With two home wins in the same week and seven goals scored, Newtown AFC have moved on from their mid-season wobbles and are once again playing fast, controlled, free-flowing football.
The most recent victory, 4-2 against Colwyn Bay, was the same score by which Newtown won the away fixture earlier in the season.
Then, of course, conditions on the Welsh Riviera were sunny and warm, whereas Saturdays temperatures were sub-zero.
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Colwyn Bay are a youthful, fast and talented team, and will be a force to be reckoned with in a couple of years time. At the moment, however, they were, once again, no match for a much more experienced, resolute and free-scoring Newtown outfit.
In the league standings, no-one will be able to catch the unbeaten – and seemingly unbeatable – TNS. They are streets ahead of everyone else. The real competition is for the runners-up position.
Connah’s Quay are currently second but Newtown, in third position, are in hot pursuit and certainly capable of catching them.
The deciding fixture could well be the Boxing Day encounter, when Newtown are the hosts.
For this game, which promises to be a real Christmas cracker, the Newtown faithful and, of course, supporters from further afield, will be out in force to urge on the home side. It will be a closely fought affair - but my money is on Newtown
David S. Ainsworth, Manchester
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