‘Double Sammy' for Kingfishers

Monmouth Town 1 Cwmbran Celtic 2

Monmouth Town were bundled out of the Welsh league cup by second division Cwmbran Celtic last Saturday but were also celebrating a double striker signing as they netted Sam McCoy from local football and Sam Holdsworth from Welsh League rivals Risca United.

The two new signings had a close up view of their new team mates and would have no doubt as to why they were needed as once again Town missed a series of good chances and made two basic defensive errors which presented the victory to the visitors. 

Bowen and Rogers had lively games for Town but the Kingfishers were crying out for more width,  penetration and pace that hopefully McCoy and Holdsworth can provide and finally took the lead on 70 minutes after Celtic had been reduced to 10 men. It was the third game in succession that town found themselves facing a depleted opposition and as with the other games failed to make the extra man count. A defensive shift saw Kennedy replaced by Wookey and Harris moved from right to left presumably to give some game time to Wookey but within minutes Town had conceded an equaliser failing to deal with a long throw in that evaded everyone but the unmarked striker at the back post. 

Worse was to follow on 82 minutes when Davies made a hash of a pass from defence and presented the Celtic striker with his second that was calmly slotted beyond Williams. Dean Palmer belated introduction added much needed urgency to proceedings but despite some good late efforts from Town Celtic left Monmouth with a win that in truth was a testament to their better all round quality.

Kingfishers Chairman was looking to the future after the result "I'm still confident that we can challenge this season but we can't keep losing games we should be winning comfortably and then think we were unlucky. We weren't today and we haven't been all season. We just haven't been good enough and I will do what it takes to improve our team and the club so I am delighted that we have signed the two Sams as anyone who watched us today and have been watching us for a number of years will know that we need more pace and firepower. Sam Holdsworth has been banging them in for Risca and Sam McCoy has a great reputation and has looked top class in training. They have given us a great lift already so it'll be interesting to see what they can do when they get their chance.

Tonight (Wednesday) Town take on first division Cwmbran Town in the Gwent Senior Cup at Cwmbran Stadium 7pm kick off).

Pictured New Signing Sam McCoy