Author: Peter Reynolds

All square at Goytre

We were two down at half time after Goytre scored on 18 and 27 minutes. It looked as if we were heading for a big defeat when Goytre scored a third on 47 minutes. However the players responded and Noah Daley reduced the arrears on 65 minutes but we were unable to get the second until the 86th minute when Morgan Freeman scored. We secured a draw with a Sean Hanbury goal in the 90th minute.

Youth win final game

The Youth won the final game of the season and in doing so completed a double over Goytre. Goals from Jake Simeone and Noah Daley secured a 2-1 win and they ended the season as runners up.

Season ends with another draw

A second successive 4-4 draw this time away at Cwmbran Celtic. After weathering early Celtic pressure Mark Jones should have given us the lead on 8 minutes but he headed a corner over the bar. We then grew into the game and the Celtic keeper made a good save off Noah Daley. We took the lead on 11 minutes when Neil Thomas was on the end of a right wing cross. The keeper saved his first effort but Neil forced home the rebound. We were two up on twenty minutes when Noah Daley converted a right wing cross. Celtic hit a post with a free kick and Mark Jones netted a penalty on 326 minutes to put us firmly in the driving seat. There was still time for Celtic to miss a 1 on 1 with Rory McCreesh but we went in with a healthy three goal advantage.

That advantage was blown away within 9 minutes of the restart, The first goal was scored on 50 minutes and then Rory McCreesh needlessly conceded a penalty on 54 minutes and in Celtic’s next attack it was 3-3. The way this game went either side could have scored almost at will, Mark Jones hit the post and it was a surprise that the next goal didn’t come until the 79th minute. Now we were looking to respond and we equalised on 84 minutes with another Mark Jones penalty after Toby Link-Jones was fouled in the area. Both sides had further chances to win the game but we had to settle for a share of the points.

 

Rory McCreesh  2 Kieran Parsons  3 James Parry  4 Alex Gammond  5 Toby Link-Jones

6 Neil Thomas  7 Patrick Finneral  8 Kieran Howells  9 Mark Jones 10 Noah Daley

11 Sacha Walters

Subs  12 Jack Fleming  – 14 Paul Evans

Ammanford 1 Afan Lido 4

After a goalless first half Mark Jones set up Chris Hartland to open the scoring. Mark then doubled the lead and Pat Finneral scored his first senior goal for the club. Ammanford pulled 1 back a couple of minutes from time before Mark Jones completed the scoring. 16 year old Toby Link-Jones made his first team debut and by the end of the game we had 6 youth players on the field.

 

 

100 up for Jonah

With his fifth goal yesterday at Ton Pentre Mark registered his 100th league goal for the club. there are 15 in the Welsh Premier and 85 in the Welsh League.