Afan Lido Football Club

Our scorers were Carl Payne from the penalty spot, Matt Beynon and Jon Hood.

Lido's scorers were S Hillman (2), C Baker, A Beynon, S Morgan, Laurent Fodderie and Ellis Harris.

M Lewis, D Lancey, C Payne, S McCourbrey, C Pridham, L Borrelli, R Williams, C Evans, C Thomas, S Galsworthy, N White.

Subs: S Hillman, C Baker, J Hood.

Barry Town take the lead on 64' scored by Sam Small, the goal came from a corner that should have been a goal kick (bring in goal line technology)

Barry went 2-0 up on 85' goal scored by Blatchford, the goal came about by a lido mistake.

Full time Barry 2-0 Lido.

Tony

M Lewis, D Lancey, C Payne, S Hillman, S McCourbrey, Dan Symmons, C Pridham, L Borrelli, R Williams, J Hood, C Evans, C Baker, C Thomas, S Galsworthy, N White, Connah Williams.

Tonight we take on Barry Town at Jenner Park, and a victory over the hosts could see us climb to 2nd place in the table, until Saturday's results are in.

Last season we came away from Jenner Park with a good 3-0 win back on November 25th, but following that result Barry Town remained unbeaten for 21 games following our win over them, they in fact only lost again again on the very last game of the season at home to Newport YM, they finished of the season in 3rd place behind Aberaman and Goytre. They also repaid us for that 3-0 win by beating us by the same scoreline when they came to the Marston on February 6th.

They have not started this season as they finished off the last, and are in 10th place with with 2 wins, 2 draws and 2 defeats so far, they have suffered a home defeat already to newly promoted Garden Village 2-1, and lost last time out 1-0 at Ynys Park against Ton Pentre.

Our start to the season is pretty good, though we did lose 2 of the first 3 games, but we are on a 3 match winning streak since our last defeat against Bryntirion. 

Our new look squad are starting to settle down playing together with 6 of the new players having started the most games in the squad so far this season, so it's a very new looking team we are putting out. One signing seems to stick out more than the others when it comes to scoring goals, and that player is Nathan White who has scored 8 league goals in his 6 games, while no other scorer has scored more than one goal, Nathan has in fact scored 8 out of our 13 goals in our 6 league games, though last season's top scorer Scott McCourbrey has scored in his one and only game so far, so we have the prospects of a terrific strike force pair in those 2 players.

It is a very youngish team with the likes of Jonathan Hood, Shaun Galsworthy, Carl Payne, Corey Thomas, Gavin Jones, Dan Lancey, Luke Borrelli, and Scott McCourbrey 21 or younger. So if we don't manage promotion this season, due to the domestic licence or by finishing in the top places, we have the basis for a good squad for next season and after to challenge again.

Tony

M Lewis, R Williams, C Baker, C Evans,  L Borrelli, J Hood, C Payne,  D Lancey, S Galsworthy, S McCourbrey, C Pridham.

Subs: A Collins, S Hillman, J McEvoy, C Thomas, N White.

Cardiff side Pentwyn got off to a flying start in the league cup clash taking the lead in the 10', but their lead lasted just 5' as Luke Borrelli got Lido back on level terms.

Lido make 3 subs, N White, C Thomas and S Hillman come on for J Hood, C Payne and S Galsworthy.

It took Lido 20' into the 2nd half to take the lead, the goal came from Dan Lancey on 65' 2-1 Lido.

Lido look to have made the game safe with a 3rd with 5' left, Luke Borrelli scored his 2nd and Lido's 3rd.

Full time 3-1 to Lido.

Attendance: 65

Tony

M Lewis, R Williams, C Baker, C Evans, S Hillman, L Borrelli, J Hood, C Payne, J McEvoy, D Lancey, N White, C Thomas, S Galsworthy, S McCourbrey, C Pridham, A Collins.

Tony

As for the match Ely won 4-3 Carl Payne scored all of Lido's goals, 2 came from the penalty spot.

Tony

Neighbours Port Talbot have a fairly comfortable looking tie at home to welsh league division 2 side Cwmbran Celtic, and Neath have an easy task of playing Llanelli at home.

