FEB-28

Reserves have an easy win 4-0

Tonight's win takes the boys top of the league.

View league table.

Tony

FEB-28

Reserves playing at home tonight

And a win for the boys will see them top the table, jumping Garden Village and current leaders Goytre Utd. But it will not be easy as Ammanford are on a roll, unbeaten in 6 games, with 4 victories in their last 4 games.

But they have not come up against the clubs all time top scorer this season, the evergreen Mitch Patton who is on fire with 5 goals in his last 4 games. 

Tony

FEB-28

Lido putting in extra training for cup tie

Gaffer Evo led the way showing how it's done and how to avoid getting hit by a sucker punch during the game:)

Tony

FEB-28

Top scorer Ianto pulls up in training

Tony

FEB-27

Tonight's semi-final is called off

The semi-final scheduled for tonight at Tudor Park between Goytre and Bettws has been postponed due to a waterlogged pitch.

Tony

FEB-27

Kick off change for Reserves this Saturday

The game will now kick off at 12:00 pm, which will give the lads enough time to make the short journey for them to cheer on their club mates in the cup game at the Re-Max.

Tony

FEB-25

Other weekend results

View under 12's menu

Our under 9's had an unbeaten weekend with the Colts recording an impressive 6-2 away win against Cwmafan BGC, Our scorers were Regan Taylor with a hat-trick, Matthew James with a brace and Liam Kilnan scoring the 6th.

Our under 9 Rangers side were also away, they were playing against Porthcawl BGC and they secured a draw with a goal from Liam Matthews to make it 1-1.

Check under 9's menu

Lido's 3rds travelled to take on Kenfig Hill today (24-Feb) and ran out easy 4-0 winners.

Lido scorers were John Millard (2), Gary Griffiths and Mark Taylor. Next up for the 3rds is another away trip next Saturday when they are at Ynys Park to take on Trefelin.

The under 11's played out a close scoring game today against Margam, and our youngsters came out 2-1 winners.

View action shots taken today against Margam (sent in by Andrew Morgan)

Tony, Peter, Andrew, Mark, JanINE

FEB-24

Dinas game updates

All square at 1-1 at half time. Flu victim Ianto was passed fit and started the game.

Just one more goal in the 2nd half, and it came from the now 30 goal marksman Ianto.

Final score Dinas Powys 1-2 Afan Lido

Tony

FEB-23

Team news and preview for Dinas game

Have just heard that the Dinas pitch doesn't look gr8 today, hopefully it wont fall foul of the weather.

Dinas Preview.

Dinas Powys recent form has taken a turn for the better (if your a Dinas fan that is) and seem to be settling down under new manager Tucker.

Their form is fairly even, played 9, won 4, drawn 2 and lost 3, scored 12 conceded 12.

Against top contenders they faired well holding both Pontypridd and Ton Pentre to score draws. Their 4 victories have come against the lesser lights of the division, Newport YM, Pontardawe, Croesyceiliog and Barry Town.

We need this game to take place tomoz and all 3 points, we are now in the position of having played the least games of any side in the division, and with more cup games coming up it could have a detrimental effect on any chance we had of winning promotion, with the likelihood of playing several league game a week towards the end of the season. 

Tony

FEB-22

Merthyr go back top of the youth league

Merthyr top the table again on goal difference from our side and still have 2 games in hand.

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Tony

FEB-20

Lido youths trounce Port Talbot 6-1

It was not just a win over Port Talbot but a 6-1 hammering, but our reign at the top of the table may be short lived as Merthyr are in action tomorrow night at home to ENTO Aberaman.

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Report to follow if Peter was able to hobble to the game :)

Tony

FEB-20

Port Talbot league cup final date

Tony and Paul

FEB-19

Lido gaffer live at the Emirates tonight

Our man in the thick of it is Gaffer Phil, Phil is there with his son Lewis who also plays for Cardiff City.

Arsenal took the lead but Cardiff soon equalised. The Gunners then went ahead 2-1 but not before City had a chance to equalise but they missed a penalty.

Going into half time Arsenal increased their lead to make it 3-1 at half time.

Cardiff pulled a goal back in the 2nd half, but finally went down 3-2.

Tony and Gaffer

FEB-19

Reserves game arranged against Village

Tony and Al

FEB-19

Youths game against Goytre confirmed

Tony and Al

FEB-18

Lido Ladies lose 3-0 to Pontypridd

The win for Ponty moves them above us and leaves us one off the bottom, but 4 points clear of Haverfordwest.

Match report to Follow from Stacy.

Tony

FEB-16

Port Talbot league cup final details

The officials for the game are
Referee: David Powell
Assistants: George Ridgeway, Paul Fisher.

