wolfie
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Being pedantic, we did lose 0-2 at home to QPR between the two thrashings.
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[Football] Aberystwyth Town 1 TNS 10
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Being pedantic, we did lose 0-2 at home to QPR between the two thrashings.
GT49er
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Yes - but 'recent' just ain't the word! The original gaff dates back to the 1980s, or possibly even the late 70s.
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Aberystwyth Town FC
Was hoping this might not have found its way onto here.Just a freak result really - Aber's form had looked mid-table-ish over the first few games. Incidentally Aber's goalkeeper retired last week (which you have more flexibility to do whenever you want in amateur football), and his replacement was a loan from TNS, who obviously could not play on Monday. There was a young kid in goal, who I think was making his senior debut.
TNS do tend to dominate, as the clubs that could challenge them financially (Bangor, Barry, Rhyl) have all had financial troubles over the last few years. Aber's record against them is shocking (but so are most clubs'). It's non-league standard (probably NL North/South, sometimes a little better, sometimes a lot worse) and as we saw with Whitehawk, it doesn't take someone putting a lot of money into a club at that level to blow the opposition out of the water. I'm not quite sure how much money Mike Harris (their chairman) has, or what his game is now that TNS the company are no longer his, however its clear they have significantly more funds than others.
Aberystwyth are really serial over-achievers just by staying in the top flight. A small town who's main industry is the university, and location means its very hard going to tap into any large population areas for non-league journeymen (i.e. North Wales clubs tend to have lots of scousers, Mid-Wales lots from Birmingham, South Wales from Cardiff and Swansea).
CoventrySeagull
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Aber v TNS
Visited sister who lives in Trawsgoed (near Aber) last November, and went to Aber v TNS game - ABER won 1-0!!
Just a freak result really - Aber's form had looked mid-table-ish over the first few games. Incidentally Aber's goalkeeper retired last week (which you have more flexibility to do whenever you want in amateur football), and his replacement was a loan from TNS, who obviously could not play on Monday. There was a young kid in goal, who I think was making his senior debut.
TNS do tend to dominate, as the clubs that could challenge them financially (Bangor, Barry, Rhyl) have all had financial troubles over the last few years. Aber's record against them is shocking (but so are most clubs'). It's non-league standard (probably NL North/South, sometimes a little better, sometimes a lot worse) and as we saw with Whitehawk, it doesn't take someone putting a lot of money into a club at that level to blow the opposition out of the water. I'm not quite sure how much money Mike Harris (their chairman) has, or what his game is now that TNS the company are no longer his, however its clear they have significantly more funds than others.
Aberystwyth are really serial over-achievers just by staying in the top flight. A small town who's main industry is the university, and location means its very hard going to tap into any large population areas for non-league journeymen (i.e. North Wales clubs tend to have lots of scousers, Mid-Wales lots from Birmingham, South Wales from Cardiff and Swansea).
Visited sister who lives in Trawsgoed (near Aber) last November, and went to Aber v TNS game - ABER won 1-0!!
WildWood
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I’ve moved up to North Wales (Pwllheli) with work for the rest of this year, so I’m getting my football fix at Porthmadog Town at the moment! Up the Port!
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Aberystwyth Town FC
Yeah they have beaten them a handful of times over the last 10 years or so. Don't think I ever saw them win. Remember a 0-0 away in the League Cup that went to extra time, but Aber lost in the end.
[MENTION=3363]RexCathedra[/MENTION] is alluding to an actual reporter (on Sky I believe) who summed up a report on a Welsh game about 15 years ago with "They'll be dancing on the streets of Total Network Solutions tonight". Oddly my recollection is it was Inter Cable Tel, but as we all know, Welsh place names are all very similar.
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RexCathedra
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It's the tragic shortage of vowels what does it. Lots of coal, lots of sheep, lots of slate -- but never, in the last two centuries, did they ever think to swap any of them for some vowels.