JULY-28

Aber romp home in tonight's friendly

Our first outing in a few weeks when the squad travelled to Aberystwyth, and things didn't go quite so well.

Aber came out comfortable 4-1 winners.

Aber's scorers were: Glyndwr Hughes 13mins , Stuart Roberts 14 mins, Geoff Kellaway 46, Luke Sherbon 59 min pen
Lido scorer was: Corey Thomas 38 mins.

Info taken from the official Aber website.

Tony

JULY-27

Fly away Peter fly away Paul, come back peter come back Paul

5 players have left the Lido since the end of last season, but wait a mo two have come back 2day.

First off Steve Parry returned claiming he was so home sick for the Lido he just couldn't stay away any longer, and made his way home, Steve is in the squad for 2morra's trip to face Aberystwyth.

Then the 2nd good piece of news came when Gaffer Phil got a text from former captain Shaunie O'Leary, telling he will be stationed in his new job as a fireman in Aberavon and will be available for the season.

So the squad is getting back to shape just in time for the serious stuff to begin.

2moz the squad leave for a friendly against Aber the gaffers will be taking a squad of 17 to the game. The players are.

Wyn Thomas - Craig Martin - Luke Harrington - Darren Bodenham - Matt Lavis - Keiron Howells - Andrew Wright - Chris Latham - Steve Davies - Carl Edwards - Corey Thomas - Carl Payne - Justin Williams - Damon Thomas - Shaun Best - Steve Parry - Mark Jones.

Hopefully Peter will be going on the trip so I can put up a match report.

Just a reminder to all the Lido faithful, I will be away from August 4-18 on my hols in Lanzarote so no website coverage of our first 3 games until I come back. Then I'll be away the weekend of August 25th (my 50th birthday) but after that full coverage of the season will be uninterrupted.

View latest squad personnel

Latest friendly dates:

Tony

JULY-25

Special attraction @ clubhouse this Saturday

Afan Lido Football Club

ARE PROUD TO PRESENT

ALPINE BUTTERFLY

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND

Saturday 28^th July 2007

£3 Admission

Money taken at the gate

JULY-23

U11 star invited to play for Cardiff academy

Our under 11 keeper Luke Fleming has been invited by Cardiff City academy to play in a 5 day tournament next week.

Young Luke will be staying in Shrewsbury for the full 5 days, and he also has a 6 week trial with City coming up as well.

Good luck to young Luke.

Tony

JULY-21

An old favorite returns to the Lido

26 year old Andrew Pearson has come back to Afan Lido, having spent the last 3 seasons at neighbours Port Talbot.

Andrew left Lido for Port Talbot at the start of the 2004/05 season, and he made 41 appearances for Port scoring 5 goals.

He made 156 appearances for Afan Lido from the 1998-99 season until the end of the 2003-04 season scoring 31 goals.

As a youngster he played for Neath and also had trials for Manchester United, Bristol Rovers, Cardiff City, Oxford United and Swansea City and spent two years at West Ham between the ages of 13 to 15.

Andrew is the 5th new signing for the dynamic duo this pre-season, and I am reliably informed, there are a few more irons in the fire.

We welcome Andrew back to the MARSTON STADIUM.

View full squad line up so far.

Tony

JULY-18

Under 9's tournament updates

Below are pic's of the lads with the winners trophy from the Lonlas Tournament and one from Bryntirion.

Click on the pic's for the full version

Tony

Tony

JULY-17

Afan Lido sign Stephen Davies

Friday night saw Afan Lido secure the signature of one of the welsh leagues most promising young players.

Stephen Davies has switched from Pontardawe Town to the Lido, Stephen has impressed both managers Phil & Evs during training.

18 year old Davies featured for both the youths and first team last season and was in the Pontardawe youth team that lost in the cup final against Cambrian & Clydach.

A full list of up to date Lido first team squad members.

Tony

JULY-17

Lido U11 pic's from recent tourney

Another dozen pic's of the under 11's tourney, which featured Geoff Hurst.

