2010/11 Principality Welsh Premier
By Robert Nisbet

A quick and spirited Newtown side always deserved the win which has almost certainly confined the Bluebirds to the Welsh Premier’s bottom spot.
     The West Wales Properties-sponsored Bluebirds took the pitch with the gloomy realization that Bala had won the night before and that only a win would leave them with a realistic chance of avoiding bottom place. Any misgivings they felt may well have increased in a torrid first 15 minutes in which Jehu (West) man-of-the-match, goalkeeper Neil Thomas, brought off a block from Robbie Millington in the third minute, and another from Sam Bailey in the fifth, before he crowned both of those efforts with a superb triple save when most of the Newtown forward line seemed to be pouring in at him.
      The Blues did begin then to create a certain amount going forward but their midfield was playing very deep and too many speculative balls were being pumped up to Jack Christopher and Christian Roberts. Roberts forced one block from the Newtown keeper before the Blues scored, in the 35th minute, from their second real attack. Christopher won a good ball out on the right and played it through to Chris O’Sullivan, who was tripped, but still had the composure to put the penalty away well.
      It looked briefly as if the Blues might take in a half-time lead, but matters were changed by Newtown’s man-of-the-match Robbie Millington, the midfielder signed from Bridgnorth Town in January and one of the success stories of the Welsh Premier’s Conference phase. On the stroke of half-time Millington chased a ball in from the right from Zach Evans and squeezed it in.
      An extraordinary incident in the 48th minute gave us a brief moment’s thought that maybe the gods were smiling on the Bluebirds, when Thomas conceded a penalty and a yellow card for elbowing an attacker, although with little obvious contact. Thomas then pulled off a stunning double save from the penalty and Newtown must now really have been wondering if the ball would ever again get as far as the back of the Bluebirds’ net.
      It was the mercurial Millington who broke the deadlock in the 60th minute when he exploited a momentary hesitation in the Blues defence and poached his second goal. 
      The Bluebirds kept responding but only two efforts, from Roberts and Danny Thomas, went close before the afternoon stared to go really awry. Kyle Graves had gone off with a knock in the 44th minute, and was followed by Christopher in the 63rd. A harsh blow came with a red card for Tom Ramusut in the 79th minute, with a second yellow card, apparently for swearing, after an earlier one for handball which looked more ball-to-hand.
      And now, with all subs on, and O’Sullivan and Danny Thomas limping, the Bluebirds really were out of it. Millington completed his hat-trick in the 82nd minute with a nicely-judged lob and Matthew Cook crashed in a first-timer after a mis-cued clearance had spun his way.
      The Blues travel to Carmarthen on Friday before entertaining Aberystwyth on Friday April 15th.  

Haverfordwest County
Neil Thomas, Kyle Graves (Kristian Griffiths 44'), Richard Evans, Lee Jarman, Mark Dodds, Neil A.Thomas (Ricky Watts 69'), Chris O'Sullivan, Tom Ramasut, Christian Roberts, Jack Christopher (Jamie Bradford 63'), Danny Thomas