Without a win this season Threemilestone hoped that they could pull together and get a result from this local derby, unfortunately the dire form continued and ended in an embarrassing defeat at the hands of a useful Frogpool. The game was marred slightly by the fact that no referee was present due to him being reassigned on Friday night to a higher league match. It fell on the shoulders of the home side to provide a man in the middle which they did for the first half with Frogpool providing second half coverage. The home side started brightly and both teams seemed evenly matched, although it must be said that the away sides passing was much crisper. The first goal was a wonder goal with the Frogpool forward firing into the top right hand corner giving the TMS keeper no chance. Threemilestone nearly equalised straight from the start with Jolly firing wide when clean through. Unfortunately for TMS sloppy defending from a free kick gave the away side their second and at the interval it was TMS 0 Frogpool 2.

The second half started abysmally for the Stones when within 4 minutes of the start they had conceded twice. This killed off any spirit that TMS had even though Jolly pulled one back when he headed home from a well worked corner. As time ticked on TMS collapsed and fell into disarray as Frogpool smashed in 3 further goals before the end of the game. Yet again it was not lack of effort from the home side but just lack of quality that saw Threemilestone lose again.

Footnote: Steve Pascoe the manager of the Reserve Team decided after the match to step down, due to personal reasons, and let someone else have the reigns, I would like to thank Steve on behalf of all players for his efforts whilst in charge of the team. The committee has appointed David Hill successor to Steve and I know we all wish him the best in his new appointment .

Richard Luff