View the pic's

Tony

JULY-15

Lido teams cup games announced

Cup games for the Lido welsh league teams have been made.

The first team have received a bye to the 2nd round of the welsh cup.

In defence or our league cup, we are drawn away to Caerleon, this game takes place on September 22nd.

Our Reserves also could face Caerleon in the Harris Printers (Reserve Division) Shield, but first Caerleon have to overcome Dinas Powys in a preliminary round tie. The date for our home tie has yet to be set.

The Youths face a tough tie in the first round of the MacWhirter (Youth Division) Cup, we travel to Townhill to take on last seasons runners up in the west division West End, again no date for the tie has been set.

Still no league fixtures for the Reserves or Youths have been made available yet.

Tony

JULY-15

Afan Lido Presentation night awards

At last nights presentation, the following awards were presented: 

The Evening started with a DVD of the Welsh Cup semi final celebrations (full 10 minute version of unseen footage) immediately after Brian Thomas had saved the final Welshpool penalty kick. 

1. The Welsh Cup finalists trophies were presented by life member Glyn Thomas 

2. The Shamrock Cup and individual trophies and Craig Jones MOM trophy were presented by Ken Williams (President) 

3. Top Goalscorer award - Winner - Ian Jones (with a Club record 42 goals) 

4. Supporters player of the Year - Winner - Ian Jones (presented by Mark Hanbury) 

5. Most Improved Player Awards: 
    Under 19's - Corey Thomas 
    Reserves - Josh Cockings 
    First team (Glyn Parry Trophy) - Craig Martin 

6. Team Clubman Awards: 
    Under 19's - Stephen Hughes 
    Reserves - Alistair Walkley 
    First team (Jim Mahoney Trophy) - Christopher Latham 

7. Under 19 Player of the Year: Winner - Aaron Keefe 

8. Reserves Player of the Year: Winner - Shaun Best 

9. 1st Team Players Player of the Year (George Walton Trophy) - Winner - Ian Jones 

10. The Stephen Galsworthy Fair Play Trophy: Winner - Gregory Hurley 

11. The Charlie Preece Senior Club Sportsman Trophy: Winner - Gary Isaac 

The following players who had played for the Boys and Girls Clubs of Wales this season were presented their International Caps and a memento from the club: 

Under 14's Daniel Carey, Levi Coates, Thomas King, Daniel Symmons, Connah Williams.

Under 16's Matthew Beynon, Carl Payne, Rory McCreesh, Remi Whitelock, Luke Evans, Ceri Cook, Dean Protheroe, Jordan Goodwin,

Under 18's Josh Cokely, Corey Thomas, Josh Cockings, Damon Thomas, Simon Witheridge, Craig Paterson.

Tony

JULY-15

Lido teams cup games announced

Cup games for the Lido welsh league teams have been made.

The first team have received a bye to the 2nd round of the welsh cup.

In defence or our league cup, we are drawn away to Caerleon, this game takes place on September 22nd.

Our Reserves also could face Caerleon in the Harris Printers (Reserve Division) Shield, but first Caerleon have to overcome Dinas Powys in a preliminary round tie. The date for our home tie has yet to be set.

The Youths face a tough tie in the first round of the MacWhirter (Youth Division) Cup, we travel to Townhill to take on last seasons runners up in the west division West End, again no date for the tie has been set.

Still no league fixtures for the Reserves or Youths have been made available yet.

Tony

JULY-12

Liam McCreesh signs for Port Talbot

Liam McCreesh last night signed for our near neighbours Port Talbot, Liam has been in talks Port and last night the deal was set up and he begins his career just up the road, Liam was also a target for West Wales side Haverfordwest but chose for Port Talbot.

Other Lido transfer news is Steve Parry has not signed for Neath yet as has been stated, but it is probable that the move is imminent.

On the positive, I have heard that Carl Evans has signed for next season, but will confirm that soon.   

