A SEASON CLOSES THE WAY IT ALMOST WENT — CLOSE, BUT NOT QUITE.
DoIT ended their JIFL 25/26 campaign in third place after a 1–2 reverse to champions German+, undone by a fifteen-minute spell of second-half pressure that flipped a one-goal lead into a defeat.
The story of the season showed up again on Saturday: a side that's good enough to lead the league for ten minutes at a time, but not yet good enough to manage forty-five. Kev's 31st-minute finish — a typical Ozzy-ball, typical Kev finish — sent us in at half-time deservedly ahead. What followed was less typical, and less welcome.
German+ came out the better side after the break. Their first arrived from a set piece we'd talked about all week; their second from a giveaway in our own half that should never have happened. Between them, fifteen minutes that decided the match and the final standings.
To the credit of the side, the fight never went out of them. Izzy, captaining for what felt like the hundredth time this campaign, marshalled a back four that gave up nothing in the final fifteen. Hiro's introduction lifted the front line. Sho fizzed two efforts narrowly wide. Dee, who has had a quietly exceptional season behind a defence that wasn't always quiet itself, made two saves in the final minutes that kept the scoreline respectable.
Numbers for the season: 20 played, 9 won, 3 drawn, 8 lost. Thirty points. Fifty-seven goals scored — the league's third-best attack. Fifty-one conceded — which tells most of the story. Top two next year is the target. And we play these lads again on Wednesday.