Double top – that’s the Market Drayton Town trademark this week with both club sides leading their leagues.
The Drayton senior string lead the Aspire Midlands Alliance by two points and their Reserves head up the County League’s premier division.
Very, very early days of course, but it still has a great buzz about it and, perhaps more importantly, sets the tone for an entertaining Bank Holiday at Greenfields.
The Reserves entertain Dawley Bank tomorrow while Town, who visit Coventry Sphinx, are at home to Tipton on Monday, 3pm.
Drayton’s senior string underlined their league form on Tuesday evening with a convincing 3-0 derby win over Bridgnorth for the home faithful.
Stuart Ellis put them in the first half driving seat with a superb free kick into the far corner.
Good headers from Jason Francis and Martyn Davies, the latter from Ellis’s fine cross, made it three – and there could have been more.
“We played really well and might have had at least as many goals again,” said Town manager Simon Line. Which is not the quote you’d have got from him after Saturday’s 4-2 win at Burrowash Victoria in an FA Cup preliminary round tie.
It took a ‘meaningful’ mid-break dressing room discussion conducted by Line to turn a Town side sagging at the seams into a dominant outfit now going forward to visit Glapwell on August 30.
“We were abysmal in the first half... there’s no other word for it,” said Line.
Jason Francis, Martyn Davies, sub Wayne Edwards and an own goal capped the remarkable turnaround.
Striker-cum-Gladiator contender Tom Ward could test his injury in a run-out with the reserves while James Carvey and Duncan Horler join the first team squad.
