Wellington AFC

Wellington Reserves are thirteenth in the Premier Division of the Devon and Exeter Football League after this home defeat by Newtown last weekend when some very poor refereeing that lacked direction and dynamism let the away side get away with murder at times and left several Wellington players hoping they had all their body parts in place after some woefully bad tackling was on show at North Street.
 
Wellington again had several of their core players absent through work, first team call ups and injury and were forced to field a shadow squad in many ways, but after shipping an early goal Wellington got back into the game as Nathan Thomas – who put a lot of effort in on the day – got in behind the Newtown back four and with some good ball delivery from Mitch Woodgate at left back and Chris McKee in midfield Wellington were not out of the game by a long way; Darren Mace was good in midfield for Wellington and he used his experience well to manage things for the Tangerines second string.
Chris McDougall played well just behind the front two and drove much of Wellington’s first half play and it is good to have him back,
 
The game pivoted on a very poor penalty decision that went for Newtown in the early part of the second half; with the visiting attacker ending up nearer the North Street Car Park than the Wellington goal once he had gone to ground the spot was pointed to and Newtown doubled their advantage.
 
They tripled it as Wellington lost some of their mojo and although they too had a penalty the strike from Tom Phillips was saved.
 
Wellington saw a two footed challenge on Luke Perry only receive a yellow card when red was the only choice wasn’t it?
 
A visit to Heavitree Social Utd is next up on Saturday.