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APR-30 |
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Under
12's win Knockout cup
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Congratulations
to the under 12's team and management for the victory over Baglan in the under
12's Knockout cup final. They
made up for disappointment of last weekends cup final defeat by beating Baglan
4-2 to finish of their season in style. Our
scorers on the day were Jake Price (1) and Jack Underwood (3). Young
was Jack was also voted
man of the match. 
Tony
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APR-30 |
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Lido
Ladies secure a point against Ferndale
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Our Lido Ladies pulled off a
great draw against top side Ferndale yesterday, they drew their home game 2-2
with the Fillies.
Tony
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APR-28 |
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No
updates after Sun night - Wed Night
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If anyone has any updates to the
website, and you want them put up before next Wednesday night, please email
them to me before 8:00 pm Sunday.
There will be no more updates
past 8:00 pm Sunday until late Wednesday night. the reason being is I will be
in Port Talbot/Aberavon from Monday dinner time until Wednesday Morning,
taking in the Goytre home derby game on the Tuesday night and the Youths home
game against Carmarthen on the Monday night,, SO SEE YOU THERE ;)
Tony
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APR-27 |
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Lido
win on the road
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We won our 8th away game of the
league this evening, with a 1-0 victory over Maesteg, the only goal of the
game came on 42 minutes from a superbly timed cross from Craig Jones and Karl
Lewis gratefully put it away.
We almost
went 2-0 up 2 minutes later, this time a Shaun O'Leary cross was met by Ianto
and his effort hit the bar. But that's how it finished and we are now on 60
points and closing in on 4th place side Ton Pentre.
Lido team: B Thomas - C Jones
- K Lewis - D Williams - C Edwards - C Martin - C Latham - P Evans - I Jones -
S O'Leary - J Felton.
Subs: C Piper - G Hurley - M
Lavis.
View
league table
Tony
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APR-27 |
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Youth's
draw in derby game
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The youths were in welsh league
action last night, when near rivals Goytre were the visitors to the Marston.
The game ended in a 1-1 draw
which consolidates our 3rd place in the table, but Briton Ferry and Neath are
capable of catching us if they win their games in hand, we travel to Ferry in
our last game of the season.
More on this game later
today.
View
league table
Tony
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APR-27 |
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Maesteg
team news
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Not too many changes to the team
for the Maesteg game, hard to call this one as Maesteg on their day are
capable of beating any team in the league, but are also capable of losing to
any team, hopefully it's the latter that will be on show tonight.
In: comes Craig Jones.
Out: Justin Williams (ankle)
Steve Parry (work) and Liam (back) Phil Holmes (work)
Tony
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APR-27 |
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Website top
100,000 visits
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Late on Thursday night the
website hit the 100,000 website visits, another landmark reached in our continuing
growth and popularity of the Afan Lido website :)
Tony
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APR-26 |
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Lido U14's
secure league & cup double
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Our under 14 side completed a
fine league and cup double last night, when the played Port Talbot in the cup
final and our lads ran out comfortable 4-1 winners, goals from Daniel Symmons
(2) Daniel Carey and Thomas King ensured a double having wrapped up the league
title last week. Well done to all the players and staff.
Tony
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APR-24 |
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Lido win in
mid-week at last
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Our first mid-week win in ages
saw off visitors Taffs Well, in what was described as a poor end of season
contest with nothing to play for, for either team.
The games only goal came after
85 minutes and scored by a young head on an old pair of legs, gaffer Phil.
It wasn't such a good night
for the reserves who lost to 6-0 on their travels when they played Neath.
More tomorrow from both games
and table updates.
Tony
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APR-24 |
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Village
go 3 points clear in Reserve's table
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Garden Village won the battle of
the top 3 last night when they beat Goytre at Glenhafod Park by a 2-1 score
line, this now gives Village a 3 point cushion over our reserves and a 4 point
gap to Goytre in third place. But Goytre do have games in hand over both
ourselves and Village.
