Cardiff City news 17/04/02

Wed 17th April 2002. Reserves lose

City's reserves went down to a second successive 2 - 1 defeat. This time is was at Swindon. Adam Collier and Chris Hughes scored for Swindon with Leon Jeanne getting a consolation for City.

Des Hamilton and David Huges returned from injury to start the game and there was a second game in three days for Ceri Hughes.

The teams lined up

Richard McKinney, Chris Collins, Paul Reed, David Bampton, Ian Herring, Josh Thomas, Adam Collier, Nathan Edwards, Neil Crosby, Adam Burley, Chris Hughes

Mark Walton, Gethin Jones, David Hughes, Michael Simpkins, Martyn Giles, Des Hamilton, Ceri Hughes, Keith Evans, Leon Jeanne, Paul Brayson, Jason Bowen.

The two defeats have left City in 7th place in the table with one game to play. It's been a good first season back in competitiove reserve team action and invaluable for players returning from injury.

The top of the table looks like this. Full table

		P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
1	Crystal Palace	23	13	5	5	48	25	+23	44
2	Portsmouth	23	12	5	6	35	21	+14	41
3	Queens Park Rangers	21	11	6	4	43	22	+21	39
4	Brentford	22	11	6	5	44	32	+12	39
5	Luton Town	23	10	7	6	38	28	+10	37
6	Reading	23	10	6	7	35	22	+13	36
7	Cardiff City	23	10	5	8	37	30	+7	35
8	Southend United	24	9	8	7	35	29	+6	35
9	Leyton Orient	23	11	2	10	37	50	-13	35
10	Millwall	22	9	7	6	37	32	+5	34
11	Norwich City	24	9	7	8	40	38	+2	34
12	Oxford United	23	9	7	7	30	33	-3	34