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Good evening and welcome to Cardiff City Stadium where hafts are surely | :00:24. | :00:30. | |
beating a little bit faster as they inch their way to securing -- | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
promotion to become the second Welsh club to play in the Premier | :00:33. | :00:38. | |
League. So stay with us for that and plenty more on tonight | :00:38. | :00:46. | |
programme. We meet the rising star of motorsport, the Welshman who has | :00:46. | :00:54. | |
set his sights on Formula One. aim is to be the next Welsh Formula | :00:54. | :01:00. | |
One superstar. A as Glamorgan begin this season, we hear our -- how | :01:00. | :01:07. | |
hopes are high. There is no reason why we should not go out. And in a | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
special report, we look at the role of the League of Wales in | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
developing Welsh footballers. Playing in the League of Wales with | :01:15. | :01:22. | |
Carmarthen was my showcase. Cardiff City drawn Europe Sue five | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
months at the top of the championship, the two recent | :01:26. | :01:32. | |
consecutive draws will surely have tested fans' nerves as promotion to | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
the Premier League remains tantalisingly close. Our reporter | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
caught up with the club ahead of tomorrow's home game against | :01:39. | :01:44. | |
Nottingham Forest. Cardiff City stand on the brink of Premier | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
League football. They play five matches over the next four weeks | :01:47. | :01:56. | |
and needs seven points to guarantee promotion. They have been close | :01:56. | :02:04. | |
calls already. Last season's play- off semi-final defeat to West Ham. | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
2011's Gloucester Reading at the same stage. And in 2010, they made | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
the play-off final at Wembley but lost to blackball. This year the | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
play-offs and not on the radar. Automatic promotion is key. Off the | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
field, the club launched their latest community project this week. | :02:23. | :02:28. | |
Even if owner Vincent Tan has called upon a higher power to help | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
them in their bid. With a divine blessing and good luck to our | :02:33. | :02:39. | |
players, we hope and pray we will be there. It is about sticking to | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
the plan and your beliefs. That is what I do. We have to have a | :02:44. | :02:53. | |
certain coldness and calmness about what we're doing. Our players are | :02:53. | :03:00. | |
delivering the plan. To have or that nine-point gap with five games | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
to go shows a great consistency and a great character. Two seasons ago | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
Swansea City received an estimated �90 million in additional earnings | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
from their promotion to the Premier League. That figure will now have | :03:12. | :03:18. | |
almost increased after the Premier League signed a new �3 billion TV | :03:18. | :03:26. | |
deal. This week Swansea revealed profits of �15.9 million. Looking | :03:26. | :03:32. | |
on a commercial basis, the media coverage is probably the biggest | :03:32. | :03:39. | |
thing that any club coming up will find. It is a totally different | :03:39. | :03:45. | |
level. Commercially, exactly the same. The media coverage is | :03:45. | :03:55. | |
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worldwide. When you found it difficult to do major sponsorship | :03:55. | :04:03. | |
deals locally, now you can go worldwide. That is the biggest | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
thing. Everybody can see what football at the top level does for | :04:08. | :04:16. | |
a community and an economy and a nation. We want to be part of that. | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
Everyone is looking for that prize. That is why there is so much | :04:21. | :04:28. | |
investment in championship football clubs. Vincent Tan has put a huge | :04:28. | :04:38. | |
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amount of money in the club for four years. He has invested in the | :04:39. | :04:49. | |
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local community as well. That allows his investment to grow. | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
the impressive Norwich defender Leon Barnett remaining with Cardiff | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
until the end of the season, the first of Cardiff's final five games | :05:01. | :05:09. | |
is at home to Nottingham Forest. They are a club that have a good | :05:09. | :05:11. | |
squad and have had a lot of investment over the years. They are | :05:11. | :05:19. | |
seen as one of the bigger clubs in the division. But we've had good | :05:19. | :05:27. | |
