Wednesday 9 May 2001 Pontypridd Town 1-1 Abercynon Athletic (Welsh League) A draw from this final match of the season ensured a tenth place finish in the third division of the Welsh League, with 10 wins, 10 draws and 10 defeats from 30 league games. Friday 4 May 2001 Cwmtillery 0-0 Pontypridd Town (Welsh League) Home game against Abercynon finally arranged for 9 May, kick off 7pm. Monday 30 April 2001 Pontypridd Town 2-0 Seven Sisters (Welsh League) Saturday 28 April 2001 Pontypridd Town 1-1 Bettws (Welsh League) Next Saturday’s scheduled game at Cwmtillery has been brought forward to Friday night (kick off 7pm) as one of the Cwmtillery players is getting married on the Saturday afternoon! Still no date arranged for the home game against Abercynon. Saturday 21 April 2001 Pontypridd Town 0-2 Pontlottyn Blast Furnace (Welsh League) The club have announced that they have taken on a full-time marketing manager to help raise the profile of the club and increase sponsorship income. Tina Senior takes up her post on Monday. Saturday 14 April 2001 Dinas Powys 2-2 Pontypridd Town (Welsh League) Wednesday 11 April 2001 Pontypridd Town 1-1 Pontyclun (Welsh League) Saturday 7 April 2001 Abergavenny Thursdays 1-7 Pontypridd Town (Welsh League) Wednesday 4 April 2001 Pontypridd Town 2-0 Dinas Powys (Welsh League) The excellent new kit supplied by DCS Light Haulage was unveiled in tonight’s game. Many thanks to Dean for his interest and support. Saturday 31 March 2001 Today’s game against Abercynon is yet another called off due to the weather. Home game with Seven Sisters re-arranged for Monday 30 April, kick off 7.15pm. Saturday 24 March 2001 Newcastle Emlyn 0-3 Pontypridd Town (Welsh League) Tuesday 20 March 2001 Tonight’s game against Seven Sisters has been called off (again) due to a waterlogged pitch caused by sleet and snow. Monday 19 March 2001 Re-arranged fixtures as follows: Dinas Powys (home) brought forward to Wednesday 4th April. Dinas Powys (away) reversed to Saturday 14th April. Pontyclun (home) Wednesday 11th April. Saturday 17 March 2001 Today’s match at Dinas Powys is yet another game off due to a waterlogged pitch. Saturday 10 March 2001 Today’s game against Pontyclun was called off due to the pitch being waterlogged. The home game against Seven Sisters has been re-arranged for Tuesday 20th March, kick off 7.15pm. Saturday 3 March 2001 Bettws 3-0 Pontypridd Town (Welsh League) Saturday 24 February 2001 Pontypridd Town 3-0 Skewen Athletic (Welsh League) Saturday 17 February 2001 Newport YMCA 0-0 Pontypridd Town (Welsh League) Stewart Summerell will now be helping Brian Gibson coach the side following the departure of Martin Ellacott. Stewart is a fully qualified coach who completed all his badges whilst a trainee at Sheffield United. Saturday 10 February 2001 Today’s home game against Seven Sisters was called off by the referee 25 minutes before kick off as he considered the playing surface to be a risk to the players safety. The pitch was cut up during a morning Under 14 game which the local council allowed to go ahead despite heavy rain. Afterwards Ponty lost goalkeeper/assistant manager Martin Ellacott to reigning Welsh League champions Ton Pentre. Wednesday 7 February 2001 Two more signings. Former Ponty left winger Phil Clarke has joined Ponty as his second side whilst still mainly playing for UWIC Inter Cardiff in the League of Wales and centre forward Jamie Green has signed from South Wales Amateur League side Llantwit Fardre. Friday 2 February 2001 Caerau 1-1 Pontypridd Town (Welsh League) Saturday 27 January 2001 Pontypridd Town 0-2 Treharris Athletic (Welsh League) Former Ponty favourite Wayne Meyrick signs from South Wales Amateur League side Carnetown but the powerful midfield player is likely to be available for midweek games only. Thursday 25 January 2001 The game against Caerau on Saturday 3 February has been brought forward to Friday 2 February (7.15pm kick off) to avoid a clash with Wales v England rugby international in Cardiff. Saturday 20 January 2001 Caerau Ely 0-0 Pontypridd Town (Welsh League) New signing former Sheffield United trainee Stewart Summerell who is attacking midfield or forward. Sunday 14 January 2001 After entering the South Wales Youth League for the first ever time this season and losing every match played at this level so far, Pontypridd Town today won their first game and did it in great style with a shock 5-1 victory over league leaders Cascade! Congratulations to manager John Williams and all his players who must now try not to get over confident for their next fixture. A hat trick from James Rowlands and two goals from Jermaine Asare on his debut clinched the win. Saturday 13 January 2001 Pontypridd Town 1-0 Cwmtillery (Welsh League) Another signing, former Ponty player Seth Frelford returns. Wednesday 10 January 2001 Pontypridd Town 1-5 Cambrian Sky Blues (friendly match) Saturday 6 January 2001 AFC Llwydcoed 0-2 Pontypridd Town (Welsh League) Two “new” players join to cover injuries. James Williams returns and Mark Davies signs, both likely to be squad players. Sunday 17 December 2000 The Welsh League has called off our next game against Pontlottyn on 30th December as they have to play an outstanding league cup tie instead. Our next game is therefore at Llwydcoed in the new year. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all Pontypridd Town fans. Saturday 16 December 2000 Pontypridd Town 3-0 Abergavenny Thursdays (Welsh League) This win takes us out of the bottom three for the first time this season. Saturday 9 December 2000 Abercynon Athletic 2-3 Pontypridd Town (Welsh League) Friday 8 December 2000 Manager Brian Gibson has made two new “loan” signings in readiness for tomorrow’s game at Abercynon. Experienced former Ton Pentre and Inter Cardiff midfielder Mark Evans is a regular squad member at League of Wales Cwmbran Town who will turn out for us in preference to a trip to Rhyl and Gavin Evans is a teenage striker who was with us as a jumior before leaving for first team football at South Wales Amateur League club Rhydyfelin Zenith (who are without a game tomorrow), where he has been scoring lots of goals. Both players are taking advantage of the FAW rule allowing players to sign for two Saturday teams, and are unlikely to be regulars. Saturday 2 December 2000 Pontypridd Town 1-1 Newcastle Emlyn (Welsh League) Saturday 25 November 2000 Today’s re-arranged game with Skewen was postponed due to a waterlogged pitch. The game will now go ahead on the original scheduled date of 24th February. Saturday 18 November 2000 Pontyclun 3-3 Pontypridd Town (Welsh League) Another new signing - midfielder Chris Roberts. Wednesday 15 November 2000 Pontypridd Town 2-3 Fields Park Pontllanfraith (friendly match) Saturday 11 November 2000 League cup second round day in the Welsh League. We have no game after losing in the first round. Wednesday 8 November 2000 Pontypridd Town 0-2 Ton Pentre (friendly match) New signings! New manager Brian Gibson has already started using his contacts to bring in new faces. Goalkeeper Martin Ellacott has been announced as assistant player/manager and he is expecting his transfer from first division Bridgend Town to go through in time for him to play a week Saturday. He is expected to bring Ceri Williams from Bridgend with him. Ryan Luker has transferred from Ton Pentre and Garfield Leask is expected to sign from Llantwit Major by the next game. Saturday 4 November 2000 Today’s scheduled Welsh League game against Bettws has been postponed due to a waterlogged pitch - not surprising after the recent floods. Saturday 28 October 2000 Skewen Athletic 5-0 Pontypridd Town (Welsh League) Friday 27 October 2000 Late this evening the directors of Pontypridd Town announced that Brian Gibson had been appointed new player/manager of the Welsh League side. He will be introduced to the players before the game at Skewen tomorrow and will then have to set about strengthening the side. For a profile on Brian click on players. Saturday 21 October 2000 Pontypridd Town 0-3 Newport YMCA (Welsh League) Saturday 14 October 2000 Pontypridd Town 0-2 Caerau (Welsh League) A disastrous day. After all yesterday’s hype a terrible performance. Manager Roger Lloyd resigned after the match, stating he hasn’t got the time to do the job on a semi-professional basis after starting up his own business in the summer. Friday 13 October 2000 The rumours that have been flying around the town for the last few weeks have finally been confirmed. Pontypridd Town held a press conference(!) this afternoon to officially announce that the club is now a limited company with members able to buy shares at £1 each. A prominent local businessman, Clayton Jones of Shamrock Coaches, is behind the move and Mr. Jones is now the managing director of the club having the majority shareholding. The aim is to provide the financial backing required to get the club out of the depths of the Welsh League and in years to come compete in the League of Wales. All the players will now be paid, with non-contract players Lee Rudall (ex Hereford United youth) and Darryl Phillips (ex Cardiff City youth) signing contracts and Kevin Logan also signing a contract after leaving Crusaders FC in his native Belfast to study in the University of Glamorgan in Pontypridd. These three players are all teenagers as Ponty build for the future for a change. Tuesday 10 October 2000 Pontypridd Town 1-4 Ton Pentre (friendly match) Tuesday 3 October 2000 Pontypridd Town 2-1 Gwynfi United (friendly match) Saturday 30 September 2000 Seven Sisters 1-2 Pontypridd (Welsh League) At last! Our first league points of the season! Up from 16th to 14th in the table. Wednesday 20 September 2000 Pontypridd Town 2-1 New Inn (friendly match) Sunday 17 September 2000 Ponty’s league game against Caerau on Saturday has been postponed. Caerau’s Welsh Cup game