A BAD day for Colwyn Bay, who not ony lost 3-0 at Nantwich Town but had Mark Quayle sent off eight minutes fom the end.
With Neil Black already sidelined for a month with a broken hand, suspension for Quayle leaves the Seagulls with only one recognised striker for next Saturday.
The Bay also had four players booked, including James Olsen, which leaves him also facing suspension for an accumulation of bookings.
Colwyn Bay, after their midweek exertions at Sheffield, never got to grips with a pitch that could only just have passed the referee's inspection following heavy overnight rain, and was still waterlogged in places at one end.
I thought they looked lightweight at times in these conditions against a physically stronger side, and John Lawless allowed his frustration to get the better of him at times and was lucky to stay on the pitch after being booked in the first half.
Nantwich, however, got all the breaks that were going - particularly with the first goal after 13 minutes.
A long ball forward, which in normal conditions would have run harmlessly through to Jamie Speare, plugged in one of the waterlogged patches just outside the area and Ashley Carter was able to run on to it and steer a shot past the stranded the keeper.
Colwyn Bay had chances to get back in it, but Quayle volleyed over the bar from Murt's nod down, Adam Wade miscued a shot wide from a good position and and Murt put a chance over the bar when Nantwich keeper Lee Jones spilled a shot from Lawless.
Nantwich then got a second goal on 42 minutes when a ball driven across the face of the goal again stuck in the mud for Carter to stab in his second from two yards out.
Colwyn Bay had a lot off the ball in the second half but their crossing was poor and they could not force one save from he keeper.
Their only efforts at goal was a long range shot from Olsen which went wide and a Martin Crowder free kick which he ballooned high over the bar.
Nantwich were always a threat on the break and they sewed up the points on 74 minutes when Carter broke clear on the right and set up a tap in goal for Slovakian Pavol Suhaj.
Bay's bad day was capped when Quayle got a straight red card for going into a challenge showing his studs.
Colwyn Bay: Speare, Wynne (Crowder 64 mins), Boardman, Brandreth, Armstrong (Walker 83), Callaghan (Colin Roberts 87), Wade, Quayle, Murt, Lawless.

Colwyn Bay, however, had made a new signing in 31-year-old ex-Telford United skiper and defender Steve Pope who will join the squad for training next week.

A MUCH better day for Llandudno who scored six second half goals to beat Lex 6-0 and move into second place in the Cymru Alliance as Bala lost at Flint.
Deiniol Graham made a rare appearance to score the final goal after Ben Dews, Bryn Jenkins (2), Grant Montgomery and Darren Jones had got the others.

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