Milford Utd 1 Narberth 4

Narberth maintained their recent good form as they comfortably accounted for a Milford United side which had enjoyed good form of late but was never able to match the visitors in the midfield area and were always on the back foot once Ralph Phillips boys took the lead before the break.

Robins manager Dave Hackett returned from his siesta in Spain to find his team unable to mount any real periods of pressure so that although Adrian Roberts showed nice touches up front, neither he nor ace scorer Leighton Edwards was ever really able to use their skills because of the inconsistency of the Robins possession.

In stark contrast, Narberths midfield had Paul Phillips knocking the ball nonchalantly around as Huw Vaughan, Raff Barnett and Marc Phillips did much of the spade work so that Phillips could sit in the middle and make his presence felt.

He almost opened the scoring after eight minutes as his low right foot drive from 25 yards beat goalkeeper Richard Phillips all ends up but rapped the right post and was cleared.

Huw Vaughan also volleyed a shot just wide after good work by Wayne Howells and Jason Bridges posed a real threat, scoring after 23 minutes as Vaughans shot was parried by Phillips but only to the lurking Bridges, who buried his left foot drive into the empty Robins net.

Leighton Edwards and Roberts both had long range shots dealt with by Steve Poole, and with Phil Scourfield joining Davy Johns, Gavin Smith and excellent young prospect Richard Henton there were few real opportunities for the Robins.

After the break they were really ripped to shreds as Nick Jones was adjudged to have handled the ball in the box and Raff Barnett scored from the spot to double the Narberth lead.

Even worse was to follow because Grunk Phillips lack of inches in the Robins goal meant that Narberth held the edge from crosses and far post headers by Bridges and Barnett made sure that the Bluebirds were well clear.

Martyn Mathias temporarily raised home hopes as he curled a free kick past Poole from fully 25 yards and sub Simon Rutherford went close but fired over the bar - and Narberth regrouped around Scourfield to ease their way to a good away win that was no more than they deserved.