Gwent Premier League
Premier Division
Wednesday 16th April 2025
Kick Off 18.15 Actual 18.19
Rogerstone 0 Monmouth Town 1, attendance 75
59’ 0-1
@ Newport Fugitives Athletic Club
High Cross Road (B4591)
High Cross
NP10 9AE
No Admission or Programme.
When I last saw Rogerstone play at home, it was at their former Welfare Ground, where they lost 1-2 to Newport Corinthians back in August 2018. They’ve since moved to Newport Fugitives Athletic Club, which is a venue shared with cricket. From the clubhouse/changing rooms the pitch is on the far side of the cricket field. The pitch is railed off and has a pair of dugouts on the left hand touchline. Hard standing is along one side and part of one end. Behind the near goal end, towards the corner, is a 100 seat stand that is still under construction and currently out of bounds, although they were welding the roof framework during the early stages of the match, so it won’t be too long before it’s in use.
The match was 4th versus 3rd in the league table. Cwmbran Town have already won the league, winning 27 of their 28 games played and are unbeaten with just two games left. Monmouth Town can still overtake second in the table Lliswerry, who they trailed by 13 points coming into this, with five games in hand. It was an excellent game that could have gone either way. Both teams went at it from start to finish. Monmouth had a miss hit cross that came back off the far post and Rogerstone had one cleared off the line and then missed a one on one chance late in the first half, but it remained goalless at the break. Monmouth grabbed the winner just before the hour mark, when a back pass fell short and the striker nipped in to poke it past the ‘keeper into the far corner. Rogerstone pushed hard for an equaliser and despite a ridiculous eleven minutes of stoppage time added, Monmouth held on for the win.
Tonight’s game now sees the top two divisions of this league completed, with just Thornwell Red & White to do in the bottom division. Surprisingly trouble free journey in both directions, just beating the M25 lane closures by a matter of minutes coming home.
