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[Patrick Thistle]

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Porthcawl Town Athletic won their first qualifying round game but seem to have been replaced in the second qualifying round by Porthcawl United.

[Patrick Thistle]

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SO Welsh League Division One is being led by Goytre. The second placed club are called Goytre United.

United are from Port Talbot and plain old Goytre is just outside Pontypool.

Anyone know any other division anywhere where two teams have pretty much the same name but come from distinct geographical locations?

[Southport Zeb]

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Sixth in the Welsh League are Caerau (Ely), from Cardiff. Drop down to Division Three, and the early leaders are Caerau, from Maesteg.

[Bored Of Education]

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Jongudmund wrote: Porthcawl Town Athletic won their first qualifying round game but seem to have been replaced in the second qualifying round by Porthcawl United.

Missed this. Bloody hell, another name change which is probably why I can't keep track of them. I didn't realise that there was another club that got subsumed by Porthcawl Town and Porthcawl Athletic and that was Porthcawl Lightning Strikers which is the name they should have kept. They got knocked out 5-1 in the end.

[Bored Of Education]

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Ah, this, which is fairly up to date, shows them still as Porthcawl Town Athletic and 5th in the league.

[Patrick Thistle]

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3rd October they are playing Grange Albion, the only club who still play on Sloper Road.

[Patrick Thistle]

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TNS have had a winding up order issued against them but apparently don't know who has issued it (according to their website anyway).

[Bored Of Education]

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Oh dear, how sad, never mind.

[Kowalski]

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I was so giddy when I first saw this on Friday evening The Smiths played on a loop in my head.

After a little facebook discussion with those in the know it probably won't come to anything. It only sounds bad, or definite, on the surface and they have the means to ward off a little problem like this.

Hopefully it's the first sign of trouble.

[NickSTFU]

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By all accounts Harris was in discussions with Roland Wycherley about buying into Salop.

By all accounts RW was up for it, but by all accounts Harris had a change of heart at the 11th hour.

[Kowalski]

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Thankfully the Shrews won't become "Planet Hippo Town of Shrewsbury, Oswestry and Llansantfraid FC"

[Patrick Thistle]

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NickSTFU wrote: By all accounts Harris was in discussions with Roland Wycherley about buying into Salop.

By all accounts RW was up for it, but by all accounts Harris had a change of heart at the 11th hour.

For realz?

[Patrick Thistle]

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TNS won The Word Cup yesterday. I misread it as world cup on Twitter initially. A proper 'Wait, what?!?' moment.

[Southport Zeb]

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Patrick Thistle wrote: TNS won The Word Cup yesterday. I misread it as world cup on Twitter initially. A proper 'Wait, what?!?' moment.

The Word Cup is the Welsh Premier League's league cup. Following the usual logic of Welsh football this involves a number of sides from outside the WPL, one of whom, Denbigh Town, were the losing finalists on Saturday.

[NickSTFU]

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Patrick Thistle wrote:

By all accounts Harris was in discussions with Roland Wycherley about buying into Salop.

By all accounts RW was up for it, but by all accounts Harris had a change of heart at the 11th hour.

For realz?

Without hi-jacking the thread and keeping a long story short. Yes.

[Duncan Gardner]

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I was in Oswestry yesterday. The fate of TNS wasn't stirring local shoppers, I must say.

Is Shrewsbury's supremo any relation to 50s rocker Billy Fury (ne Wycherley)?

[Kowalski]

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NickSTFU wrote:

By all accounts Harris was in discussions with Roland Wycherley about buying into Salop.

By all accounts RW was up for it, but by all accounts Harris had a change of heart at the 11th hour.

For realz?

Without hi-jacking the thread and keeping a long story short. Yes.

Please hijack the thread, please hijack the thread.

TNS have been declared fully solvent by the way.

DG, Judging by the pub conversations we've had with locals during our visits the good people of Oswestry don't really care for TNS, some even detest the cuckoo in their nest.

[NickSTFU]

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There has been pub talk of Harris making an offer for a chunk of RW’s shares for a few months now. At the recent SP meeting a chap turned up (who I vaguely know) saying that he knows Harris, socially, through business and through grass roots football.

Matt Williams our outgoing CEO was at the meeting and he was challenged by this chap to reveal whether Harris and RW had held discussions around shares. MW confirmed that they had met, but it didn’t get beyond preliminary meetings and it all fell through pretty quickly.

The chap than came out and said that was nonsense because he had it from Harris that talks were advanced and that RW had made a list of conditions that Harris ultimately found difficult if he was to put money into the Club. MW flatly denied this.

At the end of the meeting the chap went around showing all and sundry texts messages supposedly from Harris about how advanced the talks were. The texts included RW’s demand to be made Life President, have a hands on role in the running of the Club and an idea from Harris to get our youth side playing in the WPL. At this point I started to wonder if this chap and Harris were on a piss take.

