We took the lead on 9 minutes Steve Parry fed Michael Waters down the left side, Michael crossed the ball into the area Andrew Pearson dummied and left the ball which was met by debutant Dan McGrath whose right footed shot beat the keeper. 5 minutes later Steve Davies cut out a midfield pass and found Michael Waters with a cross field pass Michael first time shot went just wide. We continued to take the game to Aberaman and another chance was missed when Steve Parry beat a couple of players and fed Kieran Howells whose shot from just outside the area went just wide of the post. After 26 minutes Michael Waters held the ball and played it back to Steve Parry, Steve crossed into the box for Ian Jones who went down but neither the ref or linesman were impressed enough to give us a penalty. Andrew Pearson took a throw six yards from the corner flag , Dan McGrath helped it on to Kieran Howells whose left foot shot was straight at the keeper. Andrew then won the ball on the right, beat the defender and chipped the keeper from just outside the area, sadly for us it drifted just over the bar. On the half hour we had a free kick 30 yards out on the left touchline, the ball was played to Andrew Pearson who turned and shot over the bar from 15 yards. Two minutes later Steve Davies again cut out a midfield pass and fed Michael Waters he played it in to Andrew Pearson his header sailed over the bar from 12 yards. All this pressure, a second goal would in all probability have killed off Aberaman but we weren't able to find the net. With minutes to go to half time it looked as though Aberaman might be getting into the game and just before the interval Chris Summers had his first sniff of goal putting the chance over the bar.

Aberaman came out for the second half in determined mood earning a corner in the opening seconds. Disaster struck for us on 50 minutes when following another corner they equalised. There seemed little danger when Steve Parry was carrying the ball out of the area but he lost his footing they picked up the ball, crossed to the far post where Ryan Barry (4) scored. We needed to up our game but the free flowing football of the first half had disappeared, we were allowing the Aberaman players acres of room and time and it was no surprise when Chris Summers scored his first to give the visitors the lead. Craig Martin failed to cut out a through ball which Summers picked up and shot across Leon Cosker just inside the far post. We did respond to the second goal and almost carved out an equaliser within a minute. We attacked down the right and the ball was played to Dan McGrath whose first time shot was tipped over for a corner at full stretch by the keeper. We went 3-1 down on 68 minutes when Chris Summers netted his second, from my position he looked offside but the linesman ignored our appeals and the goal stood. We had replaced Craig Martin with Shaun Best after the second goal but in an effort to get back into the game we left gaps at the back which were cruelly exploited. To top it all Chris Summers netted his third and Aberaman's fourth after 77 minutes and it was game over.

Lido side:
Leon Cosker - Dan McGrath - Steve Parry - Dan Williams - Steve Cox - Craig Martin - Steve Davies - Kieran Howells - Ian Jones - Andrew Pearson - Michael Waters.

Subs: 
12  Shaun Best for Craig Martin 61
14  Damon Thomas for Kieran Howells 78
15  Carl Edwards for Andrew Pearson 84
16  Corey Thomas
17  Rory McCreesh  

Attendance:223

Report by Peter Reynolds.