Foul Throw 3

That's been the outside in view for a while now. That takes some doing so credit is worthy. In this case maybe the right club for him to become settled.

If he's 22, I don't see that many clubs being an issue. Just provide him with somewhere he wants to stay, and ultimately somewhere he'll play regularly. Players are as loyal as the managers are to those said players, but the latter don't get the same stick for it. Players want to play in competitive sides, providing the XI includes them. Managers want the same competitive side, and if an "upgrade" becomes available, they go for it.

Liskeard Athletic 5 v 0 Launceston Truro City Reserves 0 v 3 Newquay Wadebridge Town 2 v 1 Holsworthy Bodmin Town 3 v 1 St Dennis Dobwalls 1 v 2 AFC St Austell Penzance 0 v 4 Bude Town Bridport 1 v 3 Wendron United Callington Town 4 v 1 Mullion Camelford 1 v 3 Newton Abbot Spurs Buckland Athletic 6 v 0 Millbrook Helston Athletic 3 v 0 Oldland Abbotonians Ilfracombe Town 1 v 2 St Blazey Saltash United 0 v 3 Brixham Street 1 v 2 Falmouth Town Torpoint Athletic 1 v 3 Bridgwater United

Illogan RBL 1 - 1 Torpoint Athletic 1 (Torpoint win 4-3 on pens AET) Torpoint goal scorer: Tom Rothwell A game of few chances with both side's defences coming out on top and having solid games, all 4 centre halves robust throughout. The first half was Torpoint shooting down the slope and only three chances created for us. A great cross from the right wing from Bark found the free head of Taylor who tamely headed the ball down and wide of the target. Easterbrook found himself in on goal down to an unfortunate slip from the right back, with Easterbrook being closed down by the nearest covering defender his strong side footed effort was parried away by the goalkeeper to safety. The third opportunity came from a driving run infield from Small who skipped a tackle 20yds out and had time to get a driven effort on goal but the shot was too central and easily parried over the bar by Wyatt. We had a number of set pieces in the first half, and the game as a whole, and we didn't get a sniff at all, mainly thanks to the superb handling of the home custodian Wyatt. We limited Illogan's own chances on our goal with Sidey having little to do from memory. Both sides tried to play but final balls didn't have enough quality or the positioning and decision making from the back fours were to a high level. 0-0 at the break. A positive break for us though as we praised the work ethic to limit Illogan's time on the ball and we closed down all over. Just needed to move the ball a little better into forward areas. I think we created less in the 2nd half to be honest, but we did manage to do enough to create the breakthrough. A ball out wide found Bark in time and space 16yards out to drive at goal, with Wyatt's save only parried 12 yards out to give Rothwell the opportunity to guide the loose ball home around 75mins to take the lead. With lots of changes made and a little time wasted on our part, the game began to peter out. But Illogan hadn't given up the ghost yet as the game still hung in the balance. A corner in the 93rd put every Illogan man in the box, including goalkeeper Wyatt, whose strong header at the front post was guided to the back post for the giant skipper Abbott-Smith to head home in front of the home support. A quick turnaround to begin extra-time and a 30mins of little drama to be honest and towards the end you just felt no one would do something special to end the game in any manner other than the lottery of penalties. Thankfully we had plenty of belief and 8 volunteers stuck their hands up so we came up with the order and away we went, with Illogan going first and to my surprise the keeper stepping up first, only to drive his effort wide of the post. We scored our first 3 to lead 3-2 after 6 pens, only for our 4th taker to have his kick saved to the keeper's right and it was level 3-3 after 8. But to our delight the next Illogan pen was well saved and held by Sidey to give our final taker a different pressure, and he slotted with ease wrong footing the keeper for a 4-3 lottery win. As underdogs against last season's finalists and lots of players missing we were delighted to go through and hopefully a good draw in the next round. At the least save me some fuel after having Polperro, Illogan and St Just away in our 3 cup games so far! Onto next Sat with players returning (I've said that for weeks but too many setbacks) where we head to Pennygillam.

