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THE HARBOUR VIEW
FOOTBALL CLUB
celebrates it's
30th Anniversary (March 4th,1974)
all season long 2003- 2004.
Since the days when
the eager citizens of Harbour View grouped together
at the Harbour View Primary School halls to meet
and greet each other all around The love of football
mostly then at the Minor League Under 16 years
level before taking the conscious decision to enter
the Major League in September 1974 after electing
officers in the newly formed Harbour View Football Club
previously named after the community only – Harbour View.
INVADERS GAIN A DRAW AWAY TO HARBOUR VIEW
In an unattractive display of
inconsistent football Harbour View again produced a below par
first half performance against the maturing Invaders of
Trelawny at the Compound this afternoon.
The result means that Harbour
View has only scored one victory in their last six games when
they played to a 4-2 win over Rivoli United. A record that
reads as follows:
- 0-1 versus Reno
- 0-0 versus Star Cosmos
- 4-2 versus Rivoli
- 1-2 versus Waterhouse
- 2-2 versus Constant Spring
- 1-1 versus Invaders
The results reflect a current
slump in form that has garnered only 6 points from the
possible 18 points, 8 goals for and 8 goals against, twice we
have not scored, twice we have scored only once, twice we have
scored more than two goals, once have we not conceded a goal,
twice we have conceded one goal,three times we have conceded
two goals , Robert Scarlett has scored once,Lovell Palmer and
Jermaine Hue has scored twice and Fabian Taylor has scored
three times.
A first half that created very
little excitement was punctuated by a 36th minute tap home on
the line by an unchallenged Livingston Williams who benefited
from a free header at the back post resulting from an indirect
free-kick. The half ended Invaders 1-0.
A totally different Harbour
View came out in the second half with a sense of urgency that
signalled they came to play as Invaders packed their defence
with six players and looked for the occasional counter-attack
through ace forward Thomas Grant who gave the defenders a
torrid time all afternoon with his blistering pace and shots
on the run.
Coordination was smooth in
midfield and flowing upfront, it peaked with the introduction
of Conrad Hunt, Nicholas McCreath’s return and Kemar Petrekin
was added culminating in a passing combination of Jermaine Hue
finding McCreath whose shot goalward was blocked at the far
post by custodian Richard McCallum for Fabian Taylor once
again to follow through and score his ninth of the season.
The disappointed group of
supporters filed out of the gates as they pondered the next
game performance on the weekend against league leaders
Waterhouse.
HARBOUR VIEW AND CONSTANT SPRING PLAY OUT A 2-2 STALEMATE!!
On a damp and bumpy surface two
ball -playing teams struggled to perform anywhere near their
true potential game levels as combative midfield play
dominated a gripping contest that produced four well taken
goals.
The first ten minutes of the
game belonged to the more assertive Constant Spring team that
threw at least seven players into an attacking foray chanelled
down the right flank in an obvious ploy to keep Robert
Scarlett’s focus on defence and possibly force the youthful
team into errors. The game plan worked but the final execution
was poorly lacking on no fewer than four occasions early on as
“The View” seemed resting on the blitz of the last round and
as ardent fan Ossie “D’ remarked “ the Harbour View team is on
it’s way from Half Way Tree to the game and hopefully would
turn up for the second half” his lifelong friend and regular
return visitor to Jamaica Cornel “Biggs” Delisser chuckled a
bit embarrassed by the flimsy display while wondering if he
was the ‘bad card’. This was not the team he had heard so much
about and it was not.
Hit by injuries to many senior
players Damion Stewart, Daniel Shaw and Jermaine Hue plus both
Christopher Harvey and Luton Shelton absent away in Guatamala
in the Olympic qualifier maens the new starting eleven was
boosting five new players of which the midfield facing
Constant Spring was again heavily dependent on youthful skills
with very little experience but a heart of gold mixed with a
heavy dose of commitment and motivation. Lovell Palmer rose
majestically to head home a pass from Jomo Gordon at the far
post when he had won a deflected header from Akeem Priestley’s
corner kick to assume the lead midway the first half. The half
ended 1-0.