teams put in front of assault -- of us all season. We are at home with | :05:27. | :05:34. | |
a lovely surface and 25,000 people cheering us on. I am now joined by | :05:34. | :05:42. | |
two former Wales internationals. You have both been there and | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
experienced promotion to the Premier League. In your experience | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
with Norwich, you won the championship in 2004, can you | :05:51. | :05:57. | |
sympathise with what Cardiff City are going through? Yes. It is time | :05:57. | :06:04. | |
for cool heads and not to panic. You have to take one game at a time. | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
What kind of experience does Martin McKay bring to this set-up? He will | :06:10. | :06:16. | |
be the key man in the dressing room. He will calm things down. You have | :06:17. | :06:23. | |
to play the game and not the occasion. It is only natural that | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
the crowd is on edge because of the disappointments they've had in | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
recent years. It will be there until they get over that the | :06:30. | :06:35. | |
finishing line. He has got experienced players. He has got | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
players who have played in big games. These next five games are | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
going to be massive. He knows he's got enough and that dressing room | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
to get them over the line. If they were not performing and they were | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
looking like a nervous team it would be different but I don't see | :06:52. | :06:59. | |
that. From what I saw against Blackburn, it doesn't look like a | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
team which is nervous and frightened to do the job. How much | :07:03. | :07:08. | |
will Cardiff City especially wants to avoid the play-offs? They won't | :07:08. | :07:14. | |
want that situation. I doubt the players will have spoken about it. | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
They will want to go up as champions. I don't think they'll do | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
it in the next two games but I do expect them to go to Burnley and | :07:23. | :07:30. | |
win promotion at there. I'm the same. There is no doubt in my mind | :07:30. | :07:36. | |
they will get promotion. It will be disappointing if they don't go up | :07:36. | :07:41. | |
as champions. But I am confident Cardiff City will be in the Premier | :07:41. | :07:46. | |
League. They have been the best side in the championship. They have | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
won more home games than any other club in the championship. They have | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
the best court and they deserve to go up as champions. Stay with me | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
and we'll talk more football shortly but now we turn our | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
attention to motor sport and last weekend Welsh driver Matt Parry had | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
a great start to his former Renault season with two podium finishes in | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
Hockenheim. We have been following the end was driver as he aims to | :08:13. | :08:19. | |
become the first Welshman since Tom Price in the 1970s to race in | :08:19. | :08:27. | |
Formula One. At just 18, Matt Parry has been racing since he can | :08:27. | :08:33. | |
remember. A karting start, he is out combining a day-job with his | :08:33. | :08:42. | |
bid to rise through the ranks drive form a one. -- Formula One. | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
started with my dad. We used to look to the Welsh mountains and do | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
some motocross. We used to take a bacon sandwich and go far hours on | :08:52. | :08:59. | |
end. That gave me a love for motor sport in general. From then, go- | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
karting seemed like a good thing to do and we started doing that at an | :09:02. | :09:09. | |
amateur level. Then it progressed to European and world championships. | :09:09. | :09:14. | |
It quickly escalated into something a return full-time. Without doubt, | :09:14. | :09:24. | |
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I would not be where I am today. -- without my father. I have been with | :09:24. | :09:30. | |
this company for over a year and they have become my family in terms | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
of a team. We have got to know each other's characteristics and now we | :09:34. | :09:43. | |
work very well together. This season, could you a race in the | :09:43. | :09:51. | |
European Cup for the top British team. I did not sleep last night. | :09:51. | :09:56. | |
This is the first time I have seen the car and I think it looks | :09:56. | :10:03. | |
fantastic. The weather is not great so we were just to a few things and | :10:03. | :10:13. | |
