On a blustery April evening TMS traveled to Clijah Croft to face Mount Ambrose and on a postage stamp of a pitch put in the worst performance of the season.

The first half was a messy affair with TMS looking anything but a top of the table side, failing to replicate any of the crisp fluent passing game from the weekends fixture with St Ives. The pitch wasn't helping and the decision was quickly taken to drop the starting 3-5-2 formation in favour of a more orthodox 4-4-2 which allowed the congested midfield to find some space. Both sides created little in the way of outright chances but goals from Anthony Caddy and Mark Taylor gave the Stones a narrow first half lead.

The second half performance didn't get any better and Mount Ambrose were playing by far the better football with some good passing and movement off the ball, but a combination of last ditch defending by the TMS back four and some woeful finishing by the homeside kept the visitors lead intact. TMS created few clear chances on goal, but with the sun disappearing over the horizon Tim Grose snatched a third for the visitors following a great turn on the edge of the box by man of the match Chris Bailey and the victory was secure.

The players knew they hadn't performed well and with a bit more conviction Mount Ambrose may have caused an upset but TMS left for home, not with pride but more importantly with all three points to remain top of the table going into this weekends matches.

Jeremy Hocking, Web Manager