Despite having much of the possession in the first half Daventry Town struggled to test the opposition goalkeeper in the sixth of their pre-season friendlies against the curiously named Swindon Supermarine on Saturday.

Fortunately the Marine strikers were clearly a little short of match fitness themselves and failed to capitalise on several clear opportunities, from which they should have opened the scoring.
It was left to Town to take advantage of some poor Marine defending when former Liverpool Academy trainee Aaron King was clearly felled in the penalty area to provide former Woodford striker Nat Liburd the chance to put Daventry ahead, he made no mistake sending the Marine goalkeeper the wrong way with a thumping shot into the right hand side of the net.

Scott Cross, one of the few players to remain from the squad last season, scored a superb individual goal having come on as a second half substitute, Cross has now scored three goals in this seasons friendly games and is clearly keen to impress new manager Darran Foster, anxious to nail down a place in the starting line-up.

Swindon Supermarine play in the South and West League at the same level as Daventry and are one of the favourites to do well this season so for an under strength Daventry team to defeat them so convincingly is no mean feat.

Daventry Town have lost just two of the six pre-season games so far this season scoring a total of thirteen goals and conceding ten, four of those games were away from Communications Park, where the playing surface is looking in excellent condition after the major work which has taken place in the summer.

Jim Davis

Daventry Town Football Club

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