- Ton's Doherty (centre) watched by Conaty (right)
Dinas were becoming dangerous on the break, and in the 23rd minute Koweleski pulled off a great save when he dived bravely in front of the onrushing Dinas forwards to parry the ball away.
In the 24th minute Alyn Jones was shown a yellow card for dissent, a couple of minutes later he was on the score sheet. A mistake by Blackwell in the Dinas defence presented the ball to Jones just outside the area, Ton's player of the month for August chipped the ball over Cusheri in the Dinas goal to score his 7th goal in 8 games.
Ton could only keep for 5 minutes when Dinas' right-sided defender, Probis, a superb looping shot from 20 yards over a helpless Koweleski.
With game at 1-1, the referee started to make his mark. When Ton’s Lee Mathews was shown a yellow card for a dangerous tackle, Dinas' Cowan, who had been fouled, took the law into his own hands and hit out at Mathews. The referee, inexplicably showed Cowen a yellow.
A few minutes later Mathews made a rash challenge and was given his second yellow card followed by a red. Ton were down to 10 men. The last 7 minutes of the half was edgy but the Bulldogs got in at half time 1-1.
Six minutes into the second half the game took another bad turn for Ton, when Jones was shown his second yellow for dissent and was then asked to leave the field. So the visitors were down to 9 men. Then there was another hotly contested decision, as big Dinas defender Kinsey brought down Blatchford it appeared to be at least 2 yards inside the penalty area. The referee gave the free kick outside the box, another decision going against the visitors.
The Ton players dug in and then out performed Dinas from this moment on, playing the better football and making the better of the chances with Ryan Shugar firing over.
Then midway through the half with Ton needing fresh legs, manager Richards used his last two substitutes. With Blatchford and Doherty replacing Rees and Bradford, it certainly did the trick. Blatchford was a thorn in the home side from the outset. He then went on and scored Ton’s second goal through pure endeavour. With five players around him in the penalty area, he somehow got the ball past them and then slotted the ball through legs off Cusheri in the Dinas goal.
Dinas tried to break Ton down, but the Bulldogs were not giving anything away with Hayward, Crutch and Picknell prominent at the back for Ton. Then Dinas were awarded a free kick to the left of the Ton area. Round of Dinas hit the ball goalwards and the flight deceived Koweleski, going into the top right-hand corner of the goal.
Ton still played some good football after this and could have gone on to won, but, unfortunately, it wasn't to be.
This was a disappointing draw for Ton Pentre, they deserved the three points, ill discipline costing them dearly. Although the Gus Properties sponsored side won a point, the two red cards will now come home to haunt the Bulldogs as both Jones and Mathews will miss the next game against Llangeinor (Sept. 30th @ Ynys Park KO 2.30pm) in the Welsh Cup.
Ton Pentre: 1. Koweleski; 2. Crutch; 3. Mathews (sent off); 4. Hayward; 5. Picknell; 6. Seburn (Bradford) (Doherty); 7. Shugar; 8. Conaty; 9. Tony Rees (Blatchford); 10. Dale Price; 11. Alyn Jones 1 (Sent off); Subs: 12. Doherty; 14. Bradford; 15. Blatchford 1
