Inside This Issue

 Results

 2015-16 Fixtures

 U19 Fixtures

 League tables

 History of the Cymru Alliance Part 3 1992-93

 League tables

 Academy News

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DRUIDS 2 3 HUWS GRAY ALLIANCE Druids winning streak finally came to an end 1st-2nd September against a determined Porthmadog side. Con- Buckley Town 2-0 Mold Alex troversial refereeing decisions contributed to Denbigh 3-3 Gresford the result but ultimately uncharacteristic Guilsfield 1-0 Llanfair United poor defending led to their downfall. Druids Hotspur 1-1 Porthmadog dominated the opening half hour but lacked Caernarfon 1-0 Conwy Borough the killer punch and when they finally did Holywell Town 2-1 Flint Town Utd open the scoring through Adam Hesp, the Town 0-2 Cefn Druids lead lasted barely 2 minutes when Port Town 0-4 Caersws equalised. Druids fell behind to a penalty 5 5th September minutes before half time with everyone in Cefn Druids 2-3 Porthmadog the ground left scratching their heads as to Caersws 0-4 Denbigh Town why. This was the first of several strange Conwy Borough 0-2 Prestatyn Town refereeing decisions and although Druids Flint Town Utd 0-1 Caernarfon equalised through Mike Pritchard on 60 Holyhead Hotspur 1-0 Buckley Town minutes they were unable to raise their game Holywell Town 3-1 Guilsfield enough and Porth sealed the game with a Llanfair United 0-3 Gresford 71st minute winner. Druids cause was not helped with a second yellow card for WNL Reserves Division 5th September Pritchard which led to his dismissal and the Castell AC Res 3-1 Corwen Res Cefn Druids Res 2-1 Gresford Athletic Res visitors keeper dealt comfortably with all FC Nomads Res 4-5 Chirk AAA Res Druids managed to throw at him. However Hawarden Rangers R 1-5 Holywell Town Res results elsewhere meant that Druids main- Llangollen Res 5-0 Llay Welfare Res tained their position at the top of the league. Town Res 2-2 Mold Alex Res

DRUIDS RES 2 Gresford 1 HUWS GRAY ALLIANCE LEAGUE TABLE Druids Reserves came from a goal down to overcome a strong Gresford Reserves. Trailing 1-0 with 20 minutes to go Alix Godfrey conjured up an equaliser and a brilliant strike from Sean Sanchez sealed the points and give the reserves their first win.

NEXT WEEK’S FIXTURES Tuesday 8th September Druids v Airbus (Word Cup) 7.30ko Saturday 12th September Druids v Conwy Borough 2.30ko (Huws Gray League Cup Round 1) WNL Reserve Division DRUIDS CELEBRATE THE WIN AT PRESTATYN Ruthin Town v Cefn Druids 2.30ko

2 FIXTURES & RESULTS & TABLES 3 HUWS GRAY ALLIANCE WNL RESERVES DIVISION P W D L F A GD Pts P W D L F A GD Pts Cefn Druids 5 4 0 1 12 6 6 12 Mold Alex 5 4 1 0 20 2 18 13 Porthmadog 5 3 1 1 9 6 3 10 FC Nomads 5 4 0 1 19 14 5 12 Guilsfield 5 3 1 1 8 6 2 10 Chirk AAA 4 3 1 0 14 7 7 10 Caernarfon 5 3 1 1 6 5 1 10 Ruthin Town 4 3 1 0 9 3 6 10 Prestatyn 5 3 0 2 9 9 0 9 Holywell 4 3 0 1 13 6 7 9 Holywell 5 2 2 1 7 5 2 8 Gresford 4 2 0 2 7 7 0 6 Holyhead 5 2 2 1 6 5 1 8 Corwen 4 2 0 2 6 7 -1 6 Denbigh 5 2 1 2 12 8 4 7 Cefn Druids 5 1 1 3 7 9 -2 4 Llanfair 5 2 0 3 9 10 -1 6 Llangollen 4 1 1 2 6 8 -2 4 Caersws 5 2 0 3 7 8 -1 6 Castell AC 4 1 1 2 6 12 -6 4 Mold Alex 5 2 0 3 7 8 -1 6 Queens 3 1 0 2 6 6 0 3 Gresford 5 1 2 2 11 10 -1 5 Hawarden 4 1 0 3 8 9 -1 3 Flint 5 1 1 3 4 6 -2 4 Coedpoeth 3 1 0 2 5 14 -9 3 Buckley 5 1 1 3 7 11 -4 4 Llay Welfare 5 1 0 4 5 20 -15 3 Conwy 5 1 1 3 3 7 -4 4 Penycae 4 0 0 4 6 13 -7 0 Rhayader 5 1 1 3 5 12 -7 4 RESERVE & U19 FIXTURES August Sat 15 Mold Alex The Rock L 1-0 Wed 19 Corwen A L 2-1 Roberts Sat 22 Holywell A L 2-1 Owain ap Gareth Sat 29 Castell AC A D 3-3 Hughes, Roberts, Day September Sat 5 Gresford MUGA W 2-1 Godfrey, Sanchez

