Flint Mountain were able to take their minds off the North East Wales League today as they faced a Welsh Cup 1st Qualifying Round game against AFC Brynford. Despite being at home, Mountain were the underdogs as Brynford now ply their trade in the division above. Mountain welcomed Ryan Jones back to the starting line up in place of Nick Longridge, but were otherwise unchanged from the midweek victory over Gresford SSC.

Brynford started the game getting forward quickly and trying to force the issue. Despite starting the brighter, Mountain were able to match Brynford in the opening exchanges. Neither side were able to forge a decent enough chance until the 17th minute when Brynford took the lead. A simple ball through the middle was wasted by Brynford, but as Mountain goalkeeper Ricky Bennett made the catch he fumbled straight to a Brynford player who was left with the easy task and tapping into an empty net.

Just two minutes later, Brynford doubled their lead. This time, full back Ryan Bradley played Brynford's striker onside, and as Bennett rushed out to challenge and punch, the striker headed the ball past the helpless goalkeeper.

The two goal shock spurred Mountain into life, with winger Chris Layne again the focus of Mountain's attacks. He found a lot of joy on the right hand side against the Brynford full back. On the half hour mark, Mountain pulled a goal back. Neat passing and triangles around the center circle found space, where midfielder Keiron Moore was able to play a ball over the defence for Layne to chase. The winger was able to reach the ball before the Brynford goalkeeper, lifting the ball over his head and into the empty net.

Flint Mountain hoped to kick on for the equaliser at that point, but soon found themselves trailing by two goals again. Ricky Bennett was again the culprit of poor keeping, as he spilled another simple catch into the path of a Brynford player to again slot home into the empty net

Mountain rallied again and found themselves another goal just before half time. This time, Craig Jones was brought down by a hard tackle just outside the penalty area. Up stepped Keiron Moore, whose low effort towards the near post was not kept out despite the goalkeeper getting a hand to it.

The second half started much like the first, until Brynford were awarded a penalty 10 minutes into the second half. Central defender Rob Rush was not able to stop a player running through the middle. Ricky Bennett flew out of his goal to stop him, but only succeeded in bringing down the player, giving the referee no option but to award a penalty. Bennett was able to redeem himself by choosing the right way, tipping the penalty onto the post and across the face of goal before it was eventually cleared for a corner.

Brynford were not to be deterred and quickly recovered by scoring their fourth. Brynford's penalty taker was the scorer, making amends for his miss a few minutes earlier by scoring low past Bennett after a slip by Rush in defence.

Mountain rolled the dice to try and recover, replacing Keiron Moore and Alex Millington with Aaron Austin and Terry Jones. The substitutions couldn't help prevent the fifth Brynford goal though. Ricky Bennett was again at fault, this time his poorly judged pass out from a goal kick was intercepted by Brynford who played into the center before it was swept home. Another substitution followed, with Adam Humphreys replacing Craig Jones in central midfield.

Brynford wrapped up their victory just before the end of the game, breaking free and again finding the bottom corner after good work around the box.

With Mountain's Welsh Cup adventure now over, focus can now return to league action. Next week, Mountain make the short away trip to Mold to play Mold Town United, hoping to claim a fourth league win of the season.