Nov-30

Squad news for Cambrian game

G Scantlebury - Wyn Waters - C Martin - A Keefe - J Williams - D Williams - K Howells - C Payne - D Thomas - K Roberts - K Lewis - S Davies - S Best - C Thomas - A Pearson

Tony

Nov-23

Goytre take the points home

The first half saw good football from both sides without a breakthrough for either team.

The deadlock was broken in the 75 minute with Goytre scoring the games only goal.

A come back by Lido was made even harder when Carl Edwards was sent off for receiving two yellow cards late on in the game.

Not quite the start new manager Craig Duggan was hoping for against his old club, but he hasn't had time yet to make his mark on his new team.

Goytre's win see's them go top of the table, 2 points clear of Ton Pentre.

Tonight's attendance was Lido's highest of the season so far with 430 turning out to watch the two teams battle it out.

Tony

Nov-23

Squad news for the Goytre game tonight

G Scantlebury - C Evans - D Williams - C Martin - K Lewis - P Evans - K Howells - C Edwards - S Davies - 
C Latham - A Pearson - W Walters - C Thomas - A Keefe - C Payne

Tony

Nov-22

Another Lido player signs for local neighbours

Brian Thomas the long serving keeper has signed for the Dragons and is in the squad for their FAW Trophy cup 4^th round game against Sully Sports at Evans Bevan on Saturday.

Tony

Nov-22

Preview of the Goytre league game

It will be Craig Duggan's first game in charge of the Lido first team against the club he spent 6 years managing.

We go into the derby as the only unbeaten team left in the first division, while Goytre have lost 3 of their last 4 games in the league since Craig's departure. Our lads will want to impress the new Gaffer, while Goytre will surely want to show their ex there's life after him at Glenhafod park. 

It should bring in our biggest home attendance of the season, which this season has seen our gates hugely improved on last season. Our average home gate this season is just over 242, better than most welsh premier clubs, and even better than our neighbours at the Remax whose average is just 224, in fact our average of 242 is better than 8 welsh premier clubs.

We will be looking to add only our 4th league win in 10 games which has seen us draw 6 of our 9 games so far, scoring has been our biggest problem this season and the main reason why we have dropped 12 points from our 9 games, take away the 11 we scored against rock bottom Garw we have only managed 9 goals in 8 games, but we can boast the meanest defence in the league having only conceded 6 goals in 9 games, and can boast 4 clean sheets.

But a win on Friday night is essential to see us move up the table if we are to have any chance of a top finish and promotion, this seasons table looks like being one of the most open in years with just 2 points separating the first 6 teams and even the next 3 teams (Caerleon, Ento, and ourselves) could be right up their with the leading 6 if we win our games in hand of the teams above. So all to play for on Friday night kick off is at 7:30, turn up and give your vocal support to the red side of town. 

Tony

Nov-19

Craig Duggan is the new Afan Lido manager

Craig who left Goytre Utd earlier this season after six successful seasons as manager with Goytre, leading them to the welsh league title and runners up spot in the last two seasons.

44 year old Craig will manage the first team, with Mark Robinson going back to his role as General Manager, Mark will also coach the first team.

The club looks forward to Craig's return to the club and under his guidance they hope he will lead us back to the welsh premier league.

In his playing days Craig made 112 welsh premier appearances for the club between 1992-93 to the 1995-96 season, and scored 11 goals.

Craig's first game in charge of Afan Lido see's him paired against his former club Goytre Utd who make the short trip across town this Friday night in a local derby at the Marston.

Tony

Nov-15

Remi v Carl result

50 votes were cast with Remi coming out on top with 34 to Carl's 16.

We now just have to wait to see if the votes match the facts.

Tony

Nov-15

Message for Jeff Bailey

Jeff I have sent emails twice to the address you left but both times the email returned undelivered, stating a Spam like setting is stopping them getting through. Do you have another email address other than the Hotmail you gave me (works email etc) if so can you send it to me via the form again please, cheers, (I don't want to publish my email address on here as I will be hammered with Spam emails as was the case in the past when my address was public)

Just in case Jeff does not spot this message on the website, could someone who knows Jeff, or can contact him, pass on this message to him on my behalf.

Thanks

Tony

Nov-14

Lido win in local derby over Maesteg

But we had to do it the hard way, Maesteg scored first, but a goal from former Maesteg player Kieron Howells on 41 minutes saw us go in at half time all square. 

Our winner came courtesy of Craig Martin to give a much needed win after all those draws.

More to follow 2moz.

Tony

Nov-13

Under 18's results & table updated

View league table

Tony

Nov-12

Reserves win against previously unbeaten Llantwit Fardre

The team lie in 3rd place behind Bryntirion and Llantwit Fardre.

View reserves table

Tony

Nov-12

Under 18's win away against Bryntirion

Our goal scorers were Remi Whitelock, Steve Hughes and Corey Thomas.

Tony

Nov-10

Vote who will top score for the U19's between Remi & Carl?

Who do you think will finish numero uno between the two?

The poll can also be found in the under 19's scorers page

Click here to cast your vote

Tony

Nov-9

Team Line up for Saturdays game

W Walters - C Martin - P Evans - A Keefe - K Howells - C Latham - D Lambrick - C Edwards - S Davies
A Pearson - C Thomas - J Cockings - C Payne - C Evans - G Scantlebury. 

Tony

Nov-9

Under 12's team news for Saturday

LUKE ARMSTRONG; MACAULAY EVANS; JOSEPH JONES; LUKE KEOGH; SAM TUCKER; KANE DEVONALD; GAVIN THOMAS; LUKE GREGORY; DYLAN MOUNTJOY; JACK CURRY; JORDAN HARRIS; JORDAN DOYLE; SAM GLOVER; CASSIUS HUNT. JONATHAN THOMAS.

OUT -  CONOR O'CALLAGHAN; JACK DACEY; JACOB FLYNN; THOMAS ELWARD; SAM TOBIN; JOSH EVANS. ACADEMY GAME ON SUN V CARMARTHEN 2.30 KO. AWAY.

Tony

Nov-8

U19's make hard work beating Harry West

We went 3-0 up with goals from Shaun Morgan, Nathan Hodgson and Carl Payne, but Hwest came with 2 goals of their own, but we did enough to take all 3 points.

The win moves us up to 3rd in the table behind Llanelli and Carmarthen.

View table

Tony

Nov-6

A tough tie for the U19's in FAW cup

We have been drawn away to Cardiff College Celts, who gave us a thumping in last seasons competition winning 7-0.

Celts went onto last seasons final of this tournament beating Gresford in the semi-finals 4-2 in Welshpool, before taking on Merthyr Tydfil in the final at the Remax, which Merthyr ran out eventual winners 2-1.

The full draw is for the 3rd round is:

North

South

Games will be played on - 27th January 2008 - kick off 2.00pm

Tony

Nov-2

Another Lido player joins Baglan

Andrew Wright follows Phil Holmes & Tom Wellington who now ply their soccer at Evans Bevan.

Good luck to Andy at his new club.

Tony

Nov-1

Another Lido web record for October

Quite a growth since 2006 when we averaged 4,117 visitors a month. an increase of 438%. The biggest feature by far is still our Welsh soccer news.

For the month of October we received visits from 91 countries, including some unlikely visitors from United Arab Emirates, Malaysia, Brazil & Japan, never knew we had Lido fans in those places.

At some stage today we will break the quarter of a million visits, standing as I write at 249,471, another milestone passed.

Visit stats page

Tony