Our development side consisting of several youth players who had played on Friday night lost 0-4 to Trefelin on Saturday. The scoreline flattered the visitors, we played some good football but lacked a cutting edge up front. Of the four goals three could be put down to our lack of experience, hopefully the players will learn from this and we’ll see an improvement as the season progresses.

The youth won 5-1 at Risca United on Friday. Morgan Freeman gave us an early lead and within minutes the lead was doubled thanks to an own goal. Luke Evans made it 3-0 on 25 minutes before Morgan Freeman scored his second and the team’s fourth. Risca pulled a goal back right on half time but any prospect of them getting back into the game ended when Connor Thomas scored a fifth midway through the half.

This was the youth’s poorest performance of the season. Their passing was poor and they failed to put the Ferry defence under any sustained pressure. The Ferry visibly gained in confidence as the game wore on. Noah Daley gave us the lead on 31 minutes with a left footed shot only for us to conceded a penalty 2 minutes later. We made a couple of substitutions and positional changes during the second half and started to put the Ferry under increased pressure but we still couldn’t find a clear-cut opening. With 5 minutes to go Azeem Arshad beat a defender, went around the keeper and scored from a wide angle. In the final minutes we kept the ball much better and held on for the three points.

Cwmbran Celtic must hate playing at the Marston’s Stadium. They suffered a 4-0 loss on Saturday with Jack Todd opening the scoring before second half goals from the returning Chris Hartland (2), and Josh Webber saw us to an emphatic win. Their last two visits saw them lose 5-0 and 4-0 so this must rank as their least favourite ground in the league.

An excellent first win for the Reserves over Swansea University. They led 3-0 at half time through Morgan Freeman, Connor Thomas and the returning Josh Webber. Josh added a second in the second half to see the side run out 4-2 winners.

We suffered another embarrassing cup defeat to a side who are not even in the Welsh League. Cwmbran Town took the lead on 17 minutes with a quick attack which caught us light at the back. Jack Underwood equalised on 24 minutes when following a corner his right footed shot took a deflection. Instead of pushing on from here poor defending allowed a second Cwmbran goal on 37 minutes.Early in the second half they made it three and although we had most of the possession we seldom looked as though we’d save the game. Our second goal came 2 minutes from time and even that was scored by a Cwmbran player.

The youth overwhelmed Caerau 11-0, it was four at half time with Tom Owen scoring on 13 and 36 minutes. Connor Thomas 15 and Azeem Arshad 36 scored the other two. The floodgates open after the hour mark with Jack Fleming 60, Azeem Arshad 61, Taylor Evans with a 20 yard free kick on 69 minutes, Azeem Arshad completed his hat trick on 71 minutes before substitute Noah Daley added the ninth on 76 minutes. Tom Owen then completed his hat trick converting a penalty on 85 minutes before Azeem Arshad completed the scoring with his fourth on 89 minutes.