Another disappointing performance against a Cwmamman United side that had a game plan and stuck to it and certainly worked for the three points. We failed to cope with the pace and running of the Cwmamman attack all night.

It was a much changed team with Liam McCreesh, suspended, Sacha Walters, injured. Cai Owens partnered Jack Todd at centre back with Alex Gammond joining Ben Thomas in midfield. Chris Hartland dropped to the bench.

We could have been two down before we took the lead on 16 minutes but both efforts were ruled out for offside. Noah Daley then latched on to a through ball and as Chris Curtis came out he dinked it over him for his fifth goal of the season. On 21 minutes Cwmamman were awarded a penalty but Rory McCreesh guessed correctly and turned the ball away for a corner. Cwmamman deservedly equalised on 31 minutes, they played the ball wide right and it was cut back for Colin Harris to score from the edge of the area. Spurred on by this Cwmamman attacked but Cai Owens headed away a corner which was picked up by Cwmamman but the shot was held by McCreesh.

We made a bizarre substitution at half time, Jack Hurley’s girlfriend, presumably not a football fan had booked him a nigh out so at half time Chris Hartland replaced him. Chris was involved in the second Lido goal, firstly his shot was saved by Chris Curtis but the ball rebounded to Hartland, his cross was put into his own net by centre back Nathaniel McNeil. Almost immediately Cwmamman could have equalised but Rory McCreesh came off his line to deny Ashley Curtis and Cai Owens got back to clear the ball near the goal line. However, that reprieve was short lived as another ball over the top again saw McCreesh out of his goal but Curtis beat him to the ball and lobbed it into the empty net to make it 2-2 on 59 minutes. 5 minutes later Cwmamman took the lead , the ball was played into the area and was collected by Ryan Thomas who fired low to McCreesh’s right side and into the net. On 70 minutes a Cwmamman header from a corner hit the crossbar as we struggled to stay in the game. Jack Todd then cleared a shot off the line and Cwmamman continued to push forward Ryan Thomas scored his second on 87 minutes to secure the three points for Cwmamman who thoroughly deserved the three points

Finally well done referee Jordan Harman one of the best displays we’ve had from a referee all season.

Rory McCreesh –  2 Craig Jones – 3 James Parry – 4 Cai Owens – 5 Jack Todd – 6 Ben Thomas – 7 Noah Daley – 8 Jack Hurley – 9 Mark Jones – 10 Alex Gammond – 11 Jack Fleming

Subs  12 Chris Hartland for Jack Hurley 46 – 14 Patrick Finneral for Jack Fleming 67 – 15 Carlos Indjai for Ben Thomas 84 – 16 Jack Underwood – 17 Kieron Burridge

The Youth defeated Briton Ferry Llansawel 5-1. They led 3-1 at the break with two goals from Noah Daley and another from Taylor Evans. Second half goals from Azeem Arshad and Morgan Freeman sealed the win.

On another typical wintry night the youth defeated Ton Pentre 2-1. Connor Thomas gave us a fourth minute lead and we dominated the game but we found the Ton Pentre keeper in fine form. He made a number of outstanding saves and it wasn’t until the 89th minute that Jack Fleming seemingly made the game safe. Ton pulled a goal back deep into added on time but this was another deserved victory. Following a long spell out injured Jamie Karnsang made a welcome return.

Connor Thomas and Morgan Freeman scored the goals for the Reserves in a 2-1 win at Pontardawe

Mark Jones scored 4 times in our 5-2 win at the Causeway. Mark scored the opening two goals but Undy came back to level matters just before half time. However straight from the restart Mark went through to restore our lead. Liam McCreesh made it 4-2 early in the second half and Jonah completed the scoring with his fourth

We are the first side to deny Penybont all three points at home this season in what was one of the games of the season. We really should have come away with all 3 points but we gave away 3 sloppy goals. Penybont took the lead in the second minute when our throw in near the half way line was lost and a through ball for Luke Borrelli, one of 4 ex Lido players in their starting line up to run on to and place it wide of Rory McCreesh. We responded well to the early set back and Rhys Wilson in the Bont goal made at least 4 top class saves to deny Mark Jones and Jack Hurley but he was powerless to save Ben Thomas’ header from 10 yards following a Craig Jones free kick on 38 minutes. Kieran Howard was then sent off for second yellow card on the stroke of half time. Two minutes into the second half a great run by Sacha Walters led to him finding Mark Jones in the area, Mark turned to score with a left footed shot. The lead only lasted for 10 minutes when for some reason Rory McCreesh instead of diving on the ball attempted to tackle the Bont forward and conceded a penalty which Luke Borrelli scored. On 65 minutes we regained the lead when Alex Gammond headed in from a corner. Bont pushed forward at every opportunity and equalised with 7 minutes to go. Bont forwards were close to being offside several times and in the move that led to the equaliser there was a suspicion of offside but nothing was given. Despite having numbers back we were unable to get the ball away and it fell to Marcus Griffiths who hammered in the equaliser.

Our youth match against Trefelin was abandoned early in the second half due to a floodlight failure. Heavy rain caused the problem and despite the lights coming back on 3 times once they blew again it left the referee no option but to abandon the game.