A heavy shower a couple of hours before kick off left the pitch looking like a paddy field, but with blue skies above it was not going to get any worse and i think both sets of players were happy that the referee decided it was playable rather than spend another week without the beautiful game!

With Newlyn creeping up the table relatively unnoticed into fifth place and an unbeaten run of league games stretching back to late september we were well aware of the potential threat of this team on our own unbeaten record. However Dan Taylor soon put that idea out of mind, when after only five minutes he got on the end of a teasing Lee Fairley cross into the six yard box to poke the ball past the keepers despairing dive. TMS then dominated the next thirty minutes playing some good football considering the conditions but failed to find the goals that the build up play deserved. Then ten minutes before half time Newlyn snatched an equaliser when Pellow fumbled a shot and the attacker pounced to finish from a tight angle.
In the last few minutes of the first half birthday boy Ian Jay entertained the crowd when stretching to keep the ball in play right in front of the crowd, he belly flopped into the huge puddle along the touch line almost causing a tidal wave! (Nice one Ian, reminded me of the John Smiths adverts)

The second half was fairly even with Newlyn having their best spell of the game untill the sixty fifth minute when any hope of them stealing some points were blown away with two goals in two minutes. Firstly Anthony Caddy unleashed a thirty yard effort that sailed into the top left hand corner and virtually seconds after the kick off Dan Taylor made it 3-1 with a run into the box and a neat finish, sliding the ball under the advancing keeper. Marc Taylor made the game safe ten minutes later nodding in a Tim Grose cross to wrap up a good team performance, and although Newlyn gave their all in the last ten minutes they couldn't find a way back.

Phil Pascoe, Manager