Caernarfon Town 0 Haverfordwest County 1

In a stiff wind and on a bumpy pitch, the Bluebirds did enough to graft out their third one-nil win on the trot and to consign Caernarfon to relegation.

In very difficult conditions and with the Canaries scrapping for survival, this was never going to be a flowing game.

The Bluebirds came out of the blocks pretty quickly but were slowly pegged back by a Caernarfon side that just hung in.

The first half passed with no clear-cut chance at either end.

There was rather more incident in the second half although Lee Idzi was never really troubled.

One chance fell to Jack Christopher who uncharacteristically failed to convert it, but the goal came on the hour mark when a ball in from the right saw Christopher and Neil Thomas pressure the Canaries defence. The ball fell to Kevin Morgan and the ex-Newcastle Emlyn player drilled in his first goal for the Bluebirds.

It was never going to be Caernarfon’s afternoon. Their centre back Mike Jackson incurred the disapproval of referee Morgan after an injudicious comment and, after he’d collected a lengthy lecture, play was brought back for a Blues free kick on the halfway line.

When the Canaries’ first dangerous shot on goal went in, in the 90th minute, and was disallowed, their cup of woe was finally brimming.

Derek Brazil, who can’t have been far away from the dreaded manager of the month award, will be left to reflect that his side, without ever really playing well, has picked up ten points from the last four games and that the only goal they’ve conceded was a streaky deflection.

Meanwhile Bangor and Aberystwyth have hit very poor patches and Carmarthen must still be shell-shocked after an eight-nil pasting from TNS.

The Bluebirds are clear in sixth place and could go higher, so the game against Llanelli at the Bridge Meadow should be packed with incident.

Haverfordwest County: Idzi; Briers, Evans, Hanford, Jarman, Michael, Morgan, Blain, Thomas, Christopher (George, 89), Hartley (Elliott, 82).

Sub not used: Robinson.