Before this game both sides held a minutes silence as a mark of respect for the passing of Mike Pascoe, brother of TMS Manager Phil Pascoe and a good friend of the club. Mike was always on hand to help when help was needed and he will be sorely missed by all at the club. Our sincere condolences go to Mike's family, Phil and to the rest of the Pascoe Family at this difficult time.

This weekends visitors were Gulval, and following their recent victory over title rivals Chacewater they were obviously not a team to be taken for granted.

With goalkeeper Kevin Pellow recalled to the side and Lee Fairley replacing the absent Chris Bailey, TMS started in their usual 3-5-2 formation but they got off to a terrible start when in the first minute the visitors caught the defence napping and a quick cross was bundled in when the striker miscontrolled the ball and bobbled it past the Stones keeper. The TMS players collected themselves and slowly started to play their way back into the game. The visitors however were continuing to be a threat. Now in light of Mr Atkinsons recent troubles following after match comments I will be careful how I describe the visitors forward line up but suffice to say sheer bulk was causing the defence plenty of problems! TMS wasted several good chances to equalise before they eventually did manage it with one of the rarest sights in football, an Anthony Caddy header! and the half time whistle followed shortly afterwards with the scores level at one a piece.

The second half began with TMS playing the better football, using the width of the pitch to good advantage and with the Gulval players beginning to wilt as the mercury rose the Stones upped the pace again creating several more good chances to take the lead. Dan Taylor finally provided the breakthrough when his driven finish beat the keeper and went in off the post. Mark Taylor quickly added the third before Dan then grabbed his second and TMS's 100th of the season from close range. With Gulvals attacking option now confined to a slow crawl TMS made a treble substitution and Todd, Grose and Mark Taylor made way for Underhill, Counter and Hocking to see out the remainder of the game. Pick of the subs was Counter who got to the pace of the homesides game quickly and began to run the Gulval left back ragged with some great running and trickery down the line. TMS added two further goals when Ian Jay hit a 20 yard screamer that fizzed into the far corner of the goal and Steve Howson completed the scoring with a fierce miskick that completely fooled the Gulval keeper.

The final whistle blew and the players headed for the pub and a well deserved cold one to celebrate passing the 100 goal mark and with another three points in the bag we awaited news of title rivals Chacewater's result. Unfortunately it appears for all our efforts the rest of the league are happy to just hand the title to Chacewater as Gwinear became the second team in a row to turn up without enough players to play their fixture and subsequently handed over three points!

The Maths therefore remain simple, the title is out of our hands but we will be looking for a good performance to take three points from Newlyn next weekend and with Chacewater facing a tricky trip to St Ives, a team whose pride and passion will mean Chacewater will have to work hard for a win (for a change!), the race is still on and anything can happen....

Jeremy Hocking, Web Manager