It was sunny for a change in Landore and, given QPR are one off the bottom of the PDL2 South division and we’d beaten them 7-2 away earlier in the campaign, the portents seemed encouraging.  However, we were missing players such as Josiah Kallicharan, away on international duty, and fielded a very young squad.  Bobby Lewis and Alfie Jones played in the closing minutes the previous evening at Cardiff.  14 year old Ifan Harding, who featured in the U18s squad at Watford last weekend, was named as one of the substitutes.

We lined up essentially 3-5-2: Tom Wright; Kaven Bloniarczyk (captain) (s – Ben Phillips 78m), Archie Quick, Jack May; Alex Godfrey, Bobo Evans, Bobby Lewis (s – Alffi Hughes 59m), Alfie Jones, Elis Thomas (s –Kai Rhodes 59m); Ioan Johnston (s – Caio Ifans 59m), Harvey Gray (s – Ifan Harding 71m).  

Unused sub: Callum Deacon.  No goalkeeper substitute.

To cut to the chase, the choice of a back line of 3 did not work – we were under pressure down both flanks for the entire first half and couldn’t cope with Colombian youth international left winger Ashley Trujillo or James McAvoy (not that one) on the...