OCT-31

Bridgend home game cancelled

Our next home league game is now on December 1st when we play division 1 newcomers Croesyceiliog.

Tony 

OCT-29

Weekend Lido teams update

We are now three point clear of West End, Merthyr and Goytre. Though they all have a game in hand.

More details to follow.

Our Ladies team travelled to Newput to take on the City Strikers, but having scored four goals they were beaten in the end 7-4 by Newport who remain unbeaten with a perfect five wins from five games. More to follow from this game.

On Saturday the under 11 Colts had a good 6-0 win.

Nearly all other games for the youth were called off.

Tony 

OCT-26

Lido Ladies update

There were just two league games played last Sunday involving the top two teams Newport and Swansea, both still having 100% records. Swansea travelled to Pontypridd and had no trouble at all running out easy 11-1 winners, while Newport were run a lot closer beating Bridgend 5-4. 

This Sunday they travel to Newport (me home town) to take on unbeaten Newport City Strikers. They will be looking for revenge for the home defeat Newport inflicted on them on 17th October, with goals from Kirsty Pratt and Aimee Bowditch not being enough on the day as Newport eventually won 3-2.

The other games being played this Sunday see's Haverfordwest host Ferndale and Pontardawe hosting UWIC.

But just two days after the Newport game, the Ladies are being let loose on the unsuspecting public when they travel to a Port Talbot nightclub to celebrate Halloween and partake in a karaoke night. I have been reliably informed that they haven't a note in their heads between the lot of them.

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OCT-25

News from around the teams

The Reserves home game with Ammanford that was scheduled for November 18 has been brought forward to the 17.

In the youth welsh league division, Morriston Town have withdrawn from the league. Our lads were due to play them on October 31, they now have a home game on October 29 at home to Bryntirion Ath.

Tony, Gaffer Phil & Alan H

OCT-23

Cup opponents lose again in the league

They go into the cup tie on the back of four straight defeats in the league and are 14th in the table. Stark contrast to the Lido as we are unbeaten in 11 games, and looking to make it 12 come 4:30 on Saturday.

Tony

OCT-22

Lido Ladies, U19 & U8 results

The under 19's were in action today when they travelled to Neath for a welsh league game. The lads lost their 100% winning record but still remain unbeaten and in 2nd place following their 0-0 draw.

The under 8's were bang in top form Saturday when they travelled to take on Trefelin. It turned out to be a very one sided game with our young lads storming home to a 14-0 win. Reports have it they are getting better with every week, so the other teams had better watch out.

Tony, Stacey & Simon

OCT-21

U11's beat Port Talbot at home 2-0

Our scorers were Sam Glover & Sam Tobin. 

Tony & Gaffer Phil.

OCT-21

Under 10's had mixed fortunes today

Scorers for the Rangers were Jordan koakes 4 Jared Price 1 Matthew Morgan 1 Harri-Kane-Thomas 2 Ethan Robinson 1.

Scorers for the Colts were Joshua Thomas 1 Jay Larkman 1

Tony & Kirk

OCT-21

U12's suffer 1st defeat of the season

The score ended in a 4-1 victory for Porth, our scorer was Sean Griffiths.

Tony & Janine

OCT-20

Live updates of tonight's Bryntirion game

Tonight's strikers in place of our top scorers Ian Jones And John Felton, are Corey Thomas and Craig Jones.

After 30 minutes all square at 0-0 in an end to end game. Corey Thomas missed a good chance early in the game, but since not many chances created by either side.

Half time score 0-0.

Carl Payne makes his first team debut coming on as a sub after 67 minutes.

80 minutes into the game and still scoreless, Chris Latham gets first Lido booking.

87 Minutes no score, Phil Holmes name goes into the ref's book. Time running out for a Lido winner.

Full time score 0-0

Some consolation from tonight's 0-0 draw is it was our 3rd clean sheet on the trot in the league, and our 7th game unbeaten.

The point from tonight's game takes us into 2nd spot in the league ahead of Aberaman and Taffs Well on goal difference, and 3 points behind Neath in top spot. Well done to the squad for climbing all the way up the league after 2 defeats in the first 2 games of the season. It was also the first drawn game of the season for both clubs, Bryntirion still occupy 7th position in the league.

