Town United FC Are Once Again Delighted to Dedicate One of Our Games to Help Promote This Issue, and Play Our Small Part in Encouraging Awareness About the Situation
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FLINT Versus TOWN CAERNARFON UNITED TOWN DIGITAL EDITION OFFICIAL MATCH DAY PROGRAMME SEASON 2020/21 SATURDAY 13TH MARCH 2021 SPECIAL ISSUE DEDICATED TO THE SHOW RACISM THE RED CARD CAMPAIGN Essity Stadium Colours - Black & White Stripes, Black Shorts THE Marsh Lane, Flint 1st Team Manager - Neil Gibson Asst. Manager - Lee Jones Flintshire CH6 5PJ SILKMEN Coaches - Aden Shannon, Johnny Hill, Steve Giblin, Chris Mullin Ground : 01352 730982 Est. 1886 Sports Therapist - Ryan Taylor Club : 01352 762804 Head of Academy - Danny Bell Head of Analysis - Anthony Gomez Members of the JD Cymru Premier League Main Honours Cymru Alliance League Champions 1990/91 Welsh Cup Winners 1953/54 HGA League Cup Winners 2017/18 Welsh Cup Runners Up 1924/25 JD Cymru North Runners Up 2019/20 Welsh Non-League Champions 1990/91 HGA Runners Up 2018/19 Welsh Youth Cup Winners 1964/65 HGA League Cup Runners Up 1992/93; 2007/08; 2010/11; Youth Cup Runners Up 1966/67 2015/16, 2016/17 Welsh Amateur Cup Winners 1947/48 Welsh League (N) Champions 1955/56, 1956/57, 1957/58, Amateur Cup Runners Up 1890/91 1988/89 Welsh Intermediate Cup Runners Up Clwyd League Champions 1978/79; 1992/93 1978/79 N Wales Amateur Cup Winners 1909/10; 1930/31; N Wales Challenge Cup Winners 1931/32;1932/33; 1968/69 1990/91 & 2006/07 N Wales Intermediate Cup Winners 1976/77 NWCC Runners Up 1992/93; 1998/99; Cookson Cup Winners 1992/93; 1988/89 2007/08; 2010/11 Alves Cup Winners 1953/54; 1989/90 NEWFA Cup Runners Up 2012/13 Reserve League & Cup Winners 2009/10 Reserve & Colts League Winners 2016/17 Reserve & Colts League Cup Winners 2015/16; 2016/17 Main Club Officials Chairman - Darryl Williams General Secretary - Keith Roberts Hon. President - Ian Rush MBE Director of Football - Paul Davies Vice Presidents - Colin Football Secretary - Ian Norbury Popplewell, Jim Lang, George Placogiannakis, Aubrey Williams Chief Steward - Mike Redshaw Vice Chairman - Dai Beck Head Groundsman - Elfyn Jones Treasurer - Ashley De Vera Davey Groundstaff - Tony Foster, Paul Duncan Web Site & Prog Editor - Nigel Sheen WELCOME TO THE Welcome to this afternoon’s Flint v Caernarfon match, or, to use the current football parlance, the Nathan Craig ESSITY STADIUM derby !! And an especially warm welcome to the players and officials of Caernarfon, for what is yet another key fixture in our survival battle. The Cofi’s manager, Huw Griffiths, and his assistant were here on Tuesday night to witness our derby game against Connah’s Quay Nomads, and I’m sure they were both very impressed by the account we gave of ourselves. As I write this, emotions are still a bit raw about the defeat, and it seems grossly unfair that we came away with nothing from the game. We did just about everything but score, and defensively worked well to keep Nomads out, right up until the 80th minute, when we momentarily switched off from a long free kick, and they scored. But that’s football for you. We need to take the positives from our underlying performance and hopefully build on that today. I am pleased to say that today’s programme is dedicated to the anti-racism campaign in football, and in particular the Show Racism the Red Card campaign. With recent well publicised instances of players receiving racial abuse on social media following games, it is clear that, we, as a society and in football in particular, still have a long way to go on this issue. So, we must continue to hammer home the message that Racism has no place in Football and Flint Town United FC are once again delighted to dedicate one of our games to help promote this issue, and play our small part in encouraging awareness about the situation. The head of Kick It Out, a leading UK organization that works to tackle discrimination in professional and grassroots football, Sanjay Bhandari, believes racism in the sport is "worse now than it was five years ago." According to the organization, reports of discrimination rose by 32% in 2018/19 compared to the previous season, and racism by a staggering 43%. Sobering statistics indeed. So let’s all play our part to eradicate this prejudice. A new sound system has been installed in the stadium this week. We are very grateful to Stuart