A cold afternoon at Poltair Park saw the visit of an inconsistent Grampound side buoyed by a win the previous week. St Austell were also in confident mood after a big derby win at fortress par track in their last encounter with Biscovey, the tea hut crowd were expecting a thriller. Town were in their changed strip of skin tight white.



St Austell were without several regulars : lee Harvey working, Zidane away, Ross Sundercoumbe spear chucking and Richards Osbourne MIA at a stag do slash stock check. Injury also robbed the lillywhites of Phil Hutchins who’s ankle injury is proving to be a real worry to the management and also the rest of the lads as his lineman skills are shocking!!! Luke Buckland once again stepped in between the sticks but was rarely troubled.



The match began in typical fashion for St Austell, very slowly! As once again it took them 30 minutes to warm up, Grampound without ever really threatening caused the Town back four a few problems early on and the game was scrappy to say the least, this was most evident when following the only good passing move of the first half Luke Patton uncharacteristically blazed over from 6 yards, the ball ironically ending up in his old front garden!



The breakthrough came just after, a clumsy foul in the box resulting in a Patton penalty, 1 nil Town. The game was still all over the place, and with little good passing going on frustration began to creep in, this was eased slightly after Nick Bennetts clever lob put St Austell 2 nil up on the stroke of half time, a poor first 45 then and little sign of the carnage to follow.

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we are the biggest town in the county but we cant even raise to sides of 30 players which is a disgrace! u could blame the former first team manager andy ball but he wasnt really helped by the commitee! we have got plenty of good players in the area of st.austell and alot of them are young. the commitee needs to adress this problem as soon as possible and bring in the young and good local lads to play for whats was a prestigous club untill last year! as a local to the club i feel embaressed to say that my local tem is st.austell! so sort it out or soon u will not have any supporters what so ever, which isnt good for the club and also the town of st.austell

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