DRUID SPORT AND LEISURE WELSH NATIONAL DIVISION ONE
GRESFORD ATHLETIC RESERVES 0 RHOS AELWYD RES 1
By Captain Web

Our roving Web reporter deserted his duties on Tuesday night and things went to pot  !!

Yes, the Rhos Aelwyd game is the first match I have missed since Ruthin Colts in November when we also collapsed like a pack of cards. Off I pop to see The Redskins beat Chelski and we fail to deliver again and Rhos were deserved 1-0 winners with a clever lob from Kanal Elmrabetti proving decisive.

Nicely popping the cork on my 3 rd bottle of Muscadet and I get a text at 6pm telling me everything in the garden was rosy and added to our ranks where PJ, Crags and Lloydy so we could rest a few of the teenagers. The setting was perfect at Anfield so the news from the Clappers San Siro sounded pretty good too.

What happened between 6:30 and 8pm unfortunately defies logic and I found it hard to believe when Keeno fired me a simple text message “0-1 and we were crap. PS Sorry Dad, we were not that good!

I let Ady sleep on matters before approaching him for an account of things and his summing up as always was frank and candid.

“You had to be there to fully get the picture of how bad we really were.  I am glad I was able to rule the roost over the ‘Famous Five' who travelled to Spain for the weekend and it was quite clear it was not Le Manga the lads frequented.

So often when first teamers step down a league you often find they do not exactly flex themselves to the full but let us be quite clear here, there is no finger pointing towards the senior players but elsewhere, there were major flaws, deficiencies and weaknesses in abundance and our overall performance was quite appalling.

To make matters worse, Shaun got concussed following a blow to the head and Broady limped off as well so this was a night I soon want to forget, in fact it was like a bad dream.

I had in my mind what the starting eleven for Saturday's Cup Final might have looked like but after this debacle, Sam and I need to get our thinking caps on”

The trip to Fannyfield was intersting, best summed as, "Goal my arse, Rob won £20 on Garcia scoring and I met Sven, Dalglish, Rushy, Tommy Smith, Aldridge, Fowler and many many more legends and guess what, they all sent their best wishes to Mayor Juliano !!!!!!!

Man of the Match Phil Jones  (The younger one that is)

Team: 1. Mike Price (5) 2. Paul Chaloner (5) 3. Dave Lloyd (7) 4. Graham Sutcliffe (5) 5. Steve Halliwell (5) 6. Hugh Jones (5) 7. Shaun Winter (6) 8. Phil Jones (8) 9. Chris Broadhurst (6) 10. Craig Williams (7) 11. Gareth Pugh-Jones (5) SUBS: 12. Chris Hughes(5) 14. Owen Roberts (5) 15. Luke Peate (5)