BRICKFIELD RANGERS (Clywedog Park)

WELSH NATIONAL LEAGUE (WREXHAM AREA) PREMIER DIVISION, BRICKFIELD RANGERS 1- 2 MOLD ALEXANDRA, ATTENDANCE: 48 (h/c)

No programme today
but I did get an issue on
my visit to Court Road
in 2005

After the madness (and expense) of an Easter Weekend groundhopping in the North East, I opted to stay local (and cheap) by heading to the outskirts of Wrexham town centre.

This season Brickfield Rangers have a new home at Clywedog Park having moved from their spiritual home of Court Road, where they had been based since their formation in 1976. This was where a very young Robert William Savage started his playing career.

When I began my groundhopping odyssey many years ago, Court Road was one of the first grounds I visited. The ground was simply a roped off pitch and it is fair to say that Clywedog Park is a vast improvement. 

The pitch is fully railed off and there is a tea bar behind the goal. There is no football furniture but the club are hoping to install changing rooms as currently they are using the adjacent secondary school.

Today Brickfield (playing in unfamiliar orange instead of their usual green and white) were taking on Mold Alex, the result today having implications at both ends of the table.

At the beginning of play, Rangers were third bottom whilst Alex were top of the table. However Mold have second placed Hawarden breathing down their necks, just a point behind but with a game in hand.

Mold scored two first half goals, the opener was from Lewis Buckley after a well work free kick routine and Buckley also added the second , this time a tap in after a goalkeeping error.

Brickfield manager Peter Gabriel had clearly urged his side to don't give up and they had more of the ball in the second period. They did pull a goal back late on through Ryan Nelson but Mold were able to see the game out to claim the victory.