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5-2 away win for Reserves

19th November 2008

Another good 5-2 away win against a decent mid week Uni team. The opening 10 minutes was a little frantic very pacey but no team taking control. As the first half wore on we began to play some tidy football and deserved to be 2-1 up at half time, scorers Steve Sinclair and Gafyn Buckland.

5 minutes into the second half saw us down to 10 men (again) when Sion T was sent off for retaliating against one of their defenders for a bad tackle from behind. From the resultant free kick, Gafyn Sharpe scored to put us 3-1 up. The goal helped ease the pressure of being down to 10 men.

Although having a numerical advantage the Uni were not able to put us under the amount of pressure that Gwalchmai did on Saturday and we duly broke away to score 2 more goals from Gethin Davies and Iwan Jones before the final whistle.

3 points which puts us equal 3rd with Holyhead, although they have a slightly better goal difference.

Next game is against Llanfairfechan and we have a score to settle with them after they dumped us out of the cup earlier this season.

Blaenau travel to Gwalchmai on Saturday. Lets hope the Gwalch take the game by the "Scruff" of the neck and "Skin" the Amateurs. We need someone to put the "Skids" beneath them! (Sorry lads, just could not resist lol)

Reserves win away at Gwalchmai

17th November 2008

A great result from a game which had a bit of everything, sendings off, missed penalties and some great tackling from both sides.

It looked like the month that Gwalchmai have had without a fixture took its toll with our lads quicker to the ball and moving it quickly with good passing to feet. After 20 minutes Sion Taylor played in Gaf Sharpe down the right who finished well. Half time score was 1-0 and to be fair we probably deserved to be ahead.

The second half was all about determination and heart especially when Sinclair was sent off for the "save of the season" after 5 minutes!! The majority of the game was then played in our own half and Gwalchmai drew level. But through some good luck, when Steve Jones did a Ronaldinho (natho drio medda fo!) and dogged defending we were able to come away with the 3 points.

Great team performance.

All square v Flint

16th November 2008

The home game against Flint Town ended all square, just!, 2-2 and with Holyhead not playing, Bala drawing again, plus Llandudno drawing we missed the opportunity to close the gap by a couple of points; but Flint were probably the best side we have played this season and with the late equaliser the point was welcome.

The pitch was a pudding, a glue pot and not conducive to the football we played at Buckley last week, but we went at the task with pace and direct running, creating several good chances which all went begging; high wide or straight at the keeper, with our keeper rarely troubled in the 1st half. Darren Thomas was rewarded for his excellent and continual harrassment with a well taken goal under the keeper on 42 minutes.

2nd half was a different game, they went wide down both sides and the game was end to end, with them defending resolutely and with strength. From a good attack through Mel, Darren and Kev Roberts the ball was quickly launched downfield and we gave away a disputed penalty, but from the Ref's position did look like one, which Beck converted. It was then all Flint, they moved it better across the poor surface and ran us ragged at times with an inevitable goal coming from a mistake and deflection past the unsighted Whitfield. As the game wore on it looked like a defeat, but as in previous weeks the lads all stuck to their tasks and kept pressing, winning a number of corners and free kicks. With the clock running down yet another quality delivery by Chris Williams from a corner was met cleanly by Rich Higham to glance the ball home to equalise.

After the match we could look back and say if only the early chances had been taken, but in reality over the whole game the draw was welcome at the death. Credit to the lads for the 100% effort in difficult conditions against very good opponents.