Cardiff Combination League

Premier Division

Friday 18th October 2024

Kick Off 19.15 Actual 19.17

Cathays Cons A.F.C. 0 Aberystwyth Exiles 5, attendance 25

10’ 0-1

41’ 0-2

43’ 0-3

47’ 0-4

71’ 0-5

@ Eastern High Community Campus, 3G Pitch

Trowbridge Road

Trowbridge

Rumney

CF3 1XZ

No Admission or Programme.

This was 5th versus 6th in the league table and was not as one sided as the scoreline suggests. Aberystwyth Exiles were just far too clinical and capitalised on every mistake. Having taken an early lead, scrambling in from close range after a defensive mix up, Exiles killed the game off with three goals in a six minute spell spanning the halftime interval. It was 0-2 through an excellent lob from the edge of the box, quickly followed by a clinical finish after intercepting a poor pass across the box by a home defender trying to play out from the back to make it 0-3 just two minutes later. Goal number four arrived a couple of minutes into the second half and the fifth was scored direct from a corner with nineteen minutes left.

The game was played at Eastern High Community Campus, to the east of Cardiff. It is a cage set up, which although having no spectator rail, there was plenty of room around the edge of the pitch and behind each goal, so no problem watching inside the fence. At the halfway line on one side there was a tarmacked area either side of a 60 seat stand, although the view from here was poor, due to both ‘benches’ standing in front. Luckily, it remained dry throughout, so the cover wasn’t needed.

The journey down to Wales was pretty trouble free. The return not so good, with the M4 closed in both directions between the M32 and J18 and then J8 of the M25 at Reigate closed, resulting in having to come off early at J9 and taking a convoluted route due to the road from Leatherhead undergoing resurfacing. Total incompetence by whoever planned both normal and alternate routes to have roadworks going on at the same time.