Deloitte 7 aside tournament

Well Done lads - a convincing tournament victory!

Queens' 1 - 0 Claire
Queens' 1 - 0 Deloitte
Queens' 2 - 1 Darwin

Semi's

Queens' 2 - 1 Wolfston

Final

Queens' 2 - 0 Churchill

The first trophy of the season - now lets get the other two!
GOOD WORK!

Hello people....

Just a message to introduce myself as the new Queens' MCR captain. I'm looking forward to the new season and hopefully it will be even more successful that last year! We are always on the lookout for new players, so if you're interested please contact me asap. We especially need a decent Goalkeeper. Bring on the new season.....!

Summer.....

Paul Conduit has taken over as Queens' MCR captain from now so contact him if you are interested in playing for Queens' next year. Training/pre-season friendlies will be starting sometime in September 2007 ready for the league fixtures starting in mid-october.

Details will be posted on this site later......

Queens' MCR 9 Queen's JCR 1

A comprehensive victory over our JCR counterpart which gives us the pride of Queens' College!!
It was a good fun game to end the season with, and we played some very nice passing football throughout. Paul and Adrien dominated in midfield, ably assisted by Matt, Gabriel and Justin. Dan Cook played very well in only his second outpitch appearance of the season and Charlie gave us natural left-footed width, Dieter is a naturally goal keeper and made a few very good saves (though he got lobbed from the edge of the box!). It was nice game to play out in what'll probably be my last Queens' MCR game, and thanks to everyone who played and I'll see you all on thursday night for the formal!

Team: Dietar, Dan Cook, Me, Adrien, Charlie, Gabriel, Justin, Paul, Matt Rooney, Tom, Pete Croft.
Goals: Paul (3), Tom (4), Me, Adrien

Queens' 1 Jesus 4

Another year, another lost to Jesus in the cup :-(
Last year it was the cup final, this time, it was the semi-final...
This was alot closer than the score-line suggests, as we dominated the first half but couldn't convert chances against a very, very good Jesus keeper (Loxam put himself in goal, and he's one of the best keepers in cambridge). They went 1-0 near the end of the first half as a long ball over the top managed to find their dangerous striker in a little bit and space and he managed to beat the keeper from the edge of the box in what was their only chance of the half pretty much.
The second half, we push on hard but didn't get any reward and conceded a weak goal after 10mins and so at 2-0, we had to push on to try and get back in the game... we did this with a nice goal from Pete, but they were playing well on the counterattack keeping two strikers up front and their midfield was working very hard and we just didn't have enough in the tank to compete. Ah well, it wasn't our day this time....
Darwin went on to beat Jesus in the cup final 2-1 after extra time (i reffed the game and the Jesus keeper basically kept them in the game and made a ridiculous number of top class saves..)

Oh yes, and next years captain is Paul Conduit, our all-action midfielder 1st phd guy, so he'll be taking over website duties..... and the Queens' end of season formal in on thursday 17th May so I'll be putting photos up after then!

Team: Simon, Dan Bolland, Andy Hawkins, Adrien, Andy Bailey, Gabriel, Paul, Herve, Alan, Tom, Pete, Yue, Tom
Goal: Pete Croft

Queens' 3 Wolfson 3

This was a hastly arranged friendly game before the big cup semi so we get some match practice before the big game after a month without football, and judging by this, I reckon we need some fitness training!We only had 9 men for the game due to two of our players going down with illness on the day of the game, and wolfson kindly gave us one of their players so we played with 10 against 11. We played some great football in the first half with paul and gabriel dictating midfield and pete and tom making lots of runs and causing their defence lots of problems. and I think we won the first half 3-0. Unfortunately, in the second half, we messed up and got tired and could get the ball out of our half for very long. We were over-playing the ball and the strikers were starved of service, and they started pressurising our mistakes and putting goals past us. In the end, it finished 3-3 but we could have easily lost it, but thankfully, our unbeaten streak continues to record 12 games (at least i think its a record!)
Team: Simon, Chris, Me, Alan Phillips, Ricardo (borrowed from wolfson), Gabriel, Paul, Yue, Pete Croft, Tom
Goals: Tom 2, Pete

