Dan Gregg: “I am 100% committed to Llangefni Town”

Dan Gregg insists he is 100% committed to Llangefni Town this season and has quashed rumours that he may be taking up a manager’s post elsewhere.

The Llangefni boss had a chat with Grassroots North Wales about how things are developing this pre-season.

Grassroots North Wales

Firstly Dan, you must have been immensely proud to finish up invincible North Wales Coast League champions last season, but then disappointed that you had to take part in a promotion play off which you narrowly lost on penalties. Have you moved on from that now or does the pain still hurt?

Dan Gregg

Yeah really proud Dave, I think we always believed we’d get there eventually but to win it the way we did without losing a game and add in the goals conceded into that made it even more special.

But like I said, we always believed we’d win it eventually and that shows the strength of the girls mentality in this team, and also the girls that have been players before and since moved on, they’ve played an immense part in this story by helping us reach the standard we are currently at.

Yeah they may not have been with us when we finally reached the goal, but they helped shape us in previous seasons. In terms of the playoff, again immensely proud of the performance we put in and I think we won over a lot of hearts that day, but yeah the pain is still there and I want it to be still there!

It needs to be still there every single game next season. I want us hurting. I operate better when my back’s against the wall and I think my team does as well.

Grassroots North Wales

There are rumours that you have applied for the Bangor City 1876 Women job….is there any truth in this?

Dan Gregg

No, no truth in that whatsoever, I’ve never had contact with anyone from Bangor, so it’s either a complete fabrication or someone has played a blinder and pretended to be me haha!

After the playoff final I had a chat with the girls and got really emotional, struggled to hold it together and asked them not to take the easy way into Tier 2. For me to take a way out 6 weeks later would be totally against every moral fibre I have in my body.

And I’d lose every bit of the relationship with these players that I’ve built these past 5 years. But I will say that I absolutely adore a lot of them Bangor players, especially the Ynys Môn girls and I’m lucky enough to manage them and coach them twice a year anyway with Ynys Môn. But no with all respect to Bangor or any other team, it’s nice to have my name mentioned in rumours, must mean I’m doing something correct but my job isn’t done with Llangefni.

Grassroots North Wales

How is pre-season going with Llangefni? Are you confident you will retain most of last season’s squad and are new signings in the pipeline?

Dan Gregg

Well due to the tournament in Isle Of Man this weekend I’ve just been training with Ynys Môn at the moment so all focus is on that, but of course me and Liam have been working and planning in the background.

Obviously we’ve signed Milly Lowe back which I’m super excited about, was gutted to see her go to be honest and it’s nice to be able to have her back and see what she can do this season, I know she’s been working hard in the background and she’s going to play a massive part in this team next season.

Megan Robinson-Skelly has also come in which will give us strength in depth and a player with brilliant experience in tier 2 so I’m sure Meg will help us improve even more.

Grassroots North Wales

What are your hopes and ambitions for the 2026-27 season?

Dan Gregg

Title, Cup, Promotion! Has to be the target for this team every year.

Grassroots North Wales

Are you expecting the usual suspects from last season to be tough opponents again this time around?

Dan Gregg

Oh 100%!!! Pwllheli will challenge us again, Kinmel Bay will be even stronger, Lefty is an experienced manager and he’ll get Amlwch going, Holyhead great new young side and my home town so really excited to face them. It’ll be a battle again this season but I wouldn’t have it any other way.

Grassroots North Wales

Ellie Coulson’s retirement is a big loss…is there a chance Jen Cox will be available more this season?

Dan Gregg

Massive loss losing Ellie to retirement but she’ll be with us watching games and I’m sure if we ever came calling for a favour she’d answer within a second, same as Jen Cox. Jen’s preparing for a wedding to her beautiful partner Ceri so I’m sure her focus will be preparing for that at the moment but I’d never rule out Jen Cox popping up a box at some point haha

Grassroots North Wales

You’ve got a great reputation for developing young talent….are there any top prospects we can expect to break through this season?

Dan Gregg

Well I’m currently coaching the under 15’s Llangefni team as well and there are some great prospects ready to come through but that will be a couple of years down the line. This season Milly Lowe is the young player to look out for, we have a reputation of creating goal-scorers in this team and she ticks every box. Amber Brown will also kick on again I’m sure, she’s set her targets already with what she wants to improve. Lowri Thomas is still young and has had one season under her belt now so I’m excited to see what she can bring next season