Preparations didn't get off to the best of starts as Leigh Shrimpton got an injury in the match warm warm up.

The first goal of the game didn't arrive until the 25' when Nathan White got on the scoresheet again.

On 35' Nathan and Lido had the chance to go 2-0 up when the Ponty keeper brought down White and conceded a penalty and also saw him get a red card. But White's penalty was a weak effort and easily saved by the replacement keeper.

On 65' 10 man Ponty were level, a mix up between Keeper Mike Lewis & Shaun Galsworthy let in Jonathan Coates to draw Ponty level.

Lido restored the lead on 73' when Nathan White scored his 2nd of the game.

It finished 2-1 to Lido our 2nd home win in a couple of days and see's us move up to 6th.

Lido line up:
M Lewis, R Williams, C Thomas, C Evans, S Galsworthy, C Baker, R Frankcom, C Pridham, M Beynon, Nathan White, D Lancey, 

Subs: L Borrelli, L Fodderie, J McEvoy, C Payne,

Tony

The squad to face Pontardawe tomorrow is:

M Lewis, R Williams, C Thomas, C Evans, S Galsworthy, C Baker, R Frankcom, C Pridham, M Beynon, Nathan White, D Lancey, L Shrimpton, L Borrelli, S McCoy, L Fodderie, J McEvoy, C Payne, G Jones.

Ponty Preview

Saturday we take on Pontardawe at the Marston, and we will be looking to do a lot better than the 3-0 defeat we suffered at their hands last season.

Ponty are having a bad start to the season losing all 4 league games and are bottom of the league with only Cardiff Corries below them on worse goal difference. But it must be said that all 4 games have been away from home, and tomorrows game makes it 5 away.

Ponty have had the better of the meetings against us at the Marston with Lido only recording 1 win since we came back to the welsh league.

While we have had an indifferent start to the season, something that everyone must have noticed is the goalscoring feats on new signings Nathan White, and especially his tally of four goals last time out against West End, he could form quite a strike double act with last season's top scorer Scott McCourbrey when he returns to the squad next month. 

We welcome back Rhys Williams to the squad for the first time this season.

Tony

The lights literally went out for West End in tonight's game, with Lido up 3-0 the floodlights failed, and after a £1 was put in the meter, we continued with the remaining 17'.

It was almost a goalless first half but Nathan White put us ahead after 43' to send in at half time 1-0 up.

5' after the restart Nathan White made it 2 for him and Lido, and just before the lights went out Nathan grabbed his first Lido hat-trick on 70'.

On 80' Dan Lancey made it 4-0 and just for good measure Nathan White scored his 4th and Lido's 5th to wrap up the score at 5-0 to Lido.

Lido line up:
M Lewis, A Collins, C Thomas, S Galsworthy, C Baker, R Frankcom, C Pridham, M Beynon, Nathan White, D Lancey.

Subs:
B Cropley, L Borrelli, S McCoy, L Fodderie, J McEvoy.

Wednesday night we travel to Swansea to take on West End for the first time in a league encounter.

West End are only in the welsh league since the 2005/06 season and have made rapid progress up the divisions to take their place in division 1.

They have had a steady start to life in div 1 with 4 points from their 3 games, winning their first 3-1 against Taffs Well before drawing away to Garden Village and last time out lost 3-2 at home to Ton Pentre.

We welcome back 2 former Lido players now in the ranks of West End, defender Steve Crabbe and striker Darren Griffiths who was West End's top scorer last season. Hopefully Steve will be chasing shadows and Darren will be kept quiet and scoreless during the match.

Lido will be looking to bounce back from the 2-1 defeat we suffered last time out away to Bryntirion in only Bryntirion's 2nd win over Lido in the league.

We need to get back to winning ways as to not fall too far behind the current leaders who are 6 points clear of us after only 3 games.

The squad for Wednesday's game is:

B Cropley, M Lewis, C Evans, S Galsworthy, C Thomas, C Pridham, C Payne, N White, R Frankcom, D Lancey, A Collins, J McEvoy, C Baker, S McCoy, L Borrelli, G Jones, L Fodderie, A Hiroli.

We also welcome new signing Adnan Hiroli who joins from Bridgewater, Adnan is a striker.

