NOV-30

Big game for under 19's this Sunday

Our under 19 team face their biggest test this season when they travel to table toppers Merthyr in must win game for the team if they have any hope of claiming the title this season (weather permitting)

Defeat for the lads would see Merthyr open up a 10 point gap between the club. we are the only two unbeaten sides left in the division west.

Merthyr only re-started their youth team back in 2004/05 season and played in the south Wales youth league at under 18, and in their first season back they won the southern section going unbeaten all season.

The next season their under 18 winning side moved up to the welsh league where they reached the quarter final of the cup and finished 3rd in the central section.

This season they are unbeaten after 8 games winning 7 and one draw, they are the only team to inflict a defeat on 2nd placed West End beating them 2-1 recently.

We will be looking for top scorer Shaun Best to have his scoring boots on this Sunday, he is our top scorer in the league with 4 goals.

There is also a big difference in the scoring rate of both teams, while we have managed only 11 goals from our 7 games, Merthyr has knocked in 34 from their 8 games, the two players our defence have to watch are top scorer Craig Moses who has notched 11 goals from 8 games & Neil Leeson who has scored 8 goals from 10 games, they have the best scoring record in the division while we have the best defensive conceding just 5, it looks odds on against a 0-0, but a 1-0 to Lido will do very nicely.

So good luck to the team on Sunday. 

Tony

NOV-29

Is it a Pirate or is it a Gaffer?

Do you recognise this man?? Some say it's Blackbeard the Pirate (minus the beard:) Some say he looks vaguely like Gaffer Evo?

But whoever it is looks like he went 12 round with Lenox Lewis and lost badly. But in fact this poor sole ended up in A&E needing a local anaesthetic to remove branches & leaves from his eye as he desperately tried to get a decorative tree into his house, they even found a neighbours cat in there who had been missing for a few days.

NOV-27

Lido Ladies lose heavily to UWIC

Our Ladies team suffered a heavy defeat to 3rd placed UWIC yesterday.

Things didn't go well even before they left for Cardiff. The team left with only 10 players due to illness to players, and minus coach Phil Robbo who had to stay behind to run the bar.

Not the kind of pre-match troubles the team needed against high flying UWIC, who having lost their league opener against Swansea have rattled off 3 victories conceding just 1 goal and scoring 9.

Read match report.

Tony & Hattie

NOV-27

More pic's added to the website

Added more pic's today for the website,

In the gallery pic's of Phil Robinson & Mike Holmes were added. View lido gallery page

Also 3 more squad pic's added, those of Liam Mcreesh, Scot Bamsey & Luke Harrington. View squad page

Thanks to Rich Taylor for sending in the pic's.

Tony & Rich

NOV-27

Merthyr extend lead in youth division

Merthyr Tydfil extended their lead at the top of the Youth Division West, when they travelled to the Recreation Ground to play Pontardawe.

Merthyr ran out easy 5-1 winners to move 6 points clear of 2nd placed West End and 7 points clear of our lads.

Merthyr's game turned out to be the only game played as the others fell foul of the weather.

Weather permitting our lads are out Tuesday when local rivals Goytre United travel to the Marston in a 7:pm kick off.

View league table

Tony

NOV-24

Team news for the Pontypridd game

An update from yesterdays team news is that Shaun O'Leary is unavailable for the Ponty game due to work commitments. 

Not too many injuries for the squad ahead of Saturdays game.

Dan Williams is still looking doubtful with the Flu, Craig Martin is 50/50. While John Felton and Chris Piper are both still unavailable with ankle & knee injuries. 

Tony & Gaffer Phil

NOV-23

Tough task for the Ladies this Sunday

THE LADIES HAVE A CHANGED GAME AND NOW FACE UWIC AWAY

The Lido Ladies are due to face runaway league leaders Swansea City this Sunday, having already lost to the Swans 5-1 at home in October. 

Swansea lead the table by 11 points from Newport, and are 21 points ahead of our Ladies. Their record is played 8 won 8.

Such is Swansea's strength that their Reserve team in division 1 have only lost 1 game with 3 wins from their 4 games.

Last time out we failed to field a team with only 7 players turning up to face Ferndale.

The other games on Sunday are: Ferndale v Haverfordwest. Bridgend v Pontypridd,  

Tony

NOV-22

Lido at home to Maesteg in cup

We have been drawn against Maesteg in the last 16 of the Shamrock travel cup.

The game takes place on December 9th with a 1:30 pm kick off.

Our match was the only pairing of division 1 clubs as the other 4 teams all avoided each other giving them a better chance of qualifying for the quarter finals.

Goytre Utd will host Cambrian & Clydach, while Neath are also at home and seem to have an easy task when they take on division 2 strugglers Morriston Town. The other division 1 side Bridgend are away to Ammanford.

