Lido line up:
R McCreesh, C Payne, R Whitelock, J Williams, M Beynon, A Carpenter, S McCourbrey, M Chunuonsee, S Morgan, C Thomas, D Lancey.

Subs:
C Langdon, J McEvoy, V Lewis.

Things didn't get off to a good start against Taffs as the home side went a goal up after 5 minutes.

Taffs went 2 up on 40 minutes when they converted from the penalty spot to go into half time 2-0 up.

There was no scoring in the 2nd half until the 75th minute when the ref awarded Taffs Well another penalty, which they gratefully put away to make it 3-0.

Just when it looked like things couldn't get any worse Taffs added a 4th goal on 80 minutes.

Taffs rounded off a good win for themselves by scoring a 5th goal in stoppage time to make the final score Taffs Well 5-0 Afan Lido.

It was better news for our Reserve team who had little trouble in seeing off lowly Llansawel 6-0 today.

Tony

R McCreesh, C Thomas, J Williams, R Williams, C Payne, R Whitelock, A Carpenter, D Lancey,
M Chunuonsee, S McCourbrey, S Morgan, J McEvoy, C Langdon, M Beynon.

Tony

Neath completed a league double over our Reserves last night.

We took the lead on 17 minutes with a Leigh Shrimpton goal.

Neath drew level on 27 minutes, Adam Beynon restored our lead to make it 2-1 on 55 minutes, Neath drew level for the 2nd time on 61 mins and they got the winner 2 minutes from time.

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Tony

The semi-Final dates have been released for the league cup.

We will play Bridgend Town at Goytre's Glenhafod Park on Tuesday March 3rd, with a 7:00 pm kick off.

The 2nd semi-final between Penrhiwceiber Rangers and Porthcawl Town is set for the following night (Wednesday March 4th) and will be played at Maesteg's Tudor Park with a 7:00 pm kick off.

The final is set for Tuesday March 24th, but the venue has yet to be named.

Tony

The Youth's travelled to Haverfordwest in a league encounter at the New Bridge Meadow, and came away with a point.

They had to come from behind twice against the home side, with goals from Damon Thomas and Jonathan Hood.

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R McCreesh, C Thomas, J Williams, R Williams, C Payne, R Whitelock, A Carpenter, D Lancey,
M Chunuonsee, S McCourbrey, S Morgan.

Subs:
G Couch, J McEvoy, C Langdon, L Borrelli, V Lewis.

We got off to a good start when we took the lead on 15 mins with a Scott McCourbrey goal.

We went 2-0 up on 40 mins through a Mika Chunuonsee free kick, and it got better in the first half when Scott McCourbrey got his 2nd and our 3rd of the half with a 35 yard effort.

HALF TIME Lido 3-0 Croesy.

We started off the 2nd half in style going 4-0 up on 50 minutes with Adam Carpenter getting on the scoresheet.

A Scott McCourbrey hat-trick on 75 minutes making it Lido 5-0 Croesy.

Full time score 5-0 to the Lido, a first win in 5 games and consolidating our position in 5th.

Attendance: 51

Tony

Croesyceiliog lie in 17th place in the table, and in big danger of being relegated. It's their 2nd season on the trot of being involved in a relegation dog fight, last season they escaped the drop by 5 points condemning Maesteg to life in division 2 instead.

Last season we did the double over Croesy, with a 3-1 home win and a 1-0 win away, and this season we repeated the last season's 1-0 away win, so a 3-1 home win again would be welcome.

Their away record has seen them win just once on their travels, against Gwent rivals Newport YMCA 1-0, they have not lost away from home since the 10th of October, and managed 2 draws in their last 2 away games, against Camb & Clydach and ENTO Aberaman, but they haven't played away in the league since the 1st of November. So that 4 month unbeaten run is a bit misleading.