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try out a few ideas. In this game, we're talking about tenths of | :10:14. | :10:24. | |
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seconds. Anything we can find to produce a better time is important. | :10:25. | :10:31. | |
He is very aggressive. He is one of the fittest young drivers we have | :10:31. | :10:36. | |
ever worked with. He does not get tired. He is a very exciting young | :10:36. | :10:43. | |
driver. I think he will go a long way. There is no reason why he | :10:43. | :10:53. | |
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can't go all the way to form a low one. -- Formula One. Tom Price was | :10:54. | :11:01. | |
your last one in the 70s and is no reason why for it -- Wales can have | :11:01. | :11:10. | |
another former One driver. I am a occupational therapist assistant. | :11:10. | :11:18. | |
We lay on activities for the patient in mental health. We try | :11:18. | :11:24. | |
and build on their life experiences in terms of cooking and cleaning | :11:24. | :11:29. | |
and various different activities. Even hobbies like playing football | :11:29. | :11:39. | |
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and gardening. We assess their abilities to do that activities. | :11:40. | :11:46. | |
Then when the going to the community, they know what to do and | :11:46. | :11:53. | |
they have or those key skills. -- they have those key skills. It is | :11:53. | :11:59. | |
very difficult but it is something I wanted to do. It's great to get | :11:59. | :12:07. | |
some life experiences. It is nice to have an academy of young drivers | :12:07. | :12:12. | |
to bring them through. We are helping him out in these early | :12:12. | :12:19. | |
stages. It is a fantastic tool to be able to learn theorist different | :12:19. | :12:24. | |
circuits and also just to get a feel for formal one. Obviously the | :12:24. | :12:34. | |
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braking force and acceleration is different. He is 18 and now and if | :12:34. | :12:40. | |
he races in the top three here, he has a good chance of moving on. | :12:40. | :12:46. | |
were able to get two propositions from the first two races. The first | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
race was disappointing because I had a few technical issues with the | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
tears but we hung on to 4th place which was a great result. The | :12:53. | :13:03. | |
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second and third race, we got onto the podium. The aim is to come -- | :13:04. | :13:09. | |
is to become the next Welsh Formula One superstar. I would love to have | :13:09. | :13:17. | |
a career in motor sport but at the moment I am focused. It may only be | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
the beginning of April but Glamorgan's season is under way | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
with a four-day match against Northamptonshire. Last season | :13:25. | :13:31. | |
proved to be another disappointing campaign for the Welsh county but | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
the players and the coaching staff are desperate to make a big | :13:35. | :13:42. | |
impression in 2013. When the former England captain Michael Atherton | :13:42. | :13:47. | |
wrote last month that Glamorgan were no-hopers, it was a | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
predictable observation to make considering last year's record of | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
just eight wins in 38 matches. But in the off-season, there was no | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
repeat of their head lens of past years. Last winter was the quietest | :13:58. | :14:03. | |
the club that had for some time. With the coaching staff working | :14:03. | :14:09. | |
hard to avoid a repeat of 25 -- 2012. We looked at last year and we | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
did not get out side enough on the turf. Sometimes the weather | :14:13. | :14:18. | |
prevents that. Through the club's initiative, we have got into our | :14:18. | :14:23. | |
indoor and outdoor marquee. It has been amazing for the bowlers in | :14:23. | :14:28. | |
particular to run in and bowl full tilt. To be bowling on grass when | :14:28. | :14:33. | |
it's raining, it does not get any better than that. We had 10 days in | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
South Africa to prepare as well. Our preparation has been first- | :14:37. | :14:47. | |
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When Murray Goodwin was released by Sussex last September, Glamorgan | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
signed him up with three county championships to his name, he | :14:56. | :15:01. | |
brings huge experience. What we hope he will bring is not only his | :15:01. | :15:06. | |
runs, which are important, that experience of being involved in a | :15:06. | :15:11. | |
winning unit. Having been in a successful environment, not only in | :15:11. | :15:17. | |
western Australia, also with Sussex, it's the sort of culture that I'm | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
