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Saturday 24th October 2009

Pentwyn Dynamo 3 Monmouth Town 6

A wonderful, thunderful left foot volley from Elliot Ford and a sumptuous finish by younger brother Ashley from a great move consigned struggling Pentgwyn Dynamos to the scrapheap and launched Monmouth's Kingfishers into third place in the table.

Travelling without skipper Alderdice and the injured Dean Palmer Town were still looking for their fifth win on the road but started badly as a remodelled midfield struggled to get to grips with a lumpy pitch and unfamiliar surroundings. Indeed Town went behind to a penalty in the 12th minute awarded for handball against Smith by a clearly unsighted referee who refused to be handicapped by this minor disadvantage and showed initiative by using his ears to make the decision.

It did however sting the Kingfishers into some sort of action and Harris, making his first start of the season, started to remember his clear talent for the game by ghosting in and around the middle areas linking play with Kennedy, Smith and Ford also finding their feet and more importantly those of their team mates. Palmer finished off a great move getting on the end of an Elliot Ford cross to equalise on 17 minutes.

Another patchy period followed but the final twenty minutes of the half Town played possibly some of their best football of the season keeping the ball extremely well and dragging Pentwyn around the park to find openings at will. That the only goal they had to show for it was another great effort by Tranter owed a lot to profligacy and even more to some great stops by the home 'keeper who was turning in a man of the match performance, such was the Kingfishers dominance.

The second half started in the same manner with Town rampant. Harris finished a passing move with a sweeping strike over the keeper before Elliot Ford's thunderbolt made it four crashing in off the bar passed a shell shocked keeper. Town responded by replacing Tranter with the popular 'Chewy' Lewy to earn his reward for good work in the reserves and he responded well with a  very lively cameo starting the move that led to the fifth from Ashley Ford and having a hand in the sixth scored by Bowen after a great piece of play by fellow debutant 16 year old Tom Wareham. Wareham was a revelation in his first game looking to the manor born and providing some great inspiration for the rest of Town's youth teams and making his mark with some great defending headers strong runs down the right flanks and fearless tackling.

In between times Pentwyn got a goal back with a cool finish from the edge of the box and frustratingly for the second week running Town lost concentration and allowed a full pitch length run to go unchecked and rewarded with a well placed finish beyond Roberts returning to the Town goal for the rested Campbell.

Town are now up to third and in the promotion spots but joint Barry Burns insisted it was too early to be indulging in such talk "It was another good win and performance for the middle part of the game and good to see that we can cope with leading players missing. There were some big pluses for us today not least Neville Harris returning and Robbo did well in goal, Chewy and Tom have also done themselves no harm at all with their attitudes and performances. But we must keep working hard in training and on Saturdays to get our rewards. No-one in this league is going to lie down for us."