Baptism of fire for Reid

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WARRINGTON Town’s new manager Shaun Reid experienced a baptism of fire after watching his team lose out 7-1 at Durham City.
Reid gave debut’s to four new signings in the wake of a number of players leaving the club including Allan Collins, Gavin Salmon, Matt Cross, Mike Dufy and River Humphreys.
Reid brought in Kevin Townson, Michael Jackson, Gerard Kinsella and Michael Reid.
For 20 minutes Warrington looked the better team but found themselves 1-0 down and reduced to 10 men when new signing Michael Jackson was given his marching orders just 30 minutes into his debut for dissent, shortly after Durham’s David Dowson scored the opening goal of the game.
Striker Chris Thompson, (pictured top) who had missed a sitter in the 2nd minute saw an effort chalked off for a dubious off-side and also struck the cross bar.
It was downhill from then as experienced central midfielder Andy Heald was taken off with a fractured cheekbone. Town soon found themselves 2-0 down after 44 minutes when Durham’s Stephen Thompson scored for the home side and in then suffered another double before the break through Johnathan Davies and Andrew Stephenson, going in 4-0 down at half time with the game effectively over as a contest.
At the start of the second half, Steven Thompson grabbed his second and Durham’s fifth goal of the game on 47 minutes.
To their credit Town never gave up and played some good football and in a frantic 2 minutes, Town got back into the game with Kevin Townson (pictured) netting on his debut only to see a defensive mix up gifting Durham a sixth goal, this time Connor Winter getting on the scoresheet.
Rob Hardwick came close with 19 minutes left as his dipping shot hit the crossbar and had the Durham goalkeeper well beaten as the Wire pushed forward.
With less than 10 minutes left, Steven Thompson claimed the matchball with his hat-trick making it 7-1 to the home side and rounding off a bad day at the office for Shaun Reid and his side.
Warrington now travel to Trafford on Tuesday with a 7:45pm kick off when they will be boosted by the return of skipper Mike Tomlinson at the heart of defence and midfielder Kyle Hamid who has now completed a two match ban.


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