View
league table
Tony
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APR-24 |
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The
wrong result for the Lido Ladies
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News has reached me that the
result all Lido Ladies players and supporters didn't want to happen has
happened. Haverfordwest pulled off a 2-1 win at home over Pontypridd Town on
Sunday 2-1, and they came from a goal down to take all 3 points.
This now leaves our Ladies
team bottom of the table with Hwest 2 points above us. they have 3 games left
and our team have 2, so still all to play for.
View
league table
Tony
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APR-23 |
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Team
news for tomorrow's Taffs game
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Tomorrow night we welcome Taff's
Well to the Marston, and news of our squad for the game 12.
Out: Liam McCreesh (Back Inj)
Craig Jones (Ankle) and Carl Evans (Suspended)
In: Matt Lavis - Dan Williams
- Justin Williams.
We will be looking to go one
better than the 1-1 draw a few weeks ago against 9th placed Taffs.
Tony
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APR-23 |
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Under
12's lose cup final to Porthcawl
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The under 12's took part in the
first of their two cup finals over the next week, and yesterday they took on
the very strong Porthcawl under 12's in the
Challenge cup final. But unfortunately Porth came out on top in this final
beating our youngsters by 3-0, but they have a chance again next Sunday for
silverware when they take part in their 2nd cup final in a week when they face
Baglan. The teams meet already back in September when goals from Jake Price
(1) and Jack Underwood (2) saw our team win at Baglan 3-1.
Tony
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APR-23 |
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Brian
wins March's player of the month poll
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The winner for player of the
month for March was keeper Brian Thomas. He topped the poll with the highest
monthly vote to date, pulling in 34 votes, and finished 20 votes ahead of 2nd
placed Craig Martin. The club will now present Brian with the keys to a brand
new BMW which they said they would donate to any player scoring more than 30
votes in a single month. He doesn't get the car just the keys.
View
March's votes
View
total table to date
By the way I wuz only joking
about the BMW.
Tony
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APR-22 |
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Liam's
sore but on the mend
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Liam walked stiffly into the
Lido Clubhouse at 7pm on Saturday night, having been to Morriston Hospital for
X-Rays, etc.
He has suffered a back injury (badly bruised), with advise to rest for a few
days and gradually ease his way back to fitness.
Many thanks to Ton Pentre for asking about Liam and I would like to thank
Marty Ellacott for his advice and assistance with Liam's injury (as well as
both physio's).
Alan Howells
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APR-21 |
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Lido
teams weekend results
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The Reserves hopes of winning
the league took a knock today, they were away at the Welfare ground where they
took on bottom side Seven Sisters, and the home side made a mockery of their
lowly position by beating us 3-1, Dan Williams got the Lido goal. Garden
Village reclaim top spot following their 1-1 draw against Pontardawe.
View
league table
UNDER 12's
The under 12's had no game
today, maybe that had something to do with the fact they are playing in the
Challenge cup final tomorrow when they take on Porthcawl at Ynys with a 11:00
am kick off, your support of the young lads would be very welcome. Porthcawl
must start as hot favourites as they top the u12's table with 14 wins from 14
games, and have done the double over our side already this season, but a cup
final is a different kettle of fish and the lads are up for it. Under 12's
results and scorers are now up to date.
UNDER 10's
Both our under 10 teams were in action yesterday for the first time in ages,
and both teams enjoyed a winning day. The Colts were 1-0 winners away to Cwmavon,
and the Rangers won 8-1 away to Glyncorrwg. Also the 10's results are now up
to date,
Tony
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APR-21 |
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Draw
number 9 today against The Bulldogs
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We drew our 9th game of the
season today, against the battling Bulldogs.
There was no goal for the
first 80 minutes of the game, then 2 in 6 minutes, we took the lead on 80 mins
from the penalty spot converted by Ianto, but our lead only lasted 6 minutes
as the Bulldogs scored to tie up the game.
Liam McCreesh was taken to
hospital after injuring his back, more on this as it comes through.
Tony
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APR-20 |
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Whose
the top of the top 5?
