timbo
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Post by timbo on Sept 23, 2013 19:07:33 GMT
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JamesB
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Post by JamesB on Sept 23, 2013 19:25:55 GMT
Thanks for this, Timbo
Question for the historians: I see a mention of a Welsh League match against Llanelly (who I guess were still using the Anglicised version of the name); am I right in assuming this would have been Newport Reserves in action?
Oh for the days when simultaneously competing in Welsh and English leagues wasn't a bureaucratic nightmare...
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Post by Deleted on Sept 23, 2013 20:07:00 GMT
Thanks for this, Timbo Question for the historians: I see a mention of a Welsh League match against Llanelly (who I guess were still using the Anglicised version of the name); am I right in assuming this would have been Newport Reserves in action? Oh for the days when simultaneously competing in Welsh and English leagues wasn't a bureaucratic nightmare... The reserve teams of Cardiff, Swansea and Newport played in the Welsh League from about 1920 through until the 1980s. Sometimes it was Cardiff A and Swansea A and, for long periods, Merthyr also fielded a reserve team in the league. At various times Lovell's Athletic - Newport's "other" team - either entered their first team or, when they were in the Southern League, their reserves. The Welsh League, of course, only covered the southern half of the country. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 23, 2013 20:56:31 GMT
Odd how it's Torquay United v Newport County on the programme cover as opposed to the other way round.
The price of the programme has been increased but "younger fans" can still buy back numbers for just a penny. Does this mean older fans are charged more? Or were they thought not to be interested in such juvenile pursuits?
Indeed the more mature supporter might be interested in purchasing a blazer badge. Do football clubs still sell such things to the general public? I need a new one myself.
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Post by JamesB on Sept 23, 2013 21:01:12 GMT
Yeah, originally the Rhymney and later Glamorgan League. I suppose it's rather odd that both the second tier leagues in Wales have names which hint at representing the whole of Wales...
I had no idea Lovell's Athletic were as strong as they were - Football League applicants in 1948. Probably for the best for football in Newport that they didn't get in - as it was County didn't exactly have the smoothest of rides in the years after
Newport YMCA and Newport Civil Service still play in the lower divisions of the Welsh FL
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Post by Deleted on Sept 23, 2013 21:24:51 GMT
I suppose it's rather odd that both the second tier leagues in Wales have names which hint at representing the whole of Wales... I'll not go as far as that horrid man elsewhere - the one who dismisses Wales as a "county" - but there's probably something very Welsh about that. |
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