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Warminster Town 2 Radstock Town 0

The 118 in attendance watched an excellent display from a Warminster side, growing in confidence. Despite having some of the regular first-team unavailable, the team proved strong and beat Radstock Town 2 – 0.

It was an even opening half, with few clear opportunities to score for either side. The opening goal came in the 38th minute when Alex Churchyard met a corner from Mortimer-Taylor at the far side of the net and thumped the ball home. This celebrates Churchyard’s first goal for the club.

Radstock made their chances of getting level more difficult after a red card saw Tom Pawley sent off for the visitors just four minutes later.

The second half saw Warminster with the extra man become much more dominant. The second goal which sealed the win came in the 53rd minute. Miluk intercepted a pass on the right in Radsotck’s territory, beat two defenders to cross to Gardner on the edge of the box. With his second touch, Gardner left-footed the ball into the net, beating the flailing arms of the keeper. In the end, this proved to be a comfortable win for the home side, and now after three matches puts them in third place in the table.

Team: Crabtree, Bartley, Cockerill, Graham, Lisowski, Churchyard (c), Miluk, Mortimer-Taylor, Gardner, Humphreys, Seviour

Subs used: Pollock, Young, Johnson L,
unused: Johnson M

Next match Saturday, August 14th
Warminster Town v AEK Boco kickoff 3 pm.

Warminster Town 3 Radstock Town 1

The first game of the season kicked off under bright sunshine at Weymouth Street. The 179 in attendance enjoyed a very entertaining game of football, and which the home side went on to win 3-1.

Warminster got off to an excellent start with an early goal in the second minute by Francois Allen who received the ball on the left-hand edge of the penalty area. He fired across goal tucking the ball into the right side, leaving the keeper little chance of saving it.

Warminster pressed the Radstock players making them work hard to keep possession and the intensity paid off. In the 20th minute, Jack Miluk received a pass from De Silva, ran through the defence and into the penalty area. He shot low from the right burying the ball into the left of the net. George Butler scored the third with a low left footed shot from inside the area beating the keeper.

The home side had several other chances in this half which went close and created plenty of excitement in the ground. The preseason tactics of playing higher league teams seems to have worked well and sharpened the players for this game.

Radstock were out early on the pitch after their halftime talk in the dressing room. The Red and Blacks, however, stood up to any renewed vigour from the visitors. More opportunities to increase the scoreline came but the ball doggedly refused to go into the back of the net. The away goal was courtesy of a penalty given for handball very late in the game, in fact in additional time, and tucked away by Sam Gregory.

Warminster : Hotine, Sisson, Barnes, Jeffrey, Churchyard, Miluk, Mortimer-Taylor, Allen, Wain, Butler, Lisowski.

Subs (used): Mandson, Johnson, Seviour, Pawley*

Warminster Town 1 Radstock Town 2

The first home game of the new year saw the arrival of high flying Radstock Town to Weymouth Street. The home side conceded an early goal but did equalize in the first half. A spirited second-half performance from Warminster was undone by a second goal from The Miners, giving them all 3 points in front of 152 fans. 

Radstock’s first goal came in the 11th minute, a ball dropping into the penalty area was met by the head of Radstock’s James Rustell, the ball looped over keeper Nathan Ball and nestled into the back of his net. Warminster’ s equaliser came in the 22nd minute. A long ball from a free-kick quickly taken by Ball found Jack Miluk who ran at the defence up to the edge of the ‘D’.  He crossed the ball to James Vincent on his left who used his left foot to level the score with a low drive into the back of the net.

Minutes later Radstock went close on two occasions. The first hit Ball’s left post and the keeper fell onto the rebound to cut out the danger. The second called for Ball to make a fine save when a free kick is taken just inside Warminster’s which bounced in the penalty area and was heading under the crossbar. There was also a notable goal-line clearance by Lewis Graham in the 38th minute which kept the scores level in this very entertaining first half. On 45 minutes though, the action was at the other end of the pitch when Vincent turned and shot, the keeper fumbled the save, but managed to catch the ball on the second attempt as the shot wasn’t powerful enough to evade him.

The second-half saw Warminster create a first-minute opening chance with halftime substitute Allen’s shot saved by the keeper, Scrivens diving high to his right to prevent the ball from going in at the top left corner. Radstock doubled their lead in the 51st minute with a goal from a tight angle on the left and buried in the right-hand corner of the goal.