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The top 5 in div 1 will finish
as they are, but who is performing better against their top 5 teams than the
others, who can boast they deserve to where they are because they have out
done their nearest rivals, here's a look at the the table of the top 5 with
the games against each other so far this season.
The table accurately reflects
the full table positions with Neath rightly being top dogs.
Click
here to view the top 5 head to head table
Tony
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APR-20 |
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Ton
Pentre team news
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Teams news ahead of tomorrow's
home game with Ton Pentre is.
Out: S Best - C Thomas - D
Williams and Craig Jones (both have ankle injuries)
IN: S O'Leary - Karl Lewis -
Steve Parry - Liam McCreesh and John Felton.
Nothing at stake in this
clash other than pride, as now both teams cannot become league champions, if
either team were to gain maximum points in all their remaining games they
would still fall short of Neath's current total of 78 points. But we could
still finish above Ton and claim 4th spot in the league, 4th is the highest
either of us can realistically hope to finish up at the end of the season, a
big improvement for both teams on last season's positions.
Tony
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APR-20 |
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Welsh
Cup final kick off time confirmed
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The welsh cup final against
Carmarthen will kick off at 4:15 pm, the time has been set by the TV crowd to
facilitate the horse racing on the same day.
While I'm on the subject of
cup finals, good luck to Port Talbot league side Glyncorrwg Hall who are in
the final of the SWFA Saturday Intermediate cup final, their opponents in the
final are FC Martyrs (I presume from Merthyr) The final takes place on May 9th
at Taffs Wells Rhiw Dda'r, Parish Road ground
and the kick off is @ 7:00 pm
Tony
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APR-20 |
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Ladies
table and results up to date
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At long last the Fair game
magazine has updated the results for our Lido Ladies league, and I can update
the league table.
Our Ladies are down to play
Bridgend Town this Sunday, but I already have us playing them twice in the
league this season, so I will have to wait and see who their opponents are.
They have just 2 league games remaining and relegation is staring the Ladies
team in the face, they need 2 wins from the last 2 games to have a
chance of avoiding the drop. And those teams are 3rd placed UWIC and 4th
placed Ferndale Fillies, 2 really tough teams.
View
league table
Tony
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APR-20 |
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Carl
Evans set for 5 match ban
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Carl Evans is set to miss the 5
next Lido games through suspension, following his red card against Ely Rangers
on Wednesday.
Carl will miss the games
against games Ton Pentre, Taffs Well, Maesteg Park, Goytre and Bridgend, but
he will be available for the welsh cup final.
Tony
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APR-18 |
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Ely
come back for a draw
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|
Another mid week game without a
win, though this one looked destined for 3 points, 1-0 up on 20 mins with
Ianto putting us in front, Carl Edwards doubled the lead to give us a 2-0 half
time lead.
The game turned with the
sending off of Carl Evans his 3rd red of the season. And Ely made the most of
playing against 10 man Lido and clawed back to gain a point with the final
score 2-2.
Match report to follow
tomorrow night (after work)
Tony
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APR-18 |
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Team
news for the Ely Rangers game
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|
Another mid week game another
game we lose players to work commitments and injuries.
Out for today's trip to
Station Road Wenvoe are: Shaun O'Leary - Steve Parry - Karl Lewis - John
Felton - Dan Williams and Liam McCreesh.
In: Shaun Best - Corey Thomas
- Phil Gaffer - Carl Evans - Matt Lavis - Chris Latham and Carl Edwards.
A tough game in prospect with
Ely battling to stay in div 1, they currently lie last but one in the table
and 8 points from safety, but they gave us a hard game at the Marston earlier
in the season before we won 2-1 (though we did play the last half hour with 10
men, won't mention who got sent off Shaun ok)
No match updates today,
working till 8pm.
Tony
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APR-18 |
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League
cup final venue has been switched
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Our league cup final venue
against Goytre which was due to be played at Maesteg's Tudor Park, has now
been switched to Port Talbot's Remax ground. This is good news for both clubs
and sets of fans, which will now undoubtedly increase the final's attendance.
The game will take place on
Monday 14th of May, kick off @ 7:00 pm.
