Chairman Jon Miles held the fort with Roly Lanes during Glasshoughton’s 4-0 defeat at Hull United
Manager-less Glasshoughton Welfare fell to their third successive defeat after going down 4-0 to Hull United at the impressive KC Lightstream stadium last night.
Chairman Jon Miles and Roly Lanes were in charge of Glasshoughton after Mick Norbury’s shock resignation on Sunday morning.
Due to injuries and work commitments Welfare were only able to travel to Hull with just twelve players and they were a goal down on four minutes.
New fullback Alex Romaniw took the ball down the left wing but lost it in the Hull half. It was played back up the by line and when reaching Josh Tennant he steered it past Matt Stables from eighteen yards .Home keeper Phil Dobson then caused problems with a long kick upfield and the ball was smothered by Stables under pressure on the edge of the penalty area.
Hull were two up on ten minutes when the ball was hit up the Welfare right. It skimmed off the head of Reuben Pearse and fell to the feet of Brett Agnew who rounded Stables and slotted home.
Stables then kept Welfare in the game pushing a Jordan Harrison shot across goal for a corner. He then saved low down as the ball came through a crowd of players and he foiled Agnew who hammered a shot at goal from twenty five yards.
United went three up on twenty two minutes. From a corner Agnew headed at goal and the ball seemed to be headed away by a welfare defender but a linesman deemed the ball to have crossed the line.
Welfare then had their best moments of the game. Great movement between Luke Durham and Danny Middleton saw the ball reach Ashley Scothern ten yards from goal and his effort was brilliantly blocked by Dobson. Scothern came close again a minute later when he poked the ball agonisingly wide of a post.
At the start of the second half Stables made another great save but he was again beaten on sixty four minutes. Agnew crossed the ball into the six yard area and the welfare keeper hesitated with Tennant nipping in and glancing a header home. The same player should have had his third a minute driving wide of a virtual open goal.
Substitute Jordan Marshall shot wide and the Leon Cusworth cleared off the line after Agnew beat Stables with a header from fifteen yards.
Just before the end Nathan Perks curling shot forced Dobson to save low to his left and then Perks hooked a shot just wide.
Glasshoughton Welfare: Stables, Pearse, Romaniw, Kellett, Middleton, Cusworth, Horton, Davies, Perks, Huly, Scothern. Subs: Durham,
Hull United: Dobson, Fox, Walters, Foster, Plummer, Piercy, Harrison, McNamara, Agnew, Tennant, Spinks. Subs: Taylor, Birch, Marshall, Vazquez, Tudor.
Referee: Ben Cass
Attendance: 197
Thanks to Garry Mollon for this report.