yesterday was called off due to the fuel crisis and they have to play their cup game next Saturday instead. Ponty have arranged a friendly match against Gwent County second division side New Inn on Wednesday night instead. Saturday 16 September 2000 Cardiff Corinthians 2-1 Pontypridd Town (Welsh FA Cup) Saturday 9 September 2000 Pontypridd Town 1-3 Blaenrhondda (Welsh League Cup) Tuesday 5 September 2000 Pontlottyn 3-1 Pontypridd Town (Welsh League) Saturday 2 September 2000 Pontypridd Town 0-3 Caerau Ely (Welsh League) Wednesday 30 August 2000 Striker Andy Evans is expected to make his Nationwide Conference debut for Chester City against Boston United tonight. The 24 year old started out with Cardiff City and played a handful of games in 1995/96 for Pontypridd Town after being released by the Bluebirds. He soon moved on to Merthyr Tydfil before making an impression in the League of Wales for hometown club Aberystwyth Town, scoring 3 goals in 7 games at the end of 1996/97, 11 goals in 33 games in 1997/98, 4 goals in 28 games (12 as substitute) in 1998/99 and 7 goals in 6 games at the start of 1999/2000 before Barnsley paid around £20,000 to take him back into League football at the end of September 1999. He played only one first team game for Barnsley last season (in the Worthington League Cup) but did play 4 or 5 games for Mansfield on loan and is now on a month’s loan with Chester. Tuesday 29 August 2000 Treharris Athletic 7-1 Pontypridd Town (Welsh League) Monday 28 August 2000 Four committee members were delighted to be invited to watch Cardiff City play Southend in the Nationwide League. Pontypridd businessman Clayton Jones of Shamrock Shoppa bus/coach company sponsored the match and invited club members as his guests for the day. The club are now hoping that Mr.Jones will give some financial help to Pontypridd Town... Saturday 26 August 2000 Pontypridd Town 0-3 AFC Llwydcoed (Welsh League) Saturday 19 August 2000 Pontypridd Town 5-1 Cardi (pre-season friendly) Two former Pontypridd Town players had games to forget in the League of Wales today. Phil Clarke was in the UWIC Inter Cardiff side which lost 6-1 at Caersws and Nicky Palmer was substituted in the second half of Llanelli’s 5-2 defeat at Oswestry. Tuesday 15 August 2000 Taff’s Well 3-1 Pontypridd Town (pre-season friendly) Sunday 13 August 2000 Saturday’s scheduled opening league fixture against newly promoted Cwmtillery has finally been postponed. The game should have been at Cwmtillery but their pitch is unavailable due to cricket. We tried to switch the game to Pontypridd but also had difficulty arranging the pitch so the game has now been put back to the end of the season. Ponty hope to arrange another friendly match for Saturday. Saturday 12 August 2000 Pontypridd Town 2-0 Porto’s Grange Harlequins (pre-season friendly) Bettws FC have won an appeal lodged with the Welsh Football Association against the decision not to promote them into the Welsh League. They lost in the promotion play off to Dinas Powys but Monkton Swifts declined the offer to stay in the league and opted for voluntary relegation, leaving the league one team short. The league planned to run Division Three with only 15 clubs but the Welsh FA have over-ruled the league and now decided that Bettws should be promoted after all. Saturday 5 August 2000 Treowen Stars 1-1 Pontypridd Town (pre-season friendly) It was good to see last season’s player of the year Nicky Palmer making his mark for new club Llanelli in a friendly against Cardiff City. The 19 year old’s display was described as outstanding in a match report on “Ymlaen” (the unofficial Llanelli website) as the League of Wales side beat the professionals 2-1. Palmer left Pontypridd Town for Garden Village this summer and was snapped up by Llanelli after they played Garden Village in a friendly. He is seen as the perfect replacement for Llanelli star player Andrew Mumford who joined Swansea City. Wednesday 2 August 2000 Stanleytown 1-3 Pontypridd Town (pre-season friendly) Monday 10 July 2000 Pontypridd Town are looking for businesses large and small to sponsor the club. We have many and various opportunities available to suit all needs and budgets, from match ball sponsors to matchday programme adverts to kit/club sponsorship. We are also looking for enthusiastic people to help raise sponsorship from local (or not so local!) business on a self-employed commission basis. Anyone interested should contact Tyrone Olding on 01443 665137 or Ceri James on 01443 493438. Alternatively, E-Mail this site at Oldingjt@hotmail.com Wednesday 5 July 2000 Taffy signs! Former defensive mainstay Andrew “Taffy” Humphries this evening signed Welsh League forms for Pontypridd Town, returning to his hometown club for whom he last played early in 1996/97 season. Taffy, who had been playing for Carnetown in the South Wales Amateur League, will bring some much needed experience to Ponty’s young team. |