In almost a duplicate of the
first goal the deflected ball from a corner fell on the quite
able right boot of Nicholas McMorris about the penalty spot
for him to hammer home for the equaliser. With the entry of
the injured Jermaine Hue after the sixty eight minute the
coordination followed soon thereafter between Robert Scarlett
and himself midway the opponents half as the rotation slipped
the Constant Spring marker for Jermaine to advance towards the
penalty area unopposed to deliver a telling bomb that had to
be released from the grasp of goalkeeper Leighton Murray for
the alert Fabian Taylor to tuck it home from 6 yards for his
eight goal of the season ( second overall) re-establishing the
Harbour View lead.
There was to be one more twist
of fate in the ninetieth minute as the more than capable
experienced defence allowed the quality of Markino Gillings to
outfox them by slipping by Donald Stewart to get a clear shot
at goal and piercing Leeroy Grey’s goal to again equalise at
the death.
Harbour View 2 Constant
Spring 2.
By virtue of this draw Harbour
View and Waterhouse are level on 25 points at the top of the
Premier League table. Waterhouse seemingly also dosing, lost
0-3 to Rivoli United.
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ON THURSDAY NOVEMBER 27th AT 3:00
pm HARBOUR VIEW TAKES ON
INVADERS
F.C. OF TRELAWNY AT THE
COMPOUND |
WATERHOUSE
OUTSHOT HARBOUR VIEW BY 2-1 IN THE FIRST END OF ROUND FINALS
The hard running centre forward
Uchewe Chinereye made all the difference at the Tony Spaulding
Sports Complex this afternoon as his third minute strike was
enough to put the determined "Stars of the East" on
the backfoot early.
Try as they might it was not
enough to plough their way back from another early strike
after just eight minutes into the second half from the
leagues' leading goalgetter Kevin Lamey who accepted a most
fortunate gift of a deflection from a right-sided square that
fell at his feet before the surge of goalkeeper Leon Gordon
could shut it down.
Waterhouse 2 Harbour View
0.
The fight, effort and slick
ball movement of the Harbour View aggregation was thwarted in
the first half by aggressive tackling by the Waterhouse team
from the start as three blatant fouls were committed in the
first two minutes before a pass from midfield was chased by
the lanky Nigerian as he outsped Christopher Harvey to the
left of the penalty area before eluding Gordon in goal by
slipping it inside his near post for the first blood. Newly
invited National midfielder Jermaine Hue orchestrated the
moves assisted by Robert Scarlett, Fabian Taylor and sprints
from Luton Shelton but dominance was slow to become
penetration. As the half ended Waterhouse responded with the
consistent runs down the right flank with Chineyre the target
and the motivator as national defender Damion Stewart had his
hands full.
The second half saw a reshaped
Harbour View unit takeover the game with more coordination
that clearly unsettled their opponents but yet again the
penetration came long after when a snap shot 32 yards out from
young Lovell Palmer rippled the back of the net to the
surprise of the packed crowd. Two minutes later a four man
move found Taylor at the top of the box who slipped it left
for Scarlett but his feeble shot trickled wide of the far post
with Loxely Reid beaten. A minute later a diagonal pass from
William Richards found the head of Palmer infront of
goalkeeper Reid only to see his header slide past the upright,
somehow it seemed the game had slip by with the effort and so
it remained to the end save for one moment of high drama in
the 90th minute.
With the clock ticking away a
last gasp effort from Harbour View was to pick out Scarlett
inside the area amongst four defenders as he turned sweetly
goalwards he was tripped as Waterhouse scrambled the ball
away. Fabian Taylor rushed the referee and all eleven players
vehemently demanded a penalty but Howard Stennett said play on
much to the disappointment of the supporters, players and
management staff as a good game stumbled to a rather
frustrating end.
Congratulations
Waterhouse as the End of First Round Champions
PORTMORE
UNITED DEFEATS RENO BY 5-2 IN THE JFF UNDER 21 FINALS.
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