We are looking for our first home win in three starts having lost our last 2 without scoring a goal, mind you they were home to Barry Town the league in form team and Goytre Utd, so with a weaker looking squad it is understandable.

So it is a game we would expect to get 3 points from, we were very unlucky in our last game against Caerleon, when our young side were minutes away from a good 2-0 win, but inexperience in failing to close out the game cost us 2 points.

We have to make the most of our home games in the search of points as we only have 4 home games left from our final 14 league games.

Tony

R McCreesh, G Couch, C Thomas, J Williams, R Williams, S Morgan, S McCourbrey, A Carpenter,
M Chunuonsee (Capt), C Langdon, D Lancey, R Whitelock, J McEvoy, C Payne, S Wade.

Into the squad come Sam Wade and Carl Payne, out go Matt Beynon and Aaron Keefe.

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R McCreesh, C Thomas, J Williams, R Williams, S Morgan, S McCourbrey, A Carpenter,
M Chunuonsee (Capt), M Beynon, D Lancey, R Whitelock.

Subs:
J McEvoy, C Langdon, A Collins, Vince Lewis.

We got off to a great start when we took the lead from a Remi Whitelock corner and Shaun Morgan rose to put it in the back of the net.

We went 2-0 on 69 minutes with a screamer from Dan Lancey.

Just when it looked like getting back to winning ways, Caerleon snatched a goal 3 minutes from time, and to compound it they drew level 3 minutes into added on time to make it 2-2.

A disappointing result from the view we were far the better team and deserving of the 3 points.

Tony

R McCreesh, C Thomas, J Williams, R Williams, A Collins, S Morgan, S McCourbrey, A Carpenter,
M Chunuonsee, M Beynon, D Lancey, R Whitelock, J McEvoy, C Langdon, A Keefe.

A welcome return to the squad for Mika Chunuonsee and Justin Williams.

Tony

Though the scoreline was made good reading for the away fans, with the 1st and 3rd goals gifted to the opposition by Lido mistakes, in saying that even if we did gift them the 2 goals we never looked like scoring any way ourselves.

The first goal we gifted Barry came on 32 minutes, and went down 2-0 on 53 minutes, the 2nd Lido gift to Barry finished off the scoring at 3-0.

Though the side played well throughout the game we lacked the cutting edge, which is only to be expected with so many changes to the starting line up.

Barry Town are now unbeaten in 10 games and go top of division 1.

Lido line up:
R McCreesh, C Thomas, L Shrimpton, R Morgan, P Lenihan, S Morgan, S McCourbrey, A Carpenter,
S Wade, M Beynon, D Lancey.

Subs:
G Couch, R Whitelock, J McEvoy, J Langdon, A Keefe.

Attendance 145.

Tony

Their departure and that of Mike Waters and Ian Turner left no time to bring in players before the transfer window closed the following day.

We go into the Barry Town game with a very poor record against the top 7 teams in the division this season, in fact we have only won 1 game out of 8 against teams in the top 7, and that win came against our opponents on Friday night when we beat Barry Town 2-0 back on 25th of November, we have won 1 drawn 3 and lost 4 of those 8 against the top 7.

A top two finish now looks to be a pipe dream as we are 11 points off Bettws but with 3 games in hand, 4 points off Goytre and played 3 games more and 3 points off Aberaman and played 1 game more.

Barry Town are on a great run of form at the moment and are unbeaten in 9 league games, their last defeat came against us back in November, since that they have rattled off 6 wins and 3 draws, and have won their last 3 games with ENTO Aberaman being their last victims 2-0, they have also failed to concede a goal in their last 4 games and only let in 5 since their last defeat against us.

So it's going to be a tough game against the former kings of welsh domestic soccer, but a good turn out and vocal support from the stands for the boys will be a big boost for a tricky encounter.

Tony

Mike Waters has signed for Welsh Premier side Neath and Ian Turner has signed for Welsh league side Bridgend Town, good luck to both players at their new clubs.

Tony

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