Neil Lewis

Neath Round Table member, dad to one of each, live life to the max, rather burn out than fade away. Swans ST holder

[Neil Lewis @NeathJack2]

@dyfPEdept U7 Afan Nedd 😍

[Briton Ferry Llansawel Academy @bflacademy]

TOTW🌟
#IAmRed

[Briton Ferry Llansawel Academy @bflacademy]

Great to see our under 10s player Kaya Nacar as mascot for tonight’s @Cymru Euro Qualifier in Cardiff🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿👏🏻

[Neil Lewis @NeathJack2]

@bflacademy @PontyUnitedA Credit to the coaches 👏

[Briton Ferry Llansawel Academy @bflacademy]

TOTW⭐️
Well done to all this weeks Academy players making the Brand Energy #TotW with our 16s gaining the outstanding team for their performance and win against @PontyUnitedA 👏🏻
#TotW #IAmRed #TheFerryWay

[Neil Lewis @NeathJack2]

Türkiye 🇹🇷 were in town

@BryncochFC

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 ⚽️

#WalesTurkey #Euro2024Qualifiers

[The Swan @TheSwanPortal]

Ladies & Gents I introduce to you:

THE GOOD OLD DAYS.

Monk: SOME DEFENDER
Trunds: LT10
Martinez: GALACTICO

Some names in there. Some stories I bet, maybe @daRealAkinfenwa and @LeeTrundle10 can tell us one day 😮‍💨

Danny Parslow: CROSSBAR 👇🏼

[Neil Lewis @NeathJack2]

@philblanche WTF

[Grassroots @Teamgrassroots_]

Email received this weekend⤵️

I would like to take a moment for everyone to think and applaud all coaches, managers and volunteers who give up their time and efforts to grassroots football.

My husband has managed a team for the past 12 months, it’s isn’t about just taking a 1 hour training session and taking the kids along to a football game.

A couple days before the training session he is PLANNING what he is doing, after the training session he is then working out and planning a team who is available. Then there is match days which consist of paperwork, organisation, making sure the children are ready, and organisation with other managers. This is another Job alongside his 50 hour a week full time job!

Now ……. This is where the disappointment comes in …….. Parents ………. He has had a handful of parents criticise, be rude, abrupt and moan constantly about game play and their child not getting enough time, when all he is doing is making sure everyone gets a turn and trying to PLEASE everyone and let’s face it you can’t! Final straw this week when a parent wants to come to our house to discuss my husbands choices! With abrupt messages!! This isn’t even on a game day or training day!!

My husband is mentally drained and exhausted and ready to give up coaching completely! After hours of training, coaching, courses and first aid courses he is ready to jack all this in! And this isn’t because of the children he coaches ……… it’s the parents behaviour!

My message to parents with children in grassroots football - PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE think about what you feel or what the problem is before you message, ring, speak to the coaches and volunteers …….. is it really a big issue? Is it something that can wait until a training session? Can it be spoken about at a convenient time? Or does it even need to be said at all?
My husband gives up so much time to organising, setting up, packing away after games and no parents stay to help or even offer.

SO TO ALL COACHES AND VOLUNTEERS OF GRASSROOTS FOOTBALL WE APPRECIATE EVERYTHING YOU ARE DOING FOR THE CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS
THANK YOU

[Briton Ferry Llansawel Academy Girls @BFLAcademyGirls]

Big Thank you do @CardiffUniSport for hosting today 👏👏

Some great talent on show across all the teams.

Big shout out to out u11’s team also who played in the u12’s competition and came top in there group

#IAmRed #Development #Future

[Briton Ferry Llansawel Women @BFLLAFC]

A huge thank you to @MacronNeath for our new kit for the cup final.

Your support, as ever, is greatly appreciated 👏

[Briton Ferry Llansawel Women @BFLLAFC]

Our super mascots, @BFL_GirlsDC and @llansawelgirls 🥰

[Briton Ferry Llansawel Academy Girls @BFLAcademyGirls]

Great games this week thank you to @HcafcGirls & @CardiffUniSport for hosting our u10’s - 16’s this week.

#Development #IAmRed #TheFerryWay

[Neil Lewis @NeathJack2]

Who’s giving the half time team talks #SwanseaCity 🤬

[Neath Round Table @NeathRoundTable]

Happy Christmas from all of us at Neath Round Table!

Here are some of our elfies from the last month 🎅

[Neil Lewis @NeathJack2]

@NeathJack1 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Neil Lewis @NeathJack2]

You’ll love this one @NeathJack1 https://t.co/mzs6oPiO7b

[Neil Lewis @NeathJack2]

@walesawayfans @AndrewLegg1 shall we?

[BFL AFC @bflafc]

FUTURE REDS
It was fantastic to see our Girls Development Centre U10s and our Boys Academy U8/9s being part of our first matchday of the season. Great to see you all grace the Old Road. A lot of talent on show. #FutureReds #IAmRed

[Neil Lewis @NeathJack2]

#nrtfest https://t.co/zsESaHMZMk