Tony
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APR-17 |
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Reserves
draw in derby game
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|
The Reserves made the short trip
to take on Goytre in the local derby, Goytre were 1-0 up at half time, but
Reserves top scorer Neil Hendra scored his 15th goal of the season for the
Reserves and squared the match at 1-1, and that's how it finished.
View
league table
Tony
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APR-17 |
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Young
Lido star gets 6 week City trial
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Young Luke Fleming of our under
11's team has been invited by Cardiff City to join the Academy for a 6 week
trial, young Luke is a player in demand, shortly after being approached by
Cardiff he was contacted by Swansea City who offered him a place in their
school of excellence. For the moment he is taking up the Cardiff option. Good
luck to young Luke.
Tony
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APR-16 |
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Youth's
lose away to West End
|
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The youth's travelled to Mayhill
last night to take on 2nd placed West End, but it was the home side who just
came out the winners, they were beaten 3-2.
Scorers to follow
View
league table
Tony
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APR-16 |
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Lido
3rds season comes to an end
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The 3rds season is over
following their 1-0 defeat against Glyncorrwg on Saturday, they also had
a game on Thursday away against Gwynfi Utd which was a 6 pointer and Gwynfi
came out 4-1 winners, Gwynfi extended their unbeaten run to 9 games with
victory over our 3rds, and had they not had to forfeit 2 games and a 6 point deduction
they would surely have been pushing for promotion. Our scorer in the Gwynfi
game was Liam O'Brien. Tony
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APR-16 |
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Coach
travel arrangements for cup final
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AFAN LIDO v CARMARTHEN
Welsh Cup Final
Sunday 6th May 2007 at LLANELLI
Coach Transport Available at the following cost:
Adults: £5 per seat
Children(16 and under)/OAPs: £2.50 per seat.
Please contact any of the following as soon as possible, to reserve and pay
for your seat on the coach:
Alan Howells - 07968 820951
Mark Robinson - 07973 638059
Phil Robinson - 07812 142833
or at Clubhouse 892960
Entrance Fee at Llanelli, not yet known.
Tony.
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APR-14 |
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Newport
YMCA match updates
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Today's
match updates.
Team line up.
B Thomas - K Lewis - Steve
Parry - C Jones - C Piper - C Martin - L McCreesh - P Evans - I Jones
S O'Leary - John Felton.
Subs: C Latham - J Williams -
G Hurley.
The game started off well
with the Lido 1 up after 5 mins, a brilliant strike from Chris Piper 1-0
Lido:)
But as so often this season
we shoot ourselves in the foot and let the opposition straight back in when YM
equalised just 4 mins later, 1-1.
We had to wait until the 30
min to re-take the lead. From a Shaun O'Leary corner Liam McCreesh headed in
to make the score 2-1 Lido, that was all the scoring action of the first 45
mins.
20 mins into the 2nd half and
the Lido are on top, though YM look dangerous on the counter. Craig Jones had
to leave the fileld with an injury, Greg Hurley replaces him.
On 65 mins Chris Latham comes
on for goal scorer Chris Piper.
Lido look to have sealed the
points when Steve Parry made a solo run and scored to make it 3-1 in the 90
min.
Full time Lido 3-1 Newport
YM.
Today attendance: 120.
Tony.
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APR-14 |
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Newport
YMCA team news
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After the Croesy mid-week game
which led to many players being available, we have a full squad to choose from
for the visit On Newport YM, with just 2 out.
Out: Carl Evans (Ill) Dan
Williams (Ankle injury)
In: Brian Thomas - Karl Lewis
- Shaun O'Leary - Steve Parry - John Felton.
Tony.
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APR-13 |
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Welsh
Cup 2007 Commemorative
Polo Shirt
|
There are a limited number of
Commemorative Polo shirts, embroidered with Club Badge and Afan Lido Welsh Cup
2007 available.
The Cost is £10 and the closing date for orders is next Thursday April 19th.
Please contact:
Mark Robinson 07973 638059
Alan Howells 07968 820951
Tony.
