We start with the reserves who played Great Yarmouth on Wednesday night and it was an entertaining 4-4 draw with Great Yarmouth taking the lead on 3 occasions, our goals came from Austin two, a Brill penalty and a spectacular lob from Goddard from the edge of the box. The firsts welcomed Gorleston to the meadow with match sponsors Ian Hubbard and Mark Sano in attendance from Ian Hubbard Electrical and Safe & Sound Pest Control. I think you had a better chance of picking the winner of the Grand National than predicting the match that followed. After 14 minutes young Theo Branard marked his full debut with a good goal and Gorleston responded with Finch bringing a save from McAnally. A good move from Walsham was finished with aplomb from the edge of the area by Foster and just before half time Tatham harried the Gorleston defence and Wood slotted home. A shell shocked Gorleston came out for the second half and immediately put us under strong pressure and after some good chances Sandford shot home to put Gorleston back into the match. We weathered the pressure and a ball from Sim found Wood who finished superbly with Gorleston appealing for offside. Phoenix and Rust made their debuts for the home side and made some good inroads into the Gorleston defence before veteran substitute Taylor came on and set up Wood for the fifth goal and his hat trick. This was an excellent home performance which will not have done Gorlestons title hopes any good with impressive debuts from Barnard, Phoenix and Rust. The reserves came back from Lowestoft with a 2-1 victory and a man of the match performance from goalkeeper Bryant and goals from Austin and Connor Davies. Over the road the “A” team entertained Halesworth and Phoenix opened the scoring before a Tuson bullet header put us 2-0 up, Halesworth pulled a goal back before Phoenix restored our two goal cushion and a late goal made the score 3-2. All three teams struggled with numbers this week and it was a juggling act to fulfil the three fixtures and everyone should take great credit from the results. On Thursday night the reserves play their first cup final, the Suffolk Senior Reserves Cup sponsored by Days Sports at Stowmarket FC against Whitton with a 7.30 kick off, we hope to see lots of supporters there. We finish in wishing out two players Connor Davey and Harvey Rust who ended up in West Suffolk hospital a speedy recovery from their injuries.