 The full draw is.

 All games to be played on December 9th with a 1:30 pm kick off

 * Our away game on December 23 against Ton Pentre has now been switched to Tuesday 19th.

Tony

NOV-21

Another club record broken at Barry

While the club celebrated it's biggest ever victory on Saturday against Barry Town 7-0, beating our previous best away victory which was a 6-0 win over Abergavenny in the inaugural season of the welsh premier league, and also bettered our biggest home win which was a 7-1 victory over Porthcawl town in the welsh league.

Ian Jones also broke the scoring record held by a Lido player for a single game, his five at Jenner Park takes over from club all time top scorer Mitch Patton who notched up four against Risca United in the welsh league on Saturday 23rd of November 1996.

Well done to Ian who has now scored 10 league goals from 9 games, plus 9 goals in 5 cup games, giving a grand total of 19 goals from 14 games.

Tony

NOV-21

Who scored for the youths on Sunday?

I am looking the name/names of the youth's goal scorers for the away game on Sunday against ENTO Aberaman? I need them to update the goal scorers page for the youths.

Could someone involved with the team or player drop me an email at lidofc@aol.com with the info, thanks.

Tony

NOV-19

Youth's draw with Aberaman

Our under 19's travelled up the valleys to take on bottom of the league ENTO Aberaman, and they failed to take all 3 points to move themselves into 2nd spot, they finished all square at 2-2. It was Aberaman's first point of the season.

The top game in the U19's was the clash of the top two, as West End travelled just a bit further up the road than our side to take on Merthyr, and in a close encounter, the home side came out on top beating West End 3-2.

Merthyr's win see's them create a 3 point lead at the top and 4 ahead of our side.

View league table

Tony

NOV-19

Other results for Lido teams this weekend

Our under 11's had a mixed day, with the Ranger playing arch rivals Port Talbot & they came out 2-0 winners.

Scorers were Jordan Doyle and Gavin Thomas.

Team: Luke Fleming, Joseph Jones (Capt.), Sam Tucker, Kane Devonald, Jordan Doyle, Jordan Lewis, Gavin Thomas, Jack Curry, Luke Keogh, Sam Glover.

The Colts travelled to wind swept Porthcawl and were beaten 2-1 by Porthcawl Utd.

The under 10's teams were both in action this morning, and both teams were on their travels.

The Rangers played great rivals Cynffig away on Saturday 18th November.  They won by 5 goals to 2, scorers were Jordan Lloyd 2, Jordan Noakes 2 & Jared Price 1.

Team :- Aaron Davies (GK), Charlie Purchase, Tomos Wheadon, Jake Howe, Aaron Gough, Matthew Morgan, Jared Price, Harri Kain-Thomas, Ethan Robinson, Jordan Lloyd & Jordan Noakes.

Man of the Match was Jake Howe.

While the Colts were in a very high scoring game against Porthcawl BGC A and they lost 10-5.

Scorers to follow for both games.

The under 12's travelled to Porthcawl to take on Porthcawl Utd, and our young lads came out 8-3 winners on a bitterly cold day.

The Lido scorers were Jack Underwood 3, Sean Griffiths 2, Travis Monks 2 and one own goal by Porthcawl.

Tony , Kirk , Janine & Phil

NOV-18

All over at half time at Jenner Park

The game at Jenner Park today against Barry Town is already over as a contest after the first half.

Lido lead 4-0 at the break with another hat-trick for Ian Jones and a 4th from Shaun O'Leary.

Final score @ Jenner Park was 7-0 to Lido, Further goals by Ian Jones (2) (his 5th of the game) & Chris Latham.

Today's 7-0 destruction of Barry Town is new record for the club.

The goal avalanche has helped our goal difference against the teams above us from 6th best to 3rd - not allowing for today's results for other teams. It was also our 4th league game on the bounce with conceding a goal

Tony

NOV-17

Team news for the Barry game

RESERVES GAME TONIGHT AGAINST  AMMANFORD HAS BEEN POSTPONED 

Team news ahead of tomorrows game is that it is finally on. After the council called it off (not sure of the reason) then called it on again.

Players out of the squad are: Daniel Williams, Carl Payne, Corey Thomas & John Felton.

John Felton is still out with an ankle injury. And Dan is out with the Flu.

Players in are: Liam Mcreesh, Carl Edwards

Carl Edwards comes in after a long lay off with a knee injury. He's been training well for the last 6 weeks and came through a reserve game last week in one piece and also scored a goal.

Liam is still awaiting his knee operation but nevertheless declared himself fit enough for a place on the bench.

Other news is that Gareth (Scants) Scantlebury & Chris Piper were both at training last night & both will be featuring for Reserves tomorrow.

