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Merthyr Town FC, what's going on there?
They are bottom of their division and 15 points from safety with 15 games remaining. They haven't won a game for months. Two victories from 27 league games played, plus no wins in three cup games, is the stuff of a football nightmare, but their manager remains in situ.
It seems from afar he along with his assistant, the club's board and supporters are perfectly content to be relegated.
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Re: Merthyr Town FC, what's going on there?
Funny, I was going to post something like this the other day..
I have no idea of the answer. I haven't seen them for years
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Re: Merthyr Town FC, what's going on there?
The club had a year off last year and lost their manager, Gavin Williams, and all of their players.
They e basically had to start from scratch again last summer.
They’ve got a very small budget and simply cannot afford to compete with Welsh Prem teams for the better players in South Wales.
It’s a fan run club that has been in financial difficulty several times and so they are not
going to thrown money they simply haven got at the problem.
Clarke has probably kept his job because he was / is a very popular figure at the club and because the board know that realistically this was always going to be a tough year.
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My one jaunt there was eons ago when City would play them in a pre-season friendly. On that occasion City triumphed to lift the Muscular Dystrophy Trophy. I was erroneously told their ground was a hop and a skip from the train station. I would need gas and air to do the same hike nowadays.
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Organ Morgan.
My one jaunt there was eons ago when City would play them in a pre-season friendly. On that occasion City triumphed to lift the Muscular Dystrophy Trophy. I was erroneously told their ground was a hop and a skip from the train station. I would need gas and air to do the same hike nowadays.
Most enjoyable the pre-season games given Citys support in the town and the valleys. Shame they stopped.
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Organ Morgan.
My one jaunt there was eons ago when City would play them in a pre-season friendly. On that occasion City triumphed to lift the Muscular Dystrophy Trophy. I was erroneously told their ground was a hop and a skip from the train station. I would need gas and air to do the same hike nowadays.
I go along most home games. Like football used to be for me. On the terraces and can have a pint too.
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J R Hartley
Most enjoyable the pre-season games given Citys support in the town and the valleys. Shame they stopped.
It would be good PR for the club to resurrect that fixture and with it help Merthyr with some much needed income.
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J R Hartley
I go along most home games. Like football used to be for me. On the terraces and can have a pint too.
Do you think they might ever switch to the Welsh system? Seems to have gone ok for Colwyn Bay
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City123
Do you think they might ever switch to the Welsh system? Seems to have gone ok for Colwyn Bay
It’s certainly on the agenda now more than it’s ever been.
The problem they’ve got is whilst they would make amongst the biggest, if not the best supported team If they moved to Welsh league they haven’t got a money man behind them and would struggle to compete with other clubs, especially the North Wales clubs, in the same way they are struggling in the english pyramid. And is there there then the risk of losing some support if they were playing the same old Welsh teams every year.
Crowds are actually up this season even though on the pitch it’s been woeful. Post lockdown resurgence maybe.
Ironically the main group of supporters are very pro Welsh independence yet they seem to be the ones showing most resistance going back into the Welsh
League system.
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Organ Morgan.
It would be good PR for the club to resurrect that fixture and with it help Merthyr with some much needed income.
didn't one time we went there some of their fans smashed the team bus or something like that
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Have a word with Uncle Vinnie - he likes buying football clubs. Seriously though, they'd make a good club for blooding youngsters, etc.
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I watched Merthyr in the 80s a lad i worked with got me into watching them.
Great club back then with some cracking players.
Atalanta was the famous game but the game i fondly remember was having Swansea there around 81.
The jacks had a mob of around hundred or so and arrived about ten minutes into the game all chanting giving it the big un in a police escort.
They were marched around behind the goal and put into what is known as the wank bank within five minutes every skinhead , punk and local nutter from Merthyr had joined them and run them out of the stand . :hehe:
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Rjk
didn't one time we went there some of their fans smashed the team bus or something like that
Ain’t heard that one. Last time there was a Saturday game up here 30 young lads from Cardiff come up
and caused some problems smashing windows etc and being a general nuisance around the town. A local bouncer in a pub near train station flattened a couple and they went scurrying over to the train
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stan butler
I watched Merthyr in the 80s a lad i worked with got me into watching them.
Great club back then with some cracking players.
Atalanta was the famous game but the game i fondly remember was having Swansea there around 81.
The jacks had a mob of around hundred or so and arrived about ten minutes into the game all chanting giving it the big un in a police escort.
They were marched around behind the goal and put into what is known as the wank bank within five minutes every skinhead , punk and local nutter from Merthyr had joined them and run them out of the stand . :hehe:
81 or 91?
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J R Hartley
81 or 91?
80/81 or very close. Defo before Cardiff were promoted in the 82/83 season.
I'm sure Toshack was their manager
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Re: Merthyr Town FC, what's going on there?
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Originally Posted by
Organ Morgan.
They are bottom of their division and 15 points from safety with 15 games remaining. They haven't won a game for months. Two victories from 27 league games played, plus no wins in three cup games, is the stuff of a football nightmare, but their manager remains in situ.
It seems from afar he along with his assistant, the club's board and supporters are perfectly content to be relegated.
The game that stands out for me was 1990 I think, when Red Star Belgrade appeared at Penydarren Park.They had the likes of Savicevic, Pancev, and Robert Prosinecki on board.All superstars in. Their own right. Think they played some other lower league teams while they were over here.
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I went to Merthyr v Darlington years back, that was a good day and a crowd that was good enough for League 3 , so the support is there hope, they get back on track.
