Another goal from Danny MacDonald and one from Jack Alderdice secured the points for Town on a muggy day in the Cynon Valley.

'Ceiber had been relegated last season and were the third of the three relegated sides that Town have now dispatched in their four games so far, and although it was never easy it was rather more comfortable than the scoreline suggests, especially after Town had ridden out the stormy first half when Dean Palmer and the returning Smith were lucky only to have received yellow cards after a number of brushes with the man in black.

The Kingfishers took the lead on 14 minutes when MacDonald found himself unmarked at the back post to meet a cross from Palmer which he flicked back across the 'keeper.

It was MacDonald's seventh goal in four games and his link play with Bowen has added an even sharper cutting edge to a Monmouth strike force which wasn't exactly blunt to begin with.

For the rest of the half Monmouth were increasingly sucked into retaliating or rash challenges, and Dean Palmer and the returning Smith were lucky just to have received the one yellow each from an official who on another day would have been brandishing red.

For full story see Beacon 31/08/11.