RHYL HELD TO SURPRISING DRAW AT DRUIDS
ELEMENTS CEFN DRUIDS 1 (Whitfield 47)
RHYL 1 (M Williams 53)
WELSH PREMIER LEAGUE - OCT 23, 2009
RHYL will lose the leadership of the Welsh Premier if Llanelli beat lowly Caersws by two clear goals at home tomorrow.
The reason for that is the Lilywhites were held to a surprise draw at struggling Cefn Druids tonight.
Although they had enough chances to win comfortably, Greg Strong's men slipped up against one of their occasional bogey sides.
Both teams spurned what few chances came their way in the first-half, but the game sprang to life immediately after the break when on-loan TNS striker Craig Whitfield raced 40 yards down the left before planting his shot wide of Rhyl keeper James Coates.
Half-time sub Matthew Williams levelled six minutes later with an eight-yard shot from Paul Smith's right-wing cross.
Druids' Gary Penlington forced a tip-over save from Coates with a 30-yarder, while visiting player-manager Strong was twice wide of the target with headers.
But only a superb stop from home keeper Chris Mullock prevented Gareth Owen from netting a winner for Rhyl with the last kick off the match.
RHYL: Coates, Naylor, Stones, Horan (M Williams 51), Strong, Leah, C Williams (Doran 86), Smith, Hunt, Owen, Kirk. Unused subs: Connolly, Dowling, Heenan.
RHYL FC RESULTS 2009/10
Aug 15 - Carmarthen Town (WPL - home) 2-1 (Strong, M Williams)
Aug 21 - Airbus UK Broughton (WPL - away) 2-2 (Hunt 2)
Aug 25 - Airbus UK Broughton (LC - a) 2-1 (Hunt, Owen)
Aug 29 - Port Talbot (WPL - h) 2-0 (M Williams, Hunt)
Sep 1 - Prestatyn Town (LC - h) 2-1 (Naylor, Connolly)
Sep 5 - Gap Connah's Quay (WPL - a) 2-0 (M Williams, Connolly)
Sep 11 - Bangor City (WPL - h) 5-1 (Hunt 2, M Williams pen, C Williams, Connolly)
Sep 19 - Newtown (WPL - a) 4-2 (M Williams 2, Strong, Connolly)
Sep 22 - Airbus (LC - h) 4-0 (Connolly 2, Kirk, Doran)
Sep 26 - Porthmadog (WPL - h) 4-0 (Connolly 3, Kirk)
Oct 3 - Llanfairpwll (WC-a) 3-1 (Connolly 2, Smith)
Oct 6 - Prestatyn Town (LC-a) 3-0 (Connolly, Hunt, C Williams)
Oct 9 - Bala Town (WPL-a) 4-0 (Smith, Doran, Horan, Hunt)
Oct 17 - Neath (WPL-a) 0-2
Oct 23 - Elements Cefn Druids (WPL-a) 1-1 (M Williams)
GOALS: 12 - Mark Connolly; 8 - Lee Hunt; 7 - Matthew Williams; 2 - Tyrone Kirk, Greg Strong, Chris Williams, Paul Smith, Phil Doran; 1 - Gareth Owen, Martyn Naylor, George Horan.
RECORD (all competitions):
PLAYED: 15 WON: 12 DRAWN: 2 LOST: 1 GOALS SCORED: 40 GOALS CONCEDED: 12
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No excuses, a sub-standard performance, to many players had an off night, passing was poor, movement was non existant, no shape to the team with Hunt ploughing a lone furrow up front with no back up from midfield. When John Leah is the most advanced midfielder then you just know something is wrong. Credit to young Smith, thought he battled throughout and for me was the only plus on a miserable night.
Totally agree. Too much negative passing for my liking - not enough thrust. Was there a sense, at the start, that this was going to be an easy night and the three points were rightfully ours?
I won't pick out individuals who did not perform to their usual standard because I'm sure they will know who they are but the introduction of Matty Williams provided a rare spark during the evening.
Credit to Cefn Druids they rode their luck and emerged with credit especially their keeper who produced a couple of outstanding stops in the last seconds of the game to deny us the (totally unwarranted)win.
One point from six is not the makings of Champions and the next three league games, two against TNS and Llanelli, will really test us.