Taddy Bring A Point Back From Wales

Brewers boss Billy Miller named an unchanged starting team for the third successive match, a first for the season.

There were a few new additions to the bench however with i2i International Soccer Academy Athletes Ilyess Jeridi and Leon Pohls earning a spot in the squad for the first time.

The travelling Taddy fans were in fine voice all afternoon but it was the home side who looked to force the issue early on with Danny Bartle and Scott Bakkor both going close.

‘God Save the Queen’ and ‘Tad All Over’ were just a couple of songs that were being belted out by the well fuelled up Brewers but Bay continued to look the more assertive as captain Sam Barnes glanced narrowly wide of the mark.

With the likes of Tom Corner and Josh Greening up front, Taddy are a threat to any team and the aforementioned Corner missed a glorious opportunity to ripple the back of the net.

Jordan Armstrong galloped down the right wing and delivered the perfect cross for the towering frontman but Corner misjudged the flight of the ball and ended up shouldering agonisingly over the crossbar from five yards.

If Corner made a clean contact with his head he’d have been celebrating his 14th goal of the campaign.

Taddy came out in the second half and took to the game to their Welsh opponents and almost found a way through ten minutes in.

Josh Greening performed a sumptuous piece of skill to beat Danny Collins before seeing his through ball fortunately make its way to Conor Sellars.

With the ball dropping out of the sky Sellars just had goalkeeper Kieran Wolland to beat.

Sellars side-footed first time on the volley and it almost squirmed underneath the goalkeeper but Wolland managed to trap the ball under his legs and collect.

Colwyn Bay have struggled for form in recent weeks which has seen them slowly teeter down the division but they were gifted a clear sighting at goal four minutes later.

A ball over the top chased down by Danny Bartle caused the Brewers problems as goalkeeper Chandler Hallwood rushed off his line but missed the ball.

With the goal open and Josh Barrett busting a gut to get back, Bartle panicked and blazed well over from an acute angle.

It was a game lacking in quality as both sides looked assured in the main defensively but not quite having the clinical edge in front of goal.

Tad chief Billy Miller insisted that the strong winds made it difficult for both sides to get a foothold on the contest.

Taddy’s final chance of the afternoon came five minutes from time when Josh Greening was pulled back right on the edge of the penalty area.

Set-piece specialist Conor Sellars stood over the free-kick but could only curl into the hands of Kieran Wolland.

Both the Brewers and the Seagulls will think they could have won it late on with a couple of chances.

Jamie Rainford signed for Bay from Glossop North End a fortnight ago and he couldn’t have asked for a better chance to open his account after coming off the bench.

He played a lovely one-two inside Taddy’s penalty area but the striker could only turn tamely into the path of Chandler Hallwood.

The last action of the match was a half-hearted penalty appeal from Taddy deep into injury time.

Substitute and Monday night’s match winner Carl Stewart felt he was pulled back by defender Matty Regan but referee Ben Atkinson was unconvinced.

On reflection, the real winners of the day were the 80+ Taddy fans who made the six hour round trip and roared their side on for 94 minutes in Wales.

Full-Time: Colwyn Bay 0-0 Tadcaster Albion

Colwyn Bay: Wolland, Turner, Regan, Collins, Grant, Barnes ©, Gaghan, Schofield, Bakkor, Bartle, Andrews

Subs: Roddy, Booth, Rainford, Williams, Pino

Tadcaster: Hallwood, Armstrong, Grant, Barrett, Anderson ©, Thirkell (Ibrahimi 81), Youhill, Jon Greening (Shepherd 78), Corner (Stewart 65), Josh Greening, Sellars

Unused: Jeridi, Pohls