Full draw is:

Aberaman Athletic v Penrhiwceiber
Afan Lido FC v Croesyceiliog
Bangor City v Elements Cefn Druids
Borras Park Albion v Bala Town
Bridgend Town v Ton Pentre
Bryntirion Athletic v Aberystwyth Town
Caerau Ely v Hay St. Marys
Cambrian and Clydach v Troedyrhiw FC
Cardiff Bay Harlequins v Aberbargoed Buds FC
Carmarthen Town v Pontypridd Town
Conwy Utd v The New Saints
Ely Rangers FC v AFC Llwydcoed
Flint Town Utd v Barmouth and Duffryn Utd
Gap Connah's Quay V Pwllheli FC
Garden Village v Caldicot Town
Goytre Utd v Pontardawe Town
Gresford Athletic v Llanrug Utd
Holyhead Hotspurs v Newtown
Lex XI v Airbus UK Broughton
Llandudno Town v Berriew
Llanfairpwll' v Rhyl
Llangefni Town v Llandudno Junction FC
Llangeinor v Pontyclun
Llangollen Town v Glan Conwy FC
Llansantffraid Village v Coedpoeth Utd
Neath FC v Llanelli AFC
Penrhyncoch v CPD Porthmadog
Port Talbot Town v Cwmbran Celtic FC
Rhydymwyn v Caernarfon Town
Ruthin Utd v Caersws
Taffs Well v Haverfordwest County
Technogroup Welshpool v Prestatyn Town

Tony

Mike Lewis, Rhys Williams, Jonathan Hood, Carl Evans, S Galsworthy, Shaun Galsworthy,
Shaun Morgan, Carl Payne, Chris Pridham, Scott McCourbrey, Nathan White, Damian Lancey.

Subs:
Scott Hillman, Sam McCoy, Corey Thomas.

Afan Lido took the lead in this welsh cup game away against Seven Sisters after 12' with an own goal. It was 2-0 on 20' with Nathan White's first cup goal for the club. Shaun Morgan made it 3-0 on 25' with a beautiful little chip. Lido on fire.

Scott McCourbrey made it 4-0 on the half hour, and the game finished Lido 4-0 Seven Sisters at half time.

Mike Lewis didn't come out for the 2nd half due to an injury he picked up, goalscorer Shaun Morgan took over between the posts.

Four minutes into the 2nd half and Scott McCourbrey made it 5-0. On 50' Corey Thomas came off the bench in place of Damien Lancey, and on 56' Scott Hillman made his lido debut coming on  for Shaun Galsworthy.

On 69' Carl Payne made it 6-0 to Lido, and could it be 7 against Seven today with over 20' to go.

And it was 7 goals for Lido, Carl Payne got his 2nd of the game on 82'.

And that's how the game finished 7-0 to Lido.

Tony

Lido line up:
M Lewis, R Williams, S Morgan, S Hillman, A Collins, J Hood, S McCoy, J McEvoy, C Payne, C Evans, S Galsworthy, C Pridham, C Thomas, S McCourbrey, N White, D Lancey, L Fodderie, L Borrelli.

A new name appears in the squad line up for the welsh cup game against Seven Sisters, and the club welcomes Scott Hillman to Afan Lido. Scott is a 21 year old defender who has welsh premier league experience with Cardiff Grange Quins during their brief stay in the welsh premier. He was with Bridgend Town last season, Scott has problems making training due to work commitments, a problem he also faced with his former club Bridgend Town, but his signing makes another strengthening to our defensive options. He is the 3rd signing this season from Bridgend Town, following on with Brendan Cropley and Ryan Frankcom, and he becomes our 12th signing this season.

Tony

Luke Borrelli scored a hat-trick, with Adam Beynon and Karl Roberts adding a goal each.

Reserves are out next against West End on Sept 11th.

Tony

They currently lie in 11th place with 2 wins and 2 defeats, they lost their opening 2 games of the season with a 3-2 defeat at Goytre and then a 5-0 hammering at Dinas Powys. Since then they have settled down and are unbeaten in their last 3 games with wins over Garden Village 3-1, a 2-1 win over Taffs Well and last time out a 0-0 draw at home to Ton Pentre.

The corresponding fixture last season saw Bettws secure a point with a 3-3 draw at the Marston with Lido scoring the equaliser in the last minute.

We go into the game looking for our 3rd league win on the trot, and our 4th win in 6 games, if results go our way and we secure a win we could go 2nd in the table, but we would rely on Pontardawe winning their first against 3rd placed Bryntirion or a draw would see us go above Bryntirion on goal difference, other results would need to go our way as well as us winning.

There has been news that former Afan Lido manager Craig Duggan has been approached to take over the vacant managers position at Bettws, but nothing has been confirmed yet, we also welcome back to the Marston Former midfielder Kieron Howells, who re-joined Bettws before the start of the season.

We also give a warm welcome back to last season's top scorer Scott McCourbrey who makes the squad for the first game of the season, though he has some catching up to do to get close to this season's Lido top scorer Nathan White.

The Lido squad to face Bettws is:

M Lewis, C Evans, R Williams, C Thomas, C Pridham, C Baker, D Lancey, N White, C Payne, S Galsworthy, M Beynon, J Hood, S Morgan, S McCourbrey, S McCoy.

Also this Saturday see's the Reserves get their season going with an away game against welsh league newcomers South Gower, they meet in the Reserve cup.

Tony