Illogan RBL 1 - 1 Torpoint Athletic 1 (Torpoint win 4-3 on pens AET) Torpoint goal scorer: Tom Rothwell A game of few chances with both side's defences coming out on top and having solid games, all 4 centre halves robust throughout. The first half was Torpoint shooting down the slope and only three chances created for us. A great cross from the right wing from Bark found the free head of Taylor who tamely headed the ball down and wide of the target. Easterbrook found himself in on goal down to an unfortunate slip from the right back, with Easterbrook being closed down by the nearest covering defender his strong side footed effort was parried away by the goalkeeper to safety. The third opportunity came from a driving run infield from Small who skipped a tackle 20yds out and had time to get a driven effort on goal but the shot was too central and easily parried over the bar by Wyatt. We had a number of set pieces in the first half, and the game as a whole, and we didn't get a sniff at all, mainly thanks to the superb handling of the home custodian Wyatt. We limited Illogan's own chances on our goal with Sidey having little to do from memory. Both sides tried to play but final balls didn't have enough quality or the positioning and decision making from the back fours were to a high level. 0-0 at the break. A positive break for us though as we praised the work ethic to limit Illogan's time on the ball and we closed down all over. Just needed to move the ball a little better into forward areas. I think we created less in the 2nd half to be honest, but we did manage to do enough to create the breakthrough. A ball out wide found Bark in time and space 16yards out to drive at goal, with Wyatt's save only parried 12 yards out to give Rothwell the opportunity to guide the loose ball home around 75mins to take the lead. With lots of changes made and a little time wasted on our part, the game began to peter out. But Illogan hadn't given up the ghost yet as the game still hung in the balance. A corner in the 93rd put every Illogan man in the box, including goalkeeper Wyatt, whose strong header at the front post was guided to the back post for the giant skipper Abbott-Smith to head home in front of the home support. A quick turnaround to begin extra-time and a 30mins of little drama to be honest and towards the end you just felt no one would do something special to end the game in any manner other than the lottery of penalties. Thankfully we had plenty of belief and 8 volunteers stuck their hands up so we came up with the order and away we went, with Illogan going first and to my surprise the keeper stepping up first, only to drive his effort wide of the post. We scored our first 3 to lead 3-2 after 6 pens, only for our 4th taker to have his kick saved to the keeper's right and it was level 3-3 after 8. But to our delight the next Illogan pen was well saved and held by Sidey to give our final taker a different pressure, and he slotted with ease wrong footing the keeper for a 4-3 lottery win. As underdogs against last season's finalists and lots of players missing we were delighted to go through and hopefully a good draw in the next round. At the least save me some fuel after having Polperro, Illogan and St Just away in our 3 cup games so far! Onto next Sat with players returning (I've said that for weeks but too many setbacks) where we head to Pennygillam.

Liskeard Athletic 6 v 0 Truro City Reserves Wadebridge Town 2 v 1 Penzance Bodmin Town 3 v 2 Launceston Camelford 4 v 1 St Dennis Dobwalls 0 v 3 Wendron United Mullion 1 v 3 Holsworthy Buckland Athletic 2 v 1 AFC St Austell Highworth Town 2 v 0 Newquay Helston Athletic 3 v 0 Street Oldland Abbotonians 1 v 2 Torpoint Athletic St Blazey 2 v 0 Wellington Falmouth Town 0 v 2 Moneyfields Saltash United 0 v 2 Downton

Sticker 1 - 4 Callington Town

I have popped my head in there before as I used to work at Portreath. Just first time having a fixture there. Forecast certainly looking better for it!

Game on at Falmouth apparently. Much better weather than last week hopefully pitches aren't still saturated and take too much of a beating.

Sticker 1 - 3 Callington Town

Camelford 1 v 3 St Blazey Dobwalls 0 v 4 Helston Athletic Truro City Reserves 0 v 4 Newquay (at Newquay)

AFC St Austell 2 v 1 Saltash United Bodmin Town 1 v 4 Bude Town Liskeard Athletic 5 v 0 Launceston Penzance 3 v 1 Mullion Falmouth Town 2 v 1 Torpoint Athletic

Still haven't come across a better official than Neil. Approachable if respectful, will almost commentate his decisions in play which IMO nullifies a few moans, and most importantly has a personality and a bit about him, doesn't take any ****! Years ago I watched a SWL game he officiated, and a player was charging out to close down a wide player, you could see from the speed a foul was coming if not a tough tackle. Neil knew that too and his comms to the player actually coached him into easing off and defending well without committing a tackle at all. Hard to explain in text but it stuck with me, I thought it was excellent. Likely saved the lad a booking.

