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Presentation Night Awards

1st June 2010

We had a good evening on Friday with a barbeque for the players and supporters.

The League Championship medals were presented to all players and a quick summing up of the outstanding performance by the team in winning the championship and the disappointment a the FAW/WPL decision to deny us our rightful promotion. The general feeling is that we will just have to do it again next season.

Annual awards were presented to Darren Thomas as top goal scorer and Grahame Austin as Player of the Year

Many thanks to all who attended

Presentation night

23rd May 2010

The annual club presentation night will be held at the club house next Friday 28th May

all are welcome at the club

meeting report

21st May 2010

 We held a very well attended meeting at the club house last night, with representatives from all parts of the club attending, management, committee, players, coaches, juniors and supporters; I wish to thank them all for their keen interest.

The topics, among others, we discussed were as listed -The denial of our Domestic Licence -The refusal of promotion to the Premier League - potential for our taking legal action against the FAW and Welsh Premier League - Our support for the legal action by other clubs -The resignation of our management team and the way forward - Our plans for next season and our aspirations thereafter.

I presented the reasons for our Domestic Licence refusal and outlined what we had been required to do, where we had failed and why. As already reported the primary issue was to do with a safety certificate for the stadium. We do not meet the criteria that require a safety certificate to be issued by the local authorities, which are 500 seats in a single stand and/or 10,000 capacity. It was remarked that the Public Bodies missed a great opprotunity to assist in putting Llangefni on the map, but that is a moot point. The FAW were made aware of this in December 2009 by several clubs, but they chose to disregard it and it wasn't until clubs were forecasting failure at the first instance  (March 31^st 2010), that they decided to do anything about it and appointed a Cardiff based organisation to carry our the inspections. Ours was carried out the week before the appeal deadline, with little time to make changes to conform. It could be argued that we should have known, got our own inspector (as some clubs did), but we were guided by the FAW and fell foul in the end.  I have taken full responsibility for this process and offered my apologies for coming up short. There is no ‘witch hunt' in the club and everyone appreciates that we did our best under circumstances and the severe financial constraints it made on the club.

This is not the end of the licensing as the Club wishes to state that it is our intention to go through the process again next season - we are so close and every club has to regain their licence each year. This has been a setback, but in no way dilutes our ambitions to get back to what we consider is our rightful place, in the highest level of football available to us in Wales.

Whilst there is no right of appeal against our licence denial and we accept that we did not meet the necessary criteria and therefore can have no complaints about the situation; there is a very strong feeling within the club that the process was flawed. It is our contention that all clubs, who were undertaking the Domestic Licence process, should have been treated equally. This is patently not the case; there has been discrimination on a grand scale against clubs from outside the Welsh Premier League on a number of issues. At this stage the club is taking legal advice to see if there are grounds for action on these issues of discrimination which put some clubs at a severe disadvantage in their efforts to meet the criteria required for the licence. This will, of course, not overturn the decision to deny us promotion, but may compensate us for such things as costs incurred future loss of income and may at least make the authorities consider more carefully their actions in future.

We discussed the current action being mounted by Bethesda FC and if an EGM is called then we will attend and offer our support if it is seen to be in the best interests of our club.