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Any protest to the Brothers who ran the show at St Illtyds at that time would have been futile. It seems that your rugby/football experience was pretty unique in this part of the world if this thread is anything to go by. You’re an extremely lucky chap.Quote:
Originally Posted by William Treseder
Glan Ely had a bad reputation, but it was diverse school that catered for all sports.Quote:
Originally Posted by splott parker
Guess i was a lucky lad. They even sent our football team over to St Ettiene for a few games.
By the way Bridgend and Wales flying machine Glen Webbe was a product of Glan Ely.
Not at all , I liked football , rugby , cricketQuote:
Originally Posted by William Treseder
Just grew to dislike being forced to play rugby every Wednesday, without fail
If you think it's good and normal that the rugby supporting p e teacher didn't ever take us to football and it was up to 2 geography teachers and a few parents to ferry us around ........and organise fixtures .....we had no official ones ......then its pointless trying to remove your rose tinted spectacles
I know , I watched him as a kid from the terraces of the Brewery FieldQuote:
Originally Posted by William Treseder
How many kids from Wales were denied the chance to make the grade as footballers because of rugby bias ?
Absolutely hundreds
I never got forced to play any sport in my life.Quote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
Sorry to disappoint. .
Some school that, making aeroplanes as well!!Quote:
Originally Posted by William Treseder
You are not disappointing me , its just I don't think you are telling the truthQuote:
Originally Posted by William Treseder
If you are telling me football was on an equal footing with rugby then I simply don't believe you
Individual players would have broken through for sure but football until recently always took second stage to rugby
I spent two years in a secondary school about 2 miles from your gaffe and it was shocking . The teachers there were tossers . 13 year old kids can't stand up to bullies with a whistle and a rugby ball .
Glan Ely was more football oriented definitely. I never played rugby once. I think Mr Allen was an ex pro footballer. Same with junior school. Football exclusivelyQuote:
Originally Posted by William Treseder
You can’t tell Sludge that . He wont believe you. It doesn’t fit with his agenda.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lither_1927
Prince Charlie boy landed in a helicopter on our all weather pitch, and the Pretenders played a gig in out school hall.Quote:
Originally Posted by splott parker
Come to think of it, what a great school it was!!
Hard as nails as well 😂
You must be talking about Mostyn? They along with Glyn Derw were saps. We battered both schools at everything.Quote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
I went to Glan Ely and played for Cardiff school boys football all the way through and had an under 15 trial for Wales.Quote:
Originally Posted by William Treseder
When I was in form 1 my maths teacher Mr K D Davies told my mum and dad I could get a better maths result if I played rugby for the school my dad told him to piss off.
KD was a rugby freak, but he was outnumbered.Quote:
Originally Posted by insider
Mr Lizakowski liked his football.
I remember Mr Davis, tall with a beard. Never liked him. He was a rugby nut. Football still dominated, we even had a school five aside tournament sponsored by barclays. Our class came second.Quote:
Originally Posted by insider
I remember 1 maths lesson first lesson on a Monday morning K D Davies had been to Edinburgh for the rugby he just said get on with some work quietly and sat there with his head in his hands completely pissed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lither_1927
Lizacowski was a biology teacher he never told my mum and dad if I played football I'd get a better mark in biology.
In form 4 no teachers would take the football team due to no overtime/after school activities. So we got a remedial teacher to drive the school mini bus and my dad picked the side and did the tactics.
My sisters brother in law was a teacher in a Pontypridd school and at a family party in the early 80s he told my dad that football should be banned in all Welsh schools ,that's what we were up against back then.
Giorgio Chinaglia was a pupil at my school. Played for Inter Milan, Lazio and was capped 14 times by Italy. Not 1 picture of him in the corridors of my school. Cyril Thompson who played for Cardiff Schools u14's rugby-At least 1 photo and various team photos. Not to blow my own trumpet, but it's on Topic. Cardiff Schools Football-All ages. Wales Schools u16s- 5 caps. Wales Youth Football u16's , with every County of Wales represented. Not 1 single photo of me or predentation on the school stage, like the rugger lads had when they recieved their special Cardiff schools rugby tie.
Quite correct, the photo ‘hall of fame’ outside the boys hall in my time didn’t have a round ball in sight. No mention of Chinaglia, who was a few years before me, might have been some truth in the rumour, which grew more tasty over the years, that he gave our ‘favourite teacher’ a clip under provocation.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tuerto
The new school at the bottom of Cyncoed road is the same. All three of my kids went there. There are even more photos now, it's a shrine, photos going back to the 60's. I was shit in school, didn't enjoy a minute of it, but it would have been nice for my kids to see something positive about their old man in the corridors of the school we both attended :hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by splott parker
Mine went to Corpus Christi as well. We had a fair old side when I was at Lady Mary and won a few trophies at intermediate & senior level but I’d be embarrassed if our team’s photos were up in lights, I’ve still got the photos. Dear God we looked like the ragged arse rovers, alongside the well turned out, pristine rugby team’s photos we’d look like something out of the workhouse:hehe: I think we were kitted out from the lost property basket compared to the Harrods bought kit of the various XVs.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tuerto
The lost Property Basket:hehe: Us Estate boys would stitch that one up. We would go and claim anything Adidas or Nike, branded etc. I had a pair of Puma size 9 football boots and i was only a size 6 :hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by splott parker
Kids in Cardiff were always more into playing football than rugby, it was just the teachers and the council no doubt pushing the egg.Quote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
Certain schools were just more rugby like St illtyds, glantaff, Radyr…cantononian, fitzalan, llanishen more football?
It's much better now, it has to be. It was a sort of establishment thing, which seemed more prevalent in years gone by. If i was to make an observation, it seemed that the schools is the poorer areas of the City were less Rugby orientated. Read into that what you will :thumbup:Quote:
Originally Posted by goats
I went to the same school, good days.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tuerto