CWMBRAN CELTIC FC www.cwmbranceltic.com DIVISION 1 £1 Season 2019/20 Official Match Day Programme CWMBRAN CELTIC NEWPORT COUNTY XI League Form Guide: League Form Guide: D Home Squad Away Squad Scott James (GK) Nick Townsend Rakesh Patel © Callum Brain Niall Yeates Daniel Leadbitter Dion Molyneux Lazar Stojsavljevic Ben Jones Marvel Ekpetita Dominic Connor Mark O’Brien Alex McDowell Jay Williams Louis Feeley Scott Bennett Lewis Ellis George Nurse Jai -Jnr Johnson Taylor Maloney Chris Ham Lewis Collins Zac Osborne Dom Jefferies Tom Neville Tristan Abrahams Leo Ross Corey Whitely Andrew Larcombe Keanu Marsh -Brown Tom Haggett Ryan Hillier Lewis Watkins (GK) Ade Azeez Ioan Evans Pictures Credited To Stephen Handley Callum Jones Elis Watts CWMBRAN CELTIC v NEWPORT COUNTY XI Manager: Nick Morgan Manager: Michael Flynn Tuesday 6th August 2019 K.O. 6:30pm Asst Manager: Simon Truman Asst Manager: Wayne Hatswell At CELTIC PARK Assistant Coach: Owen Cook Coach: Danny Elliot TODAY’S SPONSORS Physio: Matthew Gwilt Physio: Adam Brown Colours: Yellow Blue Yellow Colours: Black & Amber MATCH OFFICIALS Referee: David Mason (Pontypool) Assistants: Gary Lucas (Caldicot) & Robert Rosen (Newport) Acve & Passive Safety Technology Proud Sponsors Of The Match Day Programme Prinng WELSH FOOTBALL LEAGUE TABLES 2018/19 WELCOME TO CELTIC PARK Tonight we extend a very warm welcome to mooted that Cel9c should become a feeder club DIVISION ONE P W D L F A GD Pts Newport County who will bring a squad of players to them. 1 Penybont 30 25 5 0 81 22 59 80 chosen from their 1 st team fringe squad and their At the start of the 19,9/80 season County 2 Cambrian & Clydach 30 18 6 6 58 32 26 60 Academy. The match has been arranged between manager Len Ashurst brought his 1 st team to play 3 Haverfordwest County 30 16 6 8 69 34 35 54 Cel9c:s ne0 manager, Nicky Morgan, and County Cel9c in C0mbran Park to commemorate the 4 Afan Lido 30 15 6 9 68 59 9 51 manager Mike Flynn. Nicky is a County old boy, opening of Cel9c:s ne0 clubhouse. AEer se2eral ha2ing been a match day assistant to Flynn 0ith years of searching for a ne0 club premises the 5 Goytre United 30 15 5 10 52 39 13 50 the County 1 st team as 0ell as ha2ing been a club had ac7uired the current Oak Street building 6 Cwmamman United 30 14 8 8 55 55 0 50 coach at the County Academy. in late 19,,. It 0as a house 0hich the club 7 Llantwit Major 30 14 6 10 46 37 9 48 There are se2eral other players in the C0mbran purchased for F12,000 0ith the aid of a grant and 8 Briton Ferry Llansawel 30 12 6 12 44 50 -6 42 Cel9c s7uad 0ith a Ne0port County connec9on. interest free loan from C0mbran To0n Council 9 Ammanford 30 10 6 14 51 57 -6 36 oalkeeper Sco= James and assistant manager and a generous contribu9on from a bre0ery. st 10 Cwmbran Celtic 30 10 6 14 49 57 -8 36 Simon Truman both played for their 1 team as Much of 19,8 0as spent geGng planning 11 Pontypridd Town 30 9 6 15 52 66 -14 33 teenagers. Le0is Watkins, Callum Wakeham, and permissions to carry out impro2ements and ne0 boys Dion Molyneu1 and Ben Jones played altera9ons but in September 19,8 the con2ersion 12 Undy Athletic 30 8 7 15 51 64 -13 31 for County:s youth team and ne0 physio Ma= 0ork Anally commenced, being mostly done by 13 Port Talbot Town 30 6 11 13 39 50 -11 29 0ilt 0as 0ith County last season. the commi=ee, players and supporters. 14 Taffs Well 30 7 4 19 33 62 -29 25 Cel9c:s commi=ee minutes of the late 19,0s The clubhouse 0as opened to the public on 9 th 15 Goytre 30 6 6 18 39 65 -26 24 record an a@nity at the 9me bet0een the t0o July 19,9 and on Thursday e2ening 13 th 16 Ton Pentre 30 6 4 20 38 76 -38 22 clubs. In 19,6/,, County 0ere in the midst of a September 19,9 the Cel9c 2ersus County match Anancial crisis 0hich prompted their supporters 0as played. AEer the match, Len Ashurst and his RESERVE (EAST) P W D L F A GD Pts to set up an appeal fund to 0hich Cel9c club:s chairman Richard Ford performed the 1 Cwmbran Celtic 22 18 2 2 60 26 34 56 contributed. The minutes record that there 0as a o@cial opening of the clubhouse. 