Welsh Premier U19 Development League (North) 2015/16 Goal scorers Sunday 23/08/2015 1 V Cefn Druids L 3-0 Sunday 30/08/2015 2 Cefn Druids V Bala W 4-1 Sanchez (3), J. Williams Sunday 13/09/2015 3 Newtown V Llandudno Sunday 20/09/2015 4 Cefn Druids V Prestatyn Sunday 27/09/2015 5 Newtown V Cefn Druids Sunday 04/10/2015 6 Cefn Druids V Conwy B Sunday 18/10/2015 7 Cefn Druids V Bangor Sunday 25/10/2015 8 The New Saints V Cefn Druids Sunday 01/11/2015 9 Gap C Quay V Cefn Druids Sunday 15/11/2015 10 Cefn Druids V Airbus Sunday 22/11/2015 11 Flint V Cefn Druids Sunday 29/11/2015 12 Bala V Cefn Druids Sunday 06/12/2015 13 Cefn Druids V Rhyl Sunday 10/01/2016 14 Prestatyn V Cefn Druids Sunday 17/01/2016 15 Cefn Druids V Newtown Sunday 31/01/2016 16 Conwy B V Cefn Druids Sunday 07/02/2016 17 Cefn Druids V Llandudno Sunday 21/01/2016 18 Bangor V Cefn Druids Sunday 28/02/2016 19 Cefn Druids V The New Saints Sunday 06/03/2016 20 Cefn Druids V Gap C Quay Sunday 13/03/2016 21 Airbus V Cefn Druids Sunday 20/03/2016 22 Cefn Druids V Flint 3 HUWS GRAY ALLIANCE HISTORY Part 3 4 1992-93 (Continued from previous issue) DRUIDS JOIN THE LEAGUE

With the League of commencing in August 1992, the Cymru Alliance saw eight of its members leave for the national league, creating somewhat of a void in the more established competition. Newly formed Cefn Druids (created after a merger between Cefn Albion and Druids United), Rhos Aelwyd, Ruthin Town, Wrexham Reserves (all from the Welsh National League Wrexham Area), Knighton Town, Rhayader Town (both from the Mid Wales League) and Rhyl (Northern Premier League) filled the vacancies created by the formation of the League of Wales. Mid Wales League runners-up Morda United were thwarted in their bid to join the Cymru Alliance, when the FA pre- vented the Shropshire club becoming full members of the FAW, a condition of league membership. The battle for the championship was, for the majority of the season, a five-way race between Lex XI, Llansantffriad, Rhyl, Welshpool Town and Wrexham Reserves. As the campaign moved into the New Year, Rhyl, Welshpool and Wrexham Reserves began to pull away from their rivals, although Lex XI and Llansantffriad, who were still involved in the and Intermediate Cup, had games in hand. The Saints eventually prevailed, winning promotion to the League of Wales, ahead of local rivals Welshpool, Rhyl and Wrexham Reserves’. Llansantffriad claimed a double by beating Brecon Corries in the Welsh Intermediate Cup final, but were defeated by Newtown in the Central Wales Challenge Cup final in their attempt to land a treble. Despite finishing third, on the return to Welsh football, Rhyl overcame Gresford Athletic in the League Cup final, and reached the Welsh Cup final, where they lost 5-0 to Cardiff City - having defeated two League of Wales clubs (Connahs Quay Nomads and Haverfordwest County) en route to the National Stadium. With Llansantffriad continuing their rapid ascent towards the pinnacle of domestic football – the club was only promoted from the Montgomeryshire Amateur League in 1990 – they were replaced in the Cymru Alliance by Llanidloes Town, who were relegated from the League of Wales. With the league extended to 18 teams, there was no relegation at the end of 1992/93

