Ledbury Town Football Club

Match report

Following a promising start to the year with a 3-2 win away at Fownhope Reserves, before being brought back down to earth with an almighty bump through an 8-2 hammering a fortnight later incurred against Belmont Rangers at Belmont Abbey, Ledbury Town Swifts continued their Herefordshire League Division Two campaign this week by holding lowly Tenbury United Colts to a 1-1 draw at the Ledbury Rugby Football Club Ross Road ground.

Richard Thick and Luke Ledbury’s new young side this season couldn’t repeat the memorable 3-0 defeat of Tenbury at Palmers Meadow back in mid-November, when a Samuel Palmer-Young brace and an additional goal from Dave Feakins finally lifted them off the foot of the league table as Matty O’Hagan scored for the visitors on this occasion, with Feakins again finding the target for the Ledbury third string.

The Swifts, dropping to eleventh in the league table, will be looking to achieve a fourth victory of the season with a first meeting against basement boys Dore Valley at the Seven Site this coming weekend, after the first scheduled meeting between the two sides was postponed on account of a frozen pitch at the Ross Road three weeks ago, before a fortnight’s break sees them host league leaders Ewyas Harold Reserves again at the Ross Road on Saturday 26th February (both games KO 2:00pm).

Ewyas Harold’s second string have already recorded a 2-1 victory over Thick and Ledbury’s squad at their Welsh border venue back in early October, when goals from Dylan Lloyd and substitute player Owen Prout overcame the single goal scored by visiting striker Dan Fish.