used to. Then, to doom here, I could see that Glamorgan are making | :15:21. | :15:26. | |
strides all the time in getting better as a county. For young | :15:26. | :15:31. | |
players, young players, not talking about the first team, young players | :15:31. | :15:36. | |
in the Glamorgan squad, they should watch and learn. Also playing his | :15:36. | :15:43. | |
first game for the club is the Australian Michael Hogan. He wasn't | :15:43. | :15:49. | |
a full-time professional until his late 20's. I think people that | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
follow their cricket know he has done a good job in Australian | :15:52. | :15:58. | |
cricket in the last three or four years. We are lucky he had a | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
British passport. He was keen to come over here. We tried to sign | :16:01. | :16:06. | |
him last year. He had an offer on the table, he honoured the contract | :16:06. | :16:12. | |
here. That is great for our club. There is a little bit of | :16:12. | :16:18. | |
expectation, I suppose, maybe a lot of it is put on by myself, the | :16:18. | :16:23. | |
pressure to perform. I mean, I'd like to go out there and do a good | :16:23. | :16:30. | |
job and take wickets and be on the winning team for the season. | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
successes of the '90s are fondly remembered around the stadium. | :16:34. | :16:39. | |
Recently, the supporter numbers have dwindled. There is a lot of | :16:39. | :16:43. | |
good feeling around this club, if we doo-doo well the supporters will | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
get on board. Even our one-day kit you will notice this year is | :16:46. | :16:50. | |
receipt owe. Back to the last winning side. The guys in this | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
squad are aware of what happened before. They are keen to emulate | :16:53. | :16:58. | |
what went on as well. For me, it's about seeing our players reach | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
their potential. And, if you get more players than not reaching | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
their potential through a season, then the chances of you being a | :17:06. | :17:12. | |
more successful unit are higher and greater. Despite the pre-season | :17:12. | :17:14. | |
optimism it has been another disappointing start to Glamorgan's | :17:14. | :17:19. | |
season. It's been an up hill struggle. At the end of Day Three | :17:19. | :17:25. | |
they are 96-4 in the second innings, needing another 612 runs to force | :17:25. | :17:31. | |
North Hants to bat again. Back to football now. A special feature on | :17:31. | :17:36. | |
where the next Ryan Giggs or Gareth Bale might be unearthed. Ian Hunt | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
has taken a look at the role of the Welsh Premier League and asking | :17:40. | :17:43. | |
whether they could play an important part in developing the | :17:43. | :17:49. | |
next generation of Welsh footballers. It's looking good at | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
the top of the Welsh game. Cardiff and Swansea about to be reunited in | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
the Premier League. Fresh young talent at national level. A world- | :17:57. | :18:04. | |
class star in Gareth Bale. What chance of the Bale's and Giggs' of | :18:04. | :18:12. | |
the future coming from the domestic league. It's important to develop | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
players in Welsh football be that in the domestic or in particular | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
the late developers. Playing in the League of Wales was my showcase. | :18:20. | :18:24. | |
as a country have to be able to provide a football infrastructure | :18:24. | :18:30. | |
for those talented players that, perhaps, haven't caught the eye of | :18:30. | :18:35. | |
the Manchester Uniteds. This is where the powers that be see the | :18:35. | :18:40. | |
local future. Local clubs opening their gates to the community and | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
giving youngsters like these a chance to make it to the top. It's | :18:44. | :18:49. | |
admirable, but is it realistic? How many kids at grassroots level will | :18:50. | :18:54. | |
make it to the Premier League or international stage? Mark Delaney | :18:54. | :19:01. | |
made the leap from Welsh Premier to English Premier and full Wales | :19:01. | :19:07. | |
international. He moved to Aston Villa via Cardiff City with Wales | :19:07. | :19:10. | |
caps along the way. It made me the person I was. It made me a strong | :19:10. | :19:17. | |
character. No doubt about it. No scouting system really down the | :19:17. | :19:23. | |
West Wales area. If there is, it's very limited. Me, playing in the | :19:23. | :19:25. | |
League of Wales with Carmarthen was my showcase. That was the only | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
place I could play on the off chance there would be scouts going | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
to watch because it was the highest league in Wales. For me, Carmarthen | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
was my steppingstone to play professional football and | :19:36. | :19:41. | |
