Rothbury 5 Whitley Bay SC 0
Team Valley Carpets Amateur Cup
Reds striker Michael Old staked a claim on the match ball
with a hat-trick as Rothbury went into the quarter-finals of the Team Valley
Carpets Amateur Cup following a convincing win over Whitley Bay Sporting.
But, unlike the professional game, he didn’t get to keep it
as a trophy as the side need it for their next match!
“The last time I scored a hat-trick was the beginning of
last season,” said Old, before modestly stating that his goals were relatively
straight forward and joking that: “I was disappointed I didn’t get the
opportunity to take the match ball back to the Newcy House.”
Old, however, was impressed with the performance of the team
and delighted that the Reds had progressed in the competition.
“Everyone worked hard to book a place into the next round.
There was no evidence of any hangover from the week before playing against a
strong Whitley Bay side that moved the ball well but ultimately struggled to
break us down,” he said.
Brothers Ben and Sam Proudlock and Tom Macpherson were all
in Rothbury’s starting line-up for the game and may have played themselves into
the record books as it is not believed that three brothers have all turned out
for the Reds at the same time in the club’s long history.
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| Sam Proudlock in action. Pic by Ian Glendinning. |
“We all started against Cramlington together a few weeks
back and that’s the first competitive match we all started for Rothbury,” said
Ben.
“We all know each other’s ability from watching and playing
with one another when we were younger, and the competitive and winning
mentality will always be in us on the pitch.”
He was also full of praise for the graft that the Reds had
put in during the tie and said: “The performance on a whole was good, everyone
worked hard and the goals soon started to go in after the second goal and that
killed the game - we controlled it from start to finish”
“We have had a tremendous start to the season and I think
many people and teams wrote us off before the first ball got kicked. We have a
strong squad and we all believe we can go far in the League and Cups this
season, which is a good mentality to have.”
Joint-player boss Dan Herron felt that the performance was
one of the best that the side have produced so far this season and that having
the three brothers playing together was ‘class for the Reds.’
“To be honest, Whitley Bay were one of – if not the best -
side we’ve played so far technically, maybe just weren’t physical enough.”
“We played some good one twos with good hold up play from
Thompa (Dan Thompson) and Mic (Michael Old), Minnow (James Jackson) and Tony (Tony
Brown) were quality in midfield and drove us forward really well. All in all,
it was a solid performance against a very strong side.”
The powerful Thompson continued his rich vein of form with
another goal – his ninth of the season – and the silky-skilled ball-player Brown
also found the back of the net in the victory with Jackson taking the man-of-the-match
award for his superb display.
MATCH SPONSOR: THE VALE CAFÉ.
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