NOMADS HIT FOR SIX BY RUTHLESS RHYL
RHYL 6 (Moran 20, Holt 36, Hunt 41 & 69, Cameron 47 & 54)
CONNAH'S QUAY NOMADS 1 (Herbert 13)
THE hiding John Hulse had predicted his team would dish out when they finally found their shooting boots arrived in some style tonight.
Scathing of his side's poor finishing on Saturday, Hulse could have no complaints this evening as the Lilywhites blitzed Nomads 6-1 to storm to the top of Loosemores League Cup Group Two with a 100% record.
Rhyl scored a legitimate goal on five minutes when the ball crossed the line from a Chris Roberts corner.
Not only did the ball go over the line, it was also handled by a Nomads defender behind it, but the referee gave neither a goal or a penalty.
Quay defender Wayne Morgan warmed Lee Kendall's hands with an eighth minute rocket and the early enterprise the visitors showed brought them a goal on 13 minutes.
A terrible back pass by Carl Ruffer let in striker Chris Herbert who turned and rolled the ball into an empty net from an acute angle to complete silence.
It was somewhat noisier seven minutes later when Dave Cameron flicked on a Jimmy Kelly delivery and Andy Moran lashed in his fourth goal in as many starts from 18 yards.
Moran went close moments later and Lee Hunt miscued after showing great skill to chip a defender.
Good link play between Cameron and Hunt led to Moran narrowly missing the target, but overall the Lilies were struggling playing into the wind and giving the ball away somewhat too easily.
They were nearly punished when ex-Rhyl striker Stewart White capitalised on some loose defending but Kendall was equal to his left-footed 20-yarder.
Then on 36 minutes the hosts won a free-kick on the right, Kelly floated the ball to the back post and an unmarked Matty Holt stooped to head home.
In the 41st minute Hunt steered in number three after a slick interchange with Cameron.
The tie was dead and buried two minutes into the second period when Craig Jones crossed from the right wing and Cameron netted with a bullet header.
Jones then showed phenomenal pace down the right to outdo Morgan and his pinpoint centre to the back stick was headed in again by Cameron.
Things got worse for Nomads when keeper Robert Pritchard hobbled off injured and defender Ben Alston took over between the posts.
On 69 minutes it was 6-1 to Rhyl when George Horan picked out Hunt in the area, and the Lilies front man, back from suspension, fired in his sixth of the campaign.
There was a huge wave of applause around Belle Vue as Chris Sharp came on as substitute for Cameron for his first action for the first team since breaking his leg in a UEFA Cup tie in Suduva in July 2006.
Stand-in Alston made a fine save from a Roberts rocket, but that was the end of the scoring and a great night for Rhyl.
Team: Kendall, Jones (O'Neill 71), Roberts, Wilson, Horan (c), Ruffer, Kelly (Connolly 69), Cameron (Sharp 61), Hunt, Moran, Holt.
Attendance: 261.
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Rhyl's disallowed goal last night shows the urgent need for the use of modern technology. We need to strap Gareth & his camera to the post during games so that the idiot WPL officials who miss these things can be alerted when the ball crosses the line as their guide dogs are obviously not trained to bark when this happens.