Bryntirion Ath League Prog's edition

Good evening and welcome to the officials, players and supporters of Bryntirion Athletic Football Club to the Marston’s Stadium for this evening’s final home MacWhirter Welsh League Division One match of the season.

I’d also like to welcome the three officials, Eddie King in the middle with Paul Fisher and Ian Bird assisting and also Mato Industries who are sponsoring the game. We hope you enjoy the game and we’ll see you in the club afterwards.

Our opponents currently occupy 6th position and manager Francis Ford has assembled a very useful team this season including Robbie Walters the prolific goalscorer who once again has scored many goals this season.

Since our last home game we have played 5 games on the road with only 1 defeat against Caerleon. Wins at Goytre, Bryntirion, Pontardawe and Garw have kept us in the hunt for promotion but unfortunately our rivals all seem to be winning as well.

Both Karl Lewis and Ian Jones haven't played in the last 5 matches whilst Steve Parry hasn't played in the last 3. The youth team players who have come in have done the club proud averaging 5 youth players starting in the last 5 matches. Corey Thomas, Damon Thomas, Rory McCreesh, Luke Borrelli, Steve Davies, Shaun Morgan, Carl Payne, Steve Hughes and Nathan Hodgson have all played their part recently in keeping the club amongst the leading pack. I don’t think there would be another Welsh League club that could put so much faith in their youth players yet still keep on winning and keep the season alive.

Dan McGrath played his first game in twelve matches against Garw and came through unscathed.  We also welcome back Steve Davies, Shaun Morgan and Karl Roberts from our last match whilst Steve Cox will undergo a late fitness test after aggravating his hamstring.

Full credit must be given to our young team this season with a home win against Ton Pentre and away victories at Goytre, Bryntirion & Dinas Powys. Whilst it is still mathematically possible to gain promotion, realistically we will be playing Welsh League football again next season and on behalf of Dai Rees and myself I would like to take this opportunity being our last home match to thank Sean McCreesh, Mark Robinson and other hard working people at the club and all the players for their continued support since October,