Cardiff Airport programme

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A word from our chairman Good afternoon and welcome to Coed Gwilym Park for today’s Ardal Southern league fixture against Cardiff Airport FC. I’d like to extend warm welcome to their players, coaches, committee, and supporters We are looking forward to testing ourselves this afternoon against a high quality outfit who have had a great start at this level.

This is our first home league game of the month and I’m sure everyone is happy about that. We have hit a bit of a difficult patch losing our last 4. There's no doubt we should be sitting on around 10 more points than we currently have but it just goes to show how unforgiving this level of football can be. I have no doubt though that Damo and the lads will turn things around quickly and that we will soon be up that league table. We are gradually working our way back to full strength and I’m sure the experience the younger players had in recent weeks will prove Invaluable.

Today, although we obviously want to win, is a day where football is put into perspective. We hold our annual Jacob Crane Day. Jacob was a fantastic lad, loved by everyone who came across him and who was tragically taken way too soon. This is our opportunity to do something in his memory. In conjunction with Jacob’s family and the Foundation set up in his memory, we host today as a celebration of his life, a chance to raise funds, awareness and keep his memory firmly in the forefront of our minds. So dig deep to support today. There are foundation wristbands for sale, a raffle, collection buckets and by using the QR code on the back of the programme you can donate that way.

It just leaves me to say good luck, enjoy the ride, I’m sure there’ll be bumps in the road, but know we got the players, coaches and supporters to do something special this season Best wishes.

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A brief history Clwb Pêl-droed Clydach Football Club was established in 2021 through the merger of two long-standing Clydach clubs – FC Clydach and Clydach Cricket Football Club. While previously successful, both clubs realised that there would be much to be gained from uniting and pooling resources. Through forming one club, the village of Clydach and the surrounding area now has a club that provides opportunities for teams from the age of 5 through to senior teams, for boys and girls. In our first season, the club secured Platinum FAW Club Accreditation which we have maintained since and experienced a great deal of success at junior and senior levels, including the promotion of our men’s first team to the West Wales Premier League and winning the 2021-22 Premier Division Cup in just our first season. Through the hard work of over 60 coaches, officers and volunteers, the club has continued to make progress both on and off the field. The minis and junior section has over 350 members including over 110 girls. We have over 50 youth team players registered and just short of 100 registered senior players. In 2023-2024, our 1st Team gained promotion to the Ardal Southern Leagues and will again play in the South West section in 2025-2026. We will also have two Senior Ladies team competing in 2025-2026 season. We are also a .provider of the FAW Huddle Programme to encourage girls into football

Manager’s Corner Hello and welcome to Coed Gwilym for this league encounter against Cardiff Airport. It's been a difficult couple of weeks and one where I feel we haven't picked up the points we should have. Last week saw us travel to Treherbert and produce a display for an hour which saw us take a 2-0 lead and look like our old selves. However, we let a winning position slip and conceded 3 late goals to lose a game we had won.

That's in the past and the last 4 games have gone.

We obviously need to learn lessons from those defeats but we have to look forward and be positive. I don't think we are a million miles away from the side and types of winning football I think we are capable of. Football is a funny game and as quickly as you can be in a losing streak, things can be turned around and you can find yourself feeling invincible and winning. Today will be a difficult game as Cardiff Airport have taken to this level like a duck to water. I have no doubt the challenge will be difficult but the one thing that gives me confidence is how hard the players and coaches are working to get back to winning ways. No doubt with your support we can start that this afternoon.

Enjoy the game God Bless Damo

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