7th December 2025 - Tewkesbury Town move into second
Mark Simpson
Only two matches survived the weather with the bottom two Clubs involved in both games. Tewkesbury Town gained some points on Sharpness whose lead at the top remains solid. Life for Hanham Athletic and Cribbs Reserves at the bottom continues to remain very challenging.
Stoke Gifford Stadium SGS United played Cribbs Reserves in wet and windy conditions the gusting wind not helping at all. The opening exchanges were uneventful with neither team able to get a foothold in the game. The first chance fell to Gifford’s Natalio Lopez whose powerful shot brought a fine save from Corey Weir in the Cribbs goal and from the resulting corner Finn Anderson headed home unchallenged at the far post. Gifford started to impose themselves keeping Weir busy between the sticks. On the stroke of half time another Gifford corner with the same outcome, this time Harry Ford with a free header from inside the box and 2-0 to the hosts. On 65 minutes Cribbs had a chance to reduce the deficit when Toby Pocock was put through on goal with a defence splitting ball by Andy Forward but was denied by a good save from Jack Sheppard. Gifford maintained the upper hand and only a brilliant point blank save by Weir prevented the lead being extended. The game was wrapped up in the final minutes when yet another corner was not dealt with by the Cribbs defence and the ball somehow found its way into the net off Max Wiltshire inside the six-yard box for 3-0 and three points deservedly to the home team.
Hanham Athletic made the trip up to Northway Playing Fields to take on in-form Tewkesbury Town and straight from the kick-off it was Hanham who stunned the home side with a break down the centre and a fumbled cross poked in by Lewis Williams. It didn’t take long, however, for Town to kick into action equalising two minutes later with a good through ball by Nathan Gallaway leaving Jamie Goodwin to beat his defender and slot past David Taylor. Shortly after Taylor did well to stop Goodwin from getting his second. The game was pretty well end-to-end but it was Town who took the lead when a lay down from Goodwin found Alex Roder who found the bottom corner. The game opened up for Town and Goodwin strong on the ball held his defender off to lay in Scott Jordan for the third putting Town in firm control. Taylor then pulled off a fantastic save to deny Jordan his second. After the break, much like the match kick-off Hanham were quick out of the blocks with a strong attack forcing a mistake by Scott Nicholls leading to a great finish from Jordan Rickman to bring Hanham right back in it. Town took ten minutes to get their game going again and good work on the left from Gallaway set up Roder to finish from close range. A long free kick from Lee Llewellyn was unfortunately flicked on by a Hanham defender for an own-goal and 5-2 to complete the scoring. The remainder of the game saw some action at both ends but the result was inevitable and Tewkesbury Town climb to second in the table and leaving Hanham with a lot to do at the other end.
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