Newtown

Brought it down to four points now.

I was at Newtown yesterday for their 0-0 draw against, uh, Bangor City 1876.

In truth, I think Bangor will be a bit disappointed that they didn't take the three points home.

They were against resilient, uh, Newtown team.

Uh, with Jay Owen, Michael Pearson, and, uh, the goalkeeping coach on the bench, they were a bit limited to numbers with, uh, injuries as some teams are at this time of the season.

We, we wouldn't be in this league position that we're in now if it weren't for our defense.

But yeah, so to, for us to get a point today was huge because of we were up against it with just, with the 11 that was on and the two lads who were actually avai- available to come on.

So I'm really pleased for the lads.

And I always remember, you know, our good friend and colleague Steve Snelling commentating on the 1-0 victory.

Was it New Year's Day against Newtown? And the crowd, they were bouncing.

Yeah, it was a big occasion.

Mid Wales football hasn't had those derbies for many years, which is a real shame.

It has been a real positive for Mid Wales having these derby games back.

I think the first game against Newtown at Leighton Park was over 1,300 and it was the same on New Year's Day at the Racket KSUS and it was a bit of a throwback to the good old days of that Mid Wales derby with the big crowd, the big occasion and Yeah, we performed really well on the day and deserved the 1-0 win.

And then when we played at Leighton Park, Newtown were better on that day and they beat us.

So, yeah, there's been some good battles with Newtown since we're both in the same division.

They're big for players, they're big for the management staff, but you can't forget it's big for the supporters as well.

They've been down to Caius on Bank Holiday Monday, a couple of train switches, got off in Newtown, got taxis from Newtown and made a day of it.

And they've seen us get beat and the second half performance was poor and given them very little to shout about.

But they want to be there.

Yeah, if we'd have won that, we'd have gone up that day, but we didn't.

We had to wait for the week after.

I think it was Newtown and Mould that decided it in the end.

Yeah, I know Gillsfield have always been a tough