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Ton Pentre League Prog's edition

Good afternoon and welcome to the officials, players and supporters of Ton Pentre Football Club to the Marston’s Stadium for this afternoon’s MacWhirter Welsh League Division One match.

We also welcome today's referee Eddie King and his assistants Phil Owen and Gareth Dowdeswell to the Marston’s Stadium for the game.  Our opponents are currently in second position and are enjoying another successful season. Ton Pentre set the benchmark every season for others to follow and their manager Kevin Richards has once again assembled a very strong squad of players capable of winning the league.

After 3 weeks without a game we will need to be at our very best to get something out of today's game. Since the excellent away victory at Clydach & Cambrian which our young team performed admirably, I have since brought Dai Rees on board as my assistant.  Dai brings a wealth of knowledge with him and his experience will be invaluable.  His character has already rubbed off with the players and with Mark Robinson on board with us;  hopefully we can gain the success the club strives for. 

On the transfer market we have secured the services of Goytre wideman Michael Waters.  I went back to my old club to sign Michael whom I rate as the best wideman in the league. Ian Jones has returned to the club from Haverfordwest and once again I'm delighted to have Ian back at the club having scored 42 goals for the club last season. Goalkeeper Leon Cosker has signed from Ton Pentre so I'm sure he will be looking forward to today's game and finally Steve Cox has signed from the Swansea league.  Steve is a no nonsense central defender who has always impressed me when he played for Pontardawe Town.  

players will be making their first starts of the season with three of them making their club debuts.  My signings haven't stopped there hopefully, with the possibility of two further signings and combine these new players with what we already have, then I'm sure we can start climbing the table

Enjoy the game

Craig