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APR-13 |
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Reserves
coast to victory over Maesteg
|
|
The Reserves went back to the
top of the table with a 4-1 win over lowly Maesteg Park.
They ran out 4-1 winners with
goals from Corey Thomas (2) Steve Hughes and Shaun Best. Both Corey and Shaun
were involved in the Croesy game. Between the 3 goal scorers they have amassed
40 goals for the Reserves and under 19's this season.
View
league table
Tony.
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APR-11 |
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Squad
decimated for tonight's Croesy game
|
|
Tonight's game away to
Croesyceiliog is going to be tougher than it would normally be, with the early
time the squad are leaving for Cwmbran, many players are unable to make the
4pm leaving time plus injuries and suspensions, in total 8 players from the
squad are missing.
Out: Brian Thomas - Shaun
O'Leary - Karl Lewis - John Felton - Steve Parry (all work related) Dan
Williams (injured) Carl Evans (Suspended) Liam McCreesh is being rested.
In: Shaun Best (scored 18
goals for youths and Reserves) Corey Thomas - Rory McCreesh (all 3 youth
players) Justin Williams - Carl Edwards.
So it's going to be a tougher
game for the Lido that it was already going to be, with 8 first team players
out.
Will keep you informed of all
the goal action tonight via Alan's texts.
Tony.
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APR-10 |
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Reserves
see off Neath last night
|
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Lido Reserves moved back into
2nd place in the table following last night's 3-0 home win over 4th placed
Neath.
Our scorers were Karl Lewis,
Ally Walkley, and Ceri Cook.
View
league table
Tony.
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APR-8 |
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Youths
get back to winning ways
|
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After 3 defeats in a row, they
got back to winning ways today, they travelled to take on 8th placed
Pontardawe. They came away 2-1 winners, both goals scored by Ceri Cook.
The team move back up to 2nd
a point ahead of West End, though West End now have 5 games in hand.
View
league table
Tony.
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APR-7 |
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Pontypridd
take a point
|
|
Thinks got off to a good start
with a goal after 17 minutes from Craig Jones, things got better 2 minutes
later when Paul Evo doubled the lead.
Ponty pulled a goal back
after 27 minutes, they got back level at 2-2 on 42 minutes. Thing went full
circle on 80 minutes when Ponty took the lead, and it looked like we were dead
and buried, but sub Chris Latham got us level on 88 minutes, and the game
finished all square, not the result either team were hoping for as all the
other top teams all won to pull further away in the title race.
Lido Team.
B Thomas - K Lewis - S Parry
- C Jones - M Lavis - C Martin - L McCreesh - P Evans - J Felton - C Piper - G
Hurley.
Subs: C Latham - C Edwards -
I Jones.
Attendance: 200
Tony.
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APR-7 |
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Lido
weekend results results
|
|
Our 3rds were away on Thursday
evening when they played Porthcawl, and the home team narrowly won the game
1-0. The 3rds are home today taking on bottom side Croeserw Utd.
Our Reserves were on the end
of a right hammering today, they were away to Ammanford and they were beaten
8-1. (But spare a thought for poor old Cwmamman who lost 11-0 at Neath)
Tony.
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APR-7 |
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Lido
Dragons now have their own website
|
|
The Afan Lido Dragons now have
their own website, set up and the clubs president Grahame Perry.
Afan Lido Dragons is the
Disabled children's section of the Lido football club which provides Therapy
football for children with special needs. Their website can be found at www.afanlidodragons.co.uk
or accessed from our links page.
Tony.
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APR-6 |
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Pontypridd
team news
|
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Team news ahead of Saturday's
import promotion game against 2nd placed Pontypridd, a must win game for both
sides, if we fail to gain max points from this encounter, we can all but
mathematically forget about the welsh premier league for this season and
concentrate on the cup double, for Ponty they desperately need 3 points to
stay in touch with Neath.
Team News
Out: Carl Evans - Dan
Williams - Phil Holmes (Phil is still suffering and barely able to walk
following the 90 minutes he played against Newport the other night;)
In: Carl Edwards -
Karl Lewis - Chris Piper. We have 3 players who are struggling ahead of the
game, Ianto - Liam McCreesh (foot injury) and Shaun O'Leary are all only rated
at 50/50 at best.
