed it around the GK at his near post, 1-0. This gave the Rec side a lift as they hadn’t scored in 5 games and like buses on the 56th min a second came along, the same 3 players involved, this time Ollie cut in from the right, Curits making the overlapping run and again Harrison cutting across the defenders, Curits again rolling the ball into Harrisons path who this time placed his shot to the far post and doubling the home sides lead, 2-0.

The visitors made some changes and looked to go more direct and this started to pay off for them, they spend a great deal of time in or around the Rec penalty area but the defence stood strong, Toby making some great saves and clearances to keep the home sides 1st clean sheet. Swanage went for bust and played high in an attempt to camp the home side in their own half, but Rec kept players high and looked to play on the counter and catch Swanage out but the visitors managed to keep the score down to two.

There was a long stoppage in the second half due to a head injury, as the clock looked to be ticking down Rec sat back and Swanage took advantage in the 94th min snatching a goal back through Curtis Young at what appeared to be the end of the game, 2-1. This made for a frantic finish as no one knew when the ref was going to blow his whistle, what felt like a lifetime the ref eventually blew for full time and Ham Rec Res broke the poor run of results and goal draught to record their first victory in 5 games.

FT 2-1