So on the one hand we have the ex – CEO of Blackpool who had spent 10 years working with the Oystons saying they didn’t get past the preliminary stage, while on the other hand a bloke off the street (so to speak) saying talks were advanced and it was a last minute decision not to invest.

As with most things like this the truth is probably somewhere in the middle. Either way Harris had been sniffing around. To further complicate matters the ex – leader (and all round dodgy twat) of Shropshire Council, Keith Barrow, had been seen at the Club before Xmas schmoozing with RW.

This is how dodgy Barrow is.

http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2016/01/20/police-investigations-into-keith-barrow-complaint-incomplete/

This is who he works for now.

http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2015/12/15/former-shropshire-council-leader-keith-barrow-excited-at-new-job/

By all accounts Harris and Barrow are friends of long standing.

My take on this is that when Harris found out from Barrow that the land around the NGM doesn’t belong to the Club, but is held by various holding companies *ahem* allegedly *ahem* owned by RW, he lost interest. The NGM is surrounded by the last bit of green belt development land in South Shrewsbury. Probably all of Shrewsbury in fact.

So there you go, nothing to see here really move along.

[Kowalski]

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Thanks for that.

[Patrick Thistle]

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Southport Zeb wrote:

TNS won The Word Cup yesterday. I misread it as world cup on Twitter initially. A proper 'Wait, what?!?' moment.

The Word Cup is the Welsh Premier League's league cup. Following the usual logic of Welsh football this involves a number of sides from outside the WPL, one of whom, Denbigh Town, were the losing finalists on Saturday.

I knew what it was. I just misread it.

Thanks for the update Nick.

[Patrick Thistle]

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Bringing this back for this cracking story of police investigating a brawl between Cefn Druids players and fans after the team had been thumped 7-0 at home by Caernarfon Town.

Caernarfon, who lead the league up in North Wales have been told they can't join the Welsh Premier League because they "don't exist".

[Ray de Galles]

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Unfortunately, Cardiff Met University have beaten Barry Town to the WPL place created by Port Talbot Town being thrown out.

[Patrick Thistle]

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Is that 'unfortunately' because you like Barry Town or because you don't like Cardiff Met?

[Ray de Galles]

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A lot from Column A, a bit from Column B. Cardiff Met have been through so many ridiculous changes over the years I struggle to see them as a real club. Do they have any actual fans, i.e. not supportive students?

[Kowalski]

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We were talking about Cardiff Met last week.

None of us were enthralled by the prospect of visiting an academic sports centre, not even a municipal sports centre, in a Cardiff suburb. If they were still Inter Cardiff we might feel differently but then they'd still be playing in Ninian Park. (It would still exist.)

Their promotion will be merely another cut to add to the 1000 our enthusiasm has already suffered.

I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it any more.

Hardly anyone has a chance to win the league, nobody I've spoken to, from any club, thinks the 12 club format is fit for purpose and Rhyl would actually prefer to be relegated.

Last week we had to suffer the social Darwinist songs of the 11-12 year olds from Aberystwyth. "In Your Bangor slums...." and a variation of "Council House Dwelling Scum.." (I forget the exact wording.) We're dealing with Thatcher's grandchildren here.

Murdoch-educated teenage arrogance seems to be a standard feature in the Welsh Premier League. We've been addressed with the condescending overfamiliarity of "mate" in nearly every ground. To make matters worse the little darlings usually come and stand next to you for the banter instead of doing the done thing and going behind the goal their team is attacking.

As for Bangor this season.......2014-2015's league position didn't immediately suggest optimism but the unbeaten run that prevented relegation emanated a fairly tangible whiff of optimism.

By the end of last summer our icon, our club captain and our player of the season had departed to free-spending competitors. Consequently our side's delicate balance - the kernel of our optimism - was thrown decidedly off-kilter and the tangible optimism evaporated into the ether.

There was no denying our infuriating inconsistency in the first phase of the season; Bangor weren't as bad as people feared but we weren't as good as people hoped either. The pre-Christmas victories against the supposedly fancied sides suggested a new balance had been achieved but listless disappointment often enveloped other matches. It's difficult to say whether our fundamental underpinning knowledge - there was no way we'd be able to challenge the "big boys" - softened or amplified the disappointment.

The second phase of the season strongly suggested hope and a chance of Europe but it was also ultimately disappointing; we faded in the last couple of matches and slipped out of the play off place.

If you wanted to look for highlights the pair of dramatic 4-3 victories over Rhyl jumps out. The lowlights are undoubtedly the cup defeats against Holyhead and Caernarfon.

When considering this season a pithy optimist may say that we were denied a top six place by a single defeat and denied seventh place by a disputed penalty whereas a pithy realist could say that our inconsistency cost us dearly.

And we've got more of the same next season, the boot smashing the face of humanity for eternity.