Metro Preview: Bohemians to take on NoVa in DC on Saturday

A quick hit on what Metro Footy is - in the United States, various metropolitan area teams such as the two I have played for - Philadelphia Hawks (originally the Crows), and the Baltimore/Washington Eagles set up metro leagues. Metro is like scrimmaging - the team splits into three or four smaller teams, (sometimes more, depending on numbers) in order to play nine on nine, or eleven on eleven footy in order to sharpen skills.

Currently the BWEagles have three metro teams - Baltimore, Washington, and Northern Virginia. Tomorrow the 1-0 Baltimore squad will face off in a steamy match along the Potomac in Washington DC against the 0-1 Northern Virginia squad.

Baltimore has the experience, but NoVa has the younger team with the greater speed. Will that be enough for Virginia to break into the win column?

Week one of the Metro season saw DC beat NoVa 14.13 (97) to 10.9 (69). In the next match, Baltimore dominated DC 14.9 (93), to 4.4 (28). Can the Bohemians keep their momentum up against last year's metro finalist after beating last year's champs?

As long as the Bohemians can slow the game down with clean marks and handballs, they will have every chance to win the game. If they let the game turn into a footrace, then it favors the younger Virginia squad.

METRO 2007 LADDER

TEAM	GP	W	L	PTS	PF	PA	%
BAL	1	1	0	4	93	28	332
DC	2	1	1	4	125	162	77
NVA	1	0	1	0	69	97	71