Wellington 3 Ross Town 0

ROSS Town travelled to league leaders Wellington, without several first team players on Saturday and came away on the wrong end of a 3 – 0 score line.

Town were still missing Captain Casey Morgan, who was only fit enough for a place on the bench, and Greg Burford and Paul Burnham. Without the backbone of the side Town called upon Chris Murphy and Chris Davies into first team action for the first time this season. Town started strongly and hardly

allowed the home side a kick of the ball for the first 10 minutes, with Eli Wooding Wellington's defence all sorts of problems. After nine minutes, Eli played a delightful ball through to Justin whose effort clipped the outside of the post. This seemed to spur the home side on and they started to cause problems to the Town back line of Spud Jenkins, Chris Murphy and Shaun Aston, although they managed to stay strong until 25 minutes in. The home side were awardeda corner, which looked to have come off the Wellington player. Some slack marking allowed the home side to go one up through a free header.Town were playing some good football again and had a couple of half chances, before the killer blow five minutes before half time. A through ball from midfield allowed the Wellington striker through 1 on 1. He powered his shot under the advancing Dan Morris in goal to put the home side 2 – 0 up at the break. The second half kicked off with Town aware that the next goal was the crucial one. They had a glorious chance to get back in the game five minutes into the half, an excellent ball put into the box

by the hard working Karl Roberts, was met at the far post by Lee Walker, but he could not divert it past the keeper. Almost immediately, a long ball out from Wellington caused some confusion at the back and allowed the

Wellington number 10 to lob Morris for his second of the game to make it 3 – 0.At this point Town could have crumbled but they stayed positive and some outstanding defending by Jenkins and Murphy, and the non stop running of Halfpenny and Eli, allowed Town to finish the game the stronger of the two sides.Games do not get any easier for Town at the moment who travel away to Bromyard on Saturday who are second in the table and could go top if they win their games in hand. Ross Town v Wellington – Dan Morris,

Karl Robert, Lee Walker (Jabba Winney), Spud Jenkins, Chris Murphy,

Shaun Aston, Adam Bridges (c), ChrisDavies, Aidan Cook, Justin Halfpenny,

Eli WoodingT R Yates Man of the Match – Spud Jenkins – A brilliant display of defending by a player relishing a switch backto his position of many years ago.