July 6, 2016 ·
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The 'Clun' News
Pontyclun FC are delighted to announce that Eliot Davey & Martin Lawrence will be taking over as First Team Coaches for the 2017 season. This follows Adrian James stepping down at the end of the 2017 season, everyone at the club would like to thank Adrian for everything he did for the club. Adrian helped bring stability following our relegation from the Welsh League and led the club to their first cup final in many years. He has left a young, talented squad for Eliot & Martin to work with and everyone will remember the work he put in over the last 4 years.
Eliot returns to the club following his retirement from playing at the end of 2012 and has previously managed the club during their time in Welsh League Division 2. He has been involved with the club for almost 15 years and brings a wealth of footballing and local knowledge to the team.
Martin has won the clubman of the year multiple times and has been managing the youth team for several years. Martin has received many plaudits for the amount of players he has helped come through into the senior setup and the club were delighted when he accepted the opportunity to be involved in the First Team coaching setup.
The two coaches will support First Team Manager, Barry Quinn, and be assisted by Joel Woodington (Assistant Coach) and Huw Jones (Goalkeeping Coach) for the 2016-2017 season.
Pre-season begins Tuesday 5th July, 6.30pm at Ivor Park and everyone at the club wishes all new and old personnel the best of luck for the season.
January 29, 2015 ·
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The 'Clun' News
Pontyclun got back to winning ways after an extended Christmas break due to the weather. After a disappointing end to the 2014 year in the league Barry’s Boys were keen to make a strong start to 2015 and where better to start than against unbeaten league leaders Merthyr Saints.
With a number of players out through suspension and First Team coach Adrian James being unavailable through illness it was always going to be a tough ask. Being reduced to 10 men inside 10 minutes didn’t help but despite this the team produced one of their best performances in some time to fight back to win 2-1 in the dying minutes.
Due to two disappointing defeats at the end of 2014 the league has been put out of the boys’ hands, however with a few games left against the top sides the Clun could definitely have an impact on where the league ends up, and you never know stranger things have happened!
November 9, 2014 ·
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The 'Clun' News
Every year Welsh Football Magazine has a competition to find the best football programme in Wales. Last year our programme came first in the ‘Other Leagues’ category and was awarded seventh place in the Best in Wales rankings. The judge of the competition, Dave Collins, the editor of Welsh Football Magazine described our programme as follows “I saw some good ‘one-offs’ but of the regular issuers that came my way, those I especially liked (was) the weighty labour of love from Pontyclun.”
The final Best In Wales ranking for 2013-2014 was:
- Bala Town
- Port Talbot Town
- Airbus UK Broughton
- Cefn Druids
- Barry Town
- The New saints
- Pontyclun
- Abertillery Excelsiors
- Llanelli Town
- Briton Ferry
Of those clubs who were placed above us, five of the six are League of Wales clubs whilst the other, Barry Town, have a much bigger fan base than ourselves. Our target for this season is to try and make the top five of this competition so if anyone has any material they would like to include or ideas for articles then please get in touch.
November 1, 2014 ·
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The 'Clun' News
A few murmurings about where Pontyclun FC could end up this season have began to surface among the local faithful as they extended their unbeaten league run to move up to second place in the South Wales Amateur League.
Not only is their form being discussed in the Athletic club, but in this weeks edition of the South Wales Echo Pontyclun’s dominant performance over local rivals Treforest stole the headline and there was a special mention for the in form striker Joel Woodington with a superb hat-trick on the day.
Games in hand for surrounding clubs mean the table isn’t perhaps a true reflection of where teams will be by Christmas but with confidence sky high and some big games coming in November they definitely are putting themselves in the mix.
March 21, 2014 ·
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The 'Clun' News
The football club has just completed the first stage of the internal work within the new changing room facilities. Two of the smaller changing rooms and shower areas, which will be used mainly by the junior teams, the officals’ changing area, the medical room, the internal corridor and the general communal toilets are ready for use and the remainder of the internal work will continue in the summer months. Continue Reading
