The New Dawn

You may well have noticed that the last post on the blog was back in May 2005, and that it referred to me nearing completion of the new site. Well the site is now online and picking up after another 2 years of nearing completion we are nearly complete. :-)
http://bpafc.bravehost.com

You have got to admit that the site looks fantastic, i just need the content now because it can look shiny and beautiful but if it aint got anything in it people are not going to stay around for long.

I've had a great deal of input from Jonny Bird so my thanks go out to him for that.

I'm currently working on getting the little parts of the site done now as the main parts are close to being finished its just the 1st XI stats and some photos for the core sections and we have a website to be proud of.

The club are on the verge of a very important weekend with a TG Davies cup Quarter Final against Seaside at home with the winners facing Trallwm at home in the semi's. Nuff said really. Anyways im offski now. Ta ta

New online home

I am nearing the completion of the new website and even if I do say so myself I'm very impressed with the look and 'feel' of it, there isnt going to be a great deal on there to start with but hopefully it can grow to once again be the place to catch up on stuff from the Carmarthenshire League. I have also included seperate sections for each of the teams we now run through the club, so we have sections for the 2 senior teams and also the Under 12's, Under 14's and Mini football teams the Minis run several age groups but come under the one section of Mini, these groups are likely to change before next season when we know exactly what age groups will be running.

I would appreciate any feedback and help especially in maintaining the different sections of the site. Maybe some of the parents would be willing to take some action pictures on a Sunday and then email me or you could write up a match report, even the youngsters could get on their pc's to do some match reports of their own. They could use the work towards their English courses in school. The ideas are endless but I really want the site to become a real hub of information about Burry Port AFC and somewhere that the community as a whole can see what we are about.

2nd PLACE SECURED

What a result.... a 2-0 victory at home to Drefach with myself the Sharkster and Wayne 'Trix' Williams grabbing the goals. I know it's been over a week since my last post but I have been so nervous about this match that I couldn't bring myself to write anything for fear of putting a hoodoo on us. Following Dafen's 2-1 win against Trostre on Thursday we needed a victory against a resurgent Drefach. After the season we have had it would not have been fair to have finished outside of the top two. And so it was on the 16.04.05 that BPAFC finished their most successful season ever. And we didn't win a single trophy, just plenty of respect.

After dominating the 1st half and starting well in the 2nd half it just seemed that 2nd place was never going to be, with nerves fraying and two of the biggest whingers up front for Drefach it was becoming increasingly risky business. Then on what must have been about our 6th corner, El Sharko pops up on his usual near post run to plant a diving header past the hapless keeper. Get in their ya beauty. Drefach started to push on again, and nearly got the equaliser only for the whinging striker to place his shot over the bar after turning well outside the box. Then up popped Trix with the decisive goal in the last 10 minutes to settle all the nerves. We had done it, broken the stranglehold of the top two and moved in between Dafen and Seaside. Now for the big push next season, beating these two.

A big thanks from all the squad to our fitness coach and all round legend Phil Mogs. If it wasn't for you Moggsy we wouldnt have had the legs to do as well as we have THANKS!

And a big pat on the back for Craig and Jono what a partnership well done guys. Last but not least well done to the whole squad for working so hard throughout the whole season, like Phil said before Saurdays game, if it was down to hard work and effort we would have won this league.

Not To be :(

Ah well it wasn't to be yesterday, it seemed like the gods...and the ref felt that finishing higher than Dafen wasn't going to happen this week. A 1-1 scoreline away against one of the'Big Two' is not a result to be sniffed at but after a tremendous 2nd half performance which saw us take the lead through the returning Luke Jenkins we thought we were on course to break the hold of Dafen and Seaside and become a cert for the 2nd place position, it wasn't to be however as in the dying moments Stuart Evans managed to equalise for Dafen and break Burry Port hearts in the process. We now move onto Saturday and the home fixture against Drefach which is sure to be a classic, both teams can finish in 2nd but if we can defeat them and get the 3 points no-one can beat us to that final champions league spot :) Not even Trostre or Dafen, or Drefach, or Gorseinon......christ what a finale to the season.