| Sponsor and manager quit Aberaman |
| Wednesday 17 June 2009 |
 ABERAMAN sponsor ENTO has pulled the plug and manager Dai Morgan has resigned after the club failed to win promotion to the Welsh Premier. The club failed in its appeal to the FAW after being unable to meet the league's ground-grading deadline and, at a specially convened management meeting this week, the club says it regarded taking the appeal process further as "throwing good money after bad". ENTO have pulled out because they felt the club's ambitions did not meet theirs, while manager Morgan (pictured) has walked away after the club decided not to appeal the FAW decision. "The club would like to put on record its thanks both to ENTO and Dave Morgan for their support over the past years," says a statement from the Cynon Valley outfit. "Unbelievably, six days into the 10-day window for appealing, the grounds for dismissing our appeal have yet to be relayed to us. "As we see it, the Welsh Premier is prepared to stagnate and maintain, at least in the short term, teams whose aim is merely to stick around in the big boys' club. "We made it clear to the FAW that we would strive to obtain the Domestic License if we were elevated to the WPL - how many members of the current clique can hand on heart say they will put their resources into that process. "They will give lip service to compliance and with the advent of the Super 12 their days are truly numbered. "We put our case forward as an ambitious club from the most populous part of Wales who would partially remove the current geographic imbalance of the league, bring a dose of fresh air to that set-up and represent the fluidity on which we believe all sports with a league structure should endeavour to achieve. "It was an opportunity for our governing body to throw out the rule book and look outwardly at the bigger picture and the health of Welsh Football and the raison d’etre of a Premier League as representing the best in domestic football," adds the statement. "This is a cautionary tale to all clubs in Wales holding aspirations to get to the top of the pyramid system." |