Warminster did go on to create more chances and so did Radstock which continued to make this game good to watch, especially for the neutral. The visitors did go down to 10-men when a second yellow card saw the defender Walker-Wiltshire dismissed. The home side tried hard to make the extra man count but when presented with opportunities were unable to make them count. The game though a disappointing result from Warminster’s viewpoint was a good advert for non-league football and that it can provide excitement for football fans wishing to support local clubs.

Team: Ball, Churchyard, Barnes, Graham, De Silva, Pawley, Miluk, Mortimer-Taylor, Fletcher*, Vincent*, Shanley*

Subs (used*) Johnson*, Allen*, McKay*

180 Watch Warminster Win at Home!

With a two-week social media campaign to increase the attendance, there were high hopes that a good size crowd would be at this match. The club was not disappointed with a turn out of 180 to watch Warminster come out as 1 – 0 winners.

With so many recent games in wet weather, it was good to have dry conditions for this game. Radstock are fighting for their place in the league and buoyed by winning the home tie 4 -3 would be hoping to be victorious once again.

The first half was disappointing with a lack of quality from both sides with few chances for either team and little to write home about. The home side had an early opportunity when in the 7th minute Lewis Graham shot on target from a corner kick but, unfortunately, went straight to Scrivens, Radstock’s keeper. A nil-nil at half-time was a fair outcome and no doubt the Red & Black’s manager, Andy Crabtree would have some straight talking to do to get them to raise the performance to that which was being shown on the pitch.

The second half proved that action had been taken in the dressing room and probably why the home side was the last back out on the pitch! Within the opening seconds, Warminster were creating chances. The best of which was in the 52nd minute when good work by captain Charlie Walton, back from his suspension down the left was able to cross into the box. Conner McKay turned and shot from the edge of the penalty area forcing the keeper to make a fine save. A couple of minutes later a corner taken by Eban Mortimer-Taylor was met by the head of Walton 12 yards out and headed just over Radstock’s crossbar.

In the 57th minute, Radstock forced Nathan Ball in goal for Warminster to pull off an excellent save when a shot from the right just inside the penalty area was heading goalbound. Ball dived high to his right and got his hands to it sending the ball over the bar to keep the game goalless. The resulting corner was also caught by Ball in his 6-yard area, something which he had been doing well all game and proving why he is Warminster’s number one keeper.

A cross into the box in the 75th minute was almost converted to a goal by a defending Radstock player who headed the ball forcing an excellent save from his keeper to prevent the ball dropping under the crossbar.

As the time left for scoring was reducing it looked more likely despite the improved performance and the number of corners which Warminster were winning that it was going to be a goalless day for them. With 5 minutes of normal time remaining a throw-in was awarded to Warminster on the right inside the opponents half. This was first headed on by Joel Sissons then headed again from the ever-busy Walton and was met by the head of Jake Wright on the edge of the 6-yard box and squeezed the ball in between the left post and keeper Scrivens who couldn’t prevent the goal.

Deep into additional time Mortimer-Taylor went close and forced another good save by Scrivens. This win moves Warminster up to 8th place on 50 points, and Radstock are third from bottom finding themselves in a relegation battle.

Rob McFerran Warminster’s assistant manager said after the game, “We started the game slowly and never really got going in the first half.
Started the second half much better and as the game wore on you just fancied us to get a goal considering the form we are in and Jake Wright popped up at the far post to squeeze the ball home five minutes from the end.

By the high standards we’ve set of late we did at times look a bit nervous at the back. On days like that you need your keeper to be in great form which Nathan Ball was, he collected every cross with ease, made a top save in the second half and kicked well all game which certainly takes the pressure off. Good teams find a way to win when they don’t play well and we kept going to the end and collected all three points.”

The next game is another home tie when the bottom of the league Bristol Telephones will be the opposition. Warminster beat them seven goals to one earlier in the season, so let’s see if there will be another goal fest on Saturday, March 30th. kickoff 3.00pm.

Team: Ball, Baggs, Barnes, Graham, De Silva, Herd, McKay, Walton, Mortimer-Taylor, Wright, Butler.
Subs (*used): Lisowski, Johnson*, Sisson*, Churchyard*