Once again, Cameron Road did itself proud with a nice run in the annual Austin Fall Cup, but ended up losing the semi-final match for the second year in a row. This year’s rag-tag bunch won the first game 1-0, tied the second game 1-1, and won the third game 2-0 to finish top of…
It seems that even Mother Nature has conspired to keep Cameron Road United winless this season. A monsoon-like rainstorm quickly ended this week’s installment of “the most frustrating season ever” five minutes into the second half of what was looking like a promising performance.
As the longest season in Cameron Road United history marches on, CRU again went down in flames for its fifth straight loss on the fall season. It seems as though the other teams in the division are passing around the secret formula for success against Cameron Road: score a few early goals and hang on…
Hoping to start climbing back up the table, Cameron Road fought a hard battle early Sunday morning against a difficult Black Star ATX team but managed to come up just short at the end of the day. The final score read Cameron Road United 3, Black Star ATX 4, and as the score suggested, this…
On a balmy fall day where you could reach out and touch the tree line, Cameron Road United again found itself trying to desperately claw it’s way back from an early deficit to rescue a point – but like OU QB Sam Bradford’s mercurial throwing shoulder, we again fell on hard times.
Cameron Road United faced a friendly rival this past Sunday in the form of Scotty and his orange-crushed Struggle FC. A friendly but drunken wager had been made in the summer between the two teams that the loser of this game would bring a keg for the Spring match-up/post-game grilling “sesh.”
There is nothing like the smell of Onion Creek at 8 AM in the morning: Dew-kissed grass, freshly trimmed corner flags, Willis’ bucket, and the arousing scent of a tree line lingering on the edge of your every thought. This isn’t just another Sunday at the fields; this is where the Fall 2009 campaign for…
Last game of the summer season and we responded with a nice late comeback win with loads of post-game beer options. This game had it all, early goals, late goals, comebacks, fights, you name it. Since Moneyland didn’t show up last week for their game, we were a little worried that they would do the…
On a day where you could fry an egg on my forehead, Cameron Road fought hard, but ended up just short against Mike’s Hard Lemonade drinking Black Star Austin. The scoreline might not have shown it, but this was a very close game and we had plenty of chances to get some points. Black Star…
For the second week in a row, Cameron Road United put in another stellar team effort to come back from an early goal and rock Austin Blues with three unanswered goals. After a game like that, when you’re drenched in sweat and the legs are burning because you played close to 90 minutes, you just…
Sometimes playing in the summer season can be tricky – the vacation bug can strike at any time, making it challenging to field a full team – today was one of those days. If your 8-year old was watching the game on ESPN, he would have asked “Daddy, where are BT, Peterson, Dermot, Jay, Big…
Dear constant reader of the most popular D2 AMSA blog in the city of Austin, after a week’s absence in the fine fine state of Mississippi, I am back to report on what was a valiant second half comeback yesterday against old nemesis Struggle FC. Although everyone could reach out an touch the win that…
Thanks to Luke for this Game Report! WIth our captain, or should I say “The Chaptain”, being out for a few weeks due to a mecca to Mississippi and Mexico, I have been honored with the task of keeping this well-oiled blog flowing with the sweat, blood and ink of our team. The proverbial torch…
One a day where summer seemed to be on hold and the cool weather was a welcome surprise, Cameron Road bounced back from last week’s embarassing defeat to win our last game of the season against Shiner FC 3-1. We controlled the game for the first 20 minutes or so, partly because Shiner started off…
To quote The Stranger in the Big Lebowski, “sometimes you eat the bear, sometimes the bear eats you…” Looks like we got eaten by the bear yesterday. The first half was a total disaster. We went down 0-4 and were not looking very good. We couldn’t string any passes together, couldn’t create many chances, couldn’t…
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. The Good: Our points steak continued for the 5th straight game. The Bad: Marcus went down with a possible ACL injury early in the first half. The Ugly: We let Struggle back into the game with minutes to go. It sure seemed like we were already deep into…
Cameron Road exploded for 8 goals against a severely out-aged group of teenagers from the mean streets of San Marcos yesterday afternoon. To be fair, I’m not sure why Gary Job Corps got thrown into the deep end of D2 when they should be playing at recess, but what’cha gonna do. It’s fair to say…
If it’s not freezing out on the high plaines of NEMP, then you’ve got to deal with the 40 mph winds swirling around overhead. That was the case yesterday when Cameron Road once again rose to the occasion and scored a legitimate victory against the Strikers. We may lack the scoring touch of Celtic and…
On a chilly Sunday morning, on the frozen tundra of NEMP, under the black cloud of a possible rainout, 10 man Cameron Road vaulted two spots in the D2 table with a convincing win verses old rivals Shiner FC.
Our streak of not losing continued this weekend on the high plains of Pflugerville with a convincing draw against Deportivo Fuerza Unida. Do you even remember the team that got thrashed by Celtic 0-5 a few months ago? Who were those guys?
So where were you when Cameron Road won it’s first game of 2009? If you were one of the lucky 8 players who showed up yesterday, you were at Onion Creek field playing in a rag-tag lineup celebrating a victory and a shut out. Many thanks to Bob, David, Vestre, Peterson, Jay, Willis, Andy, Marcus…
If anyone else was writing this game report it might be a little more upbeat from the start… It’s just that I don’t know whether to be happy about scoring our first goal of the season, or upset for missing a few other chances to win it at the end? Well, enough of my mental…
Drag. We lost. Again. We better pull it together, we’ve got a rematch with Celtic this Sunday. Match report to follow.
The Celtic Cowboys knocked Cameron Road out of the Aztec Cup Sunday with a 4-0 victory. I’m still pissed. The regular season can’t come soon enough.
The Fall Season ended with another defeat for the boys in red, Cameron Road was beaten by Strikers FC on a sunny day in Manor by two goals. As many of our games developed, this was a tale of two halves. We couldn’t quite find the right gear in the first half and suffered for…
Cameron Road 3, Stoney Point 1. As I write this after a big pasta dinner, a beer or four, and a giant bowl of Dutch chocolate ice cream it still sounds sweet. Wearing our always effective alternate ARM jerseys, Cameron Road finally produced a winning performance this afternoon against a pesky Stoney Point squad. I’m…
I think it’s safe to say that we are the best team at the bottom of the division.
We just can’t catch a break this season, can we? For all our efforts of peppering the goal (or vicinity of the goal) with shot after shot, unfortunatly we’ve got nothing to show for it.. again. We must have had 15 shots on goal yesterday, some came close; some… well were kicked in the general direction of the goal.
Did we gain a point, or loose two? That’s the question. At this stage in this difficult season, I’ll take the point and continue our tortuse-like climb up the Div 2 table. We got some good news early as Dermot returned from injury and Onome made his welcomed return to the pitch after a season…
For some reason I’m in no mood to write the game report. I think I’m still upset that we missed an opportunity to get the full three points yesterday. I’ll get over it.
To paraphrase BT on the sidelines, “this game used to be a marque matchup, but now it’s a battle of the cellar dwellers…”
The “Battle of the Pubs” lived up to the hype, but unfortunately for us, we eneded up on the wrong side of the score sheet…. again. Not even the return of our former star forward, Jared, could boost us to victory and a much needed 3 points.