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SportEmail James Baylis with your sports newsjames.baylis@ppmedia.co.ukTIME TOREGROUPSO THE seasonis over and AFCTelford Unitedare relegated. Inall honesty their fate wasprobably predictable fromthe first month or so of thecampaign. It took a dozenmountain to climb. The departureof Liam Watson andgames for the New Bucks subsequent appointmentHead outfit to bank their firstwin and from there it alwaysseemed too steep aof Steve Kittrick mid-waythrough the season brieflyled to hope of a revival butLez Dean brings youthe latest news from theNew Bucks Head.ultimately desperate homeform ensured escape fromthe bottom four was just notgoing to happen. In contrastsix wins on their travels wascommendable and allied toLOW COST GAS SERVICES IN TELFORD‘We wont be beaten on PRICE or QUALITY’● Former British Gas Engineer over 20 years experience.● Replacement group boiler from £950● Gas Appliance Servicing from £48● Repairs from £48● Power Flushing from £200● Annual Service on Boiler £48● Get a second gas appliance serviced for half priceIf you find it cheaper within 7 days ofcompletion - we will refund the differenceand give you an extra 10% backT & C’s applyPayno morethan £75labour chargeson repairsPlease Search online ‘Express Gas Telford’ & visitour website for more information or call Sue on:01952 879473anything like decent homeform would have seen theBucks achieve a positioncomfortably above the relegationplaces. As it was relegationwas confirmed withfour games to go and leftonly pride to play for.A draw at home to KidderminsterHarriers may haveconfirmed the Bucks’ relegationbut it was ironically tobe the precursor to a threematch winning run. FirstSouthport were swept aside3-0 at Haigh Avenue beforeTelford returned home totry and win their first leaguehome game since November.Lincoln City were the visitors.Things however werenot straightforward as theImps threatened on severaloccasions. James Montgomeryin the home goaladded to his burgeoningreputation by making a coupleof decent saves, first bygetting in the way of TomMiller’s header in the fourthminute. Jordan Burrow alsowent close for the visitors butshot wide. Telford hot shotTony Gray looked lively andhad a couple of opportunitiesto add to his impressivegoal tally but volleyed wideby the narrowest of margins.Lincoln looked the mostlikely team to break thedeadlock but were undone,to the great relief of most ofthe New Bucks Head crowdthanks to Neill Byrnes glancingheader following AdamFarrell’s peach of a free-kickseven minutes from the end.The goal was greeted aswarmly as if it were a titlewinner and the players celebratedas such, and whynot? After all this home victoryhad been a long timecoming.Telford were looking tomaintain their good form asthey visited Altrincham. Afteran even first half hour it wasGray who edged the Bucksahead. The former Chesterand Southport man reactingwell as the ball reboundedoff a defender to neatly tuckthe ball past Alty keeper DavidParton in the thirty-ninthminute. Gray’s strike wasenough to see the Bucksleading at the interval and insight of their sixth away winof the season, a remarkablehaul for a team languishingnear the foot of the table.That sixth win moved astep closer ten minutes intothe second half as Farrelldoubled the lead. Last season’stop scorer shootinghome from ten yards afterSam Smith’s wild effort fellnicely into the striker’s path.The home side pushed forwardto set up a nervy finish,first Jordan Sinnott hit thepost and then Nicky Cleepulled one back. However,despite late pressure Telfordheld on deservedly to climboff the foot of the table andabove both Nuneaton andDartford.Telford’s winning streakcame to an end in their finalgame, at home to Wrexham.But the Bucks did not godown tamely as they succumbedto a 2-1 defeat.Considering there was nothingbut pride on this game,both teams contributed to adecent and entertaining encounter.The home side werethe first to threaten as BradleyReid headed wide. Thedangerous Louis Moult wasto prove a danger throughoutthe game for Wrexhamand had chances to scorebut it was Buck’s substituteRod McDonald who wentclosest in the first period,his twenty yard free-kick justsqueezing past the post.Wrexham took the lead afterthe hour as Dean Keatesslotted home a penalty followinga Sean Clancy foulin the box. It was not longthough before the Buckswere level, Farrell’s superbfree-kick getting the slightesttouch off a defender to findthe corner of the net. Thegame then opened up asboth sides went for a winner,but it was the Welshmen whoedged ahead. Luke Waterfallwas the man on the spot withan excellently executed volleyfrom the edge of the boxthat gave Montgomery nochance. Telford were to getone more chance but Farrellscuffed his shot from twelveyards in the dying minutes.The Bucks must nowregroup and prepare for apush to return to the ConferencePremier. A quick returnmay not be a foregoneconclusion, but must be thetarget for a club of Telford’sstature. It will be a big challenge,but it is a challengethe club has faced beforeand is well equipped to faceagain.46 / www.wrekinnews.co.uk
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