No more updates tonight, I'm off out for a pint :)

View League table. 

Tony & Alan

OCT-20

New additions to squad for Bryntirion clash

In come Corey Thomas and Carl Payne.

Corey Has made 4 subs appearances this season in the league.

Carl Payne is a new addition to Lido and made his debut in the under 19's 3-1 win over Haverfordwest County, and scored the 3rd goal from a header. Carl was a Academy player at Cardiff City, and is a central midfielder.

Definitely out for tonight's game are Ian Jones and Karl Lewis.

Tony & Gaffer Phil

OCT-19

Tomorrow's team news for Bryntirion game

In: come Carl Evans, Matt Lavis, Chris Latham, Craig Jones and Gaffer Phil.

Out: Steve Parry (work) Chris Piper & Carl Edwards (both knee injuries)

50/50 Ian Jones (Pork rope) Karl Lewis (work) Dan Williams (flu)

Brian Thomas and Craig Jones retain their places.

Tony & Gaffer Phil

OCT-18

U19's beat Haverfordwest 3-1

They now still have a 100% record in the league, played 3 won 3, and in gaining their victory they inflicted Haverfordwest's 100% loss in the league played 4 lost 4.

The U19 lie just a point off league leaders West End, but we have a game in hand.

The lads next outing is on Sunday away to Neath, who currently lie in 8th place with 5 points from 4 games.

Hope to get more on last night's game to put up later today.

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Tony

OCT-17

Games at the Marston this week

Next up is the first team on Friday night in an important game when Bryntirion are the visitors. Last season we ran out 3-1 winners in the same tie, with Ian Jones with a brace and a Chris piper goal gave us victory, a repeat of that score line Friday would do nicely, especially as it will be our last league game until the 10th November. Kick off @ 7:30 pm

On Sunday the ladies are in action on home soil when UWIC are the visitors. While the ladies were exiting the cup at the hands of Bridgend, UWIC were easing past Haverfordwest in the Welsh cup. Kick off @2:pm

Other games this week involve the Reserves who are away to Pontardawe. Ponty are still winless but have played just two games and lost one and drawn one.

Also on Sunday the under 19's are in action again when they make the short journey to face Neath.

Tony

OCT-15

Other Lido results this weekend

Newport YMCA 5-1 Afan Lido - Reserves

Our Reserves were out on Saturday at Mendalgief Road to take on Newport YMCA Reserves in the first round of the Harris printers shield. But they will not be in the draw for the second round as Newport came out comfortable winners 5-1, Steve Hughes scored our only goal.

Bridgend 4-1 Afan Lido - Ladies

The Ladies team were in action at the Marston Stadium today playing Bridgend in the first round of the welsh cup, they played Bridgend who were their most recent opponents in the league, and the result came out in favour of Bridgend again this time 4-1. Stacy Harris scored her first goal of the season with a cracking volley to score Lido's only goal. Their task was made very hard when Kirsty Pratt was shown the red card in the 3rd minute of the game. READ MATCH REPORT

Corus 0-8 Afan Lido - U12

Our under 12's were in action on Saturday when they played Corus in the first round of the challenge cup, and it was another resounding victory for the youngsters, as they ran out 8-0 winners, this is the second time they have played Corus and the previous scoreline was 6-0. Our scorers on Saturday were Jack Underwood and Jake Price both grabbing hat-tricks and Sean Griffiths and Jack Lewis with a goal a piece.

Afan Lido - U10

Both the under 10's were out and the Rangers team beat Corus 3-2, awaiting result of the Colts game.

There was only one under 8 game on Saturday, with our Colts hosting Gwynfi Youth, the colts were on the end of a 8-2 loss. The Rangers game was called off.

Tony

OCT-13

Team line up for Dinas Powys game

Brian Thomas, Paul Evans, Chris Latham, Shaun O'Leary, Greg Hurley, Matthew Lavis, Craig Jones, Ian Jones, Craig Martin, Dan Williams.

Subs: Phil Holmes, Corey Thomas, Neil Hendra.

Tony & Phil

OCT-12

The who's in who's out for Saturday

Carl Evan's is away this weekend and is unavailable:) and Karl Lewis is only 50/50.

Training on tonight and hopefully there won't be any additions to  the unavailable list ahead of the game.