While talking about strikers, former Lido youth and first team player Mark Jones could be on his way out of the Victoria Road ground, Aberystwyth have put a 7 day notice on Mark. Mark joined us on loan last season from Llanelli and he scored 9 league goals from his 13 league games for the club.

The Afan Lido squad to face Bryntirion this Saturday is:

B Cropley, J Hood, C Thomas, Sam McCoy, C Pridham, S Best, N White, C Payne, Adnan Hiroli, J McEvoy, M Lewis, L Fodderie.

A name for the Lido squad is striker Adnan Hiroli, Ady joins from Bridgewater.
 

Saturday we travel to Bryntirion for our 3rd league game of the season, having had mixed fortunes in our previous 2 league game, both games have ended in 3-1 score lines but unfortunately one for us and one against, we put in a good performance on Wednesday night away to Ton Pentre with new striker Nat White scoring a brace and another new signing Sam McCoy  scoring his first Lido goal in his first Lido game at that strike rate he should be on at least 33 goals for the season.

In our last 4 meeting since dropping back to the welsh league we have lost once at Bryntirion, last season we came away with a 1-0 win and the only win for Bryntirion was May 9th 2006 when we were beaten 3-0, the other 2 games have been draws. (Correction made to the last paragraph as I wrongly sourced the previous meetings and said that we had never lost at Bryntirion, but an observant Bryntirion chairman has put me in my place and shown me the error of my ways, well nobody's perfect:)

Bryntirion had a poor enough season last season compared to the 2007/08 season which saw them finish in 5th place, last season saw them finish in 11th place. They lie above us in the table this season unbeaten after 2 games with 4 points, having drew 4-4 with Ton Pentre away on the opening night of the season, and then winning last time out also away beating Taffs Well 2-1, so they will be looking to maintain their unbeaten run in the league especially in their first home game of the season in front of their fans.

Our new team look this season are starting to find their feet playing together, and who knows had we had 11 players on the field against Bridgend we may not have lost that game, but if's and maybe's don't get points on the board. our squad will be strengthened even further in September when we will have last season's top scorer Scott McCourbrey back and also defender Rhys Williams, so a win on Saturday will continue our unbeaten away start in the new league campaign.
 

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Lido got the better start in this game and we went 1-0 up on the half hour with new signing defender Sam McCoy scoring on his debut, things got better as we doubled our lead on 40' when Nathan White made it 2-0. Our 2 goal advantage lasted just 2' as Branch pulled a goal back for the Bulldogs, but that was the final score of the first half, Bulldogs 1-2 Lido.

James McEvoy on for Ryan Frankcom 24'
Luke Borrelli on at half time for Gavin Jones.

20' into the 2nd half and score still 2-1 to Lido, though both sides have had chances to score.

Chris Pridham passes to Carl Payne Payne squares the ball to Nathan White, and bob's ur uncle 3-1 Lido on 76'.

Laurent Fodderje on for Dan Lancey 81'.

No more highlight's in the game and Lido get their first points of the new season.

FINAL SCORE Ton Pentre 1-3 Afan Lido.

Afan Lido's man of the match was Jonathan Hood, who was outstanding on the night.

Tonight's line up against Ton Pentre is:

B Cropley, C Thomas, S McCoy, C Evans, J Hood, G Jones, R Frankcom, C Pridham, C Payne, N White, D Lancey.

Subs: L Fodderje, L Borrelli, J McEvoy, M Lewis.

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Ton did slightly better result wise than Lido in their opening game, as they secured a point in their 4-4 home draw against Bryntirion last Friday night.

Last season's fixture saw the Bulldogs run out 3-1 winners, only two players who started last season's match are still at the club (Carl Evans and Corey Thomas).

We have only won once at Ynys Park since we were relegated from the welsh premier, and that was in the 2005/06 season, since then we have lost twice and had one draw. Ton Pentre have not been the force they once were since in the league since we have seen big spenders enter the scene, firstly Aberaman along with Goytre and Neath, and this season it's looking like Bridgend are taken over from Aberaman's as the league's big spenders on players.

