PHOTO:
Award winners, back row, Sean Pemberton, Dale Griffiths, Gwion Howell. Front row, Brian and Colin Thomas

Haverfordwest County Annual Dinner:

 

Haverfordwest County celebrated in some style an amazing end to their season with a dinner attended by 120 players, WAGS, officials, supporters and sponsors at the Wolfscastle Country Hotel.
 
Club chairman, David Hughes, outlined the season which ended so sensationally with the win at Aberdare by the five clear goals needed to edge the Bluebirds above Cardiff Metropolitan University and back into the Welsh Premier League after a four-year absence.
 
He rightly congratulated the coaching staff of Wayne Jones, Sean Cresser and Ryan Evans, plus the players, as he did with Steve Batty, Brett Hawkridge and the Youth team which carried the club’s flag with such distinction.
 
Mr Hughes also thanks all sponsors and those who work tirelessly in the Bluebirds’ cause but warned that next season would produce even greater challenges at the top level of Welsh Football.
 

Bobby scored goals galore

He also spoke about guest of honour Bobby Brown, the former Barnet, Fulham, Watford, Northampton Town and Cardiff City centre forward who scored 124 goals in 203 appearances, some of them in the highest echelon of English Football at the time.
 
Bobby also played for Great Britain in the 1960 Olympic Games and scored four goals in three games, as well as hat tricks for an FAXI which toured New Zealand a year later. When a knee injury ended his career he was assistant manager to Mike Smith at Hull City and later became assistant manager and youth team manager of Wales.
 

Deserved awards

Bobby presented the ‘Managers’ Player’ and ‘Players’ Player’ awards to outstanding centre half and captain Dale Griffiths, whilst Alan Thomas, the chairman of the Bluebirds Supporters’ Club, presented their ‘Player of the Year’ award to Sean Pemberton, and their ‘Clubman of the Year Award’ to Brian and Colin Thomas, for their unstinting work at the club.
 
Neil Evans, of West Wales Properties, one of the club’s sponsors, presented the ‘Youth Team Player of the Year’ award to Gwion Howell and the evening was brought to a successful conclusion by the Steve Briers’ Disco.