Tony & Gaffers Evo & Phil

NOV-15

What's the most popular with the Lido website?

Thought people would like to see what is the popular features with the Afan Lido website, below is a list of all pages accessed since the 25th of January.

Also on November 13th we had the most unique visitors to the site 238 for a single day (with 355 visits in total)

Tony

NOV-15

U19 Neighbours lose while ours was off

Our under 19's were denied the chance of going top of the Youth division west, as the game was called off due to a waterlogged pitch.

But there was one game played last night, and it saw Carmarthen gain their first win in 6 attempts when they beat Port Talbot 4-2. Carmarthen's win lifted them off the bottom of the table and up 1 place.

Strangely enough the welsh premier clubs youth teams are all doing very poorly, with just a total of 5 wins out of 25 games for Llanelli, Port Talbot, Haverfordwest & Carmarthen, and no team being higher than 8th out of 13 teams.

View league table

Tony

NOV-13

A good weekend for the under 8's

View under 8's menu

Tony & Simon

NOV-13

Lido games for the coming week

Then on Friday night the Reserves host Ammanford kick off @ 7:pm.

On Saturday the first team travel to Jenner Park to take on Barry Town, and a 4-0 repeat of the welsh cup game would do nicely. Kick off for that game is 2:pm.

Tony

NOV-12

Weekend results for Lido teams

They came away with a 2-1 win and 3 points to keep them in 2nd place in the table and still the only unbeaten team in the division.

Carl Edwards in his first game back from injury scored one of the Lido goals and Shaun Best got on the score again to take his tally to 6 in the league.

The 3rds lost to Margam of the premier division in a Port Talbot cup match, they lost 3-1 with John Millard scoring the 3rds goal in his first game of the season.

The under 10 Rangers played local rivals Port Talbot away on Saturday 11th November. They won by 3 goals to nil, scorers were Matthew Morgan, Jordan Lloyd & Harri Kain-Thomas.

Team :- Aaron Davies (GK), Charlie Purchase, Tomos Wheadon, Jake Howe, Aaron Gough, Matthew Morgan, Jared Price, Harri Kain-Thomas, Ethan Robinson, Jordan Lloyd & Jordan Noakes.

Man of the Match was Jared Price

The U10 Colts game against Cynffig was postponed.

The Lido Ladies game against Ferndale today had to be called off, unfortunately only 7 players turned out for the game. 

Tony, Peter, Kirk & Hattie.

NOV-11

U12's hammer Trefelin 9-0

Our scorers were: Jake Price (3) Jack Underwood, Sean Griffiths, Jack Lewis (2) Kyle Cockings (2)

Tony & Janine

NOV-11

More under 8 pictures

Today's game for the U10 colts was postponed, they were due to travel to play Cynffig.

View under 8 menu

Tony & Kirk

NOV-11

Lido bury Ferry with a 5-0 thumping

The writing was on the wall as early as the 2nd minute when Ian Jones gave the Lido an early lead. But we failed to take the chances in the first half to kill the opposition off, and the first half ended in a scrappy affair.

The 2nd half started as the first did with a Ian Jones goal in the 46 minute and from there the team never looked back.

On 68 minutes Ian Jones scored his hat-trick to finish off any Ferry resistance, on 83 minutes Dan Williams made it 4-0, and to round off a good 2nd half display Phil Holmes (a stranger to the score sheet) made it 5-0 with 2 minutes left of normal time.

In other cup games today, Goytre Utd needed extra time to see off division 2 side West End. Maesteg Celtic also needed extra time to see of a spirited performance by 3rd division Abertillery Excelsior's 4-3.

Grange Quins, Pontardawe, Pontypridd, UWIC & Caerleon were all dumped out of the cup by lower league opposition. With the biggest shock being Pontardawe losing at home to Llanwern 3-0.

Tony

NOV-11

Team news for Briton Ferry game

Out: John Felton, Liam McCreesh, Shaun O'Leary & Matthew Lavis.

In: Phil Holmes, Corey Thomas, Justin Williams, Craig Jones & Craig Martin.

Tony & Gaffer Phil

NOV-10

Another picture added to Ladies squad

View squad page

Tony

NOV-08

No more updates until the weekend

So there won't be any website updates until late Friday or possible Saturday morning.

Tony

NOV-08

U19 draw with Port Talbot 0-0

In the other game being played in the Youth division west, Goytre Utd lost their unbeaten record when they took on another unbeaten side West End, and it was West End who keep their unbeaten record in tact, as they came out 4-2 winners at Glenhafod Park.

There are just three unbeaten teams left in the division, the leaders Merthyr, ourselves and West End.

