Saturday October 20th
Welsh Alliance League  Halkyn Utd 0-0 Junction

A different line up this week with Bobby Colville returning from the land of slumber that led him to miss last week’s reserve game and “Junction till I die” Nathan Jones returning from his brief spell at Glan Conwy.
A beautiful day at Halkyn with Junction hoping to get their first away points of the season. Junction started in positive mood with a corner in the 4th minute, the pressure continued with a free kick on the edge of the box that was blasted over by Lloydy. The home team were limited in their threat to the Junction goal as Junction continued to create and waste several chances. The best chance falling to Bobby Colville whose rasping shot came off the crossbar. In a frustrating half for the Junction bench we saw good play between Natty and Neil Poynton that saw Neil’s shot saved by the keeper.
The half finished 0-0 with Junction guilty of not taking the many chances that they had. A good defensive performance from Tony Priestley and Neil Picton – for the first time ever we witnessed Pico actually being taller than the Halkyn player that he was marking.
Half time: 0-0

The home team started the second half on top with Rob Jones called into action to pull off a good save following a defensive error. Junction’s first chance came in the 51st minute, the ball laid back to Lloydy whose shot was agonisingly over the bar. In the 55th minute a cheeky flick from Nathan saw Bobby clear in the box but the home keeper beat him to the ball. The home team then had a good 10 minutes but Junction should have taken the lead in the 67th minute when following a clearance John Paul ran from his own half beating several Halkyn defenders to go one on one with the keeper – shot just wide.
In the 69th minute Bobby was replaced by Gary John and we witnessed for the second week running an opposition player trying to body check Rob Jones, and for the second week running the smallest player on the pitch was sent crashing to the floor.
Chances galore fell to Junction in the last twenty minutes that saw the home team under constant pressure with chances to Neil Poynton following a good run in the 79th minute, a free kick on the edge of the box in the 86th minute and three minutes later when Neil Poynton found himself with an open goal but blasted his effort over.
Final Score 0-0

A frustrating afternoon as we saw chance after chance go begging, the plus point however was that we kept a clean sheet and played some good football. We need a striker and in view of the transfer window now being closed it may now the time to give the reserves a chance.
Team: R Jones, T Priestley, D Williams, N Picton, D Jones,
N Poynton, N Jones, P Lloyd, JP Colville, B Colville, S Priestley
Subs used: G J Jones