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TWGL1
I went to Merthyr v Darlington years back, that was a good day and a crowd that was good enough for League 3 , so the support is there hope, they get back on track.
Had good crowds for Wrexham and Walsall back in the day.
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Shame ***** didn’t buy them.
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2b2bdoo
Shame ***** didn’t buy them.
Is his name blocked from the message board lol.
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tforturton
Have a word with Uncle Vinnie - he likes buying football clubs. Seriously though, they'd make a good club for blooding youngsters, etc.
Good point.
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2b2bdoo
Shame ***** didn’t buy them.
Not at all. Him and his circus were not welcome.
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J R Hartley
Not at all. Him and his circus were not welcome.
“Anything is possible with some belief and a lump of cash that I am prepared to throw at the football club,” he added.
“I’m going to lift this club from the ashes, this is going to be one of the great miracles of British football.
“I am not borrowing a penny of the money I’m going to be putting into Merthyr Tydfil FC. “I’ll start with about £200,000 and it’ll be about £1m spent before we can dream about League Two.”
Crikey it sounds exactly like someone else and what they said at Cardiff :sherlock:
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J R Hartley
Not at all. Him and his circus were not welcome.
It was a joke lol
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Manager has just resigned.
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Des Parrot
Manager has just resigned.
Needed to go. Club made the decision for him.
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J R Hartley
Needed to go. Club made the decision for him.
Really sorry to see the mess they are in. They had been making decent progress until covid hit.
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Former Labour leader
Really sorry to see the mess they are in. They had been making decent progress until coved hit.
Clubs going in right direction off the field, sadly not the case on the field but it was always going to be a tough year starting again from scratch after 18 months.
But as I said off field it’s looking up. Debts been more or less cleared, gates have increased post covid to pre covid, events at the club most weekends, 3G rented out most most nights / weekends. Hopefully next manager will get a little bit better budget next season.
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J R Hartley
Clubs going in right direction off the field, sadly not the case on the field but it was always going to be a tough year starting again from scratch after 18 months.
But as I said off field it’s looking up. Debts been more or less cleared, gates have increased post covid to pre covid, events at the club most weekends, 3G rented out most most nights / weekends. Hopefully next manager will get a little bit better budget next season.
Why have they struggled more than most other clubs in their league?
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Remember seeing them play Orient in London in the eighties must have been in the third round of the FA cup. Went with a couple of Cardiff supporting mates. Lots of Merthyr fans in the pub god knows how they found it it was in the back streets of Leyton. We were able to show them the way to the ground as we played Orient regularly in those days and I lived in east London. We usually lost to Orient too. Think Merthyr drew the game and lost the replay in Wales. Not a bad side.
Incidentally we went to the same pub for the infamous game when a team of mainly Orient reserves and trialists beat Wales. Had to take some piss taking from Orient fans after the match.
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Stan or Peter Thomas have more money than they know what to do with. And they’re from Merthyr. A match made in heaven
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stan butler
Why have they struggled more than most other clubs in their league?
They’ve had to start again from scratch after a season off. The other clubs didn’t have the season off. Plus they are running on a tight budget being fan owned with no backing from a money man.
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light up the darkness
Stan or Peter Thomas have more money than they know what to do with. And they’re from Merthyr. A match made in heaven
Rugby men. Ploughed it all into the rugby club.
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J R Hartley
Rugby men. Ploughed it all into the rugby club.
They threw a load of money at Cardiff Rugby Club. One wrote of the debt Cardiff owed him a couple of years ago.
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Jordi Culé
They threw a load of money at Cardiff Rugby Club. One wrote of the debt Cardiff owed him a couple of years ago.
Yeah, I think the plan was used Merthyr as a feeder for Cardiff Blues. Not sure if that’s happened I don’t pay much attention to the rugby.
My daughter goes up the Wern quite a bit, a couple of her friends plays for one of the junior sides, seems like a decent set up there.
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J R Hartley
They’ve had to start again from scratch after a season off. The other clubs didn’t have the season off. Plus they are running on a tight budget being fan owned with no backing from a money man.
Ah right.
I thought the whole league had the season off.
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Dean Clarke is furious about his and his deputy's dismissal. In Twitter messages he has claimed that a management duo of Sir Alex Ferguson assisted by Pep Guardiola would have struggled to top 13 points from 30 league games played this season.
He says he had to work within a player budget that was so small he could only sign the dregs of non-league football in England and Wales. Journeymen and lard-arsed fatsos.
I was great, they weren't, he claimed.
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Organ Morgan.
Dean Clarke is furious about his and his deputy's dismissal. In Twitter messages he has claimed that a management duo of Sir Alex Ferguson assisted by Pep Guardiola would have struggled to top 13 points from 30 league games played this season.
He says he had to work within a player budget that was so small he could only sign the dregs of non-league football in England and Wales. Journeymen and lard-arsed fatsos.
I was great, they weren't, he claimed.
If he was quoted calling some of the players he signed has lard-arsed fatsos maybe he's best not being a manager
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stan butler
If he was quoted calling some of the players he signed has lard-arsed fatsos maybe he's best not being a manager
You're so gullible:hehe:
Its been a very amicable parting of the ways as he is very popular at the football club. Hes very well liked by the fans from his time as a player and thats probably what made it so difficult them having to let him know it was time to stand down.
Hes received nothing but nice messages from the fans, even the ones who knew it was time for a change.
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Re: Merthyr Town FC, what's going on there?
Joe Morrell now becomes co partner of Merthyr Town
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/60927449