All Trick and No Treat In Halloween Horror Show

Saturday 31st October 2009

Pontypridd Town 4 Monmouth Town 1

Monmouth Town's Kingfishers were handed a rare footballing lesson as a resurgent Pontypridd Town bettered them at every aspect of play in a Halloween horror show for Town.

Starting the day in third place with ambitions to claim top spot Town's trip to Ponty was a bridge too far in any language as too many players had off days and Pontypridd's experience, nous and desire simply blew the Kingfishers away. The first half was a horribly one sided affair and to go in at half time only 2 - 0 down could be considered a blessing of sorts as Town could not possibly have done any worse. For their part Pontypridd carved the Town defence open at will, aided by basics errors and an inability to keep possession under any sport of pressure and should have done better with the chances that fell their way.

The second half was a more even contest; not even, just more so as Monmouth mustered some attacking threat but continued to be guilty of giving the ball away and ball watching as they were undone by the superior movement and passing and the men in black. On the hour a promising attack down the Town's right ended with a swift counter attack and at 3 - 0 it was game over. Ford did get one back and Dan Spence missed a great chance before Pontypridd wrapped up the nightmare, stealing the ball in the Town half and finishing confidently.

Town Co-boss Barry Burns was down but not out after the game "We've been beaten by a much better side today and had a bad day ourselves. Its hard to take any positives out of the game except to say that we don't become a bad team overnight and we have to see what character we have to bounce back!"