St Austell 6 - 2 Torpoint Athletic Torpoint goal scorers: Taylor and ManuelJ Another disappointing and bitter result for us. We started very brightly and scored with our first attack in the opening minute. The ball was sprayed out left to Easterbrook who squared the ball to Jimi Taylor 20 yards out and he hit a powerful drive low to the keepers right for an early lead. Minutes after that it should've been 2-0 as a low ball in from the right found Easterbrook unmarked who leant back too much and his side footed effort smashed the crossbar and away to safety. St Austell equalised around 10mins in after good wing play down the left resulted in a dangerous cross being turned into our own net by the stretching Manuel. For the whole first half both St Austell wingers looked quick on the break, particularly out on the right. The left was quick too but was thwarted for the most part because Bark is no slouch either. We should've taken the lead again with Rothwell's one on one hit too close to the keeper and Easterbrook had two other big opportunities when through on goal, with Pacey and Taylor in particular both passing well. But by half time we were 3-1 down with Liam Eddy causing us problems both in his running in behind and link up to feet, with him scoring the 3rd. A frustrated interval but the only difference really was the difference in finishing so not too deflated. From the restart we pulled one back quite quickly with a decent set piece delivery from Taylor being met by a good glancing flick off the head of ManuelJ for 3-2. But it was short lived as around the hour Eddy was played through one on one showing great composure to round our keeper on the edge of the box and roll the ball in despite being closed down quickly by the retreating defender for 4-2. Within 15mins of that it became 6, the 6th from the spot for a Liam Eddy hat trick. A very odd goal though, as a clash of heads inside the box was pounced on quickly by Eddy to fire in the loose ball. But it was disallowed for a "deliberate headbutt" and a penalty, which was eventually taken to restore the rightful goal. Less said about the minutes around that incident the better. From then on we were relatively toothless going forward with too big a mountain to climb and being a man down due to a sin bin during the above incident. A poor score line where the difference was probably the clinical finishing from St Austell and our lack of it. We created a lot of chances in the first half, maybe 5 good shooting opportunities with time and space inside the box and we didn't score any of them, whereas Eddy had 4 chances in the game and bagged 3. The St Austell wide men were a consistent threat as well and we weren't too quick to recover. Unfortunately we lost Copp to injury to add to our growing list which isn't helping the quality with the squad but I know we can turn a corner, hopefully sooner rather than later as the league table looks a lot worse than I'd set our sights on. Next week we have another tough away trip in the cup down to Illogan so there's no easier ones on the horizon. But looking forward to visiting a new club nonetheless.

St Austell 6 - 2 Torpoint Athletic Torpoint goal scorers: Taylor and ManuelJ Another disappointing and bitter result for us. We started very brightly and scored with our first attack in the opening minute. The ball was sprayed out left to Easterbrook who squared the ball to Jimi Taylor 20 yards out and he hit a powerful drive low to the keepers right for an early lead. Minutes after that it should've been 2-0 as a low ball in from the right found Easterbrook unmarked who leant back too much and his side footed effort smashed the crossbar and away to safety. St Austell equalised around 10mins in after good wing play down the left resulted in a dangerous cross being turned into our own net by the stretching Manuel. For the whole first half both St Austell wingers looked quick on the break, particularly out on the right. The left was quick too but was thwarted for the most part because Bark is no slouch either. We should've taken the lead again with Rothwell's one on one hit too close to the keeper and Easterbrook had two other big opportunities when through on goal, with Pacey and Taylor in particular both passing well. But by half time we were 3-1 down with Liam Eddy causing us problems both in his running in behind and link up to feet, with him scoring the 3rd. A frustrated interval but the only difference really was the difference in finishing so not too deflated. From the restart we pulled one back quite quickly with a decent set piece delivery from Taylor being met by a good glancing flick off the head of ManuelJ for 3-2. But it was short lived as around the hour Eddy was played through one on one showing great composure to round our keeper on the edge of the box and roll the ball in despite being closed down quickly by the retreating defender for 4-2. Within 15mins of that it became 6, the 6th from the spot for a Liam Eddy hat trick. A very odd goal though, as a clash of heads inside the box was pounced on quickly by Eddy to fire in the loose ball. But it was disallowed for a "deliberate headbutt" and a penalty, which was eventually taken to restore the rightful goal. Less said about the minutes around that incident the better. From then on we were relatively toothless going forward with too big a mountain to climb and being a man down due to a sin bin during the above incident. A poor score line where the difference was probably the clinical finishing from St Austell and our lack of it. We created a lot of chances in the first half, maybe 5 good shooting opportunities with time and space inside the box and we didn't score any of them, whereas Eddy had 4 chances in the game and bagged 3. The St Austell wide men were a consistent threat as well and we weren't too quick to recover. Unfortunately we lost Copp to injury to add to our growing list which isn't helping the quality with the squad but I know we can turn a corner, hopefully sooner rather than later as the league table looks a lot worse than I'd set our sights on. Next week we have another tough away trip in the cup down to Illogan so there's no easier ones on the horizon. But looking forward to visiting a new club nonetheless.