Electronics for carrying out this work at no cost to the club. Many thanks indeed. Come on the Silkmen !! The views expressed in this programme are those of the individual contributors CONGRATULATIONS! "Wishing all at Flint Town United FC the very best of luck back where you belong in Cymru Premier!" C O N T A C T | C Y S Y L L T U If anyone at the Club needs my support then please remember I am still on hand to do all I can as your Member of the Senedd. Please get in touch on the details below. HannahBlythynMS [email protected] @HannahBlythyn 38 Church Street, Flint, CH6 5AE Hannah_Blythyn 01352 762102 FROM THE CHAIRMAN I write this the day after our sickening late defeat to our near neighbours Connah Quay Nomads. Our performance was light years away from the first half hour vs Pen-y-Bont, where we really looked ring rusty. In fact we looked like a team who had never played together before, which was precisely what we were..! Pen-y-Bont are now fourth in the table and we could have got a draw out of the game. Nevertheless after Tuesday night’s performance I am confident that we can to well in the return fixture. Returning to the Nomads game, it was fantastic to see the determination and application from the players. They have clearly bought into Neil’s vision and fought like tigers, it was heart-breaking to see them at the end. You could also see the relief on Nomads face’s. We get closer to them every time. Welcome today to Caernarfon. They have had a mixed bag of results of late and we are hopeful that our team in now showing real shape and purpose, we need a win and today would be a good time to get one. A special welcome back to Nathan Craig, a lovely lad and we wish him well. Darryl THIS WEEK’S OTHER FIXTURES Day Kick Off Saturday 14-30 Barry Town United v Aberystwyth Town Saturday 14-30 Cefn Druids v Bala Town Saturday 14-30 Haverfordwest County v The New Saints Saturday 14-30 Newtown v Cardiff Met Saturday 14-30 Penybont v Connah’s Quay Nomads Tuesday 19-45 Bala Town v Connah’s Quay Nomads Tuesday 19-45 Penybont v Barry Town United Tuesday 19-45 The New Saints v Cefn Druids Our Phase 1 Fixture List Date & Time LOCATION OPPONENT RESULT Flint Goalscorers 12.09.2020 14:30 HOME Newtown AFC 1-0 N. Craig 18.09.2020 19:45 AWAY Aberystwyth Town FC 1-3 C. Harwood 23.09.2020 19:45 AWAY Cefn Druids FC 2-1 R. Foulkes, M. Cadwallader 26.09.2020 17:45 HOME Barry Town United AFC 0-1 30.09.2020 19:45 AWAY Caernarfon Town FC 1-2 R. Foulkes 03.10.2020 14:30 AWAY The New Saints FC 0-10 10.10.2020 14:30 HOME Haverfordwest County AFC 0-2 17.10.2020 14:30 AWAY Cardiff Met University FC 1-2 C. Bratley 20.10.2020 19:45 HOME Bala Town FC 1-2 A. Jones 14.11.2020 14:30 AWAY Newtown AFC 2-3 C. Bratley, R. Foulkes 21.11.2020 14:30 AWAY Haverfordwest County AFC 3-0 A. Jones, C. Harwood, B. Steer 28.11.2020 14:30 HOME Cardiff Met University FC 0-1 01.12.2020 19:45 AWAY Connah's Quay Nomads FC 0-2 05.12.2020 14:30 AWAY Barry Town United AFC 3-6 M. Cadwallader (2), C. Harwood 15.12.2020 19:45 HOME Cefn Druids FC 1-2 R. Foulkes 19.12.2020 16:30 HOME Aberystwyth Town FC 3-0 M. Cadwallader, R. Hughes (2) 06.03.2021 14:30 HOME Penybont FC 0-1 09.03.2021 19:45 HOME Connah's Quay Nomads FC 0-1 13.03.2021 14:30 HOME Caernarfon Town FC 20.03.2021 14:30 AWAY Penybont FC 27.03.2021 14:30 HOME The New Saints FC 04.03.2021 TBC AWAY Bala Town FC FROM THE MANAGER Today we welcome all players, staff and board members of Caernarfon Town to the Essity stadium for what should be an exciting game of football. After 11 weeks without a fixture for the players, today marks our third game inside seven days. The first two matches has brought us no return in terms of points but the performance against Connah’s Quay on Tuesday was certainly deserving of more than we got. I thought the players were excellent and fought extremely hard to take the league champions all the way. To concede from a set piece in the last 10 minutes was difficult for us to take and very harsh on the lads for the effort and quality they showed on the night. We know we are in the middle of an extremely difficult run of fixtures with five of the six games up until the league split, coming against the current top four sides. Caernarfon are also a team only just outside of the top 6 on goal difference, and will no doubt have aspirations of finishing in that top half, so we know the challenge facing us today is yet another strong one.