Tony

JULY-11

Fixture changes for next season

Home games 
Afan Lido v Bridgend Town - brought forward to Friday August 10th 2007, (kick off 7.30pm)
Afan Lido v Maesteg Park - changed to Tuesday 13th November 2007 (kick Off 7.30pm
Afan Lido v Garw - brought forward to Friday 31st August 2007 (kick off 7.30pm) 
Afan Lido v Bryntirion Athletic - brought forward to Wednesday 19th December 2007 (kick off 7.30pm)
Afan Lido v Taffs Well - brought forward to Friday 8th February 2008 (kick off 7.30pm)
Afan Lido v Goytre United - brought forward to Friday 23rd November 2007 (kick off 7.30pm)

Away games
Maesteg Park v Afan Lido - changed to Wednesday September 5th 2007 (kick off 7.30pm)
Taffs Well v Afan Lido - changed to Monday 15th October 2007 (kick off 7.30pm) 
Bryntirion Athletic v Afan Lido - brought forward to Friday April 11th 2008 (kick off 7.30pm) 
Goytre United v Afan Lido - brought forward to Friday March 14th 2008 (kick off 7.30pm) 

Tony

JULY-9

Under 10's Win Corus Steel FC Tournament

Yesterday the Rangers under 10’s won their 2^nd tournament of the summer when they won the 3^rd Annual Corus Steel FC Tournament.

In their group matches they played Porthcawl BGC (won 4 – 0), Corus Steel Blues (won 4 – 1), Port Talbot (drew 0 – 0), Goytre (lost 1 – 0) and Bryn (won 3 – 0).

In the semi final they played Cynffig BGC and even though they went 1 – 0 down early on they fought back to win 2 – 1.

In the final they played Port Talbot.  With no goals being scored by either team in normal or extra time the game eventually went to penalties.  With Port Talbot missing 2 of the first 4 and Lido scoring all of theirs they won the penalty shoot out 4 – 2.

Well done to the team who were victorious, they are Aaron Davies (GK), Charlie Purchase, Tomos Wheadon, Aaron Goff, Jared Price, Ethan Robinson, Harri Kain-Thomas, Jordan Lloyd, Matthew Morgan & Jake Howe.

Well done also to the Colts who were in the same tournament. Although they didn’t make it through to the knockout stages they came away with 3 draws against CYP, Baglan & Margam losing only twice to Corus Steel Whites and Cynffig, both eventual semi finalists.

Well done to the team, Nathan Burbidge, Nicholas Hughes, William Lewis, Darcy Griffiths, Regan Brown, Jordan Noakes, Pascal Jones & a guest appearance from Jake Howe of the Rangers.

Altogether a great end to their season.  Well done to all the boys this year from Coaches Kirk, Neil, Karl, Ian and Geoff.

Just a  reminder that the presentation is on Sunday 22nd July at 12 noon.  We look forward to seeing all the boys and their parents there.

Tony

JULY-9

Under 11's presentation day

The under 11's recently held their presentation day and we have some pic's to show of the future stars of Afan Lido.

View Pic's

Tony

JULY-8

Ianto signs for welsh premier league club

I can inform everybody that Ianto (Ian Jones) has put pen to paper and signed for Haverfordwest County.

Ianto will no doubt do well for the welsh premier side as he is a proven goal scorer as last season showed with 42 goals for the Lido in all competitions. We wish him all the best with my former website club, Ianto will be a hard act for anyone to follow next season.

Ianto came back to Lido from Goytre for the start of the 2005/06 season and in his 2 seasons back has scored 57 goals from 70 appearances for the club.

And news of another player who could soon be on his way is Liam McCreesh, Liam had talks yesterday with our neighbours Port Talbot, Liam is still recovering from his recent operation, I will pass on any more news on the Liam/Port Talbot link as I hear it.

Tony

JULY-5

Lido kick off with home game vs Bridgend

Full league fixtures are (provisional)