Tony.
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APR-6 |
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Pontypridd
team news
|
|
Team news ahead of Saturday's
import promotion game against 2nd placed Pontypridd, a must win game for both
sides, if we fail to gain max points from this encounter, we can all but
mathematically forget about the welsh premier league for this season and
concentrate on the cup double, for Ponty they desperately need 3 points to
stay in touch with Neath.
Team News
Out: Carl Evans - Dan
Williams - Phil Holmes (Phil is still suffering and barely able to walk
following the 90 minutes he played against Newport the other night;)
In: Carl Edwards -
Karl Lewis - Chris Piper. We have 3 players who are struggling ahead of the
game, Ianto - Liam McCreesh (foot injury) and Shaun O'Leary are all only rated
at 50/50 at best.
Tony.
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APR-6 |
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Youths
go down at home to Briton Ferry
|
|
Our youths suffered their 3rd
league defeat on the trot and also saw Neath move to within striking distance
of our 3rd place following their 3-1 home win over ENTO Aberaman, they now
move to within 7 points of us but have 3 games in hand.
The lads played local
neighbours Briton Ferry and Ferry came out 5-1 winners. We will be looking for
revenge against Ferry when we meet them at their patch on May 13th.
More to follow if Peter wuz
at the game last night.
View
league table
Tony.
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APR-4 |
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Stebonheath
venue for cup final
|
|
Not a huge surprise that
Llanelli's ground was chosen as the venue for the cup final, seeing it's
location to both ourselves and Carmarthen.
It will take place on Sunday
6th May :( but the kick off time has been given yet.
Carmarthen manager Mark Jones
said "The Final of the National Competition should be at the National
Stadium, but if that is not possible we have some great grounds in our League
and I'm pleased it's at Llanelli."
Tony.
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APR-4 |
|
What
a month was March
|
|
The month of March was not only
a massive for the club, but it was the best ever for the website.
From the previous best months
figures which was February (9,483 visits) we not only broke the 10,000 mark
but almost hit the 20,000 mark.
The visits shot up around the
Port Talbot cup game and have been maintained since that, the total visits for
March wuz 17,652, with the day of the Welshpool game attracting 1,140 visits
another record. The daily average for March wuz 569 visits a day.
April has started even better
than March and the average for the first 3 days is 872.
View
web stats
Tony.
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APR-4 |
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Youths
lose to West End
|
|
Our under 19's in a battle for
2nd place last night, a win or draw would see us maintain 2nd spot, but it wasn't
to be as the visitors clamed 2nd spot with a 2-0 win.
The win now see's West End
looking comfortable to maintain 2nd spot in the table, as they have a 2 point
lead over us with 2 games in hand. They are also within striking distance of
leaders Merthyr if they win their games in hand.
View
league table
Tony.
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APR-3 |
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Goytre
in the final
|
|
Our final opponents for the
Shamrock cup is now known.
Goytre were pushed all the
way by Bettws, the most in form team in the welsh league they have gone from
mid-table to favourites to clinch one of the 3 automatic promotion places in
division 2 winning their last 11 league games on the trot, but tonight they
were beaten by Goytre 1-0.
The final will now take place
on Monday 14th of May - no venue has yet been decided.
Tony.
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APR-3 |
|
All
square in Newport
|
|
The weekend is over, and it was
back to bread and butter soccer, our vastly changed squad were first to draw
blood when Chris Piper scored after 14 minutes, but Newport had the better of
the first half exchanges and drew level after 36 mins.
The 2nd half played out
scoreless for a full time score of 1-1.
Next up is a home game
against high flyers Pontypridd this Saturday and that should be a cracker, and
we will be looking forward to trying to gain revenge for the 3-0 score line
they inflicted on us a few weeks ago.
Tony.
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APR-3 |
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Decimated
squad ahead of tonight's game
|
|
The squad is without many of the
regular starters for tonight's game at Mendalgief Road, when we travel to take
on Newport YMCA.
