City needed a point to make sure of the title and they looked to have ground out a draw when Cardiff won a corner in the 91st minute. Fleetwood popped up to score the winner and now City will face Luton Town inthe play off.
Cardiff have won the Wales and West Section, Luton the Central and East Section.
Play off details to be announced.
Congratualtions to the reserves who have held onto the title they won last season. Hopefully this year we can go one better and win the play off.
Report from Paul Evans
The reserves began their league season scoring goals in the first few seconds of consecutive games and they ended it by scoring seconds from the end to defeat Swindon by a goal to nil at Ninian Park this afternoon - I can also remember them scoring twice in injury time against Cheltenham to turn a 1-0 deficit into a 2-1 win. It's been remarked upon by others on here, but the first team are rubbish at scoring late winnning goals - in fact I can't remember us scoring a last minute winner at all since Lennie Lawrence took over as manager!
City put out another young team with only Lee Bullock being what you could really call a first team squad player whilst Swindon had mostly youngsters (including Wales Under 21 cap Adam Birchall) as well as first team regular David Duke at left back and a real blast from the past in 38 year old ex Forest man Ian Woan.
The first half was quite an entertaining affair typified by Swindon breaking forward down the right in the opening seconds and forcing Arran Lee Barrett to palm out an awkward cross. The next real incident came when visiting keeper Matthew Bullman got in a right mess trying to deal with a high bouncing back pass - for a while it seemed like he had the ball over his head and into the goal, but he recovered just in time to save his blushes.
In fact that first impression of Bullman proved to be a misleading one because both he and Lee Barrett went on to make a string of fine saves which went a long way to explaining why such an open game produced so few goals.
For a while City, with Jonathan Kift prominent down the right, looked to dominate without quite being able create the clear cut chance that they probably deserved, but then Woan showed that although his legs may have gone, his quality delivery from dead balls certainly hasn't as he engineered three clear cut chances for Swindon within a couple of minutes. Firstly, his clever quick free kick saw Lance Lewis beat Lee Barrett to the ball only to head against the cross bar, then Danny Parslow had to scramble away a ball bouncing dangerously in front of goal and then Lee Barrett produced a smart save to deny Holgate.
In truth Swindon didn't really threaten too much after that - Lee Barrett produced another fine save to deny a Curtis header and had to deal with some dangerous looking crosses, but that was about it as City went on to dominate the rest of the game territorially.
Bullman produced good saves to deny Bullock and Curtis McDonald before the break, but an evenly matched first half ended goalless.
The second period wasn't as good as the first, but City never looked like suffering the loss which would have left Plymouth needing something like a seven goal win to deny us the title. However, they weren't creating much now either and, apart from two more fine saves by Bullman from the increasingly influential McDonald, it was hard to see where a goal was going to come from.
Jamal Easter replaced Toni Koskela who was feeling his way back after his recent injury with about twenty five minutes to go and he and Fleetwood were almost worked clear on quite a few occasions, but then with barely any of the one minute allotted stoppage time left Easter forced a corner. Easter and Kift worked a short corner routine which resulted in the former's cross being nodded on by Byron Anthony to Stuart Fleetwood who hooked in from about six yards out.
There was barely time for Swindon to restart so City had retained their title with a bit to spare. Having seen all of the their home games I would say that this season's success may not have been as entertaining as last years, but it was probably more impressive because we seemed to have a younger team this year.
Stand out player for me for the reserves this year has been captain Byron Anthony who in most of the games I have seen him play has looked very comfortable at this level while Danny Parslow, Arran Lee-Barrett and Anthony Taylor have consitently turned out good performances.
Just the play off game with Eastern Section champions Luton to go for the reserves and, having been away last year to Reading for the play off, it would be nice to have the game played at Ninian Park this year.