We go into tonight's game with a few new faces, returnee Chris Pridham makes his first appearance in the squad for a league game and we also see Sam McCoy making a showing, left back Sam has joined from Monmouth Town and goes straight into tonight's squad. Tonight's game will give an indicator to this season's squad strength as the Bridgend game was not a good indicator due to the sending off of Leigh Shrimpton when we were down 1-0 and that came from a penalty.

Hopefully we can put in a few good performances to attract the size of crowd that we got for the Bridgend game which was 304, 3 times our average for last season. Our next home game is on the 26th against one of the divisions newly promoted sides West End.
 

We welcome another new signing (10th of the season) in Sam McCoy who has transferred from Monmouth Town in the the welsh league div 3.

Sam is a left back that the club saw play in a recent friendly against Pontyclun and impressed enough to sign him up.

Sam goes straight into tomorrow night's squad to face Ton Pentre. 

B Cropley, J Hood, C Thomas, Sam McCoy, G Jones, C Pridham, R Frankcom, N White, C Payne, L Borrelli, J McEvoy, M Lewis, L Fodderie. 

BYES TO ROUND 2 - All Principality Welsh Premier League Clubs, Bridgend Town, Caernarfon Town, Aberaman Athletic.

Ties to be played on or before Saturday 12th September 2009.

Things started to fall apart in the 2nd half as Lee Shrimpton saw red in the 53rd min and 4 minutes later Bridgend made it 2-0, 2-0 became 3-0 on the hour against Lido's 10 men.

10 man Lido got a goal back in the 80' with new signing Craig Baker came off the subs bench to make it 3-1.

Final score

Lido line up:
B Cropley, L Shrimpton, C Evans, J Williams, C Thomas, R Frankcom, J Hood, D Lancey, G Jones, N White, S Morgan.

Subs: C Baker, C Payne, L Borrelli, J McEvoy, M Lewis.

Attendance: 304

Tony

B Cropley, L Shrimpton, C Evans, J Williams, C Thomas, R Frankcom, J Hood, D Lancey, G Jones, N White, S Morgan, C Payne, C Baker, M Lewis, L Fodderje, L Borrelli, J McEvoy.

One player missing from tonight's squad is Kieran Howells who last night signed up again for Bettws, we wish him well.

Tony

Bridgend have been in the news lately, most notably for their pursuit to amalgamate with Merthyr Tydfil in their attempt to gain entry into the English pyramid system, but now they look to gain a foothold in the Welsh premier instead. Bridgend should have no problem gaining entry to the welsh premier should they get a top 2 finish and finish above other promotion aspirants as the Brewery Field should meet all the on field criteria, while Lido probably wont meet the full welsh premier licensing needs, but none the less the club will still put themselves forward for entry.

They have now put together a strong squad in their attempt to secure a top 2 place in the division 1 of the welsh league, they have taken some of the top players from last season's champions Aberaman, they now boast a formidable strike force in Chris Summers and Raith Plant.

Manager Mark Robbo has been busy bringing new players in pre-season, eight in total, two ex Lido players make a welcome return in Chris Pridham who signed for Corus Steel from Neath, and Jonathan Hood who come back from Caerau. The other players to join the club can be seen in the transfer page

We do go into tonight's game missing two regulars from last season, top scorer last season Scott McCourbrey will not be available for Lido until September, and the same applies to Rhys Williams.

Kick off at the Marston is 7:30 tonight.

Tony

Nathan White had 4 good chances to score against the welsh premier outfit, 2 were brilliantly saved by Haverfordwest's young keeper Lee Idzi.

Making his debut in goals for Lido was Brendan Cropley, who signed from Bridgend Town last night after the game.

Team:
Brendan Cropley, Kieran Howells, Corey Thomas, Justin Williams, Carl Evans, Leigh Shrimpton, Daniel Lancey, Ryan Frankcom, Nathan White, Jonathan Hood, Gavin Jones.  
Subs: Shaun Galsworthy, Craig Baker and Shaun Morgan.

Next up for Lido is an away trip this Friday night against Pontyclun.

Tony

The match will now kick off at next Sunday 9th August @ 5pm, there will be live music after the game in the clubhouse performed by Rock Bottom, make a afternoon at the Lido as the Charity Shield will be live in the clubhouse before the Neath game.

Tony

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