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Good afternoon and a very warm welcome to everyone, including the
players, management, directors, and supporters of Redhill. We hope you
enjoy your visit here and wish you a safe trip home.

Yate Town head into today’s FA Cup encounter in very positive form. After
sealing progression to the Third Qualifying Round with a fine win over 10-
man Gosport Borough two weeks ago, Paul Michael’s side ran out 4-0
victors over Beaconsfield Town, earning a first home league victory in the
process.
Pressing forward from the start, the home side saw visiting goalkeeper
Aymen Azaze off his line to block David Sims-Burgess as he burst through
and then Ollie Mehew shot wide when played through by Nick Rhodes.

It was Mehew though who was the architect of Town's opening goal. He
was scythed down as his mazy run took him into the box and Sims-Burgess
dispatched the spot kick after seventeen minutes.
Further pressure was rewarded with a second goal four minutes later, Will
Tunnicliffe heading a Joe Tumelty corner into the mix and Mehew battling
through a mass of bodies to hook the ball into the net from close range.

The third goal, and Sims-Burgess' second penalty of the game, came in first
half stoppage time after he had been bundled over as he tried to engineer
himself a shooting chance in the area.
The visitors made changes at the break and inevitably they then enjoyed
their best spell of the game.

Nathan Minhas fired over the crossbar from distance and then had an effort
held by Andy Hannah while their best chance came from Carl Stewart, a
rising drive from outside the box that Hannah had to touch away for a
corner.

At the other end Ricardo Rees headed wide from a Tumelty free kick and
Tunnicliffe sent his header wide when he met a deep right wing cross from
Sam Turl.
Town put the game to bed with ten minutes left, Josh Allen's long pass out
of defence picking out James Harding who opened his goal-scoring account
by drilling the ball past Azaze and into the far corner.
Yate were due a tricky away tie at Taunton Town on Tuesday – however this
was postponed by the hosts on the day of the game due to the recent fuel
shortages.
Today’s opponents have also had to postpone a recent fixture, as they were
due to face Farnham Town on Tuesday. They are, along with Jersey Bulls,