Holsworthy 0 v 3 AFC St Austell Newquay 1 v 4 Liskeard Athletic Truro City Reserves 2 v 3 Launceston Callington Town 1 v 4 Dobwalls Camelford 3 v 2 Mullion Penzance 3 v 2 Bodmin Town St Dennis 0 v 5 Wadebridge Town Wendron United 4 v 2 Bude Town Saltash United 0 v 3 Bridgwater United Brixham 2 v 0 Torpoint Athletic Falmouth Town 4 v 0 Welton Rovers Helston Athletic 4 v 0 Nailsea & Tickenham St Blazey 2 v 0 Oldland Abbotonians Street 5 v 0 Millbrook

Sorry Dave I can confirm I rarely listen to the whole episode nowadays. Having the ability now on Spotify to click on the pieces you want to listen to certainly doesn't make the episode length an issue, as you said above. I'd cover last week's games and the week ahead where possible. You can only get to one game at a time so it's good to hear context to results from the previous weekend. Stats may show otherwise but I feel the coverage on St Piran Prem and below has decreased. The appetite is naturally at Step 5 and 6 but there are many many other stories below that as a huge area of participation in the county still. One topic I have thought could be introduced is an "Unsung hero", whether that be from a league committee or a club man/woman. We all know from this forum how well respected Phil Hiscox is within the SWL, the work Older did at Penryn, etc. But there are many at all leagues and clubs who deserve a shout out. This topic may even give other listeners ideas for their own clubs to take on board. My first shout out would be Will Kitto at St Teath, who have recently purchased floodlights to improve their facilities further, as well as having a blinding start to life in St Piran East Div 2 after last season's relegation. Looks like they'll be straight back up!

Severe weather protocol from Phil Hiscox incoming...

AFC St Austell 5 v 0 Sticker

Haven't seen any SWL games this season myself but good to see some new names on the list rather than the usuals.

Big error for the first. Must've been poor comms at the back. And how the kit clash between Coxhead's blue strip and Helston's was missed/allowed is nuts at that level and could've caused issues. Thanks for the footage @Piran

Bodmin Town 0 v 4 AFC St Austell Bude Town 3 v 1 Dobwalls Holsworthy 0 v 2 Newquay Launceston 2 v 1 Penzance Mullion 0 v 3 Liskeard Athletic Sticker 0 v 5 Wendron United Truro City Reserves 3 v 1 St Dennis Barnstaple Town 2 v 1 Falmouth Town Buckland Athletic 1 v 2 Helston Athletic Millbrook 0 v 5 Welton Rovers Nailsea & Tickenham 1 v 2 Saltash United Street 2 v 0 St Blazey Torpoint Athletic 0 v 2 Clevedon Town

Matt Wright started for Torpoint Athletic last night at Buckland so maybe it was decided he needed the start under his belt.

Goes without saying that a few of St Austell's squad shouldn't exactly be lower league opposition either. Should be an interesting tie.