ABERTILLERY BLUEBIRDS & NEWPORT CIVIL SERVICE
As the season 2009-2010 draws to its conclusion, it is a time for reflection and there are reasons to be thankful for the appalling winter that has just gone...fixture backlogs! This meant that as we reached the penultimate weekend of May there are still competitive fixtures around and today in South Wales they were in abundance. Combine this with Cardiff City reaching the play-off final and we have lots of early kick-offs and the opportunity of "double headers" Result!
I was not the only 'groundhopper' to spot the double(s) and it was indeed no shock when at least 40 hoppers descended on Gwent with exactly the same idea as me...
I was not the only 'groundhopper' to spot the double(s) and it was indeed no shock when at least 40 hoppers descended on Gwent with exactly the same idea as me...
Welsh League Division Three
Abertillery Bluebirds v Garw SBGC
Attendance: 126 (h/c)
The home of Abertillery Bluebirds, Cwmnantygroes Field, is yet another ground in Wales which offers a quite stunning vista. The ground is basic, just a railed off pitch and a small covered terrace, and it is also bloody hard to find (even with a Sat-Nav). This led to the first 'panic' of the day when it seemed that today's opposition weren't going to show.
As the clocked ticked towards the midday kick off there was still no sign of Garw and, with them cut off at the bottom of the table and doomed to relegation, the majority of the assembled 125 crowd assumed they'd said "stuff it" and stayed at home to watch the Cardiff City game. It turned out they had got lost on their first (and, for the foreseeable, last) visit to the Bluebirds.
After a quick turn around by Garw the game kicked off at around 12.10 and a very one sided affair it turned out to be. A youthful Garw team, showing ten changes from when I visited Blandy Park two weeks ago, found themselves two goals down at the interval and were fortunate it was only two. Some heroic goalkeeping from Anthony Hogg and some poor finishing meant that the damage was limited to a Luke Lewis goal after 17 minutes and a Lewis Davies Own Goal after 32 minutes.
The second half was equally one sided but The Bluebirds added just the two more goals (64 & 80) Owen Goodenough proving he was just that by bagging himself a brace. For both sides this was their last game in Division Three as they both leave in opposite directions, Garw to the South Wales Amateur league and Abertillery, by virtue of finishing runners up in their debut season, to Division Two.
As the clocked ticked towards the midday kick off there was still no sign of Garw and, with them cut off at the bottom of the table and doomed to relegation, the majority of the assembled 125 crowd assumed they'd said "stuff it" and stayed at home to watch the Cardiff City game. It turned out they had got lost on their first (and, for the foreseeable, last) visit to the Bluebirds.
After a quick turn around by Garw the game kicked off at around 12.10 and a very one sided affair it turned out to be. A youthful Garw team, showing ten changes from when I visited Blandy Park two weeks ago, found themselves two goals down at the interval and were fortunate it was only two. Some heroic goalkeeping from Anthony Hogg and some poor finishing meant that the damage was limited to a Luke Lewis goal after 17 minutes and a Lewis Davies Own Goal after 32 minutes.
The second half was equally one sided but The Bluebirds added just the two more goals (64 & 80) Owen Goodenough proving he was just that by bagging himself a brace. For both sides this was their last game in Division Three as they both leave in opposite directions, Garw to the South Wales Amateur league and Abertillery, by virtue of finishing runners up in their debut season, to Division Two.
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