international football. How strong is the League? Clubs are struggling | :19:41. | :19:49. | |
to survive on gate recipe -- receipts alone. The Football | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
Association of Wales will try to help clubs by make an investment in | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
so-called third generation all weather pitches. You are the man | :19:56. | :20:02. | |
who runs the Welsh Premier League, how sustainable is it in its | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
current format? Well, the investment in the League is | :20:06. | :20:11. | |
�650,000 a year. That is more than doubled in the last four years. We | :20:11. | :20:16. | |
are looking to 3G strategy which hopefully will make clubs more | :20:16. | :20:23. | |
community-based and community hubs to give it more of an identity and | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
sustainability. People are sick and tired of playing the teams over and | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
over again with the format it is. The attendencies went up initially | :20:30. | :20:35. | |
with the introduction of the Super 12 went down to what they were | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
before. The average attendance this season 285? The attendances aren't | :20:39. | :20:44. | |
good enough. The standard of play deserves better support. You are | :20:44. | :20:49. | |
also asking about the Super 12 format. We are in the process at | :20:49. | :20:53. | |
the moment of developing a strategy with our clubs, with our stake | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
holders, and only one club mentioned they would prefer 16 | :20:57. | :21:02. | |
format. Many clubs need more cash if the league is to thrive. You | :21:02. | :21:07. | |
only get �15,000 in prize money for winning it. Now the National | :21:07. | :21:11. | |
Assembly has got involved, held an inquiry and made recommendations | :21:11. | :21:14. | |
but no promises of major financial support. The Government are happy | :21:14. | :21:18. | |
to take on the recommendation that is apply to them. Recommendations | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
they should talk with the FAW, particularly around the community | :21:21. | :21:25. | |
hub. Money is tight. Therefore, it's about making the best of money | :21:25. | :21:30. | |
that is available to get the best outcomes. The FAW say they are | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
disappointed the money is not match-funded is there any money | :21:33. | :21:36. | |
from the Welsh Assembly? There is money for the sport. How much? | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
don't know the figures. There is money there. It's careful use of | :21:39. | :21:45. | |
that. It's good sensible use as well. It is not saying, there is | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
Government money, off you go. It's saying, there a pot of money. How | :21:49. | :21:59. | |
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can we get the best interest for everybody. Was it really worth be | :22:03. | :22:09. | |
successful in the first place? were unfortunate getting into | :22:09. | :22:16. | |
Europe. We drew. The trip had huge costs. We had to (inaudible) which | :22:16. | :22:22. | |
cost money as well. We made a loss on what we got from UEFA. So we | :22:22. | :22:29. | |
really didn't make a penny. There are plenty of tales around Neath | :22:29. | :22:35. | |
went bust after gambling on big signings and wages. Bury Town | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
struggled to stay afloat as they were left locked out of their own | :22:39. | :22:46. | |
ground for a time. There are success stories. TNS have equaled | :22:46. | :22:52. | |
Barry's record of seven Welsh Premier titles. We have a business | :22:52. | :22:58. | |
that runs 365 day as year. We take babies into mothers clubs. We have | :22:58. | :23:04. | |
kids' play areas. We have bowling. We are the hub of the social area | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
so people with hire out our place. People get married here. We hire | :23:08. | :23:13. | |
out the pitch. We put that revenue together and it allows us to use | :23:13. | :23:17. | |
that profit to fund a full-time football team. How realistic do you | :23:17. | :23:22. | |
think it is that the next Gareth Bale, Joe Allen, whoever, is going | :23:22. | :23:28. | |
to come from the Welsh Premier? have to be able to provide a | :23:28. | :23:31. | |
football infrastructure for those talented players that perhaps | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
haven't caught the eye of the Manchester Uniteds, but would still | :23:35. | :23:43. | |
be great players and, possibly, turn into Ryan Giggs' or Gareth | :23:43. | :23:48. | |
Bale's if they had support. Clubs are trying to reach out to | :23:48. | :23:50. | |
youngsters in their local communities. The Assembly and the | :23:50. | :23:59. | |
FAW want to see more of what Rhyl are doing. The power of football is | :23:59. | :24:04. | |
immense. Every English football club in the Premier League run a | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
