Goal drought costs Bay again

A GOAL in added time at the end of the game condemned Colwyn Bay to their fourth defeat in the row with a 1-0 Boxing Day defeat at Vauxhall Motors.
That is only the Motormen's third win in 11 home games and the first clean sheet they have kept all season as Jon Newby's attacking woes continues.
In those four straight defeats and six hours off football, the Seagulls' only goal has been a Fraser McLachlan penalty against Lincoln.
Once again they missed two or three good chances to take the lead and probably should have been awarded a penalty when Danny Meadowcroft looked to be hauled to the ground at a free kick, but Newby admitted that since scoring six goals against Droylsden last month his side have mounted very little goal threat.
"We looked great going forward against Droylsden, but since then, apart from the first half against Worcester, we just haven't looked like scoring and that is very frustrating."
He said conceding the late goal was a "kick in the teeth", but added: "All in all the performance wasn't good enough in a poor quality game in which we seemed to lack energy all over the pitch.
"We needed a spark from someone to make something happen, and for me there were a few too many waiting for other people to provide it. That is not good enough and the player's know it is not good enough. They owe everyone a big performance in the return game next Sunday."
Once again Newby left himself on the bench and surely the time has come when he has to give it a go himself.
Apart from Danny Lloyd on the left, Colwyn Bay posed little or no attacking threat with Dan Parkinson having another disappointing game for a player of his supposed ability before being substituted early in the second half.
He was knocked off the ball or lost possession too easily, and when he was played into space with room to put in a really telling cross from the right, he sliced it woefully behind the goal.
I thought the Seagulls should have got a penalty for what looked a clear foul on Meadowcroft and that might have changed the game, but from the chances they did create they failed to force a single save out of home keeper Scott Tynan before half-time.
Vauxhall, even without suspended 17-goal striker Leighton McGivern, came closest to scoring with Craig Mahon's shot rebounding off a post and John Lawless clipping the top of the bar from a free kick.
Cole Stockton also had a great chance set up by Mahon, but shot straight at Jack Cudworth when he should really have scored.
Jack McKenna missed Colwyn Bay's best chance early in the second half when he headed straight into the keeper's arms from just six yards out, and Karl Noon sliced another chance wide as he stretched for Danny Lloyd's low cross.
Lloyd had another penalty shout turned down when he looked to get a push in the back and Gaz Evans had a shot blocked by a defender in the goalmouth.
Vauxhall, however, always looked more of a threat in front of goal and they were denied by a fine double save from Cudworth, parrying another free kick from Lawless before throwing his body in the way of Kevin Holsgrove's follow up shot before the ex-Bay player was flagged offside.
The home side got the match-winner, however, in the first minute of added time when they broke quickly after clearing a Colwyn Bay free kick.
Holsgrove muscled his way past Matty Hughes and although Cudworth did well to block his first shot, he forced his second from the rebound into the net past three Bay defenders who had raced back to try and cover the goalmouth.
"If you can't see out a game in the last three minutes of added time away from home then you don't deserve anything," groaned Newby, who must find an answer quickly to his side's current damaging run of defeats.
Colwyn Bay: Cudworth, Denson, Lea, Meadowcroft, Hughes, McKenna, Evans, McLachlan, Hopley, Parkinson, Noon 52mins), Lloyd. Subs: Davey, King and Benson.