{"id":22075,"date":"2019-01-24T17:45:35","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T17:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/?p=22075"},"modified":"2019-01-24T17:46:14","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T17:46:14","slug":"promotion-dreams-may-end-for-caerphilly-football-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/promotion-dreams-may-end-for-caerphilly-football-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Promotion dreams may end for Caerphilly football club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Caerphilly Athletic Football club has been denied promotion to the Welsh Football League after its facilities were classed as unsuitable.<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>After six promotions since they were founded in 2007, the team are currently third in the South Wales Alliance Premier League and are on course for promotion next season.<\/p>\n<p>But according to the Welsh Football League, club facilities must include a permanent, fully-covered stand with a minimum capacity of 100 spectators as well as adequate changing rooms, toilets and hospitality facilities.<\/p>\n<p>Club manager Luke Ganderton says he&#8217;s worried the club will lose players if they can&#8217;t get promoted. He says, &#8220;We most probably would lose about five or six players.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The simple fact is, the players I&#8217;ve got at the minute are much better than the level they&#8217;re at and I think they want to move on and get better in their careers&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Plans to share facilities with Caerphilly RFC at Virginia Park have fallen through so Caerphilly Athletic are looking for other ways to find the grounds they need.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Ganderton hopes the council will be able to help.<\/p>\n<p>But Plaid Cymru Councillor Jeffrey Grenfell says, &#8220;The council&#8217;s budget is tight at the moment, everybody&#8217;s looking for the last penny.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So it&#8217;s important that they try and pursue the right avenues of the council and fight their cause&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement Caerphilly Council says, &#8220;With the limited pitch facilities we have, we continue to look for ways we can support the clubs in securing a long term base.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But Mr Ganderton says he&#8217;s worried a decision might come too late.<\/p>\n<p>The club hopes to rally fans and the wider community to help them progress, but for now, their future is still uncertain.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caerphilly Athletic Football club has been denied promotion to the Welsh Football League after its facilities were classed as unsuitable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":199,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[743,744,11],"tags":[1257,150,350,123],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22075"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/199"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22075"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22136,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22075\/revisions\/22136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}