Guilsfield’s three cheers for Town

Things may not have gone entirely to plan for new manager Russell Cadwallader since taking over but his Guilsfield side breathed a collective sigh of relief this week at the news emerging three miles up the road.

The side, which has lost five of its last six matches, has lost its first two games under Cadwallader’s tenure and he admitted after last week’s Welsh Cup defeat against Rhos Aelwyd that things were “not quite clicking into place”.

And the club faced a nervous wait for the news from Technogroup Welshpool’s emergency meeting on Monday night and toasted its outcome just as much as the Welshpool faithful.

“We would have lost three points had Welshpool decided to pull out,” said Guilsfield Chairman, Paul Harding. “We beat them earlier in the season so that game would have been wiped out. We are obviously happy that the club has decided to continue because we wouldn’t want to see any local club go but, given our position, those three points are crucial for us at the moment.”

It would have seen the Guils slip below Rhayader into bottom spot; a baffling scenario considering the quality of the playing squad that Cadwallader has at his disposal.

“It is not quite clicking into place at the moment,” he said. “We have got a lot of good players at this club and we just need to find the right formula that works.”

Chris Roberts, Cadwallader’s new assistant, is likely to start tomorrow with Rob Cookson rejoining an already overstaffed squad, compounding the manager’s selection headache ahead of the trip to Llandudno.

Technogroup Welshpool, meanwhile, will look to regroup under caretaker manager Benji Evans when they take on Llangefni. Rival clubs have been circling over Maesydre like vultures this week looking to pick up any scraps that could have resulted from the club’s precarious position, but a defiant message that ‘the show will go on’ seems to have held them at bay, for now.