Goal machine Asa Thomas signs for Trearddur Bay Bulls!

Asa Thomas scores in his Trearddur Bay United days. Picture: Dennis Young

One of Anglesey’s all-time greatest goalscorers has announced which club he will play for this season.

Asa Thomas has signed for Trearddur Bay Bulls of the tier 4 North Wales Coast West Premier Division.

His uncle Derek Thomas, also his manager previously at Morawelon, is now in charge at Trearddur.

Derek said he is delighted to have Asa on board for when the new campaign eventually starts.

Last season saw the 29-year-old Asa begin with Holyhead Town, but once their first team pulled out of the former Welsh Alliance League he moved across to Cymru North club Holyhead Hotspur.

He scored 17 times for Town before they resigned, meaning all their records in Division Two – including Asa’s goals – were expunged.

Thomas returned to Holyhead Hotspur in December and added 10 more goals for the club, four for the firsts and six for the reserves, bringing his current career tally at the end of the 2019-20 season to 514.

The goal machine first appeared at Holyhead Gwelfor Athletic as a 16-year-old in 2007-08. He spent two seasons with Gwelfor, piling up 69 goals, before moving on to Holyhead Town in 2009-10.

Thomas’ most memorable campaign so far was 2010/11, when he amassed 112 goals from just 47 appearances for Trearddur Bay United.

He chalked up 25 hat-tricks in an amazing season for the club, who won the Anglesey League, Dargie Cup, Megan Cup and Thomas and Williams Cup quadruple, as well as reaching the second round proper of the Welsh Cup.

Since that campaign, Asa has topped 40 goals in a season five times and proven he can score at higher levels by finding the net regularly in the Gwynedd League, Welsh Alliance and, briefly, the Huws Gray Alliance with Holyhead Hotspur.

He has also been a lethal marksman with Morawelon and Gaerwen.

Asa has won a host of honours in the game and represented the North Wales Coast FA squad at the UEFA Regions Cup.

Asa Thomas’ senior career goalscoring record

2019-20
12 – Holyhead Town/Holyhead Hotspur
2018/19
20 – Holyhead Town
2017/18
45 – Holyhead Town
2016/17
26 – Trearddur Bay United/Holyhead Hotspur
2015/16
48 – Trearddur Bay United
2014/15
22 – Gaerwen
2013/14
52 – Morawelon
2012/13
48 – Morawelon
2011/12
41 – Trearddur Bay United (including 19 for Holyhead Hotspur)
2010/11
112 – Trearddur Bay United
2009/10
29 – Holyhead Town
2008/09
37 – Holyhead Gwelfor Athletic
2007-08
32 – Holyhead Gwelfor Athletic