Reply With QuoteFunny, 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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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.
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
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.
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.Originally Posted by Organ Morgan.
I go along most home games. Like football used to be for me. On the terraces and can have a pint too.
It would be good PR for the club to resurrect that fixture and with it help Merthyr with some much needed income.
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.
didn't one time we went there some of their fans smashed the team bus or something like that
Have a word with Uncle Vinnie - he likes buying football clubs. Seriously though, they'd make a good club for blooding youngsters, etc.
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 .
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
81 or 91?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 .
80/81 or very close. Defo before Cardiff were promoted in the 82/83 season.
I'm sure Toshack was their manager
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.
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.
Shame ***** didn’t buy them.
Is his name blocked from the message board lol.
Good point.
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
It was a joke lol
Manager has just resigned.
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