Top trio stay at Trearddur, new signing and management addition announced

Trearddur Bay have announced three key players will be staying on board for the club’s venture into Tier 3 football this season.

All-time record scorer Asa Thomas, North Wales football icon Les Davies and inspirational skipper Dan McGinness have all committed for the 2024-25 season.

Since rebranding as Trearddur Bay (dropping the previous United) and returning to competitive football in 2022-23, Bay have won back-to-back league titles, North Wales Coast West Division One and Premier, which has earned them promotion to Ardal North West for the campaign ahead.

Trearddur have yet to lose a league game since their return, going 54 matches without defeat, but they know life will be considerably tougher in the third-tier.

Keeping their best talent is paramount, and in Thomas, Davies and McGinness they have three star players with vast experience of level 3 and higher.

Thomas, 33, is North Wales’ record marksman with 715 career goals, 334 of them for Trearddur Bay.

Davies, 39, joined the Beach Boys early last season after starting the campaign in the Cymru North with Bangor 1876.

He bagged 10 goals in 28 games for Bay. His previous history is well-documented, having won three Welsh Cups and the Welsh Premier title with Bangor City, whom he also represented in Europe on numerous occasions.

Les also wore the colours of Connah’s Quay Nomads and Bala Town in the Welsh Premier.

McGinness, 31, has been a vital cog in Trearddur’s wheel for the past two seasons, his qualities as captain and operating either in midfield or defence making him a candidate for first name on the team sheet every week,

Before joining the club, he had spells with Holyhead Hotspur and Caergybi.

Also staying on at Lon Isallt will be legendary goalkeeper Paul Pritchard and midfield warrior Callum Mcminimee.

A new face at the club is Dewi Thomas, a well-travelled player who has shone at a higher level in the past.

Thomas, 29, moved to Lon Isallt from Llangefni Town, where he made 12 Ardal North West appearances last season. Previous clubs include Porthmadog, Holyhead Hotspur, Amlwch Town and Llannerchymedd.

A Welsh Colleges international, Thomas can excel in defence or midfield.

Meanwhile, the very experienced Warren Gibbs has joined the management team at Trearddur Bay, where he will work alongside Mel McGinness and Johnny Jones in 2024-25.

Gibbs is a former manager of Glantraeth and ex-director of football at Conwy Borough.

With Glan, he won the Cymru Alliance League and Cup double as a player in 2005-06 and repeated the feat in the Welsh Alliance as manager in 2016-17.