It was honours even at the break as highly sought after midfielder Tom Elliott cancelled out Adam Baker’s early strike. The Brewers were solid at the back and patient throughout the afternoon and Jimmy Beadle’s precise volley saw them take the lead before a brace from Josh Greening wrapped up the three points as the title race really begins to hot up.

Taddy boss Billy Miller made just the one change from Tuesday night’s league cup win against Parkgate as Jason Mycoe came back in for Conor Sellars as expected after the gritty midfielder took a kick in the face at Brigg.

For those of you that missed the news, the match was taking place at Selby Town’s ground due to floodlight problems at the i2i Stadium. The Brewers and The Tigers have both faced each other twice already this season at Sandy Lane and at the i2i Stadium in the FA Vase and this third encounter was intriguingly being held at a ‘Neutral Venue’.

In terms of playing conditions at Selby, it was absolutely horrendous as constant snow storms fell at the Plant Fairfax Stadium making it well and truly freezing.

However, the game was kicked off in blue sky sunshine as the pre-match blizzard soon passed. It was Worksop who had the first shot at goal as Steven Woolley spun around three yellow shirts and struck narrowly wide of the mark.

Taddy went straight up the other end and gave The Tigers’ back four their first attack to defend as Julian Lawrance, who got sent off in the first meeting between the two sides nervously spooned over a Jimmy Beadle cross.

The first big chance of the match fell to James Cottingham of Worksop as Woolley played a neat one-touch ball in behind for Cottingham who had a clear view of the goal but his shot was wild and off target.

Selby Town’s pitch didn’t look too bad on first inspection but following the pre-match snow and rain, this soon changed as squelches were aplenty from the off as it started to cut up. Putting the pitch aside, the first goal was scored after 11 minutes as The Brewers took an early lead. Josh Greening carried the ball into the final third and played a lovely weighted ball in behind to Adam Baker who had pulled off his man and the former Bradford City man found the back of the net with a side-footed finish. Worksop goalkeeper Jon Kennedy won’t be happy to watch the goal back however as Baker’s effort was tame and right at him.

Adam Baker’s 11th minute goal was his 15th of the season in all competitions and he had a super chance to make it number 16 and number 2 for Taddy shortly after. Jonathan Greening’s corner was contested by Beadle which dropped kindly for Baker on the volley who smashed inches the wrong side of the post.

Gary Stevens in the Tadcaster goal had his first save to make with 20 minutes gone as Matthew Booth managed to squeeze a shot on target but the former Highworth Town stopper got down well to his left hand side.

However Worksop were back in it two minutes later as recent Sheffield Wednesday trialist Tom Elliott equalised for The Tigers. Tad scored a brilliant counter-attacking goal on Tuesday night at Parkgate and Worksop did something similar to them to draw level. Josh Greening’s corner was cleared at the near post as Steve Woolley picked up the pieces, spun off Jason Mycoe and chipped in behind Taddy’s defence as new signing Alex Nightingale nipped in before Anderson and tried to play it out wide to Elliott but his first attempt was blocked by Dan Clayton. The attempted pass took a couple of fortunate ricochets and fell back to Nightingale whose pass this time made it to Elliott who stroked it under the advancing Stevens.

Taddy looked to reply immediately and the Josh Greening to Adam Baker combination nearly worked again, in identical fashion to the goal as Greening played a brilliantly weighted ball in behind to the speedy Baker but Phil Roe just did enough to toe the ball out for a corner. The set-piece was originally cleared by The Tigers but Liam Ormsby swept it back out to the corner taker Greening who knocked it past Roe and dashed around the other side of the defender before pulling back to Beadle whose scrambled close range shot was hooked out of the danger area.

With half-time approaching it was the elder Greening who tried his luck next for The Brewers as the treble winner hit a firm and low shot to which Kennedy managed to keep hold of, just.

Half-Time: Tadcaster Albion 1-1 Worksop Town

The second half started with a bunch of half chances for both sides, oh and some more snow. Jimmy Beadle went close for Tadcaster and Julian Lawrence headed just over for Worksop as all 392 fans in attendance sensed that the next goal in the match was a big one.

Speaking of the next goal, it came in the 62nd minute and it was Tadcaster Albion that retook the lead. Adam Baker was having an outstanding game on the right hand side and was giving Phil Roe a torrid time. Once again Baker had the pace and power to glide down the wing, pick his head up and cleverly pull it back to the captain Jimmy Beadle who executed a low volley absolutely perfectly as he guided it into the bottom corner.Cue pandemonium as Beadle and co join the Taddy fans in the main stand behind the goal.

There was still time for the visitors to get back into the match plus they were still seeing plenty of the ball but Taddy’s game plan seemed to be working to a tee as they sat and defended terrifically as a unit and this frustrated Worksop when probing.

With that being said they had a golden chance to level the match for a second time as Booth laid it off to James Cottingham in an inside left position and drove low but Gary Stevens came up with a superb save to keep the score line at 2-1.

The save proved to be an even more important one as just a minute later The Brewers extended their lead. As well as Baker, Jordan Armstrong was having an impressive afternoon linking up with Baker time and time again and they did just that for the third goal. Baker shifted to Armstrong, Baker turned on the turbo to get beyond Roe and Armstrong brilliantly chipped over the defender to pick out Baker’s run. Baker drove to the by-line and pulled a cross back looking for Josh Greening in which Cottingham and Lawrance Gorman dived in to try and clear but ended up missing the ball and colliding with each other allowing Josh Greening to fire into the back of the net.

Worksop rallied but their efforts seem to fade in the final 10 minutes on the heavy Selby pitch as everything was pointing to a Tadcaster win. The Brewers put the icing on the cake in the last minute by scoring a fourth. Substitute Conor Sellars sent Josh Greening clean through on goal as Jon Kennedy started to charge out of his goal but then halted in his tracks and Greening superbly curled a low shot from distance which slowly rolled into the back of the net to send the TSC into ecstasy.

Full-Time: Tadcaster Albion 4-1 Worksop Town

The full-time whistle then went shortly after which sealed a massive three points for Tadcaster Albion. The result made it 3-0 over Worksop Town in matches this season with an impressive total aggregate score of 10-3. The Brewers are now five points off Worksop Town at the top of the NCEL Premier Division with four games in hand.

Team: Stevens, Armstrong, Clayton, Heath, Anderson, Ormsby, Baker (Sellars 87), Mycoe, Beadle © (Black 81), Josh Greening, Jonathan Greening

Unused Substitutes: Milne, Stewart and Barrett