By Thomas White
April 6 2009

The press release as mentioned on the forum by Trevor Green has been released Gap CONNAH’S QUAY F.C. PRESS RELEASE FROM THE CLUB.

The Owners and the President of Gap Connah’s Quay Football Club and the Chairman and Committee of Flint Town United Football Club have resolved to propose unison between the two near neighbours. This will create a single entity capable of uniting to provide the highest quality of football possible to the populace of Flintshire.

The proposed merged club would be named Gap-Flint Nomads. The restructured club would play first team home games at an improved Cae y Castle ground in Flint. This ground being 4.1 miles from Gap Connah’s Quays previous rented home ground of the Deeside College Stadium. New 500 Lux Floodlights and a new 300 seater stand would be constructed this summer with a new drainage system ensuring a great playing surface for the next WPL season.

The merged club would be controlled by a board comprising directors from each of the former clubs. Gap Connah’s Quay’s owner will not stand as a director of the new club but has contracted to generously support it as main sponsor for an initial period of three years. The new club would retain its offices at the Dock Road Ground in Connah’s Quay. The clubs Academy of Football would continue to be based at Connah’s Quay Sports Centre and play at Wepre Park, Connah’s Quay. The current Gap Connah’ s Quay Reserve team would be supported to re-launch as a fully independent club under its own committee and officers. It will be granted permission to play at a refurbished Dock Road Pitch rent free for an initial period of five years. Flint Town United’s reserve team would join the new set up as its reserve team with the Flint and Bagillt Junior club unaffected by the restructuring. In the current economic climate to have two senior football clubs competing for the same set of supporters and sponsors within five miles of each other makes little sense.

Currently Connah’s Quay are struggling to get more than a handful of supporters through the turnstiles. They have to hire the Stadium and it’s both badly maintained and prohibitively expensive. Recently Connah’s Quay ground shared at Flint and the crowd averaged over 240 per game. Should this merger not go ahead then Connah’s Quay may well lose its current sponsors and owners. It would prove difficult for the club to continue as a Welsh Premiership outfit.

The football club will be holding private initial consultation with its current First team, Reserve team, Youth team and Academy officials, players and ground staff in the next few days.

This will be followed with a public open meeting to be held at the Albion Hotel on Thursday April 9th at 7 pm. All are welcome and all questions will be answered to the best of our ability.

 Trevor Green General Secretary


This press release has been read and authorized for release by the Owner and President of Gap Connah’s Quay FC and the Chairman and Secretary of Flint Town United FC.