Fun Bus No Bogeyman As Town Win Away Again

Saturday 10th October

South Gower 0 Monmouth Town 1

At about 11.30 every other Saturday a red mini bus disappears over the Monnow bridge into deepest darkest Wales carrying Monmouth's footballing finest on their latest Welsh League adventure. It returns 10 hours later carrying the same dozen people, most much worse for wear, but with the added cargo of three points plundered on the road which will stand the Kingfishers in good stead for the winter travails ahead. The 'Fun Bus' as it has been coined has become the lucky omen for the Town, so much so, that it is seriously being considered as transport for home games where the Town have so far failed to pick up a single point.

This, however, was a relatively comfortable victory, Tranter's solitary effort being enough to win a game that should have been signed and sealed before half time but which again provided enough scary moments to recede the finger nails of the travelling support and management.

South Gower started much the brighter, hardly surprising given the two and half hour schlep, causing some problems down the Town right flank. Having weathered that early flurry Tranter and Bowen started to create a few openings and Alderdice, Kennedy and Palmer got a grip in midfield. Town went close a number of times before Tranter's run and strike gave the Town the lead on 23 minutes. Davies and Bowen had good efforts blocked and Dean Palmer struck from distance but a second goal looked further away than ever as the half ended.

The second half was punctuated with petty fouls, injuries which stemmed any flow that the game could muster. South Gower did at least try to be positive with substituions and formation but it is doubtful whether the whole of this beautiful peninsula could have mustered more meaningful attempts as the game started to fizzle out in a ping pong of toothless attacks and hopeful counters.

At the death Ford went close, Lewis was ludicrously given offside when clean through and Campbell celebrated a first clean sheet of the season and the accusation that he was English and sans one of his parents with loud Scottish ramblings. Deserved.