Such is Under 16 football that, being the final year of youth football in the York Mitchell Soccer League, this time of year sees teams who have played each other for 7 years pit their wits against each other for one final time. Pocklington and Fulford have had great matches over the years and both management teams have an underlying respect for each other's approach to football.

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The strong winds returned to The Balk on Sunday afternoon as the Predators entertained Brooklyn, but fortunately so too did the home side's ability to play football on the floor which countered the conditions.

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What makes Pocklington Predators efficient and effective is a simple pass and move game which unlocks defences, brings goals and wins matches. When this raison d’etre no longer resides within the team on a very cold and blustery Sunday afternoon, they struggle.

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If the Predators were the type of side who wanted to list excuses for this East Riding quarter final cup exit they could call upon late drop outs, suspensions, injuries and a dramatic change in a first half head-wind: but that’s not the type of side they are nor the type of way they are led. This simply boiled down to chances taken.

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The Predators remain unbeaten in all cup competitions this season having overcome the cumbrous challenge from Wheldrake on Sunday to move through to the quarter finals of the wonderfully named Alf Bolder County Cup. This latest quarter final booking creates a hat-trick as Pocklington are also in the quarter final of the York Mitchell Soccer League Cup and the York FA Senior Cup.

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The Predators moved through round 3 of the York FA Senior Cup with a comfortable victory against Aviva on Sunday afternoon. Joe Cooney now has his side playing some slick football, and whilst there is competition for places, his seamless squad interchanges adds a different dimension at different stages of the match.

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An action packed League Cup 2nd round away tie at Easingworld had a little bit of everything and would have tested the ink reserves of any match reporter. Predators were forced into a kit change of yellow shirts and blue shorts, perhaps suggesting that manager Joe Cooney had been building his match strategy from the Copacabana Beaches or Rio de Janeiro Stadium, such was the quality of football his side demonstrated.

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Had San Expedito, the Patron Saint of Good Luck been anywhere near Pocklington last weekend, he certainly forgot to visit the Predators as they prepared for their match against table topping Poppleton Tigers. Joe Cooney’s tight-knit squad was already depleted to the tune of three before the start of the match and an early injury to Matthew Terry was certainly not on his wish list; neither was a head injury to Ed Borrie which saw him leave the game in the first-half.

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The Predators tested the depth of their squad for this Cup match against Cottingham Rangers with injury and illness ruling out the influential George Pilkington and Connor Wade. But such is the style of play that Joe Cooney has installed in his squad that even after a pack shuffle the Predators can be a slick passing team with a threat in all areas of the pitch.

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Pocklington Predators travelled to The Knavesmire on Sunday afternoon looking for back-to-back league victories. Bizarrely they found themselves on a pitch that looked as though it was storing cut grass for horses competing in Friday’s Finale Stakes: pitch marks obscured by random drifts and mounds of clippings did little to support Town’s floor based football.

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