Mens 1sts 3 - 0 Andover (I)
Swans welcomed Andover to their home ground on Saturday with just one point separating the sides in the league in 2nd and 3rd place. Having lost both home and away fixtures to Andover last season, this was always going to be a hard match.

The game started sharply, with both teams pushing hard for the opener. After 20 minutes, Swans enjoyed a strong spell of possession which finally paid off. Sam Waker cleverly found captain Josh Lightfoot in the D, who controlled well and finished with equal precision and flair, striking a lovely reverse hit to make it 1–0 to Swans at half time.

The second half took off in fiery fashion, with both teams seeing players green carded as the game hung on a knife edge. Andover pressed hard for an equaliser, earning several short corners, but Swans remained resilient and kept them at bay. The home side eventually found the second goal they were searching for after a well-worked penalty corner routine, with Jack Thompson slipping the ball to Sam Waker, who finished past the keeper, with ten minutes to play.

Looking to seal the game and secure all three points, up stepped Captain Fantastic, Josh Lightfoot. Embarking on a brilliant solo run, leaving defenders behind, rounding the keeper, he scored his second of the match and Swans’ third in what may well be the goal of the season.

A superb result that lifts the Swans into second place in the league, just one point off the top. The unbeaten run continues and vengeance was served.

Eastleigh 2 - 2 Mens' 2nds
This Saturday saw the Men’s 2s making the trip through the New Forest to face Eastleigh
for a 14:30 pushback. A seemingly pessimistic 12:30 departure from Wareham proved
an inspired captaincy decision from Martyn, as the team spent a good 15 minutes on
arrival locating the changing rooms in the concrete labyrinth of Thornden School.
Despite a lethargic start, during which Eastleigh’s impressive front three peppered
Swans’ goal, it was the away side who opened the scoring: a short corner found Ollie
Britt, who in turn found the bottom-left corner. This was just about the only M2s attack
of the first half, however, and 15 minutes later Eastleigh got their deserved equaliser.
Half-time: 1–1.
Courtesy of an ill-timed stomach bug, the high-scoring Alex Gould was missing from the
Swans squad for the day, leaving just 11 players to get the job done; happily, their
opposition was also without subs, and biology began to play a key role in the second
half as the more mature Eastleigh side began to tire – now it was Swans applying the
pressure. So naturally, in almost identical style to the goal they conceded in the firsthalf, Eastleigh took a 2–1 lead from a short corner against the run of play.
Knowing they had to come from behind with tired legs, while facing a robust defensive
display from the opposition, Swans’ spirits were resolute. Their resolve was rewarded
when a fantastic passage of team play, on a completely different level to which most of
the game had been played, saw the ball come to Britt on the edge of the D. Unphased by
his black eye (obtained from a car door the night before) he lined up his shot and once
again fired home into the bottom-left corner, cementing a man-of-the-match
performance.
With minutes to play, Swans were once again on the attack, and a scramble in the box
saw the ball come to an unnamed right-winger-turned-striker, who lined up his shot…
and found the stick of the defender covering an otherwise open goal – clearly the recipe
for good finishing involves a night on the lash with Selby in Ashley Cross.
This proved to be the last action of a well-contested match, in which both sides had
their chances to win. 2–2, then, was perhaps a fair result. Nevertheless, with promotion
the goal, and their key competition putting wins on the board elsewhere, a seismic
home clash for the Men’s 2s against top-of-the-league Romsey next Saturday is surely a
must-win.