Welcome back to Bangor Nev!

Great news that Nev Powell has been unveiled as the new Bangor manager. I've no doubt that this will prove to be a shrewd choice. A big well done goes out to Ken Jones for getting his man. I, for one am very pleased!

Clayton Blackmore

He's gone down in my estimation today. He never got anything less than full support by the Bangor fans even when under his management we played some of the worst football I've seen at Farrar Road.

The fans had too much to say? I think he should clarify this one. Was it internet postings? The BCFCSA? Surely fans are allowed to voice disapproval from time to time when they feel let down by the team? Personally, it sounds like an attempt to endear himself to Port fans. Slag off Bangor and get the fans on board. Shame he had to resort to that, I thought he was a decent guy but I, along with many others, were obviously wrong.

Poorly run club also irks me, a lot of problems stemmed from his doing. The joke of a pre-season we had being a prime example.

I don't think he could handle the pressure of managing a club with any expectations.

Get in!!!

Bristol Rovers are in the play-offs thanks to Rickie Lambert's late, late goal!! It's been a stressful afternoon glued to Sky Sports but finally the season has been extended.

Also, big congratulations to Wrexham on staying up! My nails are ruined thanks to the tension! Let's just hope that this is now the start of something good for Wrexham, regroup and start next season without the shadow of administration over them.

Utter shambles.

Tonight I went to Llangefni looking forward to what would be a memorable night in Llangefni football club's history. On my arrival the big news was that the game had been postponed. Nonsense, I thought as I made my way towards the turnstile. At the turnstiles I was informed that the game had in fact been postponed 15 minutes earlier but now the game was back on, provided that both teams signed a disclaimer stating that the referee was against the game being played. Great, I thought. My journey wouldn't be in vain after all! However, at roughly 7:20 the news spread that the game had again been postponed. The reason given was that the pitch was dry, hard and therefore dangerous. I've never come across this before and like everyone else at the ground (barring the referee) wasn't sure whether to laugh in disbelief or voice my disapproval.

The result was the anticlimax of presenting the League trophy to Llangefni, what should have been a momentous occasion witnessed by a healthy crowd was reduced to being witnessed by a fraction of that crowd.

I've never seen a game postponed for this reason, makes you wonder if we should partake in pre-season friendlies, just in case...

Managed to catch the last twenty minutes or so of Llanfairpwll v. Bodedern, looked a decent enough game and as I made my way home I wondered whether I should have made the 5 minute walk to The Gors in the first place instead of the short dash down the A55.

Who's for the Farrar Road hotseat?

This is an interesting one, I'm glad to see some urgency from the board. Ideally an appointment needs to be made within the next two weeks or so otherwise it's a big ask for any manager to come in and sort out a decent pre-season. Maybe some friendlies were already arranged by Bleo, time will tell. I have no real preference regarding the new manager although the rumour regarding Nev Powell is an interesting one and he'd certainly be a popular appointment.

It doesn't really make much sense to me, why resign after releasing Jiws and possibly Havard (although this has been disputed recently). If he knew he was staying around then surely he should have made it clear before making any decisions regarding the playing staff? An office manager/chief executive wouldn't sack some of his staff knowing that he'd resign the next week would he? He told Jiws that he wasn't in his plans for next season, funny that as his own plans seemingly didn't involve Bangor City!!

I know he stated that he was out of work and desperate for a job but surely before taking any job on you do a bit of investigating? I know that having to travel down to deepest south Wales in a week was a disgrace and it shouldn't happen but still he should have known that he'd have to go to both Llanelli and Haverfordwest at some stage in the season.

He also stated that he had problems attracting English players to the club, Dav seemingly never had problems attracting good English players to the club. But, I can sympathise here, it's a big ask to expect part-time players to travel down to Llanelli on a Tuesday night. Nothing short of disgraceful really. Even with a local team the players wouldn't get back to Bangor before midnight/1 in the morning and if they had to work the next morning it's a pain. Maybe they had to take time off work to play, again not good.

Bleo did underline the main problem we have, we can't compete financially with certain other sides. I might slag off the likes of Rhyl quite often but to be honest I'm jealous of them in many ways. Infastructure being the main one, their ground (although looking like a meccano fan's wet dream) is a damn sight better than ours, the fact that they can pay their players money we can only dream of is down to hard-work on behalf of their board, maybe that their league "win" helped in some way but it'd be wrong to attribute their success solely on that. We struggle to attract any investment and therefore we struggle on the pitch. You can spare me the nonsense that a local side full of local talent would sort this problem out, local lads still want paying! The legion of Bangor-area players at Port are certainly not playing merely for the love of Porthmadog. It hasn't helped our case that we've paid certain underperforming players too much in the past. One example was that after the Llanrug match one of the local players was a bit upset that another player was paid £250 for standing around looking disinterested while other players were paid less than half that amount.

I hope that Bleo has left us in a healthier position than we were in 6 months ago. It's now up to the new manager, whoever he is to build on his foundations.