WELSH FOOTBALL FLYNN PULLING NO PUNCHES AFTER A DISMAL FIRST HALF
Flynn was unhappy with some of the decisions made by referee Mark Heywood, who sent off County coach Wayne Hatswell for his protests.
“I don’t think it was a penalty and for the second goal Mickey was tripped,” added Flynn.
“But I’m not going to go on too much about the refereeing decisions because they still missed a few other chances.
“They could have scored three without any help from the referee.”
The second half saw a much-improved performance from the visitors, with captain Joss Labadie pulling a goal back on 55 minutes.
And defenders Mickey Demetriou and Ben White both went close to further reducing the arrears.
Flynn threw on Lamar Reynolds, Shawn McCoulsky and Joe Quigley but there was no way back into the contest.
“In the second half we got a goal, got some pride back and didn’t give up,” said Flynn.
“And if Mickey’s chance had gone in where he screwed it past the post it might have been a very interesting last 20 minutes.”
M Stech, J Stacey, S Cuthbert (capt), A Sheehan, D Potts, G Rea, H Cornick (J Justin 85), L Gambin (J Cook 72), O Lee, D Hylton, J Collins.
J Mullins, A Jarvis, J Shea, E Lee, A Famewo.
J Day, D Pipe, M O’Brien, M Demetriou, B White, R Willmott (L Reynolds 72), J Labadie (capt) (S McCoulsky 78), B Tozer, S Rigg, F Nouble, F Amond (J Quigley 76). D Butler, M Dolan, S Bennett, J Bittner. 7,681 Mark Heywood THREE wins from three from Gavin Williams’ Martyrs but they didn’t half make hard work of a victory that should have been well in the bag long before the end of the 90 minutes.
The long trip to Cambridgeshire certainly didn’t tire Merthyr in the early stages as they raced into a two goal lead.
Jaye Bowen converted Ian Traylor’s cross from four yards after just nine minutes and five minutes later the same two players combined for Traylor this time to slide the ball under home goalkeeper James Goff.
Well in control you would think but straight from the kick-off some poor marking allowed Phil Draycott to steal in and reduce the arrears.
The early action over the game settled down but on 29 minutes Traylor almost got his foot to a Stuart Fleetwood ball across the face of goal.
Merthyr carved out a number of chances at the start of the second half, Traylor’s free kick finding the roof of Goff’s net before Eliot Richard’s fired over the bar from 20 yards out.
The two goal cushion was restored on 69 minutes as Traylor and Bowen combined once more for the former to get his second of the game.
Cameron Pring hit the St Ives woodwork on 74 minutes but ten minutes later a long ball over the Merthyr defence was enough to allow James Hall to lob the advancing Oliver Davies for the home side’s second.
Nevertheless, it was Merthyr who were on the front foot late on and had to settle for the single goal victory when Kerry Morgan’s free-kick was tipped on to the crossbar by Goff and they now move up to fifth in the Evo Stik League South Premier division.