Due to the 6:15 kick off, the
coach has to leave at 4 pm which has ruled out a lot of the team due to work commitments.
Unfortunately YM do not have floodlights meaning the game has to kick off at
the earlier.
We play Newport again in 11
days on a Saturday with a afternoon start, a pity these fixtures could not
have been reversed so we could field a full strength squad.
Players out: Karl Lewis,
Shaun O'Leary, Carl Evans, John Felton, Dan Williams, Justin Williams.
In: Carl Edwards, Chris
Piper, Karl Roberts.
Newport will be looking to
get something out of this game, to ease any fears of being dragged back into
the relegation battle. At the moment they are just 5 points clear of the
bottom 3, with 8 games left to play, while we are still dreaming of the
treble, so a must win game for both sides, a point will be of no use to us in
the hopes of catching the teams above.
Some glimmer of hope may have
been thrown to the clubs chasing Neath, an unconfirmed report reached me that
Neath have again had problems with their Llandarcy park ground meeting welsh
premier league status. This could mean if reports are true, that 2nd place
will get promoted in their place, which throws a lifeline for Pontypridd,
Goytre and ourselves, all we have to do is make sure we win our games in
hand and overtake the teams above us, not an easy task with so many games
coming thick and fast.
Tony.
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Message
from Afan Lido's Chief Executive
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Aberystwyth March 31st 2007.
History in the making.
Afan Lido into the FAW Welsh Cup Final for 1st time.
Many thanks to all our travelling supporters on Saturday. The atmosphere was terrific.
Even with the delayed buses, everyone's attitude was great. It was well worth
it in the end.
Our Junior section were fantastic, singing and chanting all thru the game.
They even managed to get the 'oldies' to join in with them.
Their helpful advice to every Welshpool player coming to take a penalty, must
have made them nervous. It definitely helped us win.
The ecstatic emotional scenes on the pitch at the end of the game was
fantastic, not one dry eye.
AFAN LIDO Juniors - you were BRILLIANT.
Thanks to all the messages and phone calls that we have received during and
after the game (from our friends at other clubs and leagues) asking for
updates and later for congrats. It shows that we are making many friends
throughout football. There are too many to name here, but it is greatly
appreciated.
Thanks to Sean McCreesh and Andy Morgan for their continued support.
Once again, many thanks to all who supported us on Saturday.
But to say once again:
AFAN LIDO Juniors you were
'Simply the BEST'.
Alan Howells
Afan Lido Chief Executive
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Ianto
joins the old Gold
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The welsh leagues deadliest
striker this season Ian Jones has followed Liam's suit and signed 2nd forms
for Carmarthen Town, he will undoubtedly be a huge acquisition for the
Carmarthen manager.
Ianto's goal scoring feats
this season could not have been unnoticed by many welsh premier managers, and
now has the chance to try and bolster Town's flagging chances of making a late
surge for European soccer, hope he's playing for us in the final :)
Tony
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Liam
McCreesh joins WPL Haverfordwest
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Lido midfield maestro has joined
welsh premier league side Haverfordwest County.
But it's not as bad as it
sounds for Lido fans, he has joined them on 2nd forms and will only be
available to them when he is not required by the Lido, as Lido have first
option on his midfield skills.
With so many league games
left for Lido not to mention 2 cup finals his opportunities might be limited
for his new club, which is good news for the Lido. But all the best to Liam in
his new dual role.
Tony
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Lido
team weekend results
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The 3rds has a good win away at Cornelly.
They won the game 5-1, lido scorers were D Binding (2), R James, J Taylor L
O'Brien.
Our under 12;s Reds had a
good 4-1 away win against Corus, scorers were Jake Price 2, Jack Lewis, Jack
Underwood.
The under 9's had just
the one game which saw Rangers record a 12-0 win over Bryn
Juniors.
The Lido Ladies took on table
toppers Swansea City and held them at 2-2 until the 70th minute when the Swans
rattled in 5 quick goals.
Tony
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