Back into  the squad are Matt Lavis, Chris Latham, Corey Thomas and Craig Martin.

Tony & Phil

OCT-10

Swansea's Ladies move further ahead

Things looked ominous for Haverfordwest even before the kick off, as they travelled to Swansea with the bare 11 players, and 2 of them were newcomers who had never even played a competitive game before, and had only just started training with the Bluebirds.

Haverfordwest must have been aware of Swansea's dominance in their previous 5 games, but thought some of the ref's decisions were a bit iffy.

Swansea were awarded a penalty when the Hwest Ladies were expecting a free kick their way, and allowed the Swansea penalty taker to take the spot kick even before the Hwest keeper had made it back to her goal line. There were other decisions made by the ref that had the Hwest Ladies scratching their heads making them feel their task was even bigger than it would have been, but in the end Swansea ran out comfortable 6-0 winners.

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Tony 

OCT-09

Lido drop to 7th as Ton win away 1-0

The win moves Ton Pentre back up to 2nd in the table, as they have taken 16 points from the last 18, Their only defeat came in their opening fixture when the lost to newcomers ENTO Aberaman 2-0 at Ynys Park. Ton trail leaders Neath by 3 points but have a game in hand.

Pontypridd are also poised nicely in 8th they have lost just once in 6 games winning the other 5, and could take top spot if they can win their games in hand, they beat Taffs well on Friday night, and Taffs as we know inflicted Neath's only defeat of the season 2 weeks ago. So it's going to be a tough league to win this season, but no other team can boast 8 wins out of 8 as the Lido can:)

On the down side, news is not good for John Felton and Liam McCreesh ahead of Saturday's game at home to Dinas Powys, both could miss the game through the injuries they received in the 1-0 win at Goytre.

Tony 

OCT-07

U19 playing Sunday in FAW welsh cup

Our under 19 side travel to Cardiff on Sunday for their first round tie with Cardiff Celts in the FAW Welsh Youth Cup first round. 

Don't know anything at all about Cardiff Celts, but the winners on Sunday have been drawn away to Newport YMCA in the second round, that tie will be played at Mendalgief Road on Sunday 29th of October.

Tony 

OCT-06

Lido win away to local rivals

Tonight the first's travelled the short distance to Glenhafod Park to face the unbeaten Goytre Utd.

And the team came away with a well earned 1-0 victory, the goal was scored by Ian Jones.

Tonight's win moves us up 2 places in the table to 6th, it was our 5th league win on the trot and the 8th in all competitions.

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Tony 

OCT-05

Preview on Bodedern our cup opponents

Here is some info on the club that stands between Afan Lido and the last 16 of the welsh cup.

They are from Anglesey and are one of four clubs from the Island playing in the Cymru Alliance.

Boded (as they are known by their supporters) are only in their 2nd season in the Cymru Alliance, last season they finished a credible 9th in their first season.

Prior to the Cymru Alliance they spent 3 seasons in the Welsh Alliance league after gaining promotion from the Gwynedd league. In their first season in the Welsh Alliance they came 2nd and also won the Barrett cup.

In 2003-04 they retained their Barrett cup trophy and finished 4th in the league. But the 2004-05 was the big turning point for the club, they started the season by winning the welsh alliance charity cup, and they finished the season as welsh Alliance champions and were promoted to the Cymru Alliance league.

Though no silverware for Boded last season but a season of consolidation with a 9th place finish. 

This season they currently lie in 12th spot having played fewer games than any other team, they have won 2 and lost 3, but are clearly a team going places, hopefully not at our expense.

Their manager is Kevin Hughes who is in his 6th season in charge of the side, the season the team won promotion from the Welsh Alliance he was voted manager of the year.

Their website can be found at http://members.aol.com/bodedernfc/index.html  Its an up to date and well documented website and well worth a look, and was the source of the info for the preview.

Tony 

OCT-01

Lido home in 3rd round of welsh cup

Bodedern are in the same boat as ourselves being in the top feeder league to the welsh premier.

It's hard to judge the strength's of both divisions, but in recent years Cymru Alliance clubs promoted to the WPL have faired fairly well, with Welshpool, Porthmadog and Airbus UK all establishing themselves well.

But home advantage alone should see as favourites to progress to the last 16 of the cup.

Tony