Tony and Paul

FEB-16

Port Talbot league cup final details

The officials for the game are
Referee: David Powell
Assistants: George Ridgeway, Paul Fisher.

Tony and Paul

FEB-16

Tonight's game against Taffs Well is off

The pitch was inspected by referee Paul Fisher and he cancelled the game due to a waterlogged pitch.

The game has been re-arranged for Tuesday April 24th with a 7:30 kick off.

Other fixture changes are: Due to Bridgend now using Locks Lane (Porthcawl) the game has been switched to Saturday 24th March, as Locks Lane doesn't have floodlights.

Also Bryntirion away is now on Wednesday May 9th. Match reports/fixtures have been updated for new schedules.

Tony

FEB-16

Taffs team news and preview

Out of the squad are Shaun O'Leary, Justin Williams and Phil Holmes.

In come Craig Jones, Matt Lavis and John Felton.

Taffs Preview

Taffs are no slouches on their travels this season, they have notched up 6 wins on the road, but they have not beaten a team higher than 9th which was against Bryntirion, the other 5 wins have been against teams struggling near the foot of the table, they haven't faired well against potential league champs, having lost to Ton Pentre 6-0, Goytre 4-2 and Neath 2-1. 

Their record stands at played 13, won 6 drawn 2 and lost 5. Though they have lost only once in their last 5 away games. They have amassed 20 of their 31 point total on the road, so we will have to put aside thoughts of the pending Port Talbot game and get down to biz of securing 3 points in the league.

On a final note my main man for match reports Peter Reynolds is laid up at home with a badly swollen foot, so he may need a piggy back to get to tonight's game, so if a few of you are passing his house on the way to the game, call for him and carry him to the game, gotta get my match report :)

Tony

FEB-11

3rds knocked out of cup by Welfare

game went ahead, and maybe they wish it hadn't, they were playing in the 1st round of the Design printers div 1 cup, and meet a team unbeaten all season in Cwmafon Welfare. The visitors eventually ran out 7-0 winners.

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Tony

FEB-10

3rds game may beat the weather

Cwmafan are the run away leaders in division 1 having won all of their 16 games and scored 96 goals along the way (an average of 6 per game)

We have played them twice in the league and were beaten 5-2 away and 3-0 at home.

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Tony

FEB-10

Not a game to be seen anywhere

Just having written not a game in sight I get an email from Janine Underwood telling me the under 12's had played at Trefelin and managed a storming 11-0 win.

The scorers were Travis Monks 3, Jack Underwood 2, Jake Price 2, Sean Griffiths 2, Jack Lewis 1 and Kyle Cockings 1. Young Jack Underwood's 2 goals today takes his tally for the season up to 20, well done Jack.

The Lido 3rds game had a pitch inspection at 12pm today (don't know the outcome of that, but if it goes ahead, they are in for a tough game. They are due to face league leaders Cwmafan Welfare in the Design printers Div 1 challenge cup 1st rd. Cwmafan are the run away leaders in division 1 having won all of their 16 games

Tony, Janine

FEB-09

Caerleon team news and preview

Out: John Felton is missing as he will be sunning himself in sunny Egypt with the RAF. Carlo Evans is out still suffering from Concussion, Phil (the Gaffer) Holmes is out with fatigue his old legs won't carry him like they used to. Greg Hurley will earn himself a little rest having been a nearly ever present this season. 

Into the squad come: Carl Edwards, Chris Latham, Mathew Lavis and Craig Jones who was a doubt.

Caerleon Preview

When we travel to Gwent tomoz, we will be looking for our 3rd league double of the season (Aberaman & UWIC being the other 2) but we will remember our home game against Caerleon in September when they ran us close, and we only took all 3 points due to A dramatic late winner from Shaun O'Leary.

Caerleon tend to do things in 3's or 4's that win 3 or lose 3 or 4 on the trot. their last 6 home games have 3 defeats followed by 3 wins in their last 3 home games, so it should be time to start the losing sequence again tomoz. Their home record shows 9 games played won 4, lost 5, they haven't beaten a top half team in the league this season having lost to Taffs, Neath, Croesy, Ton Pentre and Pontypridd.

Dare I say it, they have yet to draw a game in the league this season home or away, on a final note, Ianto will be looking to notch his 30th goal of the season tomoz as he currently lies on 29 goals from just 23 games (16 in the league & 13 in the cup)

Tony

FEB-08

Lido Ladies hit for 11 by Pontardawe

And Ponty showed why they have risen to 2nd place in the league, as they comprehensively beat our team 11-0.

Last night's win was Ponty's 6th win in a row and their 6th clean sheet in a row, they now close the gap on Swansea to 7 points with 2 games in hand.

