JUNE-27

Under 10's & 11's head west this Sunday

Tony

JUNE-25

Under 10's win in Lonlas 

Afan Lido Rangers Under 10’s entered the Lonlas Tournament on Saturday 23^rd June and came away winners.  Results were:-

v Lonlas Celtic w 1-0 (Lloyd)

v Rhos B d 0-0

v Cwm Albion B d 0-0

v St David’s w 1-0 (Price)

SF v Cwm Albion A w 3-2 on penalties

Final Beat Nantyfyllon Rangers 1-0 (Price)

Well done to the squad Aaron Davies (GK), Jake Howe, Charlie Purchase, Aaron Goff, Tomos Wheadon, Matthew Morgan, Harry Kain Thomas, Jared Price, Jordan Lloyd & Ethan Robinson

Tony

JUNE-21

two more player signs up for next season

Following on from yesterdays news of Andrew Wright signing, news has reached me of two more lads signing on the dotted line. Karl Lewis and Matt Lavis have committed to the Lido, bringing the total number to 15.

June 20
Another player has signed up for next season. Andrew Wright has signed on the dotted line and becomes the 13th player on the books for next season.

Andrew is a former Maesteg player, and was with Corus Steel last season, Andrew is a central midfielder.

Tony

JUNE-17

New Gallery page added 

They are taken from the players trip to Dublin, the under 11's recent tourney in Butlins and one from yesterdays U11's win at the Sully tourney with captain Luke holding the trophy

View new page

Tony

JUNE-16

Lido U11's win out in Sully tourney

Following the under 11's good showing last weekend in the Bryntirion tourney, today they took part in the under 11's tourney in Sully, and the lads came out the winners.

            Afan Lido    3-0  Barry Bluebirds ( O’ Callaghan 2, Holmes )

            Afan Lido    0-0  Holten Road

            Afan Lido    2-0  CCFC  (OG, O’ Callaghan)

            Afan Lido    0-0  Sully Foxes

            Final

            Afan Lido    1-0  Maindy      AET (Holmes)

Well done to all the lads and coaches.

Tony

JUNE-14

Boyz take on Llanelli Friday night

The first team squad had their first training session Tuesday night since the season's close, and 28 turned up for training. 

Friday night the squad travel to Bryngwyn School, Felinfoel to take on Llanelli (behind closed doors) in a bid to help Llanelli prepare for their Euro campaign.

The Dynamic Duo will be taking 18 players for the game (no names yet) but quite a few new faces turned out Tuesday night, so the make up of the 18 will make interesting viewing.

Details of the game to follow.

Tony

JUNE-13

Latest player updates and friendlies

I can confirm that the following players have signed up for the club for the coming season. And a couple of retirements for two loyal and long serving members of the club, who will be sadly missed by all.

New arrivals at the club are Ivor Beynon and Andrew Williams (Port Talbot Youth manager and coach last year) we welcome them back to the club. They, together with Garry Isaac will run the second team this coming season.

Changing Rooms were painted today, the concrete outside the changing rooms was poured yesterday (old stuff ripped up on Sunday), drainage for the holding water outside changing rooms done last Sunday. Windows/door on order for Office/sponsor room - should be ready by 7 to 10 days.

More signings in the pipeline, but (just like the work carried out outside the changing rooms) nothing concrete yet.

On a final note we wish a happy birthday to Carl Evan who is 21 today, he had his party at the weekend with most of the squad turning up for the event. Below are a few pic's sent to me from the bash.

Tony

JUNE-8

Website down time this weekend

The website will be down from sometime Saturday afternoon for approx 12-24 hours while I switch over the domain to point to the servers of the new web host I have recently purchased.

It takes that amount of time for ISP's worldwide to pick up the change to the new hosts servers.

Sorry for the inconvenience all should be back to normal for everyone hopefully late Sunday, as Sat & Sun are usually the sites quietest days for visitors hence the changeover at this time.

Tony

JUNE-8

Under 11's heading to Bryntirion

Phil and his under 11's side are heading off to Bryntirion this Saturday to take part in their festival. News on how they get on to follow.

Then he takes 9 of his squad to Sully Saturday week, this is a big tournament and the first time his lads have been invited.

Tony

JUNE-6

THE DYNAMIC DUO ARE BACK AT THE HELM

Hollowing a 7pm meeting tonight at the clubhouse, I have been informed by text message that the Dynamic Duo have reconsidered their decisions to quit as join managers of Afan Lido, and the club are delighted to have them back at the helm.

The two lads held long talk together yesterday, and a meeting was called for tonight, where the good news has now filtered through that they are both back in the driving seat.

I'm sure all Lido fanz will be delighted by tonight's news.

Tony

JUNE-2

Record month for May

May was quite a month for the club on the field, and also a record month for the website.

In May we broke the 20,000 visits for a month totalling 20,887 an average of 674 a day.

We also saw a new daily record at the time of the cup final against Carmarthen when 1,397 visits were recorded, a good month considering the season had finished half way through May.

Visit stats page. 

Tony

JUNE-1

Phil & Evs resign as Gaffers

       
It is with great regret and disappointment that Afan Lido Football Club have to announce the resignations of their first team 'Coaches' Phillip Holmes and Paul Evans with immediate effect.

Afan Lido Football Club would like to sincerely thank both Phil and Paul for their services to the 'Club' and  wish them every success with their future commitments.

Both players came through the Lido youth system and in the first year of the League of Wales, (both as teenagers) with Paul made 7 appearances and Phil with 5. In total Paul Evans has made 390 league appearances for the Lido and scored 25 league goals, and Phil has notched 152 league appearances and scoring 6 goals.

Last season was a hugely successful one for the duo taking the club to new heights in reaching the welsh cup final for the first time in the clubs history narrowingly losing out to Carmarthen, but they did lift silverware by winning the welsh league cup beating Goytre Utd 1-0.

I would personally like to thank both lads for all the time and help both put in to helping me with the club website, it was an experience I have never been accustomed to with previous sites with managers or players, and was hugely appreciated by me, cheers lads for everything.

Tony