Tiverton Town Match Reports

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Torquay United (1) 2 Tiverton Town (0) 0

Pre-season Friendly

Tues 24th July 7.30PM

By Nigel Davis

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This game, played in bright sunshine, was played in exhibition style with both sides confidently playing a close passing game that was a joy to behold.

Tivvy started brightly with Andy Taylor spraying the ball around and Paul Kendall immense in defence. Taylor came closest to scoring after 14 minutes when he fired in from way outside the box, causing Michael Poke to tip the ball over for a corner.

Martin Ling’s approach to the game was to field two different Torquay elevens for each half but a freak injury to Joe Oastler on the half hour when an accidental collision caused his nose to be broken forced a rethink and on came Daniel Leadbitter in the 32nd minute. Four minutes later, Tivvy’s attractive close passing game broke down in the middle of their half when Joe Bushin was left with too much to do to prevent the ball from falling into opposition hands and, in a blink of an eye, Ashley Yeoman pounced to fire home the opener, leaving Chris Wright clutching thin air. Rene Howe then came close to adding to Torquay’s tally seconds before the interval but his swivel and shot saw the ball flash inches wide.
With wholescale changes from Torquay, the fear was that Tivvy would struggle against the fresh legs but, if anything, they looked just as fit as their hosts. However, Torquay always looked like scoring and, six minutes after the break, Lloyd Macklin outstripped the Tivvy defence but Wright came out and smothered well.

On 58 minutes he excelled again with two blocks in quick succession to deny Ryan Jarvis and then Macklin. Jarvis was again unlucky on 72 minutes when his shot came back into play off the near post and, with Wright having dived in an effort to save it, he was stranded when Danny Stevens followed up to cannon the ball in off the far post.

Wright was in the action again seven minutes from time to tip a Macklin shot over but Tivvy came close to pulling one back when Jules Emati-Emati’s curling shot left Martin Rice glued to the spot, only for the ball to miss the far post by a whisker.

Tiverton Town (All white):- 1 Chris Wright, 2 Josh Concanen (12 Liam Ellis, half time), 3 Lewis Tasker (14 Tom Tricker, 70m), 4 Kevin Hill, 5 Paul Kendall (captain), 6 Adam Faux (16 Tom Gardner, half time), 7 Andy Taylor (8 Russell Jee, 72m), 8 Harry Nodwell (18 David Steele, half time), 9 Michael Nardiello (15 Owen Howe, 62m), 10 Joe Bushin (17 Jules Emati-Emati, 62m), 11 Josh Searle (11 George Swain, half time)

Torquay United First-Half Squad (All black): 1 Michael Poke, 2 Joe Oastler (12 Daniel Leadbitter, 32m), 3 Kevin Nicholson, 4 Aaron Downes, 7 Lee Mansell, 9 Rene Howe, 15 Billy Bodin, 16 Kirtys MacKenzie, 18 Craig Easton, 22 Niall Thompson, 23 Ashley Yeoman

Torquay United Second-Half Squad: 13 Martin Rice, 5 Brian Saah, 6 Damon Lathrope, 8 Ryan Jarvis, 11 Ian Morris, 12 Daniel Leadbitter (25 George Artemi, 72m), 14 Lloyd Macklin, 19 Danny Stevens (27 Danny Sullivan, 68m), 20 Nathan Craig, 21 Thomas Cruise, 24 Jake Hutchings

Referee:- Marc Whaley, assisted by Andy Tinkler and Ian Loader with Sean Rothwell as fourth official

Clevedon Town	A	01/04/13	SLFD
Merthyr Town	H	30/03/13	SLFD
Paulton Rovers	H	19/03/13	SLFD
North Leigh	H	12/03/13	SLFD
Swindon Supermarine	H	09/03/13	SLFD
Yate Town	A	05/03/13	SLFD
Bridgwater Town	A	02/03/13	SLFD
Exeter City	H	26/02/13	SLC
Cirencester Town	H	23/02/13	SLFD
Wimborne Town	A	16/02/13	SLFD
Abingdon Town	A	12/02/13	SLFD
Cinderford Town	A	09/02/13	SLFD
Didcot Town	A	02/02/13	SLFD
Bishops Cleeve	H	05/01/13	SLFD
Taunton	A	01/01/13	SLFD
Evesham	H	15/12/12	SLFD
Sholing	A	08/12/12	SLFD
Paulton Rovers	H	04/12/12	SLFD
Poole Town	H	01/12/12	SLFD
Hungerford	A	24/11/12	SLFD
Wimborne Town	H	17/11/12	SLFD
North Leigh	A	13/11/12	SLFD
Cirencester Town	A	10/11/12	SLFD
Mangotsfield Utd	A	05/11/12	SLFD
Winchester City	H	03/11/12	SLFD
Merthyr Town	A	30/10/12	SLFD
Swindon Supermarine	H	27/10/12	SLFD
Didcot	H	13/10/12	SLFD
Taunton Town	H	06/10/12	RIC

Weymouth	A	29/09/12	FAT
Taunton Town	H	25/09/12	SLFD
Shortwood United	H	22/09/12	SLFD
Thatcham Town	A	15/09/12	FAT
Bridgwater Town	H	08/09/12	SLFD
Yate Town	H	04/09/12	SLFD
Bishops Cleeve	A	01/09/12	SLFD
Clevedon	A	25/08/12	FACup
Paulton Rovers	A	21/08/12	SLFD
Abingdon	H	18/08/12	SLFD
Torquay	A	24/07/12	Friendly

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15	Evesham United	36	41
16	Tiverton Town	36	40
17	Taunton Town	35	38
18	Mangotsfield United	35	37

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