2 Bridgend Street 22 17 0 5 61 26 35 51 rumour circula9ng that the County 0ould ha2e to A sou2enir programme 0as produced and sold for 3 Croesyceiliog 22 11 4 7 49 35 14 37 lea2e Somerton Park to play at C0mbran Stadium 10p 0hich listed the teams: See page 4. 4 Treharris Athletic 22 11 3 8 52 39 13 36 0ith C0mbran To0n mo2ing to Cel9c:s home in The referee 0as Frank Mar9n, 0hose 0ife Debbie 5 Pontyclun 22 10 3 9 63 59 4 33 C0mbran Park. Nothing further 0as men9oned in 0as pregnant at the 9me 0ith infant son Richard 6 Dinas Powys 22 11 0 11 63 58 5 30 the minutes C Dust as 0ell as Cel9c 0ould surely 0ho later played for Cel9c at Dunior and senior 7 Caldicot Town 22 8 5 9 46 51 -5 29 not ha2e 0anted to lose their home ground to le2el. their ri2als at C0mbran To0n 0ho had also 8 Panteg 22 9 1 12 49 45 4 28 9 Abergavenny Town 22 7 3 12 35 64 -29 24 10 Goytre 22 6 3 13 36 56 -20 21 11 Undy Athletic 22 4 4 14 34 62 -28 16 12 Chepstow Town 22 5 2 15 35 62 -27 8 Chepstow Town Reserves deducted 9 points hea& Dinas Powys Reserves deducted 3 points CWMBRAN CELTIC P W D L F A Pts HOME/AWAY +/- HOME 15 7 2 6 35 28 7 23 AWAY 15 3 4 8 14 29 -15 13 TOTAL 30 10 6 14 49 57 -8 36 Newport Cou ty 1979 2 3 WELCOME TO CELTIC PARK (connued) WELCOME TO CELTIC PARK (connued) Playing in the Ne0port side 0hich 0on the match game. In any e2ent he 7uickly got o2er his 2-0 0as John Aldridge 0ho, aged 20, had Dust homesickness and scored 8, goals in 198 games signed for 4 th Di2ision County that summer from for County. Of course he 0ent on to play at the non-league South Li2erpool for a fee of F3,I00. highest le2el for Li2erpool and the Republic of Harking back about the match, Aldridge stated Ireland scoring a staggering 441 goals in his 20- that he 0as 2ery homesick at the 9me and year career. 0ishing he had not mo2ed from his na92e The programme sho0ed that the principal o@cers Merseyside. He missed the start of the season of the Cel9c club 0ere chairman Oli2er James, 0ith a broken bone in his hand and he recalls that MBE, and secretary Ken James. Ho0e2er the his Arst game back 0as at C0mbran. We had Argus report on the match included a comment pre2iously assumed that this 0as a reference to a from Jsecretary Malcolm Jarre=K and Malcolm game against C0mbran To0n at the Stadium has conArmed that he 0as indeed the secretary at 0hich County 0on 8-0, but, looking at the dates that 9me meaning that Ken may ha2e been the in the South Wales Argus, it appears that the social club secretary. game to 0hich he 0as referring 0as the Cel9c , 5 WELCOME TO CELTIC PARK (connued) WELCOME TO CELTIC PARK (connued) In the early years of the Millennium, midAelder Craig Cheedy scored from a 0ell-rehearsed corner Cel9c had the be=er of the Arst 1I minutes, Luke for this miss 0hen, on 2I minutes, Darryl Knights, Ryan Dorrian, 0ho had I kick played back to him on the edge of the bo1, Sallis seGng up a chance 0hich 0ent begging and in acres of space Ared past Nicky Church to put seasons at Cel9c as a 0hich he side-footed into the net past a cro0d of Shane Williamson heading 0ide of lyn arner:s County one up. Cel9c matched County for the Junior and )outh player, players. Shane Williamson then capped a Ane all- goal. On 1, minutes County took the lead through remainder of the 1 st half and aEer the break they 0as a regular in the round team display Eddie Od0iambo and 3 minutes later they con9nued to press. A good mo2e do0n the leE Ne0port 1 st team. by curling a right foot doubled their lead through a superb 2olley by bet0een Richard Crees and Nana Baah ended Former Cel9c goalkeeper shot high into the far Kerry Morgan. 0ith Luke Sallis again Dust failing to connect 0ith and manager Nicky corner of the net Luke Sallis 0as red-carded for kicking out at the cross. A couple of minutes later a long thro0 Church had a short spell aEer ,3 minutes and Od0iambo but his sending oL seemed to from Liam Palmer 0as headed on and this 9me it at County in 2008-09. thereaEer Cel9c sa0 gal2anise Cel9c. Shortly before half-9me leE back 0as Billy Crees Dust failing to connect in front of Another former Cel9c out the rest of the Billy Crees leE the Aeld 0ith a hamstring inDury.