i think 9 man bangors win at caersws must be one of the greatest victories ever in the welsh cup!!!

Certainly impressive, though I'm sure beating Cardiff City was more of an achievement than beating a team at the bottom end of the WPL even with 9 men

Mark, are you confident of beating the exiles tonight? I'll certainly be hoping for a Bangor victory

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markthebuilder wrote:

i think 9 man bangors win at caersws must be one of the greatest victories ever in the welsh cup!!!

Not the best ever but 10 man Newport YM beating Carmarthen wasn't too shabby a result either.

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Mark, are you confident of beating the exiles tonight? I'll certainly be hoping for a Bangor victory

I know people are generally going to be biased when it comes to these matches (even if only a little bit) simply by the nature of what an 'exile' represents - especially since Newport is the chief antagonist being the club that did most of the fighting in the 90's and remains both the most defiant and succesfull of those clubs that won in court. But can any club really be confident going to Newport? Even when Newport were all over the place and playing poor they lost 1-0 to TNS, yes TNS dominated play (an important distinction between dominating play and dominating the match since the Newport backline was breached only once) but we've all seen in general how much better TNS are than the majority of teams here and some of us would envy playing poorly and only losing by one goal to our English resident. Not to mention that Newport have only lost 3 games at home since.

With Newport pulling 1000 crowds with ease these days they'll not be short on vocal backing tonight, I'm by no means saying Bangor can't win but I will say I'll be very impressed with Bangor if they come away with a win tonight, it would be the perfect complement to their welsh cup result. But with only 3 sides coming away from Newport having won in the past 8 months no one should really be confident of a win, they are a very impressive club on and off the pitch, much to the irritation of some members of our league.

Very good luck to Bangor tonight I really hope they win, mainly because I expect Newport to win and find it boring when the home side wins.

Newport lost AT HOME to TNS. Had to go to extra-time at Druids and at home to Port Talbot. Beat Caersws 1-0 at home the year before, lost to Caernarfon the year before that.

I'd say Bangor can be a little confident.

My main reason for hoping Bangor win is because Newport are our local rivals (geographically speaking that is, not in terms of leagues!).

It's the same when someone's playing Croesyceiliog or Cwmbrân Celtic

But yes, Newport County are a very organised outfit off and on the pitch. I'll look forward to watching the highlights tonight @ 22.00.

Comon the Citizens!

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thanks for all your support i genuinely believe we can do it but it will be close,as long as we dont get slaughtered otherwise we will never hear the last of it from the exiles!
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PTBLUE wrote:

Newport lost AT HOME to TNS. Had to go to extra-time at Druids and at home to Port Talbot. Beat Caersws 1-0 at home the year before, lost to Caernarfon the year before that. I'd say Bangor can be a little confident.

I would say Bangor can be a little confident, but on the same not I would say you grossly underestimate Newport County and are incredibly mis informed if you base them off of what you just rattled off. I've been a Carmarthen supporter for donkeys years but have lived in Newport more recently and seen them play, and quite frankly they have lost a tiny proportion of games in the premier cup. Some of the wins have been close but a side that wins a lot of close matches is a side that has won a lot of matches. Fact is Newport have lost to 4 sides at Newport in the whole of 2007 thus far, and if you'd have seen them in the wider scope their loss to TNS and win against Port Talbot were during a period where even in the league their form had dropped right off. Prior to losing 1-0 to the WP champions they had been hammered twice in the league within a week.

Point is pety us vs exiles trivia shoudln't cloud that they are a very good side who while winning games close, do win an awful lot of games.


EDIT: Newport 1-0 Bangor, Griffin 90 (Their Conference south site was doing updates, which is quite nice since in all probability the other clubs using that site weren't interested.) Hard luck but as I said given the number of sides to have come away from Newport with nowt there is certainly no shame in that result.

Just watched the highlights, and Newport deserved their win, no doubt. Fair play.

Port's Tony Pennock has quit as manager!! Are the Port fans disappointed? Or happy to see him go?

Rhys Griffiths for Wales anyone? Cotterill, Earnshaw, Easter, and Eastwood are not playing regularly fortheir clubs...

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Not sure you can step up from playing Cefn Druids one weekend to Germany the next but I'm amazed he hasn't attracted attention from League clubs.

He's improved in leaps and bounds over the past 3 seasons, his 1st touch and hold up play are very good and he hardly seems to miss when he gets an oppertunity, certainly not against Rhyl

When Newport beat us we had just been knocked out of the cup by the Lido and our confidence was rock bottom. Our squad (which is much, much smaller than Newports) was badly hit by injuries. So other than just say Newport were struggling at the time you need to look at the bigger picture.

I don't really subscribe to this WPL/Exile thing much and believe Newport ARE a good team and so they should be as they are a big, well run club with a tidy sized budget. They hit the woodwork numerous times last night and did so against us last season. They have struggled when travelling to WPL teams though and I'm sure the result would have been different if they had to travel to Farrar Rd last night.

CC, I don't think there will be any tears over Tony's departure and I think he was just out of his depth.
Do goalkeepers ever make good managers??????

I can only think of Dino Zoff? He did okay at management didn't he?!

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we had the best goalkeeping manager ever nigel adkins we won the league with him ,he now manages at scunthorpe done very well there as well.a very level headed man who will go far in management

thought you were going to say lee williams !!!

We had lee and big nev competing with each other..neither very good as manager

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