Towners draw with Eaton

Sunday, 26 April 2009 00:00

Exhaustion was clearly visible on the Dunsborough Towners as they succumbed to Bunbury Dynamo 3-1 in the first round of the South West Times knockout cup at the Dunsborough Playing Fields on Monday.
 
 The Towners were forced to appear on Monday having already played a tough 1-1 draw with Eaton at the same venue on Sunday.
 
 To add to the imbalance of the fixturing because of the odd number of clubs in the South West Premier League Dynamo had the luxury of a bye on Sunday leaving them fresh for the cup encounter with Dunsborough.
 
 This was the case for all three Towners teams that played Dynamo on Monday.
 
 However, The Towners can only blame themselves and the Eaton cross bar for not having secured all three points in the league match on Sunday
 
 From the start it was all Dunsborough with Neil Muckles hitting the cross bar first in the tenth minute.
 
 It was Muckles again a little later who provided the Townes with what appeared the perfect start when he slipped through the perfect defence splitting pass that allowed the little whippet, Graeme Copeman, to fins space and give the home town side the lead.
 
 Joy, however, was short lived when Eaton hit back five minutes later to level the scores and send a shiver of concern through the Dunsborough ranks.
 
 Eaton, just back in the Premier League this season, looked a more than useful side with a number of former premier league players having signed on from other clubs in  the off-season.
 
 But it was a frustrating second half that dogged the Towners as they went in search of victory and full points.
 
 On another day they might have strolled to a comfortable win only on this occasion for the cross bar on five occasion and the post on another to deny the expected victory.
 
As one wit said after the game Dunsborough’s players looked like drunks having hit the bar so often.

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