National League

Tuesday 30th September 2025

Kick Off 19.45 On Time!

Truro City 0 Eastleigh 2, attendance 1,993

40’ 0-1

45’ + 1, 0-2

@ Truro Sports Hub

Langarth Close

Threemilestone

TR4 9AN

£19 Admission

£3.50 Programme available, didn’t bother buying.

I’d seen Truro City play home games twice previously, back in 2002, at their former Treyew Road ground and in March last year, when they staged a Saturday evening game at the ground of Gloucester City, whilst their new Truro Sports Hub ground wasn’t yet open. A few weeks later they did move into their new home and tonight was the perfect opportunity to visit. It’s to the west of Truro itself, in the village of Threemilestone and is part of the Park & Ride set up for the city, so there’s ample car parking and it’s free too and took less than five minutes to exit afterwards. To say the stadium’s underwhelming is an understatement. There’s a good sized seated stand on one side, with cover behind each goal, but viewing is dreadful and even with a crowd tonight, which was way below the stated capacity, getting a decent spot to watch the match from was a challenge. Throw in gangs of kids roaming about, with no interest whatsoever in the football and their newly acquired ‘bandwagon’ fans and you soon get an idea of what kind of experience you’ll get. There were quite a few catering outlets, with large queues and even larger prices! Oddly, on the official Truro City Twitter feed, they thanked the 34 visiting fans for their attendance. Not sure where they came up with this number from though, as the game had no segregation in operation, so there was no way of telling who anyone there was supporting and the visitor’s had cancelled their planned supporters coach, due to insufficient interest, according to their website.

Truro’s rise to National League level has seen them become the highest ranked team ever to come from Cornwall, but on tonight’s showing, that will be short lived. They came into this sitting second bottom in the league table, having beaten bottom club Morecambe 5-0 here on Saturday. Now, if I thought Truro were poor, just what does that say about Morecambe? Eastleigh were hardly great, but they never looked like failing to take all three points here, even if it did take them until just before halftime to break the deadlock, when a cross from the right saw a header cleared off the line, but the clearance was knocked back across the six yard box and fired into the roof of the net from seven yards by Temi Eweka. A minute into stoppage time at the end of the first half they doubled their lead, when a through ball from just inside the centre circle split the defence and the ball was crossed to the far post where it was poked in by Aaron Blair. At no time did Truro ever look like creating anything going forward, let alone score a goal. The win sees Eastleigh remain in twelfth place, whilst Truro are still above Morecambe on goal difference at the bottom, but have played three games more and are only one goal behind Sutton United on goal difference, with the bottom three all on seven points. Fourth from bottom (four go down ) Braintree Town have a four point cushion over the stragglers.

I’d had a totally trouble free journey down to Cornwall. It was an overnight stop for this one and a leisurely drive back on Wednesday morning, rather than battling the overnight roadworks. This once again completes the National League for me and leaves just Everton’s Hill Dickinson Stadium for completion of the top seven tiers in the English pyramid.