LATEST MATCH REPORT: MENS 4TH XI

Saturday 10th October

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Good morning gentlemen, and a warm welcome to you all to this, the first in the Wanderers Business Series, designed to give a cradle-to-grave account of our battle to take the low hanging fruit in our front end operations. Just to get all the ducks in a row I’ll start with the domestics: we’re talking here about wanderers 4’s world operational base, targeted specifically at the Richmond competition space in the Chiswick domain, looking to convert last week’s lose-lose to a win-win.

Drilling down into the early exchanges, it was clear that Richmond were a well organised outfit looking to take an early market share and then keep the barriers to entry firmly up and block the Wanderers attempts at penetration. (Previous reports suggest this may be a problem for some in a variety of markets) However, taking a helicopter view, it was clear that the Wanderers containment strategy was working well and minimising the impact of the opposition’s early campaign. However, the Wanderers struggled early on to get from outside the box onto the trading floor, despite a number of aggressive hedges.

The first paradigm shift occurred on about 25 minutes, with the opposition running one up the flagpole off a short market, and forcing us to salute it. The wanderers know you can’t have your cake and eat it, so they decided to step up to the plate and face the music. They stated an aggressive counter insurgency campaign, the result of which was an excellent chance to take out the blue water between them and the oppo, but the deal was first bounced off the post by Pete, then deflected wide of the mark at the last minute off Chris’ shot. So at the close of the markets on half 1, Wanderers were in the negative. (graphical representation below).

In the second half, all parties seemed to operate a more open kimono policy, with the play running aggressively from end to end for the full 35. After a good period of play, Wanderers managed to burst Richmond’s Lemming, with a well taken bilateral with the keeper from Mr Aherne. With both teams now looking to create some synergistic wins to impact the bottom line, the market regulator had a lot of work to do: firstly disallowing an insider trade, citing a too aggressive physical policy, and an illegal metatarsal contact; and secondly sending off one of each side for what can only be described as a bit of a love in.

The game finished on a negative for the wanderers, when, with the last play of the game, the oppo rolled out another short and forced their cat to lick it. Captain Tom has suggested he’ll contact the team on Thursday to diarise a hook up for Saturday to discuss ball-park figures.

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