Tony

FEB-06

Port Talbot league results updated

The Planguard Port Talbot league results have been updated. Cwmafan Welfare increased their lead at the top of division 1 to 16 points with a 10-0 demolition of FC Cornelly.

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Tony

FEB-05

Games on tomoz and Wednesday @ Marston

Afan Lido under 19

Tomorrow night at the Marston Stadium the under 19's take on Neath at 7:pm. Neath currently lie in 4th place on 19 points, 6 behind our under 19's, while we lie 3 points behind leaders Merthyr. We still hold an unbeaten record in the league after 11 games winning 7. On Tuesday night Merthyr are at home to Port Talbot at Penydarren park, even a win for Lido and defeat for Merthyr would still see them top on superior goal difference.

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Lido Ladies

On Wednesday night our Ladies are in action at home in the re-arranged game against Pontardawe, kick off is at 7:pm. This will be a very tough match as Pontardawe are much improved since the start of the season and currently lie 2nd in the table with 6 wins and 2 defeats. And can boast of being the only team in the league to beat the league leaders Swansea City on the 14th January by 2-0.

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Tony

FEB-03

Lido draw Port Talbot in Q/Final

Afan Lido made it through to the quarter finals of the welsh cup with a 2-1 win at Ely Rangers.

And our reward is a Quarter final tie away to arch rivals Port Talbot Town, the tie will be played on March 3rd. The whole team are delighted with the draw and are glad it is an away tie, as with recent history between the clubs Lido tended to win away against Port and Port tended to win at Lido.

The full quarter final draw is.

Port Talbot - Afan Lido
Carmarthen - Porthmadog
Holyhead - Welshpool
Llanelli - Connah's Quay

Tony

FEB-03

Lido through to cup quarter finals

Afan Lido made it through to the quarter finals of the welsh cup with a 2-1 win at Ely Rangers.

The first half ended 0-0 with both teams not playing particularly well. But Lido broke the deadlock in the 60 minute with a goal from Greg Hurley.

We doubled our lead on 78 minutes with Ianto scoring his 29th goal of the season, all seemed set for a comfortable end of the game.

Ely pulled a goal back in the 94th minute but Lido go on to take our place in the last eight of the cup.

Full cup results.

Carmarthen Town 0-0 Caersws (AET, Carmarthen win 5-4 pens)
Connah's Quay Nomads 3-1 Llandudno
Ely Rangers 1-2 Afan Lido
Holyhead 2-1 Bridgend Town (AET)
Llanelli 7-0 Newtown
Porthmadog 2-2 New Saints (AET, Porthmadog win 3-2 pens)
Port Talbot Town 3-1 Ton Pentre (AET)
Welshpool Town 3-0 Neath Athletic

The draw for the Quarter finals will be published after the SC4 programme tonight

Tony

FEB-02

Web visits for January top 9,000

For the 3rd month in a row the website has grown in attracting visitors.

For the month of January we had 9,182 unique visitors which is an average of 296 per day, with the best day attracting a new daily record of 419. These figures represent almost treble the visitors we attracted at the same time a year ago.

Also we had a record number of pages viewed 65,586 and average of 2,115 per day.

View web stats page

Tony

FEB-02

Other Shamrock cup semi final announced

The 2nd semi final of the Shamrock cup between Goytre United and Bettws has been set for Tudor Park home of Maesteg Park, the game will be played on February 27th with a 7:pm kick off.

Tony

FEB-02

Welsh Cup Quarter Final Draw Live on S4 

The draw for the welsh cup quarter finals will be made live on Y Clwb Pel-Droed programme which starts at 7:25 pm Saturday.

The draw will be made for Porthmadog's Y Traeth ground.

Tony

FEB-02

Ladies match change

The game scheduled for Sunday against Pontardawe Ladies has been put back to next Wednesday 7th February, the game will now be played at the Marston kick off will be at 7:30pm, many thanks to Pontardawe for agreeing to the change. 

Tony

FEB-02

Ely cup match team news

The team news ahead of our welsh cup game this Saturday against Ely Rangers.

Into the squad come Carl Edwards and Chris Latham.

Out are Justin Williams, Karl Lewis, Karl had an injury from last week, but is fit.

On paper this should be a Lido victory, Ely have lost their last 8 league game on the trot, and have dropped to last place in the division 1, though one win could see them rise 4 places to 15, as only 3 points separates the bottom 5 clubs and they have the best goals against of the 5 teams.

You have to go back to the 11th of November for Ely's last win in the league which came away to Croesyceiliog 2-1.

Our only meeting with them this season came at home in the league back on Dec 16th and we won 2-1 with goals from Craig Jones and Liam McCreesh, but we also played the last half hour with 10 men as Shaun O'Leary was sent off.

This game will be a good distraction for Rangers from their poor league form and position, but we should be too strong for the Cardiff side.

Tony