Invicta Dynamos head coach Karl Lennon felt there were plenty of wins to take from a tough pre-season encounter. Higher-league side Romford Raiders eased to a 16-5 aggregate victory, to claim the Kent & Essex Cup, as their three imports showed their class - scoring 12 of the goals over the weekend against the Mos. It was a tricky test for Karl Lennon’s NIHL South Division 1 side but the coach was pleased with what they got out of the encounter.
Lennon said: “I said to the guys leading into the weekend that firstly we wanted to get match reps in, we wanted to be ready for next weekend and certainly with the roster we had available to us they got some serious minutes across the weekend. That was objective no.1 achieved.
“I also wanted us to give a good account of ourselves and I think they absolutely did that. The measure of the performance from my perspective was not in the two games collectively, but the periods we played. “In four of the six across the weekend we were either one goal behind or even on the score, which is really good.
“We had two poor periods and even those you can say that was over 10-minute spells of the 20, where we didn’t really focus in the right ways or made mistakes of judgement, and that cost us quite dramatically. “Our undoing in those situations was a gulf of quality when it comes to the international players they have on the roster, they have three compared to our two which is a difference of course, and the pedigree is very high. “.