find the net in two end of season finals cost his team a major trophy this season.

Weldon failed to score in Colts' last three games of the season, including the Friendship Trophy and FA Cup finals which they lost to North Village and Boulevard.

And although the diminutive striker still managed to lead the First Division goal scoring charts with 15 goals it didn't prove enough to give Colts a piece of silverware. Weldon finished two goals ahead of PHC youngster Kenny Mills while three other players, Somerset pair Rodney Bascome and Dwight Basden and Kenny Hill of Boulevard, tied on 12.

Last season Kyle Lightbourne led the way with 33 goals, more than double Weldon's tally. For a long period it looked as though Mills would keep the scoring title at PHC, but Weldon made a late burst with five goals in three games in March.

That Weldon managed to lead the goal scoring race is surprising, for not only did he start the season in midfield for Colts but also missed five games during the season because of a hamstring injury that is still with him.

"Most of my goals -- 11 -- were in the league so I wasn't even scoring much in the cup games,'' said the 24 year old Weldon.

"I had been scoring for three games and then I wasn't scoring for three games. That's been my scoring pattern. For those two finals even if I had gotten one goal it would have made a difference.'' He added: "Actually this is my first season reaching double figures. Before I was playing in midfield and getting five goals or something in that area. I prefer to play striker, being around the goal.

"I'm really proud to be the leading goal scorer. The surge came after the first half of the season when I was playing in midfield. My first target was double figures and when I reached 10 I set another target of 20 and ended up with 15.'' Despite finishing second in the league, Friendship and FA Cup, Weldon says Colts were the second best team during the season behind league champions Somerset. He also insists the better team did not win Sunday's final.

"Somerset got three trophies so basically it was a year for Somerset but we reached two finals and two semi finals and were second in the league by a point,'' the striker pointed out.

"It was a growing time for us but this year we contested for every trophy. I don't think Boulevard were the best team on the day, we just didn't capitalise on our chances.'' Weldon pointed to his own chance in the first half and then the miss from Mark Ray as key chances. "That was from us creating chances but theirs were from mistakes,'' says Weldon. "I'm really disappointed at us not getting something, especially with me being the leading goal scorer.'' When the new season starts not only will Colts be desperate to shake off the bridesmaid tag but Weldon knows he will have to prove that his scoring exploits were not just a one season thing.

"Goal scorers are not proven over one season but a couple of seasons,'' he accepts. "I've got to do it again. Kyle was there every season.'' Consistency is something Commercial League top scorer Desmond Minors has managed over the last few seasons. The Robin Hood striker finished the 1992-93 season as the league's top scorer with 24 goals and his club's MVP as they won the Knockout Cup final.

In his last three seasons in the Commercial League, Minors has been the top scorer with three different teams. In 1988-89 when with Forties he tallied 26 goals which also earned him the MVP award.

The following year he played for Warwick in the Second Division and netted 15 goals to win the Dr V. O'Donnell King Memorial Trophy as the highest goal scorer.

He returned to the Commercial League in 1991-92 and this time in Spinning Wheel Raiders colours scored 22 goals to finish as the leading scorer in the division.

But it hasn't been Minors' scoring exploits that has given him the greatest pleasure in 18 years as a player, rather his deportment on the field for he has never been booked or sent off the field.

"I go by the referee, if he makes a call I never question his authority even if I think he's wrong,'' said Minors.

After stints in the First Division with PHC in 1983-84 and Warwick for a bit of the 90-91 season, Minors is in the Commercial Division to stay. "I really didn't have a shot in the First Division but now I have a home,'' he says.

"I've got a son, 13 months, who may do it in the First Division. I take him along with me to Shelly Bay on Sunday mornings and he knows where the goals are.'' The good news for Robin Hood is Minors intends to stay with them next season after having played for three different Commercial Division teams. "I was trying to be the first player to be the leading scorer with three different teams,'' he explained.

"Now I'm going to stay with Robin Hood and try for 50 goals. I would like to win the FA Cup with a Commercial Division team and I'm looking forward to trying to achieve that.'' Marlon Lindsay of Wolves was the top scorer in the Second Division with 18 goals, but his contribution failed to earn Wolves promotion. Lindsay scored one goal more than Ricky Mallory of Vasco and Ascento Russell of Southampton, whose team's won promotion to the First Division.

ELLINGTON WELDON -- Top scorer with 15 goals but his team still failed to win a single trophy during the season.