Through the wonders of a Llandudno hotel room with wi-fi, here is my take on tonight's match...
We were a bit unlucky not to earn at least a point from tonight's match.
We were comfortably the best side from kick-off and Danny Sleath put us into a deserved lead with an angled drive from just outside the area. For the remainder of the half Colwyn Bay looked stronger, but Bastock pulled off some good saves to keep us in front.
Colwyn equalised with a very similar goal to our own, but we showed good character in restoring the lead very soon afterwards through a well-taken Marc Newsham effort.
Colwyn equalised again with a strike that we would struggled to have kept out if we'd had three goalkeepers in goal. It was unstoppable.
The defining moment came five minutes from time when Leon Constantine, on as a sub for Ben Fairclough, somehow headed the ball wide of an open goal from three yards out. The goalkeeper was sat on his backside and it really looked easier to score than to miss. You can make excuses - he hadn't been on the pitch that long, the chance came quickly, etc., but really it was a Gordon Smith / Ronnie Rosenthal type of miss. Constantine simply had to score.
After that, Colwyn Bay went up the other end and scored with another thunderbolt that again was simply unstoppable. Nine times out of ten at this level that type of effort would be flying into the car park. But tonight it found the top corner.
Plenty of effort and no shame in defeat tonight. Colwyn are a good side who are in form currently and had kept five consecutive clean sheets prior to tonight. But we caused them plenty of problems and did dserve something from the game.
