NIALL MCGUINNESS insists that Flint Town United haven’t given up on winning the title despite their recent “wobble”.

For the third time in four outings the Silkmen surrendered a lead to drop points as Porthmadog came back from 2-0 down to pocket a point.

That slip follows on from a 2-1 home defeat to Colwyn Bay and a 2-2 draw with Conwy, who had also trailed 2-0, leaving Flint nine points adrift of leaders Prestatyn.

But McGuinness said: “I’ve said it before and I will say it again, it’s all about doing what we can, we can’t look at Prestatyn.

“The aim for us has to be to finish in second place and see where that takes us in terms of catching Prestatyn, because it’s theirs to lose now.

“We won’t give up on the title though, anything can happen in football as we’ve seen, but they are in the driving seat.”

On his side’s run of form, which, aside from a 3-0 success over Buckley, is patch since beating Bala in the Welsh Cup at the start of December, McGuinness said: “It’s a wobble.

“When things change in the game we are having a bit of a wobble at the moment and we are letting teams back in.

“Three times recently we’ve fallen to bits when we’ve conceded and we need to act on that, and act on it fast.”

There was no sign of Flint dropping points as goals from Mark Cadwallader and Alex Titchener left them in control with 20 minutes remaining at Y Traeth.

But John Owen, on-loan from Cefn Druids, and Telor Williams scored to earn Porthmadog an important point in their battle with the drop.

“It’s frustrating,” added McGuinness, who is looking to add to his squad this month. “We played well for large parts of the game.”

It could have been worse for Flint as Porthmadog striker Mel McGuinness was denied in the dying stages by John Danby.

Porthmadog boss Craig Papirnyk said: “Mel said it felt like a loss because he missed that opportunity for us, but he’s worked tremendously hard to get into that position for us in the 91st minute.

“On another day he scores it and we take all three points.

“At 2-0 down, in light of being behind to second in the league, we will take the point all day long.”

Corwen also squandered a two-goal lead to draw 2-2 with visiting Llandudno.

Joe Williams and Ioz Jones had Corwen in control with less than a quarter of the game remaining, but Alex Roberts and a converted penalty by Robbie Parry earned Llandudno a point.

Corwen boss Sion Tudor Jones saw his side build on a 3-0 victory over Llanfair with a point, but he was left wanting more.

“It feels like two points dropped,” said Jones. “We were cruising, they didn’t trouble us at all and we were looking for a third goal.

“Then we concede a cruel goal. It’s a tame shot that takes a bobble, hits our goalkeeper in the shoulder and falls to their player.

“There is not finger pointing at our keeper, but that goal boosted them and they then scored a penalty, which was avoidable.

“It shows how far we’ve come that we are disappointed in only picking up a point against a good Llandudno side.

“We could have been three or four goals up at half-time and that’s the pleasing thing from our point of view.”