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PORTHMADOG KEEPER THWARTS THE DANGER DRUIDS PRESS

HESP HEADS DRUIDS IN FRONT ANOTHER FINE SAVE FROM THE KEEPER

YET ANOTHER SAVE TO STOP DRUIDS

PRITCHARD FIRES DRUID’S SECOND

PICTURES COURTESY OF MIKE PLUNKETT

5 6 ACADEMY REPORT Huws gray round up Our under 12's hosted Chester City at the Rock on Thursday night. Coaches Matt Griffiths and Adam Gresford Athletic recorded their first win since Hesp were fully aware of the task ahead playing a promotion, goal from Nathan Peate, Mike Latham team that play against football league clubs most and Sam Richardson giving them the points at weekends, with our squad only been together a cou- ple of months. Cefn Druids played some excellent Llanfair United football in the first 15 minutes and stopped Chester Guilsfield fell to their first reversal of the season at pressing for an early goal. Chester's pressure paid Holywell Town. Dafydd Griffith headed Town off going into the 2nd half 1-0 up but a lot of chanc- es were created by our boys who failed to capitalize ahead in the first half with Sam Litvhfield levelling in front of goal, Chester got their second going into the score after fifty eight minutes only for two the 3rd half 2-0. The 3rd half was all Cefn Druids penalties from Tom McElmeel to gave Holyhead and they got a goal back through Cobie Lee taking their second win of the week the game into the 4th half 2-1. In the last half our boys tired and Chester showed their experience scor- A goal in each half from Mike Parker and Jack ing 4 goals in the space of 10 mins. Coaches Matt Kenny gave Prestatyn Town the points at Conwy Griffiths and Adam Hesp praised the boys perfor- Borough mance against very good opposition. “The potential is there to be worked on and we played some excel- Denbigh Town led one nil at the break at Caersws lent football.” with Mike Sharples on target. Kristain Pierce and a Carl Lamb double in the second half giving Town a Our under 15s travelled to Chester City today to take good away win on their under 15's in what was the fourth fixture be- Last seasons player of the season Jamie Breese tween the two sides in twelve months. Druids started scored the only goal of the game at Flint Town the game with high tempo football and got their re- wards after just 15 minutes, taking the lead through United to give Caernarfon Town the points Leighton Kendrick. Chester hit back within 5 minutes A tight match at Holyhead Hotspur were Buckley with a clever taken goal from a player just released Town were the visitors was settled with a early by Manchester United. The second half saw Cefn Druids dominate the game playing some excellent strike by Damian Ketley football. Harry Jones raced onto a through pass to slot Mold Alex took the lead six minutes before half home a cool finish putting us back into the lead 2-1. Coel Lamberts volley made the final score Chester time at Rhayader Town, Asa Hamilton levelling the City 1 Cefn Druids 3. Coaches Phil Bathers and Josh score from the penalty spot after seventy seven Millington couldn't hide their delight after the game minutes only for Hyden Cooper to give Alex the saying “its 2-2 in the series of games between the two clubs but we have to give full credit to our boys to- points two minutes from time day, they played football the way football should be played, kept the ball very well and pressed Chester when they had possession, Chester are a fantastic team who are our benchmark of where we want our players to be, the result today is a massive achieve- ment for our boys, everything we work on in training they took into today's game.” Report by Phil Bathers

EVERY MONDAY NIGHT IS BINGO NIGHT IN THE SOCIAL CLUB. THERE ARE 12 HOUSES INCLUDING FLIERS, all with cash prizes . ADMISSION IS FREE AND PRIZES RANGE FROM £3 TO £85+. THERE IS ALSO “OPEN THE BOX” WITH A GUARANTEED CASH PRIZE WHICH COULD BE WORTH IN EXCESS OF £100. FULL BAR FACILITIES. TEA AND COFFEE ALSO AVAILABLE 6 7

7 8 August 14 Fri Gresford Athletic A 6.45 W 2-1 22 Sat Holywell Town H 2.30 W 2-1 28 Fri Rhayader Town H 8.00 W 4-1 September 2 Wed Prestatyn A 7.30 W 2-0 5 Sat Porthmadog H 2.00 L 3-2 8 Tue Airbus (Word Cup) H 7.30 12 Sat Conwy Borough (LC) H 2.30 19 Sat Caernarfon Town A 2.30 25 Fri Denbigh Town H 7.30 October 3 Welsh Cup (Rnd 1) 7 Wed Buckley H 7.30 10 Sat Caersws H 2.30 17 Sat Holyhead Hotspur A 2.30 24 Sat Guilsfield H 2.30 November 7 Sat Conwy (Also Welsh Cup 2) H 2.30 14 Sat Mold Alexandra A 2.00 21 Sat Llanfair United H 2.30 28 Sat Flint Town Utd (Also W Cup 3) A 2.30 December 4 Fri Gresford Athletic H 7.30 12 Sat Holywell Town A 2.30 19 Sat Rhayader Town A 2.30 28 Mon Prestatyn H 2.30 January 9 Sat Porthmadog A 2.30 16 Sat Caernarfon Town H 2.30 22 Fri Denbigh Town A 7.30 30 Sat Buckley A 2.30 February 6 Sat Caersws A 2.30 13 Sat Holyhead Hotspur H 2.30 20 Sat Guilsfield A 2.30 27 Sat Conwy Borough A 2.30 March 5 Sat Mold Alexandra H 2.30 12 Sat Llanfair United A 2.30 19 Sat Flint Town United H 2.30

ALL FIXTURES SUBJECT TO CHANGE

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