A somewhat better week in the U18 Floodlight Division of the Corsham Print Wiltshire Senior League with three games played although, frustratingly Radstock Town were unable to raise a side for their game away at Wims 11 on 3G, wasting a hard-to-get pitch booking. After all the postponements due to the weather, plus several postponements by Radstock due to County Cup fixtures, this was extremely frustrating.  

Two of the three games that were played both had an impact on this season’s title race. On Monday night league leaders Swindon Supermarine fell to their second defeat of the season, losing 3-1 away at Bishops Cannings. Two more goals for Jack Spanswick, who took his total for the season to 13, plus one from Bailey Penney secured the three points for Bishops Cannings, Isaac Chalk with the Swindon Supermarine reply. The win for Bishops Cannings sees them remain in third spot two points behind Calne Town and also saw them move to within ten points of the league leaders with three games in hand in what is developing into an exciting title race.

The other game on Monday night saw a comfortable win at home for Kintbury Rangers over Trowbridge Town. After a blistering first half Kintbury led 6-0 at the break but a much improved second half performance from the visitors limited Kintbury to just one more goal as it finished 7-0 to Kintbury. Stanley Herdman helped himself to a hat-trick, Bobby Canning bagged a brace and there were further goals from Harry Stewart and Daniel Wyles.  

Wims 11 title ambitions suffered a blow on Thursday night when they fell to a defeat at Amesbury Town. Credit to Amesbury for switching the game to a 3G pitch at Bulford to enable the game against Wims to go ahead, especially after Wims had seen that game on Monday night postponed by Radstock Town. Amesbury led 1-0 at the break thanks to a second goal of the season from Toby Cooper. It remained that way until 15 minutes from time when Brandon Crofts doubled Amesbury’s lead and when Daniel Smullen added a third three minutes from time the home side knew the victory was theirs. There was still time for one more goal though, Noah Gray scoring a last-minute consolation goal for Wims. The defeat for Wims, coupled with the defeat of Swindon Supermarine on Monday night, means every side has now lost two games, with Calne Town the side with the fewest points dropped at this stage of the season.

This coming week sees four games in the First Round of the U18 League Cup and hopefully the improved weather will allow all four to go ahead.

23 February 2026