It's the opening day of the season and I am not sure whether we actually had a break !!!
Away at Bryntirion Athletic today with a young and exciting side which has had a good pre-season and will be looking forward to giving one of the league's most consistent teams a good game in Bridgend today. The sun is shining and if only it could stay like this for the rest of the season !!!!
Kick Off is at 2:30pm so we hope everyone makes the journey up to support the lads as we start our season, as usual, on our travels.
Meanwhile, and at the new ground in Parc Ynysderw, the reserves / neath league squad have a tough home friendly against Swansea Senior league outfit Ragged School. The youth then start their pre-season against Dinas Powys on Sunday.
The whole debacle with the Neath League seems to have ended now as we have no option to appeal any higher than we have done so have to accept that we will now be in Division One. The target must now be to win the Division and do well in the cups as we have put together a good bunch of lads who have a blend of youth and experience.
The New Ground has been great but we are still chasing Neath & Port Talbot and Celtic Community Leisure for the lease or letter granting us the lease ... without that we cannot get the grants we need to build the ground to Welsh League standard ... every day I am being asked why does it take so long .... the answer is I don't know !!!!! ... Can you help to speed this up ? ... Welsh League Football may not be important to the Council but it is to the players, supporters, managers and coaches of Pontardawe Town.
Well off to pack the car full of black tape for black socks (new rule that tape must be colour of socks!) and so pleased we don't play in pink !!!
Good luck to all teams this season and look forward to meeting everyone on the journey.
