The season ended at Newport on Saturday with a 0-3 defeat but with a number of senior players unavailable it can be put down to another stage in the experience of the younger players. We were unable to cope with the height of the YM's strikers and it caused us problems throughout the match. 

We went behind in 8 minutes when a long diagonal ball to the YM right found their 7 Junior Borg unmarked almost on the edge of our area. He steadied himself and with no challenge shot across Rory McCreesh and just inside the far post. YM continued to dictate matters and could have gone two up after 13 minutes but headed over from a corner when really they should have scored. 

After 15 minutes we caught out the YM at the back but the linesman flagged for offside when Remi Whitelock was running through from an onside position. In this move Dan McGrath was injured with a repeat of his hamstring injury and he was replaced by Steve Hughes. We went two down after 22 minutes when following a left sided corner Lewis Sommers at 6' 5'' plus headed in unopposed. 

Our inexperienced was showing as we persisted in hitting high balls forward to Shaun Best who had no chance against another 6 foot plus in the back. Just after the half hour YM hit the post and Lewis Sommers managed to hit the rebound over the bar from inside the six yard box. We were awarded a free kick which Dan Williams knocked into the box but someone breathed on the keeper and YM were awarded a free kick. 

Early in the second half Rory McCreesh held a cross and rolled the ball out but it was intercepted by Sommers who again managed to shoot wide. Our day was summed up when Carl Payne won the ball and passed to Michael Waters who made ground and shot from the edge of the area and nearly hit the corner flag. YM attacked again and were helped when Dan Williams slipped, Rory Made an excellent save tipping the shot over for a corner which Matt Beynon cleared. We went down the other end Steve Davies knocked the ball wide to Steve Hughes who won a corner, from point blank range Shaun Best hit the keeper the ball was cleared and Rory McCreesh made another excellent save. 

It looked as if we'd keep the score to 2-0 but with 15 minutes to go Carl Payne played a square ball straight to Junior Borg who ran forward to score his second of the match.

Lido side
Rory McCreesh  Matt Beynon  Remi Whitelock  Dan Williams  Shaun Morgan  Steve Davies  Dan McGrath  Carl Payne  Shaun Best  Corey Thomas Michael Waters

Subs
12  Darren Franks for Matt Beynon 78
14 Steve Hughes for Dan McGrath 17
15 Matt Jones for Corey Thomas 78

Two bookings  Carl Payne 29 and Shaun Morgan 62

Report by Peter Reynolds.