View league table

Tony

NOV-07

Another seven Ladies profiles added

Added today were Nadean Tucker, Nerys Lloyd, Lianne Beynon, Stephanie Cook, Harriet Williams, Kayleigh Mills & Samantha Chambers.

View squad page

Tony & Bambi

NOV-05

Ladies team lose to Pontardawe today

The one upside from today's game was there were 4 subs available, next week the Ladies take on Ferndale, and this could give us our 2nd win of the season, Ferndale like ourselves have won one game both wins were against Haverfordwest and both wins by the odd goal, so on paper it should be a close game. 

Tony & Bambi

NOV-05

Ranger win but Colts lose in under 10's

The Colts were away in Porthcawl, where they played Porthcawl Utd A but they were beaten 4-2, scorers were Jay Larkman & OG

Tony & Kirk

NOV-05

U7 Colts parade their new kit

Click the picture to see enlarged version

Tony

NOV-04

U12 defeat Trefelin at home

It was their 5th game of the season and their record now stands at 4 wins & 1 defeat.

Today's scorers were: Jack Lewis, Jack Underwood, Sean Griffiths, Callum Galsworthy, Kyle Cockings and Jake Price (2). 

Tony & Janine

NOV-04

Lido draw Ely Rangers in last 16

The full draw is
Carmarthen v Caersws
Connah's Quay v Llandudno
Ely Rangers v Afan Lido
Llanelli v Newtown
Holyhead v Bridgend
Porthmadog v New Saints
Port Talbot v Ton Pentre
Welshpool v Neath Ath
Games to be played on Saturday 3 February 2007.

Tony

NOV-04

Live update of Bodedern cup tie

THIS PAGE WILL AUTOMATICALLY REFRESH EVERY 60 SECONDS

TEAM LINE UP

1: Brian Thomas, 2: Matthew Lavis, 3: Steve Parry, 4: Dan Williams, 5: Carl Evans, 6: Carl Payne, 
7: John Felton, 8: Paul Evans, 9: Ian Jones, 10:Shaun O'Leary, 11:Greg Hurley.
Subs: 12:Chris Latham, 13:Justin Williams, 14:Craig Martin.

Lido go 1-0 after 9 minutes with a goal from John Felton, he chipped the keeper from a cracking ball from O'Leary.

With 25 minutes gone goal scorer John Felton is taken off injured and being replaced with Chris Latham.

Just on the field for 4 minutes Chris Latham receives our first yellow card of the game.

Half Time: 1-0, with Lido well on top and should have been 3-0 up.

2nd Half

On 61 minutes Bodedern's cause got even harder as they are now down to 10 men, as one of their players saw red after receiving his 2nd yellow card for a late tackle on Steve Parry.

On 77 minutes our 2nd goal has come and that should see us safely through the tie, Ian Jones scored a belter and a minute later Chris Latham could have made it 3-0 with a header off the bar.

(Result just in Maesteg 0-1 Llandudno; Port Talbot are leading Bala 2-0)

On 80 minutes Craig Martin comes on for Young Carl Payne who had a very good game.

On 93 minutes Ian Jones scored his 2nd and our 3rd to give the scoreline a better reflection of the Lido performance against Bodedern today.

Full time: Afan Lido 3-0 Bodedern.

My thanks to twinkle fingers Alan Howells for supplying me with the match data from The Marston :)

Tony & Alan

NOV-04

U8 Colts lose to Margam

The Rangers game against Cwmavon was off.

Tony & Simon

NOV-04

U11 Rangers lose out to Porthcawl today

Our scorers in the game were Sam Glover & Kane Devonald.

Tony & Gaffer Phil

NOV-03

No injury worries ahead of cup tie

I will be updated scores and major happenings on the game live as it arrives from ace reporter Alan Howells, so if people cannot make the game live at the Marston check out the website for updates. 

Tony 

NOV-02

Lido Ladies include their profiles

To view their profiles just click on their photo on the squad page (just 6 completed so far - rest to follow)

View Ladies Squad page

Tony 

NOV-02

Youths knocked off top spot by Merthyr

Merthyr join us on 13 points but have a far superior goal difference +12 to our +6.

Merthyr are out again on Sunday when they travel to ENTO Aberaman, while we wait for our next game which is on Tuesday next with a short trip to face Port Talbot at the Victoria ground, sorry that should be the Re-Max stadium as they like to call it these days :)

On Wednesday another fixture of importance to our team see's Goytre host West End, both teams can match our points total if they win their games in hand, though obviously one of them won't after this game.

View under 19 table

Also last night the reserves were knocked off 2nd spot in the table when Goytre beat Pontardawe Town 3-2 at Glenhafod Park, Goytre join league leaders Neath on 15 points, two point ahead of the reserves but we have a game in hand over Neath and two in hand over Goytre.

View reserves table 

Tony