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League Review

A day where the weather provided some heavy rain from kick off and a deluge of goals in
3 of the games. As Avonmouth bounced back from losing their 48-game unbeaten run with
a big win over Gala Wilton. Stoke Gifford United remain the leagues only unbeaten side as
they ran out winners over Frampton United.
We’ll start at Avonmouth where their visitors after first relinquishing their unbeaten start
to their County League life at Frampton were Gala Wilton. In the first minute of the game
a good chance went to Avonmouth with Josh Pearce firing at Gala keeper’s Gareth Eakers
near post, but he pushed the ball behind for a corner. Pearce wasn’t to be denied and he
put Avonmouth ahead on 2 minutes. After 5 minutes Gala made their first attack of the
game followed by a series of corners that Avonmouth defended well and began to take
control.
Just two minutes later Avonmouth’s lead was doubled when Dillan Kerr won a corner and
Matty Groves whipped the ball in for Charlie Aldom to head it into the Gala net. Gala’s
Antonio Pirelli’s freekick goes under the wall but keeper Tom Bradley makes a sharp save
low down to push the ball out for a corner. On 20 minutes a counterattack by Avonmouth
led to Pearce feeding the ball to Matt Groves and his deflected shot falls to Pearce at the
back post but keeper Eakers reacted well to push the ball away. On the half hour Dillan Kerr
reacted well to muscle the Gala keeper off the ball and found Alfie Taylor who found the
gap through several defenders to finish well to make the score 3-0.
Avonmouth were now on top, and Pearce went down the right-hand side beating three Gala
players, but keeper Eakers managed to get a hand to the ball as Pearce tried to take it
around him. A minute later Kyle O’Donovan headed goalwards from a corner, but the ball
was cleared off the line. Five minutes before half time Avonmouth keeper Bradley let a back
pass go under his boot into the net offering a lifeline to Gala. It needed a great save by the
Avonmouth keeper who redeemed himself by keeping out a long shot just before the break.
Gala continued their good spell into the second half, and it needed Aldom to clear a header
off the Avonmouth goal line. This sparked Avonmouth back into life and set Pearce on fire
when he met a Groves corner and his near post header thundered into the Gala net.
Avonmouth again took control and O’Donovan hit a freekick into the box which Kofi Martin
skilfully knocked to the far post where Jack Williams smashed the ball home to make it 5-1.
Avonmouth attacked down the left wing and Kain Edmondson’s shot was blocked but
Pearce was on hand to hit the ball home to secure his hat-trick. Avonmouth goals were now
flowing and Edmunson smashed the ball into the net from the right-hand side to finish off
a great move and he also scored the eighth Avonmouth goal.
At Hillside Gardens a beautiful autumnal morning was interrupted by a deluge of rain at
3pm on the dot until the end of this match, however the rain didn’t spoil Rockleaze
Rangers day as they produced possibly their best football of the season
against Quedgeley Wanderers. Rockleaze came out of the blocks in fifth gear and could
have been 4-0 in 11 minutes after three good chances were spurned by Dan Webb and one
by James Goulden, two of which were good saves from the Quedgeley keeper Charnock.
On 22 minutes Goulden had another great chance but once again it was blocked and went
out for a corner, Goulden wasn’t to be stopped however when he drove the ball in from
close range from the resulting corner taken by Marcus Williams. Just two minutes later
Drew Sawdon made it 2-0 after he fired in from 20 yards with Charnock this time rooted
to the spot. Charnock made another great save on 32 minutes when he tipped over a
dipping long-range effort from Ireland, he could however, do nothing about Fraser Butt’s
drive just 6 minutes later when after a corner went long, Butt picked it up, selected his spot
and struck the ball home superbly from 15 yards out to make it 3-0. Rockleaze seemed
happy with 3-0 at half time however a very late corner by Williams was headed home by
Sawdon to take a more than comfortable 4-0 lead into the break.
Rockleaze were in no mood to sit back in the 2 half and once again came out flying, on
nd
50 minutes Goulden got his second of the match after he tapped home from 2 yards after
Nick Jones drove at the defence and whipped in a super cross. on 53 minutes Webb had
another good chance saved and Williams crashed the rebound against the cross bar from