Queens' 4 Zoology 0

This game was the final group game of the tournament, where we needed a draw to go into the champions cup competition and a defeat would send us into the lower cup competition for the first time in 3 years.Queens' pitches were waterlogged (which i found out on saturday morning) so the game was hastly rearranged for coldhams common instead, which meant that the pitch was shocking and we had to put our own nets up, not a good start! plus the ref refused to go out to coldhams for the game so we had no ref :-(We were lacking quite a few regular players, so we had drafted in a number of players mates to make up the numbers so we started edgely as we didn't know each other, first half we shot into the wind and didn't create much and we weren't playing our normal cultured game, only Gabriel, Stefan and AndyB were playing well in midfield and keeping the zoology midfielders at bay, and Santiago was stopping all the long-shots and through balls from in goal.Second half was completely different, with the wind, we were able to dominant in defence and look to play intelligent balls forward though it took us a while to score, and when it did go it, it was a stefan corner than went "wind-assisted" into the net. From then on, we had the game in the bag, zoology couldn't get out of their own half and we went on to score more goals through tom, gabriel and stefan again.
Team: Santiago, David, Andy, Alex, Dan Cook, AndyB, Stefan, Gabriel, Dave, Graham, Yue, Tom
Goals: Stefan (2), Tom, Gabriel

Queens' 5 Catz/Sidney 0

I was away for this one, so here's Herve's match report:

Game was fine, we played well, in my opinion one of our best football this season, our goalkeeper was excellent and helped us a lot to keep a clean sheet. Adrien did a very good job at organizing the defense inyour absence.We played very well in the first half even though we had two new players (Alex from Queen's and my friend Plamen, who both did a very good job). We scored quite early in the game (our forwards were on top form) which was great because Catz came with a good team and could have been dangerous if we had let them get some confidence (their team was much better than the one we had played at the beginning of the league season, and also better than the team they played vs Zoology with). It was 4-0 at half time and second half was less easy, everyone was a bit knackered after a very good collective hard work and some good football despite the poor quality of the pitch. I can't remember who scored all the goals (Tom, Gabriel for sure but you have to check), I scored one goal on a great cross from Gabriel late in the second half.
Team: Santiago, Alex, Matt, Adrien, Plamen, Dan Bolland, Herve, Paul, AndyB, Tom, Gabriel
Goals: Tom (3), Gabriel, Herve

Queens' 2 St. Johns' 2

Tough game against a strong St Johns team which were promoted from div2 this season and had beaten catz and corpus in their first 2 group games. They have 2 pacy strikers and a battling midfield and as well have a couple of quick, tall and dominant centre-backs.

We started the game badly, not retaining possession well enough as Johns harassed us in midfield and we had to fight uphill. They scored a goal (which i thought was miles offside) and could have had a couple more and we were mainly playing on the counter-attack with tom and gabs having a few half-chances so we went 1-0 down at the break.

In the second half, we played much better football, keeping the ball well and stopping John's playing almost completely and had lots of chances before Gareth converted a gabriel cross to equalise, and then a few minutes later, Gabriel put us into the lead. However, Johns hit a goal on the break after we'd pushed up too far and tried to play the offside trap (not a good idea without linesmen in hindsight). Soon after this Dan got taken out by their striker and was concussed for a minute, though he badly stood in goal for the final couple of minutes of the game before going off in an ambulance to stay overnight in the hospital. He's OK now though thankfully, and just as mentally able as he ever was ;-)

Team: Dan Cook, Dan Bolland, Andy, Adrien, Matt Miller, Gareth, Herve, Matt Wells, Stefan, Tom, Gabriel
Goals: Gareth, Gabriel

Queens' 10 Corpus 1

Good start to the Cup campaign with this very one-sided game but it was a good opportunity for everyone to get a game of football under their belt after almost 2 months without football!
Team: Dan, AndyB, AndyH, Adrien, Matt, Yue, Paul, Herve, Stefan, Tom, Gabriel, Gareth
Goals: Tom (3), Gabriel (2), Stefan (2), Paul, Herve, Yue