"AHAAH, I can see the mist a rolling in from the sea, me hearty" now that's what I call a really crap Cornish accent my beauties, but the team traveled to the end of the county, well as near as you can get, to face a St Buryan side full of confidence, and placed second in the league. The "Gaffer" decided to make a couple of changes to the side that was unfortunate the week before, Luff came in for Elliot "Wilkinson" Jolly who had a more pressing engagement, (something about having to meet his girlfriend off some flight or other, she has only been away a few months! no commitment to the side). Young Rob Pentecost fitted into the back four with Hocking back on first team duties and Darren "The chopper" Woolcock was reintroduced into the midfield to give it some steel.

With the wind swirling in all directions the game kicked off with Threemilestone throwing caution to the wind and attacking their opponents, within a few seconds Luff had fired a shot wide of the goal (very wide) but at least the Stones had thrown down the gauntlet to their opposition. It is fair to say that the majority of the play for the first 25 minutes was with the bottom team and several half chances went begging. St Buryan slowly crept into the game and had a shot cleared off the line and one which cannoned against the crossbar, however, it was the away side who took the lead when Threemilestone's keeper, Mark Carlyon, launched a long kick into the opposing half, fortunately for the Stones their agile forward "Jabbathehutt" Luff managed to direct his header into the path of Steve Pascoe who out paced the St Buryan back line and slotted the ball into the corner of the net, sending the away crowd into wild celebrations, and giving TMS a well deserved lead for their bright play. Normally I would now be sighing and groaning on, how within seconds the lead was thrown away with some bizarre goal that has a million to one odds, but for once this was not the case. From the restart it was obvious that the home side were shaken and they soon found themselves under pressure again with a shot flying over the bar from the TMS forwards after a well worked corner. The half time whistle blew with not only the Stones ahead but with no goals against.

The half time team talk was upbeat for once and the "Gaffer" highlighted one or two areas that the team needed to tighten up on. It must have been some magical property in the air or the tea at half time but somewhere along the way the team went missing for the first fifteen minutes of the second half because once again the Reserves seemed to step out of the twilight zone three one down, yes for the third game in a row, TMS managed to commit "Hara-kiri" and watch three points drain away like water down a plug hole. St Buryan kicked off and from the start began to make in roads into the TMS defence, then from a hopeful punt up field the home sides striker managed to clip the ball over the Stone's keeper who had hesitated in coming for the ball. It wasn't long before the home side had moved into the lead, when from a corner the TMS defence decided to play musical statues, but forgot to include the St Buryan forward who punished them with a well taken header, surely things couldn't get any worse but it did when a well worked move from the home side saw them bury the ball low into the Stone's net. Suddenly TMS awoke from their slumber and started to zip the ball around, David Hill brought himself on up front and made two further changes within 5 minutes, with Ryan "Titchmarsh Healy" Eustice having to retire because of overgrown eyebrows which had caused his right shoulder to become bruised. Although the home side could have extended their lead as TMS pushed forward it was the away side who scored when Pascoe managed to turn a free kick across the box for James Butler to tap in from 1 yard. Could Threemilestone pull this one out of the bag? Well no actually, although Man of the Match Steve Pascoe came very close with seconds remaining when his snap shot sailed just over the bar. The referee blew the final whistle, with Threemilestone going down to their Thirteenth defeat of the season.Next week the Reserves are at home to Spice of Life, come on you Stones .

Richard Luff