community programme. I think it's got to be the way forward for Welsh | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
Premier League football clubs. can the most talented youngsters | :24:12. | :24:20. | |
make the grade here? Before becoming part of the senior Wales | :24:20. | :24:25. | |
setup this man managed in the league. A young player in Wales | :24:25. | :24:27. | |
will have the opportunity to progress in some shape or form. | :24:27. | :24:32. | |
Obviously, if they are picked up by the professional clubs, be it | :24:32. | :24:38. | |
Wrexham, Newport County, Cardiff City or Swansea, they are in the | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
system from the beginning. If they are not, we have the 12 Welsh | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
Premier League academies that are funded by UEFA, because of their | :24:45. | :24:50. | |
membership in the National League. Below that, there is excellent work | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
being done by clubs who don't get that funding, but still think it's | :24:55. | :24:59. | |
important to develop players in their community and their area. | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
realistic is it that those young players could end up playing one | :25:03. | :25:07. | |
day in the Premier League and for Wales? There are improvements to be | :25:07. | :25:13. | |
made, the structure is in place to allow young players to centre that | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
opportunity. While the opportunity is there, it seems likely the most | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
talented youngsters would choose Swansea over the New Saints, | :25:21. | :25:24. | |
Cardiff City over Carmarthen Town, even if there are plenty who | :25:24. | :25:31. | |
started in the Welsh League and made it to the football league in | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
the end. Gareth Bale, Bellamy's and Ryan Giggs will get there. They | :25:35. | :25:39. | |
don't need that stepping stone. They will get picked up. The likes | :25:39. | :25:44. | |
of people of my ability, that need the League of Wales, they need | :25:44. | :25:51. | |
grassroots football to get there. Well, we have just seen a piece | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
there on the League of Wales, how important is that league for Welsh | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
football? It's important for Welsh people that they have their own | :25:59. | :26:04. | |
Welsh league. The big thing, for me, is how to develop and how to make | :26:04. | :26:12. | |
that league longer. I think only TTNS are the full-time side in that | :26:12. | :26:14. | |
division. Probably, while that is still the case, there is not going | :26:15. | :26:18. | |
to be the interest that maybe there should be. It's difficult for all | :26:18. | :26:23. | |
the clubs now because professional clubs have got such a network of | :26:23. | :26:27. | |
scouts out there that the best players will get, at a young age, | :26:27. | :26:31. | |
will be taken from the local communities, from Community Clubs. | :26:31. | :26:36. | |
I echo the fact it's massively important for the whole Welsh | :26:36. | :26:39. | |
community, if you like, for the population of Wales to have their | :26:39. | :26:43. | |
own league. I have a question mark, how much does it, in terms of | :26:43. | :26:49. | |
making any impact on the prafgsal game? Let us talk about Wrexham and | :26:49. | :26:54. | |
Newport. What a season it has been for both clubs. What do you see | :26:54. | :27:00. | |
happening? A tough one to call. Delighted that they have both | :27:00. | :27:04. | |
secured their play-off positions. I think they will both be slightly | :27:04. | :27:07. | |
disappointed that they haven'ted a had more of a push towards that top | :27:08. | :27:13. | |
spot in the Blue Square. Now, it's all about gaining momentum, going | :27:13. | :27:23. | |
into the two legged semi-final. Mansfield look like winning the | :27:23. | :27:29. | |
league, Grimsby, I can't see anyone else knocking into that top five. | :27:29. | :27:35. | |
Everyone is hoping one of them gets up. It's not over and done and | :27:35. | :27:38. | |
dusted. With kid minister in there as well and Grimsby Town it will be | :27:38. | :27:42. | |
a fight to the end. They will forgive me for saying that maybe | :27:42. | :27:45. | |
the automatic spot has gone. It would be nice to see one of them | :27:45. | :27:50. | |
come through and get back into the League and underline how the upward | :27:50. | :27:54. | |
curve Welsh football is on to make sure one of them gets in there. | :27:54. | :27:57. | |
Thank you both very much for joining us on Sport Wales. That is | :27:57. | :28:02. | |
it for this week. Best of luck to Cardiff City against Nottingham | :28:02. | :28:08. | |
Forest tomorrow. We leave you with this, Rio Ferdinand thought that | :28:08. | :28:12. | |
David Marshall's save against Watford last Saturday was the best | :28:12. | :28:21. | |
since Banks banks at the 1970 World Cup. We will enjoy that again and | :28:21. | :28:25. | |
leave you some great Welsh moments. leave you some great Welsh moments. | :28:25. | :28:34. |