Canning City Soccer Club Newsletter.
Phil Unsworth, our secretary has started producing a newsletter for the club.

Canning Have Tough First-up Fixture
Volume 1, Issue 1, Date
Fixture/Result: State League First Division:
Swan United 4: Canning City 0
Venue: Swan Italian Club, Middle Swan
Canning City F.C. commenced its tenth season in the State league last Saturday. After finishing mid table last season Canning’s management committee have decided to move away from largely recruiting from outside the club for the 2011 season. Instead Canning has returned to bringing through its young home grown players supported by a few older experienced players. New coach Mark Wood has a big task on hand in getting the team to jell and raising the standard of the young players. With this background Canning were always going to find the contest against Swan United, who recently won the First Division pre-season Night Series competition, a difficult assignment last Saturday. The match started with Canning on the back foot and it wasn’t long before Canning keeper James Partridge was called into action by pulling off a fine save from Aaron Colli’s powerful shot from outside the penalty area by tipping the ball over the crossbar. Swan continued to pile on the pressure but Canning’s defense marshaled by Dave Evans, held firm through a few nervous moments with the team occasionally breaking out of defense on the counter attack. In the twentieth minute Canning came close to taking a surprise lead from a melee in the Swan goal mouth. However, the ball was eventually cleared. Swan’s pressure eventually paid off two minutes before half time when the ball was deflected off a Canning defender and fell to the feet of Tom Shepheard who has a simple job to smack the ball from six metres out into the top right hand corner of the goal giving James Partridge little chance to make a save. The second half started in much the same vane, but it was difficult to see how Canning could continue to absorb the pressure without relinquishing another goal. Eventually Swan did break through when Craig Tooley outpaced Canning’s defense on the right and crossed the ball to John Monterosso at the far post for a simple tap-in. From this point it was difficult to see any way back for Canning with little in the way of passing moves through the mid-field to Canning’s forwards Diego Garcia and Greg Newcomb who were somewhat isolated. Swan got their third goal when Tom Shepheard headed a goal from a corner unchallenged at the far post. Two minutes before full time Swan got its fourth goal when Craig Tooley dribbled the ball across the edge of the penalty area, made space and hit a low shot to the right of a diving James Partridge. On the stroke of full time Canning came close to getting a consolation goal when Dane Navaro beat Swan’s offside trap and raced in on the home side’s goal only to be denied by the legs of keeper Daniel Agudelo. Earlier Canning City’s Reserves came back from a one goal deficit to win 2:1 and the Eighteens drew 1:1 respectively with their Swan opponents.